It’s not exactly easy coming up with something clever to preface the Top 30 with every week, and as I’m sure many of you have already picked up on, I’m not particularly good at it. So I’m not going to beat around this bush this week. Top 30. Here it is. Dig it.

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1 TORTOISE Beacons Of Ancestorship Thrill Jockey

2 VARIOUS ARTISTS Well Hung: 20 Funk-Rock Eruptions From Beneath Communist Hungary Vol. 1 B Music

3 SUMMER CATS Songs For Tuesdays Slumberland

4 MAYER HAWTHORNE A Few Tracks Stones Throw

5 RONNY & RENZO Me, Myself, Good King Kung Fu

6 BRIAN GLAZE AND THE NIGHT SHIFT Green Living World Famous In San Francisco

7 DEBBIE LEGGO Debbs Leggs Fire

8 BATS The Guilty Office Hidden Agenda

9 WIGGINS Feed The Ghost [7-Inch] Dull Knife

10 LIECHTENSTEIN Survival Strategies In A Modern World Slumberland

11 BRITISH SEA POWER Man Of Aran Rough Trade

12 BLUES CONTROL Local Flavor SILTBREEZE

13 JEREMY JAY Slow Dance K

14 CRYSTAL ANTLERS Tentacles Touch And Go

15 NAOMI SHELTON AND THE GOSPEL QUEENS What Have You Done, My Brother? Daptone

16 ASSEMBLE HEAD IN SUNBURST SOUND When Sweet Sleep Returned Tee Pee

17 STRANGE BOYS And Girls Club In The Red

18 ST. VINCENT Actor 4AD

19 MAGIK MARKERS Balf Quarry Drag City

20 DOUBLE DAGGER More Thrill Jockey

21 DEAD AT 24 Blast Off Motherfucker! Ride The Snake

22 SUNSET RUBDOWN Dragonslayer Jagjaguwar

23 SPOON “Got Nuffin” [Single] Merge

24 KNOT FEEDER Light Flares File Thirteen-String And Hammers

25 DIRTY PROJECTORS Bitte Orca Domino

26 SUPER FURRY ANIMALS Dark Days/Light Years Rough Trade

27 EXTRA GOLDEN Thank You Very Quickly Thrill Jockey

28 GRIZZLY BEAR Veckatimest Warp

29 BOB DYLAN Together Through Life Columbia/Legacy-Columbia

30 DEAD WEATHER Horehound Third Man