2015: Dean's List

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1. Laurie Anderson: Heart of a Dog (Nonesuch) 25
2. Yo La Tengo: Stuff Like That There (Matador) 15
3. Heems: Eat Pray Thug (Megaforce) 11
4. Kendrick Lamar: To Pimp a Butterfly (Top Dawg/Aftermath/Interscope) 10
5. Grimes: Art Angels (4AD) 10
6. Donnie Trumpet and the Social Experiment: Surf (free mixtape) 8
7. Beauty Pill: Beauty Pill Describes Things As They Are (Butterscotch)
8. Courtney Barnett: Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit. (Mom + Pop) 6
9. James McMurtry: Complicated Game (Complicated Game) 5
10. Hamilton: Original Broadway Cast Recording (Atlantic)
11. Sleater-Kinney: No Cities to Love (Sub Pop) 5
12. Jeffrey Lewis & Los Bolts: Manhattan (Rough Trade) 5
13. Tom Zé: Vira Lata na Via Láctea (self-released '14)
14. The Paranoid Style: Rock and Roll Just Can't Recall (Worldwide Battle)
15. Aesop Rock & Homeboy Sandman: Lice (free Rhymesayers/Stones Throw download)
16. Hop Along: Painted Shut (Saddle Creek)
17. Have Moicy 2: The Hoodoo Bash (Red Newt)
18. Sophie: Product (Numbers)
19. Childbirth: Women's Rights (Suicide Squeeze)
20. Cracker: Berkeley to Bakersfield (429 '14)
21. Jinx Lennon: 30 Beacons of Light for a Land Full of Spite, Thugs, Drug Slugs, and Energy Vampires (Septic Tiger)
22. Khat Thaleth: Third Line: Initiative for the Elevation of Public Awareness (Stronghold Sound '13)
23. The Bottle Rockets: South Broadway Athletic Club (Bloodshot)
24. Boz Scaggs: A Fool to Care (429)
25. John Kruth: The Drunken Wind of Life: The Poem/Songs of Tin Ujevic (Smiling Fez)
26. Sam Smith: In the Lonely Hour (Capitol '14)
27. Paris: Pistol Politics (Guerrilla Funk)
28. Asylum Street Spankers: The Last Laugh (Yellow Dog '14)
29. Taraf de Haïdouks: Of Lovers, Gamblers and Parachute Skirts (Crammed Discs)
30. Lana Del Rey: Honeymoon (Polydor/Interscope)
31. Lupe Fiasco: Tetsuo & Youth (Atlantic)
32. Vince Staples: Hell Can Wait (Def Jam '14)
33. Speedy Ortiz: Foil Deer (Carpark)
34. The Velvet Underground: The Complete Matrix Tapes (UMe)
35. Parkay Quarts: Content Nausea (What's Your Rupture? '14)
36. Future: DS2 (Deluxe Edition) (Epic)
37. Nellie McKay: My Weekly Reader (429)
38. Mbongwana Star: From Kinshasa (World Circuit)
39. Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba: Ba Power (Glitterbeat)
40. The Go! Team: The Scene Between (Memphis Industries)
41. Diplo: Random White Dude Be Everywhere (Mad Decent '14)
42. Peaceful Solutions: Barter 7 (self-released)
43. Arca: Mutant (Mute)
44. Oneohtrix Point Never: Garden of Delete (Warp)
45. Jason Isbell: Something More Than Free (Southeastern)
46. Jon Savage's 1966: The Year the Decade Exploded (Ace)
47. Leonard Cohen: Can't Forget: A Souvenir of the Grand Tour (Columbia/Legacy)
48. Amy LaVere and Will Sexton: Hallelujah I'm a Dreamer (Archer)
49. Le Grand Kallé: Le Grand Kallé: His Life, His Music (Sterns Africa '13)
50. Rae Sremmurrd: Sremm Life (Eardrum/Interscope)
51. Halsey: Badlands (Astralwerks)
52. New York Gypsy All Stars: Dromomania (self-released)
53. The Mountain Goats: Beat the Champ (Merge)
54. Aram Bajakian: There Were Flowers Also in Hell (Sanasar '14)
55. The Meridian Brothers: Devoción (Works 2005-2011) (Staubgold '12)
56. Miguel: Wildheart (RCA)
57. Jazmine Sullivan: Reality Show (RCA)
58. Youssou N'Dour: Mballax Dafay Wax (FM '14)
59. Tacocat: NVM (Hardly Art '14)
60. Tom Zé: Tropicália Lixo Lógico (self-released '12)
61. James Booker: Gonzo (RockBeat '14)
62. Tal National: Zoy Zoy (Fat Cat)
63. Slutever: Almost Famous (self-released)
64. Foxymorons: Fake Yoga (Foxyphonic)
65. Robert Forster: Songs to Play (Tapete)
66. Mark Rubin Jew of Oklahoma: Southern Discomfort (Rubinchik)
67. Jamie xx: In Colour (Young Turks)
68. Ought: Sun Coming Down (Constellation)
69. Young Fathers: White Men Are Black Men Too (Big Dada)
70. Colleen Green: I Want to Grow Up (Hardly Art)
71. Jason Derulo: Everything Is 4 (Beluga Heights/Warner Bros.)
72. The Ragpicker String Band: The Ragpicker String Band (Yellow Dog)
73. Shopping: Consumer Complaints (Milk '13)
74. Shopping: Why Choose? (Fat Cat)
75. The Mekons and Robbie Fulks: Jura (Bloodshot)
76. Shamir: Ratchet (XL)
77. Young Fathers: Dead (Anticon '14)
78. Eszter Balint: Airless Midnight (Red Herring)
79. Terry Allen: Bottom of the World (self-released '13)
80. Lil Dicky: Professional Rapper (Lil Dicky)
81. Tal National: Kaani (Fat Cat '13)
82. Ata Kak: Obaa Sima (Awesome Tapes From Africa)
83. The Close Readers: The Lines Are Open (Austin '14)
84. Craig Finn: Faith in the Future (Partisan)

Apr. 10, 2016

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