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  1. Guided By Voices: Queen of Spaces – La La Land (Guided By Voices, Inc., 2023)
  2. Maysa: I Don’t Mind – I Don’t Mind (Blue Velvet Soul, 2023)
  3. Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders, London Symphony Orchestra: Promises (excerpt) – Promises (Luaka Bop, 2021)
  4. Etceteral: Idler Idol – Rhizome (Glitterbeat, 2022)
  5. The Smile: The Opposite – A Light for Attracting Attention (XL, 2022)
  6. David Lynch: Are You Sure – The Big Dream (Sacred Bones, 2013)
  7. Miriodor: Conflit d’Horaires – Elements (Cuneiform, 2022)
  8. Freqax & Sequential: Going High – single (Pulsatil, 2021)
  9. Barrie: Doesn’t Really Matter – Winspear Vol. 1 (Winspear, 2023)
  10. Juniper: Baby Doll – She Steals Candy (Fabcom!/Confidential, 2023)
  11. Public Image Ltd.: Public Image – Public Image (First Issue) (Warner Bros, 1980)
  12. Joe Louis Walker: The Weight Of The World – single (Forty Below, 2022)
  13. The Kinks: Animal Farm – The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society (Reprise, 1968)
  14. Ak’chamel: Amazonian Tribes Mimicking The Sound of Chainsaws With Their Mouths – A Mournful Kingdom of Sand (Akuphone, 2022)
  15. The Pretty Things: Cries From The Midnight Circus – Parachute (Harvest, 1970)
  16. Rival Sons: Nobody Wants To Die – single (Atlantic, 2022)
  17. Castella: I Saw You (feat. Marqueal Jordan) – single (Castella, 2023)
  18. The Feelies: Crazy Rhythms – Crazy Rhythms (Stiff, 1980)
  19. Kaleo: Way Down We Go – A/B (Atlantic/Elektra, 2016)
  20. The Lemon Twigs: Corner Of My Eye – single (Captured Tracks, 2023)

This week’s chart data supplied by: Alec Cumming, Binnie Klein, howard thompson, Kevin Patrick, Rob Silber, Rod Richardson, Tone ‘Doc’ Hardy