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#1
Stand For Myself
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Yola
Amazon
Apple
Spotify
#2
Nowhere Generation
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Rise Against
Amazon
Apple
Spotify
#3
CALL ME IF YOU GET LOST
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Tyler, The Creator
Amazon
Apple
Spotify
#4
In These Silent Days
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Brandi Carlile
Amazon
Apple
Spotify
#5
Long Lost
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Lord Huron
Amazon
Apple
Spotify
#6
SOUR
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Olivia Rodrigo
Amazon
Apple
Spotify
#7
Sometimes I Might Be Introvert
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Little Simz
Amazon
Apple
Spotify
#8
Blue Weekend
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Wolf Alice
Amazon
Apple
Spotify
#9
Happier Than Ever
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Billie Eilish
Amazon
Apple
Spotify
#10
Fortitude
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Gojira
Amazon
Apple
Spotify
#11
A Beginner's Mind
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Sufjan Stevens & Angelo De Augustine
Amazon
Apple
Spotify
#12
Woman On The Internet
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Orla Gartland
Amazon
Apple
Spotify
#13
Screen Violence
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CHVRCHΞS
Amazon
Apple
Spotify
#14
The Phantom Tomorrow
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Black Veil Brides
Amazon
Apple
Spotify
#15
Garbology
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Aesop Rock X Blockhead
Amazon
Apple
Spotify
#16
30
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Adele
Amazon
Apple
Spotify
#17
The Off-season
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J. Cole
Amazon
Apple
Spotify
#18
Montero
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Lil Nas X
Amazon
Apple
Spotify
#19
If I Can't Have Love, I Want Power
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Halsey
Amazon
Apple
Spotify
#20
For The First Time
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Black Country, New Road
Amazon
Apple
Spotify
#21
Sympathy For Life
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Parquet Courts
Amazon
Apple
Spotify
#22
Hall Of Fame
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Polo G
Amazon
Apple
Spotify
#23
I Don't Live Here Anymore
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The War On Drugs
Amazon
Apple
Spotify
#24
Flux
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Poppy
Amazon
Apple
Spotify
#25
No Gods No Masters
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Garbage
Amazon
Apple
Spotify
#26
Planet Her
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Doja Cat
Amazon
Apple
Spotify
#27
Maximum Sorrow!
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Desperate Journalist
Amazon
Apple
Spotify
#28
The Horses And The Hounds
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James Mcmurtry
Amazon
Apple
Spotify
#29
Infinite Granite
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Deafheaven
Amazon
Apple
Spotify
#30
Dancing With The Devil... The Art Of Starting Over
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Demi Lovato
Amazon
Apple
Spotify
#31
As The Love Continues
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Mogwai
Amazon
Apple
Spotify
#32
Sound Ancestors
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Madlib
Amazon
Apple
Spotify
#33
Daddyβs Home
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St. Vincent
Amazon
Apple
Spotify
#34
Collapsed In Sunbeams
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Arlo Parks
Amazon
Apple
Spotify
#35
Promises
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Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & The London Symphony Orchestra
Amazon
Apple
Spotify
#36
We're All Alone In This Together
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Dave
Amazon
Apple
Spotify
#37
Local Valley
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JosΓ© GonzΓ‘lez
Amazon
Apple
Spotify
#38
Death By Rock And Roll
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The Pretty Reckless
Amazon
Apple
Spotify
#39
An Evening With Silk Sonic
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Silk Sonic
Amazon
Apple
Spotify
#40
Typhoons
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Royal Blood
Amazon
Apple
Spotify
#41
The Bitter Truth
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Evanescence
Amazon
Apple
Spotify
#42
Lindsey Buckingham
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Lindsey Buckingham
Amazon
Apple
Spotify
#43
Home Video
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Lucy Dacus
Amazon
Apple
Spotify
#44
Seventeen Going Under
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Sam Fender
Amazon
Apple
Spotify
#45
Cavalcade
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Black Midi
Amazon
Apple
Spotify
#46
Gold-diggers Sound
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Leon Bridges
Amazon
Apple
Spotify
#47
Vince Staples
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Vince Staples
Amazon
Apple
Spotify
#48
I Know Iβm Funny Haha
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Faye Webster
Amazon
Apple
Spotify
#49
Drunk Tank Pink
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shame
Amazon
Apple
Spotify
#50
Little Oblivions
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Julien Baker
Amazon
Apple
Spotify
#51
Smiling With No Teeth
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Genesis Owusu
Amazon
Apple
Spotify
#52
Blue Banisters
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Lana Del Rey
Amazon
Apple
Spotify
#53
By The Time I Get To Phoenix
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Injury Reserve
Amazon
Apple
Spotify
#54
Roadrunner: New Light, New Machine
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BROCKHAMPTON
Amazon
Apple
Spotify
#55
Red (taylor's Version)
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Taylor Swift
Amazon
Apple
Spotify
#56
The House Is Burning
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Isaiah Rashad
Amazon
Apple
Spotify
#57
Dark In Here
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The Mountain Goats
Amazon
Apple
Spotify
#58
Loving In Stereo
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Jungle
Amazon
Apple
Spotify
#59
Native Sons
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Los Lobos
Amazon
Apple
Spotify
#60
Exodus
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DMX
Amazon
Apple
Spotify
#61
Afrique Victime
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Mdou Moctar
Amazon
Apple
Spotify
#62
Big Mess
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Danny Elfman
Amazon
Apple
Spotify
#63
Utopian Ashes
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Bobby Gillespie & Jehnny Beth
Amazon
Apple
Spotify
#64
DEACON
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Serpentwithfeet
Amazon
Apple
Spotify
#65
Jubilee
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Japanese Breakfast
Amazon
Apple
Spotify
#66
Thirstier
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TORRES
Amazon
Apple
Spotify
#67
Folarin II
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Wale
Amazon
Apple
Spotify
#68
Heart & Soul
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Eric Church
Amazon
Apple
Spotify
#69
Hushed And Grim
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Mastodon
Amazon
Apple
Spotify
#70
The Moon And Stars: Prescriptions For Dreamers
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Valerie June
Amazon
Apple
Spotify
#71
We Are
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Jon Batiste
Amazon
Apple
Spotify
#72
Fatpop (volume 1)
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Paul Weller
Amazon
Apple
Spotify
#73
Crawler
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IDLES
Amazon
Apple
Spotify
#74
Downhill From Everywhere
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Jackson Browne
Amazon
Apple
Spotify
#75
Ocean To Ocean
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Tori Amos
Amazon
Apple
Spotify
#76
Friends That Break Your Heart
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James Blake
Amazon
Apple
Spotify
#77
Pressure Machine
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The Killers
Amazon
Apple
Spotify
#78
JOSE
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J Balvin
Amazon
Apple
Spotify
#79
Emphatically No.
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Cheekface
Amazon
Apple
Spotify
#80
Hardware
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Billy F Gibbons
Amazon
Apple
Spotify
#81
Colors II
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Between The Buried And Me
Amazon
Apple
Spotify
#82
Changephobia
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Rostam
Amazon
Apple
Spotify
#83
A Beautiful Life
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Heartless Bastards
Amazon
Apple
Spotify
#84
American Silence
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Chris Pierce
Amazon
Apple
Spotify
#85
My Morning Jacket
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My Morning Jacket
Amazon
Apple
Spotify
#86
OK Human
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Weezer
Amazon
Apple
Spotify
#87
DREAMLAND 2021
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ZHU
Amazon
Apple
Spotify
#88
Take The Sadness Out Of Saturday Night
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Bleachers
Amazon
Apple
Spotify
#89
Cry Forever
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Amy Shark
Amazon
Apple
Spotify
#90
Outside Child
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Allison Russell
Amazon
Apple
Spotify
#91
Course In Fable
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Ryley Walker
Amazon
Apple
Spotify
#92
Legacy +
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Femi Kuti And Made Kuti
Amazon
Apple
Spotify
#93
Thank You
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Diana Ross
Amazon
Apple
Spotify
#94
Fun House
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Hand Habits
Amazon
Apple
Spotify
#95
Superwolves
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Bonnie 'prince' Billy & Matt Sweeney
Amazon
Apple
Spotify
#96
God Is Partying
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Andrew W.K.
Amazon
Apple
Spotify
#97
Nature Always Wins
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MaxΓ―mo Park
Amazon
Apple
Spotify
#98
The Nightmare Of Being
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At The Gates
Amazon
Apple
Spotify
#99
Cinema
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The MarΓas
Amazon
Apple
Spotify
#100
Welcome 2 America
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Prince
Amazon
Apple
Spotify
#101
The Marfa Tapes
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Miranda Lambert, Jack Ingram And Jon Randall
Amazon
Apple
Spotify
#102
Kvitravn
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Wardruna
Amazon
Apple
Spotify
#103
Half Drunk Under A Full Moon
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The Fratellis
Amazon
Apple
Spotify
#104
New Fragility
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Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
Amazon
Apple
Spotify
#105
FLOWERS For VASES / Descansos
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Hayley Williams
Amazon
Apple
Spotify
#106
Soberish
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Liz Phair
Amazon
Apple
Spotify
#107
Ancient Dreams In A Modern Land
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Marina
Amazon
Apple
Spotify
#108
Dangerous: The Double Album
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Morgan Wallen
Amazon
Apple
Spotify
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