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  • April 2021

    The Weather Station is number 1 on the !earshot Top 200 for March 2021
    The Weather Station.

    The Weather Station is the new number 1 at top of the !earshot Top 200 for March 2021 with Ignorance. Kiwi Jt., the February #1, a t #2 with Cooler Returns and Arlo Parks remains at #3 with Collapsed In Sunbeams. Rhye moves down to #4 and The Besnard Lakes (The Besnard Lakes Are The Last of the Great Thunderstorm Warnings)are still in the Top 5 at #5..

    Kacy & Clayton & Marlon Williams log another month at #1 on the March Rolk/Roots/Blues chart with Plastic Bouquet..Thug Shells's Rainy climbs to #1 on the Hip Hop chart.The Avalanches )dominates the Electronic chart with We Will Always Love You on Atralwerks.

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    !earshot Top 200 of 2020

    For January tp December 2020
    Andy Shauf - Neon Skyline Lido Pimienta - Miss Colombia Wolf Parade - Thin Mind
    TW  Artist - Title - (Label)
    1 Andy Shauf Can Con
    Neon Skyline - (Arts & Crafts)
    2 Lido Pimienta Can Con
    Miss Colombia - (Anti-)
    3 Wolf Parade Can Con
    Thin Mind - (Royal Mountain)
    4 Zoon Can Con
    Bleached Wavves - (Paper Bag)
    5 Caribou Can Con
    Suddenly - (Merge)
    6 Tops Can Con
    I Feel Alive - (Musique TOPS)
    7 Tough Age Can Con
    Which Way Am I? - (Mint)
    8 U.S. Girls Can Con
    Heavy Light - (Royal Mountain)
    9 Destroyer Can Con
    Have We Met - (Merge)
    10 Thanya Iyer Can Con
    KIND - (Topshelf Records)
    View the full !earshot Top 200
    Specialty Charts #1s
    Electronic:  Caribou - Suddenly - (Merge)
    Hip Hop:  Run The Jewels - RTJ4 - (Jewel Runners)
    International: Lido Pimienta - Miss Colombia - (Anti-)
    Jazz: Audrey Ochoa - Frankenhorn - (Chronograph)
    Loud:  Lié - You Want It Real - (Mint)
    Folk/Roots/Blues: William Prince - Reliever - (Six Shooter Records)

    Eric Revis Best Jazz of 2020: Jim Dupuis - Jazz Notes
    Jazz host and regular contributor jim Dupuis surveys some of the best Jazz releases of 2020. By Jim Dupuis.

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    CJUM Folk/Roots/Blues #1 Willie Dunn 2 days ago
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    CJLO Electronic #1 Jimmy Chou 2 days ago
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    Chad VanGaalen - World's Most Stressed Out Gardener Godspeed You! Black Emperor - G_d's Pee AT STATE'S END Sook-Yin Lee & Adam Litovitz - jooj two
    For the Week Ending: Tuesday, May 4, 2021
    TW  Artist - Title - (Label)
    1 Chad VanGaalen CanCon
    World's Most Stressed Out Gardener - (Flemish Eye)
    2 Godspeed You! Black Emperor CanCon
    G_d's Pee AT STATE'S END - (Constellation)
    3 Sook-Yin Lee & Adam Litovitz CanCon
    jooj two - (Mint)
    4 Bernice CanCon
    Eau De Bonjourno - (Telephone Explosion)
    5 Leanne Betasamosake Simpson CanCon
    Theory Of Ice - (You`ve Changed Records)
    6 Arlo Parks
    Collapsed In Sunbeams - (Transgressive)
    7 Mo Kenney CanCon
    Covers - (Turtlemusik)
    8 Les Shirley CanCon
    Forever Is Now - (Self-Released)
    9 Xiu Xiu
    OH NO - (Polyvinyl)
    10 The Weather Station CanCon
    Ignorance - (Next Door)
    View the full Top 50
    Specialty Charts #1s
    Electronic:  Various - Forest City Series, Vol. 4 - (A Person Disguised As People)
    Hip Hop: Denzel Curry x Kenny Beats - Unlocked 1.5 - (Loma Vista)
    International:  Jupiter & Okwess - Na Kozonga - (Everloving)
    Loud:  Tunic - Exhaling - (Artoffact)
    Folk/Roots/Blues: Valerie June - The Moon And Stars: Prescriptions For Dreamers - (Fantasy)

    !earshot March Top 200

    For the Month of March 2021
    TW  Artist - Title - (Label)
    1 The Weather Station Can Con
    Ignorance - (Next Door)
    2 Kiwi Jr. Can Con
    Cooler Returns - (Kiwi Club)
    3 Arlo Parks
    Collapsed In Sunbeams - (Transgressive)
    4 Rhye Can Con
    Home - (Last Gang)
    5 The Besnard Lakes Can Con
    The Besnard Lakes Are The Last of the Great Thunderstorm Warnings - (Flemish Eye)
    6 Dominique Fils-Aimé Can Con
    Three Little Words - (Ensoul)
    7 Black Country, New Road
    For The First Time - (Ninja Tune)
    8 Mo Kenney Can Con
    Covers - (Turtlemusik)
    9 Blessed Can Con
    iii - (Flemish Eye)
    10 Emma Beko Can Con
    Blue - (Self-Released)
    View the full !earshot Top 200
    Specialty Charts #1s
    Electronic: The Avalanches - We Will Always Love You - (Astralwerks)
    Hip Hop:  Thug Shells - Rainy Day - (Self-Released)
    International:  Altin Gun - Yol - (ATO)
    Jazz:  Misc - Partager l'ambulance - (Bonsound)
    Loud:  Divide And Dissolve - Gas Lit - (Invada)
    Folk/Roots/Blues:  Kacy & Clayton & Marlon Williams - Plastic Bouquet - (New West)

    !earshot Top 200 of 2020

    For January tp December 2020
    Andy Shauf - Neon Skyline Lido Pimienta - Miss Colombia Wolf Parade - Thin Mind
    TW  Artist - Title - (Label)
    1 Andy Shauf Can Con
    Neon Skyline - (Arts & Crafts)
    2 Lido Pimienta Can Con
    Miss Colombia - (Anti-)
    3 Wolf Parade Can Con
    Thin Mind - (Royal Mountain)
    4 Zoon Can Con
    Bleached Wavves - (Paper Bag)
    5 Caribou Can Con
    Suddenly - (Merge)
    6 Tops Can Con
    I Feel Alive - (Musique TOPS)
    7 Tough Age Can Con
    Which Way Am I? - (Mint)
    8 U.S. Girls Can Con
    Heavy Light - (Royal Mountain)
    9 Destroyer Can Con
    Have We Met - (Merge)
    10 Thanya Iyer Can Con
    KIND - (Topshelf Records)
    View the full !earshot Top 200
    Specialty Charts #1s
    Electronic:  Caribou - Suddenly - (Merge)
    Hip Hop:  Run The Jewels - RTJ4 - (Jewel Runners)
    International: Lido Pimienta - Miss Colombia - (Anti-)
    Jazz: Audrey Ochoa - Frankenhorn - (Chronograph)
    Loud:  Lié - You Want It Real - (Mint)
    Folk/Roots/Blues: William Prince - Reliever - (Six Shooter Records)

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