Detroit composer and pianist Miachael Malis has moved all the way up to #1 in our top 30 this week!
* indicates Canadian artist. ^ indicates local Windsor/Detroit artist
1 MICHAEL MALIS^ From Darkness We Awaken (Made Now Music)
2 SLEEPING LILY* Floda (Self-Released)
3 DAPHNI* Cherry (Jiaolong)
4 STATUS/NON-STATUS* Surely Travel (You’ve Changed)
5 DRY CLEANING Stumpwork (4AD)
6 POOL KIDS Pool Kids (Skeletal Lightning)
7 KHALED Cheb Khaled (Aalia Publishing)
8 SOFIE ROYER Harlequin (Stones Throw)
9 GREG HATZA AND ENAYET HOSSAIN Talking Hands (Aimrec)
10 POSTER PAINTS Blood Orange EP (Ernest Jenning Recording Co.)
11 MIKE HARGREAVES*^ Love of A Lifetime (Soul City Music Co-op)
12 SHUMAILA HEMANI* Mannat (a prayer, a wish) (Self-Released)
13 DUST CWAINE* Arcana (Self-Released)
14 KING WOOBS* Music To Watch the World Burn: a Soundtrack for Dystopian Landscapes (Self-Released)
15 LES SHIRLEY More Is More (Self-Released)
16 AVRO* FUTURETROACTIVISM (Self-Released)
17 EKELLE* Let’s Get It (Self-Released)
18 GOOD FORTUNE* Good Fortune (Self-Released)
19 MOTHERHOOD* Winded (Forward Music Group)
20 MAYA KILLTRON* Persimmon (Never Dance Alone / Love Touch)
21 LESSER EVIL* Subterranean (Self-Released)
22 LENNY BULL* STRANGE VACATION EP (Mush)
23 PILLARS OF A TWISTED CITY* Sentinel (Debt Offensive)
24 PONY IN THE PANCAKE* In Dreams (Cuchabata)
25 THE THIS* How Does It Feel When It’s Gone? (Kingfisher Bluez)
26 CONTEMPLATOR* Morphose (Nefarious Industries)
27 ENCEPHALON* Echoes (Artoffact)
28 HOLY COVES Druids And Bards (Yr Wyddfa)
29 ARCHERS OF LOAF Reason in Decline (Merge)
30 DEAD GOWNS HOW EP (Self-Released)
Top Electronic Album: DAPHNI*, Cherry
Top Folk Album: PLAINS, I Walked With You Always
Top Hop Hop Album: EKELLE*, Let’s get it
Top Loud Album: PILLARS OF A TWISTED CITY*, Sentinel
Top R&B/Soul Album: Mike Hargreaves*^, Love of a Lifetime
Top World Album: Khaled, Cheb Khaled
