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By all accounts, this seems eligible. There's just the separate issue of what exactly counts as a "Chicago album".
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44 Twenty-six-way tie, one point each

Angel Eyes, Midwestern
(The Mylene Sheath, 2010)
Josh Berman Trio, A Dance and a Hop
(Delmark, 2015)
Bust!, Suck Kuts
(Cassette Deck Media Conglomerate, 2010)
Kweku Collins, Nat Love
(Closed Sessions, 2016)
Divino Niño, Foam
(Winspear, 2019)
Dreezy, No Hard Feelings
(Interscope, 2016)
Freddie Gibbs, Freddie
(ESGN/Empire, 2018)
Christian JaLon, Vinyled Love
(self-released, 2017)
Jordanna, Sweet Tooth
(self-released, 2018)
Judson Claiborne, Time and Temperature
(La Société Expéditionnaire, 2010)
Locrian, Infinite Dissolution
(Relapse, 2015)
Mines, Just Another Thing That Got Ruined
(Lake Paradise, 2013)
Mister Wallace, Faggot EP
(Futurehood, 2016)
Panicsville, A Dragonfly for Each Corpse
(Smeraldina-Rima, 2010)
Payasa, Demo
(self-released, 2018)
Qari & Green Sllime, Operation Hennessy
(Broke Ass, 2019)
Rempis Percussion Quartet, Cochonnerie
(Aerophonic, 2017)
Sin Orden, Ha Llegado el Momento
(Not Normal Tapes, 2015)
Sonny Falls, Some Kind of Spectre
(Sooper, 2018)
Treasure Fleet, Cocamotion
(Recess, 2012)
Twin Peaks, Sunken EP
(Autumn Tone, 2013)
Wilco, Star Wars
(dBpm, 2015)
Wild Belle, Everybody One of a Kind
(Tuff Gong Worldwide, 2019)
Ric Wilson, Soul Bounce
(self-released, 2016)
Ze’ev, Kismet
(self-released, 2016)
ZMoney and Chase the Money, ZTM
(4EverPaid, 2017)
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43 Thirty-two-way tie, two points each

The Autumn Defense, Once Around
(Yep Roc, 2010)
Willis Earl Beal, Acousmatic Sorcery
(XL, 2012)
Beat Drun Juel, Suppressor
(self-released, 2016)
Olivia Block, Dissolution
(Glistening Examples, 2016)
Bloodiest, Descent
(Relapse, 2011)
Bottomless Pit, Shade Perennial
(Comedy Minus One, 2013)
Joseph Chilliams, Henry Church
(self-released, 2017)
Coppice, Big Wad Excisions
(Quakebasket, 2013)
Dark Fog, Make You Believe
(Eye Vybe/Cardinal Fuzz, 2018)
Deeper, Deeper
(Fire Talk, 2018)
Dolly Varden, For a While
(Mid-Fi, 2013)
Dowsing, All I Could Find Was You
(Count Your Lucky Stars, 2011)
Fee Lion, Blood Sisters
(self-released, 2019)
Hitter, 2018 Demo
(self-released, 2018)
Immortal Bird, Thrive on Neglect
(20 Buck Spin, 2019)
Impulsive Hearts, Sorry in the Summer
(Beautiful Strange, 2016)
Lord Mantis, Pervertor
(Candlelight, 2012)
Ministry, Relapse
(AFM, 2012)
Sen Morimoto, Cannonball!
(Sooper, 2018)
Not for You, Drown
(Sooper, 2018)
Options, Driftwood Metaphor
(Grandpa Bay, 2015)
Pink Frost, Sundowning
(Notes & Bolts/BLVD, 2013)
Soddy Daisy, Trashtopia
(self-released, 2015)
Mavis Staples, You Are Not Alone
(Anti-, 2010)
Sun Rooms, Sun Rooms
(Delmark, 2010)
Sun Speak, Sun Speak With Sara Serpa
(Flood Music, 2018)
Surachai, Embraced
(Trash Audio, 2013)
Tink, Winter’s Diary 4
(Winter’s Diary, 2016)
Touched by Ghoul, Murder Circus
(Under Road, 2016)
Various artists, Cult Cargo: Salsa Boricua de Chicago
(Numero Group, 2011)
Matt Ulery’s Loom, Wake an Echo
(Greenleaf Music, 2013)
Young Pappy, 2 Cups: Part 2 of Everything
(self-released, 2015)
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42 Twenty-six-way tie, three points each

Absolutely Not, Mister Something
(Chain Smoking, 2013)
Aaliyah Allah, Being
(self-released, 2017)
Ballister, Worse for the Wear
(Aerophonic, 2015)
Canadian Rifle, Peaceful Death
(Dead Broke Rekerds, 2018)
CB Radio Gorgeous, Plays CB Radio Gorgeous
(Not Normal Tapes, 2018)
Daymaker, Amen/Evening
(self-released, 2015)
Eleventh Dream Day, Works for Tomorrow
(Thrill Jockey, 2015)
G Herbo, Welcome to Fazoland
(Machine Entertainment Group, 2014)
Harm’s Way, Posthuman
(Metal Blade, 2018)
Katie Got Bandz, Bandz and Hittaz
(self-released, 2012)
The Kickback, Weddings & Funerals
(Jullian, 2017)
Quin Kirchner, The Other Side of Time
(Astral Spirits/Monofonus Press/Spacetones, 2018)
Dustin Laurenzi, Snaketime: The Music of Moondog
(Astral Spirits/Feeding Tube, 2019)
Bill MacKay & Ryley Walker, SpiderBeetleBee
(Drag City, 2017)
Gia Margaret, There’s Always Glimmer
(Orindal, 2018)
Nicole Mitchell, Mandorla Awakening II: Emerging Worlds
(FPE, 2017)
Monvment, Geminae
(Dead Section, 2013)
Nonzoo, Wazoo
(Already Dead Tapes & Records, 2017)
Ono, Albino
(Moniker, 2012)
KC Ortiz, Beach Street
(self-released, 2017)
Charles Rumback, Cadillac Turns
(Monofonus Press/Astral Spirits, 2019)
Serengeti, Kenny Dennis EP
(Anticon, 2012)
Tigress, Tigress EP
(Not Normal Tapes, 2017)
Veruca Salt, Ghost Notes
(El Camino, 2015)
Beau Wanzer, Untitled
(self-released, 2014)
ZMoney, Rich B4 Rap
(self-released, 2013)
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41 Twenty-nine-way tie, four points each

Bongripper, Miserable
(Great Barrier, 2014)
Braid, No Coast
(Topshelf, 2014)
Brokeback, Brokeback and the Black Rock
(Thrill Jockey, 2013)
Califone, Sometimes Good Weather Follows Bad People
(Jealous Butcher, 2012)
Cloud Mouth, Keep Well
(Kid Sister Everything/Ice Age/Adagio830, 2011)
Condenada, Discografia
(Not Normal Tapes, 2012)
Mykele Deville, Peace, Fam
(self-released, 2017)
Drama, Gallows
(Drama Music, 2016)
Kevin Drumm, Humid Weather
(self-released, 2012)
Liam Hayes, Slurrup
(Fat Possum, 2015)
Tatiana Hazel, Toxic
(self-released, 2018)
Juice Wrld, Death Race for Love
(Grade A Productions/Interscope, 2019)
Kid Sister, Kiss Kiss Kiss
(Fool’s Gold, 2010)
Roy Kinsey, Blackie
(Futurehood/Not Normal Tapes, 2018)
Kittyhawk, Hello, Again
(Count Your Lucky Stars, 2014)
Lil Durk, I’m Still a Hitta
(Only the Family, 2012)
Lil Durk, Signed to the Streets
(Only the Family, 2013)
Ty Money, Cinco de Money
(Sibley Boyz Muzik Group/Gold Coast Music Group, 2015)
Panegyrist, Hierurgy
(I, Voidhanger, 2018)
Pivot Gang, You Can’t Sit With Us
(Pivot Gang, 2019)
Ratboys, AOID
(Topshelf, 2014)
Jana Rush, Pariah
(Objects Limited, 2017)
Russian Circles, Blood Year
(Sargent House, 2019)
Saba, Bucket List Project
(self-released, 2016)
Sincere Engineer, Rhombithian
(Red Scare Industries, 2017)
Spektral Quartet, Chambers
(Parlour Tapes, 2013)
Time & Pressure, The Gateway City Sound
(Safe Insound, 2019)
Sam Trump, Purple Skies
(Superlative Muzak, 2017)
Vukari, Aevum
(Vendetta, 2019)
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40 Twenty-eight-way tie, five points each

Joshua Abrams, Natural Information
(Eremite, 2010)
Advance Base, A Shut-In’s Prayer
(Orindal, 2012)
Azita, Disturbing the Air
(Drag City, 2011)
BBU, bell hooks
(Mishka, 2012)
Ari Brown, Groove Awakening
(Delmark, 2013)
Cross Record, Be Good
(Lay Flat, 2012)
Crude Humor, Jeri’s Grill
(Not Normal Tapes, 2015)
Disrotted, Disrotted
(Diseased Audio, 2015)
DJ Nate, Da Trak Genious
(Planet Mu, 2010)
DJ Paypal, Buy Now
(LuckyMe, 2015)
DJ Taye, Still Trippin’
(Hyperdub, 2018)
Engine Summer, Trophy Kids
(self-released, 2017)
Free Snacks, Fast Food
(Why? Records, 2019)
The Funs, My Survival
(Manic Static, 2015)
The Kreutzer Sonata, The Gutters of Paradise
(Don’t Panic/No Time/Collision Course, 2018)
La Armada, Anti-Colonial Vol. 1
(Bird Attack, 2018)
Ravyn Lenae, Crush
(Atlantic/Three Twenty Three Music Group, 2018)
Ravyn Lenae, Moon Shoes EP
(Three Twenty Three Music Group, 2016)
Local H, Hallelujah! I’m a Bum
(Slimstyle, 2012)
Jeff Mills, Emerging Crystal Universe
(Axis, 2014)
Modern Vices, Modern Vices
(Autumn Tone, 2014)
Oozing Wound, Whatever Forever
(Thrill Jockey, 2016)
Joey Purp, iiiDrops
(self-released, 2017)
Sun Ra, Exotica
(Modern Harmonic, 2017)
Tenci, My Heart Is an Open Field
(Hobbies, 2019)
Varsity, Parallel Person
(Babe City, 2018)
Velcro Lewis Group, Amnesia Haze
(Safety Meeting, 2017)
Ze’ev, GTP
(self-released, 2018)
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39 Three-way tie, 5.5 points each

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(International Players Club, 2015)
Nicholas Szczepanik, Please Stop Loving Me
(Streamline, 2011)
TALsounds, Love Sick
(Ba Da Bing!, 2017)
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38 Thirty-way tie, six points each

Blacker Face, Distinctive Juju
(Sooper, 2019)
Beach Bunny, Prom Queen
(Duel Disk Media, 2018)
Date Stuff, Date Stuff
(Sooper, 2017)
Dowsing, It’s Still Pretty Terrible
(Count Your Lucky Stars, 2012)
The Evening Attraction, The End, Again
(Classic Waxx, 2018)
The Flat Five, It’s a World of Love and Hope
(Bloodshot, 2016)
Free Snacks, Eat Good Tape
(Why? Records, 2018)
G Herbo, Humble Beast
(Machine Entertainment/150 Dream Team/Cinematic Music Group, 2017)
The Hecks, My Star
(Trouble in Mind, 2019)
Immortal Bird, Akrasia
(Closed Casket, 2013)
Angela James, Way Down Deep
(self-released, 2014)
Joie de Vivre, The North End
(Count Your Lucky Stars, 2010)
King Louie, Tony
(Lawless, 2014)
Maps & Atlases, Beware & Be Grateful
(Barsuk, 2012)
Nick Mazzarella and Tomeka Reid, Signaling
(Nessa, 2017)
Janice Misurell-Mitchell, Vanishing Points
(Southport, 2013)
Monobody, Raytracing
(Sooper, 2018)
Mother Evergreen, Mother Evergreen
(self-released, 2016)
My Gold Mask, Leave Me Midnight
(Goldy Tapes, 2013)
Ne-Hi, Offers
(Grand Jury, 2016)
Angel Olsen, Burn Your Fire for No Witness
(Jagjaguwar, 2014)
Oozing Wound, Earth Suck
(Thrill Jockey, 2014)
Oozing Wound, Retrash
(Thrill Jockey, 2013)
Open Mike Eagle, Dark Comedy
(Mello Music Group, 2014)
Tom Schraeder & His Ego, Gush
(self-released, 2015)
Sicko Mobb, Super Saiyan: Vol. 1
(self-released, 2014)
Smino, Noir
(Zero Fatigue/Downtown/Interscope, 2018)
Traxman, Da Mind of Traxman
(Planet Mu, 2012)
Ron Trent, Raw Footage
(Electric Blue, 2012)
Ryley Walker, Golden Sings That Have Been Sung
(Dead Oceans, 2016)
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37 Twenty-six-way tie, seven points each

Joshua Abrams & Natural Information Society, Simultonality
(Eremite, 2017)
Bobby Conn, Rise Up!
(Fire, 2010 reissue of 1998 album)
Coping, Nope
(Protagonist, 2012)
Cordoba, Break the Locks Off Everything New
(self-released, 2018)
Cupcakke, Queen Elizabitch
(self-released, 2017)
Disappears, Live at Echo Canyon
(Plus Tapes, 2011)
DKV Trio, Sound in Motion in Sound
(Not Two, 2014)
Donnie Trumpet & the Social Experiment, Surf
(self-released, 2015)
Freakwater, Scheherazade
(Bloodshot, 2016)
Pastor Donald Gay, On a Glorious Day
(The Sirens, 2019)
Gigan, Multi-Dimensional Fractal-Sorcery and Super Science
(Willowtip, 2013)
Gramps the Vamp, The Cave of 10,000 Eyes
(self-released, 2016)
Great Society Mind Destroyers, Spirit Smoke
(Slow Knife, 2011)
Hieroglyphic Being & J.I.T.U. Ahn-Sahm-Buhl, We Are Not the First
(RVNG Intl, 2015)
Hogg, Solar Phallic Lion
(Scrapes, 2016)
Hurt Everybody, 2K47
(self-released, 2015)
Joan of Arc, Life Like
(Polyvinyl, 2011)
Ravyn Lenae, Midnight Moonlight EP
(Atlantic/Three Twenty Three Music Group, 2017)
Angel Olsen, My Woman
(Jagjaguwar, 2016)
Ovens, Settings
(self-released, 2012)
Pixel Grip, Heavy Handed
(FeelTrip, 2019)
Raw Nerve, Raw Nerve
(Youth Attack, 2010)
Siamese Twins, Demo
(self-released, 2011)
Sam Trump, Love Notes
(Superlative Muzak, 2017)
Vamos, Spiderbait
(Maximum Pelt, 2015)
Varaha, A Passage for Lost Years
(Prosthetic, 2019)
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36 Twenty-five-way tie, eight points each

Burdened, Crippled by Fear
(self-released, 2017)
Dead Rider, Chills on Glass
(Drag City, 2014)
Mykele Deville, Maintain
(No Trend, 2019)
The Funs, The Funs
(Manic Static, 2013)
Haki, Positive
(self-released, 2014)
Half Gringa, Gruñona
(self-released, 2017)
Jackie Lynn, Jackie Lynn
(Thrill Jockey, 2016)
Mahalia Jackson, Moving on Up a Little Higher
(Shanachie/Spirit Feel, 2016)
The Kickback, Sorry All Over the Place
(Jullian, 2015)
Tim Kinsella, Marvin Tate, Leroy Bach, and Angel Olsen, Tim Kinsella Sings the Songs of Marvin Tate by Leroy Bach Featuring Angel Olsen
(Joyful Noise, 2013)
Mannequin Men, Mannequin Men
(Addenda, 2011)
Rob Mazurek Octet, Skull Sessions
(Cuneiform, 2013)
Vic Mensa, There’s Alot Going On
(Roc Nation, 2016)
Nicole Mitchell’s Black Earth Ensemble, Intergalactic Beings
(FPE, 2014)
Polo G, Die a Legend
(Columbia, 2019)
Post Animal, When I Think of You in a Castle
(Polyvinyl, 2018)
Russian Circles, Guidance
(Sargent House, 2016)
Jackie Shane, Any Other Way
(Numero Group, 2017)
Smith Westerns, Dye It Blonde
(Fat Possum Records, 2011)
Vic Spencer and Chris Crack, Who the Fuck Is Chris Spencer??
(self-released, 2016)
Tortoise, The Catastrophist
(Thrill Jockey, 2016)
Tree, The Tree EP
(self-released, 2011)
Jeff Tweedy, Warm
(dBpm, 2018)
Vee Dee, Vee Dee
(BLVD, 2011)
Miranda Winters, Xobeci, What Grows Here?
(Sooper, 2018)
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35 Twenty-three-way tie, nine points each

Anatomy of Habit, Anatomy of Habit
(self-released, 2011)
The Atlas Moth, Coma Noir
(Profound Lore, 2011)
Bongripper, Satan Worshipping Doom
(self-released, 2010)
Cell Phones, Get You Alone
(Caffeinated, 2013)
Cheer-Accident, No Ifs, Ands or Dogs
(Cuneiform, 2011)
Chicago Symphony Orchestra conducted by Riccardo Muti with Barbara Frittoli and others, Verdi: Messa da Requiem
(CSO Resound, 2010)
Chief Keef, Almighty So
(self-released, 2013)
Chief Keef, Back From the Dead 2
(Glo Gang, 2014)
Cupcakke, Eden
(self-released, 2018)
Disappears, Era
(Kranky, 2013)
Gorillaz, Humanz
(Warner, 2017)
Living by Lanterns, New Myth/Old Science
(Cuneiform, 2012)
Locrian, The Crystal World
(Utech, 2010)
Vic Mensa, Innanetape
(self-released, 2013)
OK Go, Hungry Ghosts
(Paracadute, 2014)
Tomeka Reid Quartet, Tomeka Reid Quartet
(Thirsty Ear, 2015)
Serengeti, Dennis 6e
(FlamingoPop, 2018)
Teklife, On Life
(Teklife, 2017)
Henry Threadgill, In for a Penny, in for a Pound
(Pi, 2015)
Tink, Winter’s Diary 2
(self-released, 2014)
Toupee, Dinner Parties
(Rotted Tooth, 2013)
Woo Park, Smokes
(self-released, 2014)
Avery R. Young, Tubman
(FPE, 2019)
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34 Twenty-three-way tie, ten points each

Against Me!, Transgender Dysphoria Blues
(Xtra Mile/Total Treble, 2014)
Arriver, Tsushima
(Bloodlust!, 2012)
Bruised, Rotten Codex
(Chicago Research, 2019)
Cave, Neverendless
(Drag City, 2011)
Chief Keef, Back From the Dead
(self-released, 2012)
Erraunt, The Portent
(self-released, 2015)
Fire-Toolz, Drip Mental
(Hausu Mountain, 2017)
Frail Body, A Brief Memoriam
(Deathwish Inc., 2019)
Robbie Fulks, Gone Away Backward
(Bloodshot, 2013)
La Armada, La Armada
(Fat Sandwich, 2012)
Damon Locks Black Monument Ensemble, Where Future Unfolds
(International Anthem, 2019)
Lucki, Alternative Trap
(self-released, 2013)
Marker, New Industries
(Audiographic, 2019)
Makaya McCraven, In the Moment
(International Anthem, 2015)
Makaya McCraven, Universal Beings
(International Anthem, 2018)
Melkbelly, Pennsylvania
(Automatic Recordings, 2014)
Mike Reed, Flesh & Bone
(482 Music, 2017)
RP Boo, Legacy
(Planet Mu, 2013)
Serengeti, Kenny Dennis III
(Joyful Noise, 2014)
Charles Joseph Smith, War of the Martian Ghosts
(Sooper, 2018)
Third Coast Percussion, Paddle to the Sea
(Cedille, 2018)
Two Houses, I Feel so Good I Can’t Feel Myself
(Rad Girlfriend, 2016)
Ryley Walker, Primrose Green
(Dead Oceans, 2015)
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33 Four-way tie, 11 points each

The Atlas Moth, An Ache for the Distance
(Profound Lore, 2011)
Into It. Over It., Intersections
(Triple Crown, 2013)
Retirement Party, Strictly Speaking
(Tilde, 2017)
Slow Mass, On Watch
(Land Land, 2018)

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Circuit des Yeux, Reaching for Indigo
(Drag City, 2017) 11.5 points

31 Two-way tie, 12 points each

Dead Rider, The Raw Dents
(Drag City, 2011)
Lupe Fiasco, Tetsuo & Youth
(Atlantic/1st & 15th Entertainment, 2015)
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30 Eight-way tie, 13 points each

Cupcakke, Ephorize
(self-released, 2018)
Disappears, Guider
(Kranky, 2011)
G Herbo, Ballin Like I’m Kobe
(Machine Entertainment Group/Cinematic/150 Dream Team, 2015)
Kids These Days, Traphouse Rock
(self-released, 2012)
Negative Scanner, Nose Picker
(Trouble in Mind, 2018)
Smino, Blkswn
(Zero Fatigue/Downtown, 2017)
Mavis Staples, If All I Was Was Black
(Anti-, 2017)

Weekend Nachos, Worthless
(Deep Six, 2011)
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Tree, Sunday School
(self-released, 2012) 13.5 points

28 Four-way tie, 14 points each

CSTVT, The Echo & the Light
(Tiny Engines, 2010)
Kaina, Next to the Sun
(Sooper, 2019)
Mako Sica, Essence
(La Société Expéditionnaire, 2012)
Mavis Staples, One True Vine
(Anti-, 2013)

27 Four-way tie, 15 points each

Advance Base, Nephew in the Wild
(Orindal, 2015)
Jean Deaux, Krash
(self-released/Empire, 2018)
Ganser, Odd Talk
(No Trend, 2018)
No Men, Dear God, Bring the Doom
(Let’s Pretend, 2016)
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26 Five-way tie, 16 points each

Disappears, Lux
(Kranky, 2010)
Grown Ups, More Songs
(Topshelf, 2010)
Jeremih, Late Nights: The Album
(Def Jam, 2015)
Open Mike Eagle, Brick Body Kids Still Daydream
(Mello Music Group, 2017)
Russian Circles, Memorial
(Sargent House, 2013)

25 Four-way tie, 17 points each

Jaimie Branch, Fly or Die
(International Anthem, 2019)
Saba, Comfort Zone
(self-released, 2014)
Toupee, Leg Toucher
(Moniker, 2015)
Kanye West, Yeezus
(Def Jam/Roc-a-Fella, 2013)
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Jeremih, Late Nights: The Mixtape
(self-released, 2012) 17.5 points

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Various artists, Bangs & Works Vol. 1
(Planet Mu, 2010) 18 points

22 Three-way tie, 19 points each

American Football, American Football (LP3)
(Polyvinyl, 2019)
Ben LaMar Gay, Downtown Castles Can Never Block the Sun
(International Anthem, 2018)
Purple Mountains, Purple Mountains
(Drag City, 2019)
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Re: Chicago Reader (US) - The best Chicago albums of the 2010s

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21 Three-way tie, 20 points each

Meat Wave, The Incessant
(SideOneDummy, 2017)
Meat Wave, Meat Wave
(Hawthorne Street/Let’s Pretend, 2012)
Greg Ward, Touch My Beloved’s Thought
(Greenleaf, 2016)

20 Two-way tie, 21 points each

Ratboys, GN
(Topshelf, 2017)
Tasha, Alone at Last
(Father/Daughter, 2018)

19

Yeesh, Confirmation Bias
(Tiny Engines, 2016) 22 points
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18 Three-way tie, 23 points each

Angel Bat Dawid, The Oracle
(International Anthem, 2019)
Melkbelly, Nothing Valley
(Wax Nine, 2017)
Negative Scanner, Negative Scanner
(Trouble in Mind, 2015)

17

Ohmme, Parts
(Joyful Noise, 2018) 24 points

16

Dehd, Water
(Fire Talk, 2019) 25 points

15 Two-way tie, 26 points each

Mick Jenkins, The Water
(Cinematic Music Group, 2014)
Whitney, Light Upon the Lake
(Secretly Canadian, 2016)
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14

Noname, Room 25
(self-released, 2018) 27 points

13

Ono, Spooks
(Moniker, 2015) 31 points

12

Angel Olsen, Half Way Home
(Bathetic, 2012) 31.5 points

11 Two-way tie, 34 points each

Lala Lala, The Lamb
(Hardly Art, 2018)
Twin Peaks, Wild Onion
(Grand Jury, 2014)
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10 Two-way tie, 37 points each

C.H.E.W., Feeding Frenzy
(Iron Lung, 2018)
Nnamdi Ogbonnaya, Drool
(Sooper, Father/Daughter, 2017)

9

Chance the Rapper, Coloring Book
(self-released, 2016) 40 points

8

Jamila Woods, Heavn
(Jagjaguwar/Closed Sessions, 2016) 51 points

7

Jamila Woods,
Legacy! Legacy!
(Jagjaguwar/Closed Sessions, 2019) 58.5 points

6

Chief Keef, Finally Rich
(Interscope/Glory Boyz Entertainment, 2012) 65.5 points
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5

DJ Rashad, Double Cup
(Hyperdub, 2013) 71.5 points

4

Kanye West, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
(Def Jam/Roc-a-Fella, 2010) 73 points

3

Chance the Rapper, Acid Rap
(self-released, 2013) 85 points

2

Noname, Telefone
(self-released, 2016) 98 points

1

Saba, Care for Me
(self-released, 2018) 101 points
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