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Elle Osborne: “Good Grief”

Happy new year: I trust everyone had some kind of decent break. I read Robert Byron on Tibet (for climatic context, possibly), watched Robinson In Ruins, played a fair bit of Pharoah Sanders and The Watersons, and rediscovered that a body clock wrecked by parenthood can be very useful during an Ashes series.

The Wild Mercury Sound 100 Of 2010

Last blog of the year, I suspect, so I thought it’d be useful to post my whole hundred in one place: apologies for the half-arsed obligation to get extra traffic which compelled me to post it in chunks, at least initially.

Captain Beefheart RIP

Awful news this morning. I posted a link to this a few months ago, but I think it needs to be seen again today.

The 48th Uncut Playlist Of 2010

Thanks for all your responses to my Top 100 over the last few days. In case, you missed it yesterday, please post your own Top Tens here, and I’ll crunch them into a chart in a couple of weeks or so.

The Judges Discuss: Joanna Newsom, “Have One On Me”

The last transcript from our 2010 Uncut Music Award deliberations...

The 2010 Top 100: Part Four

Previously: 100-76, 75-51, 50-26.

The 2010 Top 100: Part Three

Previously: 100-76, 75-51.

The 2010 Top 100: Part One

Been promising this for a while, so here goes: my 100 favourite albums of 2010.

The Judges Discuss: Gorillaz, “Plastic Beach”

Allan Jones: I’m told this is a work of genius... I must admit that it’s not a record I’ve particularly warmed to myself, or engaged with, but I’m open to being persuaded otherwise.
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