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The Second Uncut Playlist Of 2011

Some biggish 2011 releases rolling in now, including one which I may draw a discreet veil over. I’m trying, too, to check out a few of your recommendations, following the Date Palms revelation.

Date Palms: “Of Psalms”

As I mentioned on Friday, I’m indebted to David for turning me onto this album by Date Palms. Quickly, it reminds me of a bunch of my favourite music - Alice Coltrane, Terry Riley, Pandit Pran Nath, Cluster, Sun Araw, Brightblack Morning Light, PG Six – while combining the influences into something relatively original.

The Fall; “This Nation’s Saving Grace: Omnibus Edition”

Fans of The Fall are, as a rule, hardy beasts. Complaint may come naturally to them, but then so does loyalty. John Peel’s famous encomium, “They are always different, they are always the same,” is the perpetual excuse for their favourite band, which disregards a certain erosion of Mark E Smith’s charms.

The First Uncut Playlist Of 2011

Lots of goodness to start the year today, not least the new Low and Eternal Tapestry albums. Thanks, too, to David M, who tipped me off yesterday about an Oakland duo called Date Palms. Playing their Myspace right now and feeling it very much indeed.

Your Top 50 Albums Of 2010

Thanks, once again, to all of you who submitted your Top Tens of 2010 to the blog at the end of the year. I’ve now applied the dark mathematics and come up with a Top 50 from them, which provides an interesting - healthy, to be honest - contrast to my own list. The winner was ahead of the pack by a mile, incidentally…

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...
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