I guess the tagline says plenty about the riches in the list this week, but also spare some time for the private press gem trailing the new Imaginational Anthems set, the very fine Itasca track (strongly recommended if you were keen on The Weather Station’s album last year) and, though I’ve probably flagged it up before, the new Noura Mint Seymali. She’s great. I don’t have a link for The Double, but it’s an epic Bo Diddley drone-out by Jim White (Dirty Three, Xylouris White etc) and The Cairo Gang, and I can’t recommend it enough.
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1 Wilco – Schmilco (dBpm)
2 Dylan Golden Aycock – Church Of Level (Scissortail)
3 Matt Berry – The Small Hours (Acid Jazz)
4 Drive-By Truckers – American Band (ATO)
5 Health & Beauty – No Scare (Wichita)
6 Shovels & Rope – Little Seeds (New West)
7 Adam Torres – Pearls To Swine (Fat Possum)
8 Psychic Temple – Plays Music For Airports (Joyful Noise)
9 Hiss Golden Messenger – Heart Like A Levee (Merge)
10 Itasca – Open To Chance (Paradise Of Bachelors)
11 Hailu Mergia & Dahlak Band – Wede Harer Guzo (Awesome Tapes From Africa)
12 King Creosote -Astronaut Meets Appleman (Domino)
13 Goat – Try My Robe (Rocket)
14 The Frightnrs – Nothing More To Say (Daptone)
15 Great Speckled Bird – Great Speckled Bird (Ampex)
16 Mike & Rich – Expert Knob Twiddlers (Planet Mu)
17 Noura Mint Seymali – Arbina (Glitterbeat)
18 The Grateful Dead – Red Rocks 7/8/78 (Rhino)
19 Drugdealer – The End Of Comedy (Weird World)
20 Donny McCaslin – Beyond Now (Motema)
21 Joan Shelley – Cost Of The Cold/Here And Whole (No Quarter)
22 Biosphere – Departed Glories (Smalltown Supersound)
23 Kool Keith – World Wide Lamper (Feat. B.a.R.S Murre & Dirt Nasty) (Mello Music Group)
24 Robert Stillman – Time Of Waves (Orindal)
25 Various Artists – Imaginational Anthem Vol 8 (Tompkins Square)
26 The Double – Dawn Of The Double (In The Red)