After a slight lull last week, another clutch of good new 2010 things here, overshadowed slightly by the news at the Durtro website that Bill Fay’s new album – and featuring his first released recordings from the past three decades, more or less – is just about ready to go.
Favourites in this lot are the new Necks album – a slight departure, which I’ll write about later in the week – and the lovely “Ali & Toumani” set, dating from 2005 sessions.
1 The Necks – Silverwater (RER)
2 Citay – Dream Get Together (Dead Oceans)
3 Charlotte Gainsbourg – IRM (Because)
4 Ali Farka Touré & Toumani Diabaté – Ali & Toumani (World Circuit)
5 Hot Chip – One Life Stand (Parlophone)
6 Animal Collective – Fall Be Kind (Domino)
7 Various Artists – The Best Of 2009 (Uncut)
8 PIL – Metal Box (EMI)
9 Steve Mason – All Come Down (Black Melody)
10 Real Estate – Real Estate (Woodsist)
11 The Imagined Village – Empire And Love (ECC)
12 Various Artists – Fire In My Bones: Raw + Rare + Other-Worldly African-American Gospel 1944-2007 (Tompkins Square)
13 Beach House – Teen Dream (Bella Union)
14 Wooden Veil – Wooden Veil (Dekorder)
15 Four Tet – There Is Love In You (Domino)
16 Queens Of The Stone Age – Songs For The Deaf (Interscope)
17 Cluster – Qua (Klangbad/Broken Silence)
18 Spectre Folk- Compass, Blanket, Lantern, Mojo (Arbitrary Signs)
19 Tommy James – Tommy James (Rev-Ola)