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Music:
Current album favourites...updated: 23 September 2008
FLEET FOXES -- fleet foxes (Bella Union/Sub Pop)
ROBERT PLANT & ALISON KRAUSS -- raising sand (Rounder)
ANE BRUN -- changing of the seasons (Determine)
TV ON THE RADIO -- dear science (XL)
LUOMO -- convivial (Huume)
SIGUR ROS -- Með Suð à Eyrum Við Spilum Endalaust (EMI)
FRIENDLY FIRES -- friendly fires (XL advance)
THE STREETS -- everything is borrowed (Warner advance)
THE WEEK THAT WAS -- the week that was (Cooperative)
THE PRESETS -- apocalpyso (Modular)
...
10 personal favourites from 2007:
RADIOHEAD -- in rainbows (inrainbows.com/XL)
VIEUX FARKA TOURÈ -- Vieux Farka Touré (world village)
GRAVENHURST -- the western lands (warp)
ROBERT WYATT -- comicopera (domino)
BARONESS -- the red album (relapse)
KANYE WEST -- graduation (universal)
BURIAL -- untrue (hyperdub)
THE WHITE STRIPES -- icky thump (xl)
THE ENEMY -- we live and die in these towns (warner)
BAND OF HORSES -- cease to begin (sub pop)
...
10 personal favourites from 2006
JOANNA NEWSOM -- ys (Drag City)
BECK -- the information (Geffen)
SPARKS -- hello young lovers (Essential)
BAND OF HORSES -- everything all the time (Sub Pop)
THE MELVINS -- a senile animal (Ipecac)
THE CLIPSE -- hell hath no fury (Sony BMG)
BURIAL -- burial (Hyperdub)
THOM YORKE -- the eraser (XL)
CURRENT 93 -- black ships ate the sky (Durtro)
SCOTT WALKER -- the drift (4AD)
...10 personal favourites from 2005
SUFJAN STEVENS -- illinoise (Rough Trade)
THE DECEMBERISTS -- picaresque (Rough Trade)
THE ARCADE FIRE -- funeral (Merge)
ANIMAL COLLECTIVE -- feels (Fat Cat)
DUNGEN -- ta det lugnt (Subliminal Sound)
ANTONY & THE JOHNSONS -- i am a bird now (Secretly Canadian)
ENGINEERS -- engineers (Echo)
BLOC PARTY -- silent alarm (V2)
KATE BUSH -- aerial (EMI)
ROGUE WAVE -- descended like vultures (Sub Pop)
...10 personal favourites from 2004
WILCO -- a ghost is born (Nonesuch)
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT -- want two (Dreamworks)
FENNESZ -- venice (Touch)
RADIAN -- juxtaposition (Thrill Jockey)
BJÖRK -- medulla (One Little Indian)
THE SHINS -- chutes too narrow (Sup Pop)
EINSTÜRZENDE NEUBAUTEN -- perpetuum mobile (Mute)
SUNN O))) -- white 2 (Southern Lord)
GREEN DAY -- american idiot (warner music)
PANTHA DU PRINCE -- diamond daze (Dial)
...10 personal favourites from 2003
THE MARS VOLTA -- de-loused in the comatorium (Universal)
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT -- want one (Dreamworks)
ELBOW -- cast of thousands (V2)
THE WHITE STRIPES -- elephant (XL)
THE BUG -- pressure (Klein)
RHYTHM & SOUND -- the artists/the versions (Burial Mix)
RADIOHEAD -- hail to the thief (Parlophone)
ROBERT WYATT -- cuckooland (Hannibal)
AEREOGRAMME -- sleep and release (Chemikal Underground)
SENSATIONAL -- natural shine (Wordsound)
...10 personal favourites from 2002
BRIGHT EYES -- Lifted, or the story is in the soil, keep your ear to the ground (Wichita)
...AND YOU WILL KNOW US BY THE TRAIL OF DEAD -- Source tags and codes (Interscope)
SONIC YOUTH -- Murray Street (Geffen)
LOW -- Trust (Rough Trade)
COLDPLAY -- A rush of blood to the head (EMI)
QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE -- Songs for the deaf (Interscope)
EL P -- Fantastic damage (Definitive Jux)
FENNESZ -- Field recordings 1995-2002 (Touch)
MASTODON -- Remission (Relapse)
AKUFEN -- My way (Force Inc)
...10 personal favourites from 2001
SPIRITUALIZED -- Let It Come Down (Arista/BMG)
BJÖRK -- Vespertine (One Little Indian/Polydor)
GILLIAN WELCH -- Time (The Revelator) (Acony)
CANNIBAL OX -- The Cold Vein (Def Jux/Zomba)
MERCURY REV -- All Is Dream (V2/Zomba)
TECHNO ANIMAL -- The Brotherhood Of The Bomb (Matador/Zomba)
PAN SONIC -- Aaltopiiri (Mute)
TOOL -- Lateralus (Volcano/Zomba)
RADIOHEAD -- Amnesiac (Parlophone/EMI)
CLICKS & CUTS 2 -- Compilation (Mille Plateaux/EFA)
...all-time highs
THE SMITHS -- The Queen Is Dead
THE BEACH BOYS -- Pet Sounds
THE CLASH -- London Calling
MY BLOODY VALENTINE -- Loveless
BJÖRK -- Homogenic
BUCKETHEAD -- Giant Robot
SLAYER -- Reign In Blood
LOVE -- Forever Changes
NIRVANA -- In Utero
SIGUR RÓS -- Agætis Byrjun
PORTISHEAD -- Dummy
THE BEATLES -- Revolver
COCTEAU TWINS -- Heaven Or Las Vegas
APHEX TWIN -- Selected Ambient Works Vol. II