Bit of a dash today, since we’re finishing up the end-of-year issue, Top 50 Albums Of 2010 and all. Some good new things in here, as you can see; particularly taken with the Six Organs record.

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Before you ask, that’s not a new reissue of the first Fairports album; it just rolled around on my iTunes straight after the Fabulous Diamonds.

1 Mugstar – Lime (Important)

2 Six Organs Of Admittance – Asleep On The Floodplain (Drag City)

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3 The Jayhawks – Hollywood Town Hall: Legacy Edition (American/Sony)

4 Gruff Rhys – Shark Infested Waters (Turnstile)

5 Neville Skelly – He Looks A Lot Like Me (Setanta)

6 Various Artists – Said I Had A Vision: Songs & Labels of David Lee, 1960-1988 (Paradise Of Bachelors)

7 Highlife – Best Bless (The Social Registry)

8 Fabulous Diamonds – Fabulous Diamonds II (Siltbreeze)

9 Fairport Convention – Fairport Convention (Polydor)

10 International Hello – International Hello (Holy Mountain)

11 The Human League – Night People (Wall Of Sound)

12 Tim Hardin – Tim Hardin I/II (Raven)

13 Iron & Wine – Kiss Each Other Clean (4AD)

14 The Sexual Objects – Cucumber (Creeping Bent/Aktion Und Spass)

15 The Limiñanas – The Limiñanas (Trouble In Mind)

16 Up – Rising (Applebush)

17 Bruce Springsteen – The Promise: The Darkness On The Edge Of Town Story (Columbia)

18 Lil B – Everything Based (Self-Released)