We have about 24 hours to finish the next issue, and not much longer to complete another Uncut Ultimate Music Guide due in January, so no preamble this week: lots to hear and anticipate below. (Thanks, though, for all your feedback on my Best Of 2013 list; much appreciated, as ever).

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1 Hiss Golden Messenger – London Exodus (Paradise Of Bachelors)

2 Matt Baldwin – Imaginary Psychology (Spiritual Pajamas)

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3 Metronomy – Love Letters (Because)

4 New Bums – Voices In A Rented Room (Drag City)

5 Natalie Prass – If You Believe In Me (Spacebomb)

6 Michael Head & The Red Elastic Band – Artorius Revisited (Violette)

7 Angel Olsen – Burn Your Fire For No Witness (Jagjaguwar)

8 Black Dirt Oak – Wawayanda Patent (MIE Music)

9 Linda Perhacs – The Soul Of All Natural Things (Asthmatic Kitty)

10 Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy – Black Captain (Revised For Peter Willcox) (Greenpeace USA)

11 Suarasama – Timeline (Space)

12 Thee Oh Sees – Singles Volume 3 (Castle Face)

13 Rag Lore – Sabah el Mitragyna Reveries (Dying For Bad Music)

14 Ragtime Ralph – Volume 4 (http://delta-slider.blogspot.de/p/ragtime-ralph.html)

15 David Crosby – Croz (Blue Castle)

16 Mark Kozelek – O Come All Ye Faithful (http://www.caldoverderecords.com/christmas/index1.html)

17 Dawn Of Midi – Dysnomia (Thirsty Ear)

18 Four Tet – Beautiful Rewind (Text)

19 Four Tet – Pink (Text)

20 Matmos – The Marriage of True Minds (Thrill Jockey)

21 East India Youth – Total Strife Forever (Stolen)

22 D Charles Speer & The Helix – Doubled Exposure (Thrill Jockey)

23 The War On Drugs – Lost In The Dream (Secretly Canadian)