6 Joanna Newsom: Have One on Me
She is completely nuts, but as she gets less self concious about it, her inimitably peculiar musical career gets even more worthwhile. If you were put off by the Violet Elizabeth Bottisms of her debut, and the wilfully complex stylisings of Ys a couple of years ago, this album is well worth you giving her another chance..
7 Pete Brown and Phil Ryan: Road of Cobras
If you don't know who Pete Brown is, then shame on you. His new album is magnificent, but - sadly - too obscure to have anything on YouTube. So here he is performing one of his more famous numbers..
8 Belle & Sebastian Write about Love
My other favourite album of the year. No doubt Nick Redfern will hate it. This band just gets better and better
9 Elton John/Leon Russell The Union
Once upon a time Sir Elton was known as a singer/songwriter of major reputation, rather than a Pantomime dame with a dodgy haircut. In this smashing album with his hero Leon Russell who has been absent from the spotlight for far too long, it is possible to see why. This is finely crafted piano based country soul at its best.
10 The Flaming Lips: The Flaming Lips and Stardeath and White Dwarfs with Henry Rollins and Peaches Doing The Dark Side of the Moon
This album actually came out last year, but in the last week of December. It is such an audacious conceit that it deserves inclusion.
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