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This was a strange year for music and me, as it was the first year since 1994 without privileged insider status to aid with discovery; no Baggage, no repping and no Charts (although I have occasion to drop by my own stamping grounds most days for coffee, I don’t tend to get involved with the …

I’ve surprised myself this year with the number of records actually released during 2010 which are on my ‘most played’ list, to the extent where I’ve struggled to get it down to a list of 10. And then I realised that this is my blog and if I want to have more than 10 then I can if I want.

I can hardly believe that it’s time to make another one of these bloody lists again, but here we are. Some good records out this year. Album of a year by a country mile for me is: Travels With Myself And Another / Future Of The Left Only half an hour long, but what a …

I listened to fewer new albums this year, it seems. It also seems that I haven’t updated my list of ‘Current Distractions’ much at all this year. Anyway, for what it’s worth (as usual, in no particular order), the albums I’ve enjoyed most this year: The Gutter Twins / Saturnalia Bon Iver / For Emma, …