After last week’s Best Albums Of 2014 roundup/provocation, here’s the first proper playlist of the year; with, as you’ll see, a few auspicious new arrivals. Worth, I guess, starting the new year with my tedious caveat that this is strictly a list of records we’ve played in the Uncut office, and presence here shouldn’t automatically be equated with an endorsement (ie yes there are a few things here I don’t personally like much). Just one other thing: please find five minutes to play the Duke Ellington track embedded below. It’s from “New Orleans Suite”, which I got for Christmas, and I didn’t listen to much else until January 2. Follow me on Twitter: www.twitter.com/JohnRMulvey 1 Bill Callahan – Have Fun With God (Drag City) 2 D Charles Speer & The Helix – Doubled Exposure (Thrill Jockey) 3 Hans Chew – Life And Love (At The Helm) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QoelJhhIKcM 4 [Redacted] 5 Drive By Truckers – English Oceans (ATO) 6 Nick Waterhouse – Holly (Innovative Leisure) 7 We Are Catchers – We Are Catchers (Domino) 8 Orange Juice – Texas Fever (Domino) 9 Michael Head & The Red Elastic Band – Artorius Revisited (Violette) Read my review here (Thanks for all the kind words/retweets/etc about this, by the way) 10 Rosanne Cash – The River & The Thread (Decca) 11 Sun Araw Band X – Live Roma (Bandcamp) 12 Martin Stephenson & The Daintees – California Star (Absolute) 13 Morgan Delt – Morgan Delt (Trouble In Mind) 14 [Redacted] 15 Sun Kil Moon – Benji (Caldo Verde) 16 Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young – Wooden Nickel (Canyon) 17 Spain – Sargent Place (Glitterhouse) 18 Doug Tuttle – Doug Tuttle (Trouble In Mind) 19 Michael Yonkers With Jim Woehrle – Borders Of My Mind (Drag City) 20 Angel Olsen – Burn Your Fire For No Witness (Jagjaguwar) 21 Duke Ellington – Portrait Of Mahalia Jackson (Atlantic) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGZmE0dtb3k 22 Chrome – Alien Soundtracks (Siren Songs) 23 Beck – Morning Phase (Capitol) 24 Bruce Springsteen – High Hopes (Columbia) 25 Penguin Café – The Red Book (Editions Penguin Café) 26 The War On Drugs – Lost In The Dream (Secretly Canadian) 27 Neil Young – Needle Of Death (Live At Carnegie Hall) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0_JpxPC0Rk 28 DJ 3000 – Besa (Motech) 29 Courtney Barnett – Being Around (NME Basement Session: watch here) 30 Black Dirt Oak – Wawayanda Patient (MIE Music)