Been a while, but I have a selection of excuses: finishing one issue of Uncut; pondering a longish Album Of The Month review that I’ll post here asap; getting deep into the business of another Uncut Ultimate Music Guide, to follow up our Bowie edition; crunching the votes for the mag’s albums/reissues of 2011 charts; and so on. I’m taking questions, anyhow, within reason… 1 Felt – Crumbling The Antiseptic Beauty (Cherry Red) 2 Arthur Russell - 24 -> 24 Music: The Definitive Sleeping Bag Recordings (Get On Down) 3 Baloji –Kinshasa Succursale (Crammed Discs) 4 Bill Wells – Lemondale (Double Six) 5 Tom Waits – Bad Like Me (Anti-) 6 Eleanor Friedberger – Last Summer (Merge) 7 Alasdair Roberts With Karine Polwart - Captain Wedderburn’s Courtship (Drag City) 8 Thee Oh Sees – Carrion Crawler/The Dream (In The Red) 9 White Denim - Last Day Of Summer (Downtown) 10 A Mystery Album 11 Julianna Barwick - The Matrimony Remixes (Asthmatic Kitty) 12 Total Control – Henge Beat (Total Control) 13 Bitch Magnet - Bitch Magnet (Temporary Residence) 14 Sharon Van Etten – Title TBC (Jagjaguwar) 15 Moon Duo – Horror Tour (Souterrain Transmissions) 16 Chris Watson – El Tren Fantasma (Touch) 17 Tim Hecker – Dropped Pianos (Kranky) 18 Rangers – Pan Am Stories (Not Not Fun) 19 The Rolling Stones – Some Girls (Universal)