Belatedly following this fine haul, another really good list this week, involving as it does a couple of high-security things which I can’t discuss at the moment and plenty I can. Afrocubism is a kind of summit meeting between various bits of the Buena Vista Social Club and the Mali scene (Bassekou Kouyate, Toumani Diabate etc) and is brilliant. And can I bang on again about the Hans Chew record, shaping up to be one of my favourites of the year? 1 Afrocubism – Afrocubism (World Circuit) 2 Sun Araw – Off Duty (Woodsist) 3 Various Artists – Imaginational Anthems Volume Four (Tompkins Square) 4 Barn Owl – Ancestral Star (Thrill Jockey) 5 Big Mystery Album 6 Faun Fables – Light Of A Vaster Dark (Drag City) 7 EMAK – A Synthetic History Of EMAK 1982-88 (Universal Sound) 8 Stereolab – Not Music (Duophonic UHF) 9 Sibylle Baier – Clour Green (Orange Twin) 10 Second Mystery Album 11 Hans Chew – Tennessee And Other Stories (Divide By Zero/Three Lobed) 12 Jim Sullivan – UFO (Light In The Attic) 13 Sharon Van Etten – Epic (Ba Da Bing) 14 Comets On Fire & Growing – Jams (Silver Currant blogspot) 15 Supersilent – Supersilent 10 (Rune Grammofon) 16 Sufjan Stevens – The Age Of Adz (Asthmatic Kitty0