Good year for 'Touch' music - Fennesz - black sea, Philip Jeck - sand, and the beautiful 7 inch series of 8 releases from Oren Ambardi, Jim O'rourke, vicki bennett etc - all housed in fantastic high standard design and photography. The website are doing a good deal for the 8 records for £28.
Some great reissues this year.... robert wyatt albums, fripp and eno's no pussyfooting, 23 skidoo albums on ltm, 808 state - quadrastate, grachan moncur iii - evolution and buzzcocks first 3 albums complete with the live at the electric circus on disc 2 of the first album.
Other good albums from Fleet Foxes, Paul Weller, Portishead, The Fall, Murcof, Dave Gilmour and Durutti Column.
A good year for ghosting stuff - Caretaker, ghostbox stuff and the marvellous Victrola Favourites compilation of obscure 78's from the dust to digital label.
All in all - a good year.
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