Here’s some of the “other stuff” that soundtracked my decade. Stuff that kept me “sane”. Stuff that was played loud – loud enough to piss off the neighbours, if I had any – shouted / sung / sobbed along to –  between the bouts of balearic beats and copious shots of chocolate milk & brandy. …

A

Algiers – Black Eunuch

Aloe Blacc – I Need A Dollar

Allah-Las – Sandy

Alunageorge – You Know You Like It

Andrew Ashong – Flowers

Anika – No Ones There

B

Best Bless – Highlife

James Blake – The Wilhelm Scream

Charles Bradley – No Time For Dreaming

Bullion – Keep A Document / Age Of Self

Tim Burgess – White

C

Cobby & Litten – (Not Another) Urban Mystic

Collocuter – Instead

Connan Mockasin – Faking Jazz Together

D

Carla Dal Forno – The Garden / Blue Morning

Davilla 666 – Tan Bajo

Death & Vanilla – Godspeed

Deers – Bamboo

Demdike Stare – Tryptych

Dirty Beaches – Badlands

Documenta – Love As A Ghost

E

Echowood – Dominion Of The Sword

F

Fat White Family – Touch The Leather (Redux)

G

Gotye – Somebody That I Used To Know

Isaac Gracie – Last Words (demo)

John Grant – Queen Of Denmark / The Paris Texas Crossroads

Grimes – My Sister Says The Saddest Things

Grouper – Ruins

H

Honeyblood – Drowsy

I

Inc. – Millionairess

The Invisible – Wings

K

Khalab – Black Noise 2084

King Krule – Dum Surfer

L

Mark Leckey – Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore

Liminanas – Trouble In Mind

Mica Levi – Under The Skin

Lowroad – Black Swan

Lera Lynn – My Least Favourite Life

M

Holly Macve – Fear

Johnny Marr – New Town Velocity

Moon Duo – Scars

Thurston Moore – Benediction

John Moreland – It Don’t Suit Me (Like Before) / You Don’t Care For Me Enough To Cry

N

Jeb-Loy Nichols – The Jeb Loy Nichols Special

O

Karen O – Rapt

Onyx Collective – FDR Drive

Kelly Lee Owens – Uncertain

P

Panda Bear – Bros

Pascal Pinon – 53

Peaking Lights – All The Sun That Shines

Polica – Wandering Star

Prefab Sprout – The Best Jewel Thief In The World

Prinzhorn Dance School – Let Me Go

Psychic Ills – Coca Cola Blues

Puma Blue – She’s Just A Phase

R

Rhye – The Fall

S

Gil Scott-Heron – Nothing New (especially Alien)

Tempest Storm – Tempest’s Never-Before-Revealed Advice For Young Women

Sudan Archives – Come Meh Wey

T

Tropic Of Cancer – Be Brave / Stop Suffering

Thee Tsunamis – Drag

TV Girl – (Do The) Act Like You Never Met Me

Twilight Sad – Nobody Wants To Be Here And Nobody Wants To Leave

V

Vanishing Twin – Conservation Of Energy / It Sends My Heart Into A Spin

Kurt Vile – Runner Ups

W

Colter Wall – Thirteen Silver Dollars

War On Drugs – Lost In The Dream

Warpaint – Undertow

Matthew E. White – Big Love

Wild Nothing – Bored Games

Wooden Shjips – These Shadows