John Coltrane- Ole Coltrane

John Coltrane / Milt Jackson- Bags and Trane

The Pretty Things- first album

The Pretty Things- Closed Restaurant Blues (compilation drawn from the second and third albums, plus associated singles)

Jackson C Frank- S/T

Soccer 96- S/T (local band with terrible name, but not bad sounding- like an 8 bit Holy Fuck)

Hush Arbors / Arbouretum- Aureola (split LP, my album of the year so far)

Sylvester Anfang II- Perzische Tabijten (a close second!)

Field Music- Plumb (maybe number three?)

The Pre New- Music for People Who Hate Themselves (streamed via the Quietus; good stuff from the ex Earl Brutus / World of Twist boys)

The Amboy Dukes- Survival of the Fittest Live

Hawkwind- Astounding Sounds Amazing Music

Blues Control- Valley Tangents

Beth Jeans Houghton- Yours Truly, Cellophane Nose

Julian Cope- Psychedelic Revolution

Mark Stewart- Politics of Envy

White Hills- Frying on this Rock

Lee Ranaldo- Between the Times and the Tides

The Ohio Express- Chewy Chewy

Fela Kuti- Shakara

Paper Dollshouse- A Box that's Painted Black

Fuxa- The Electric Sound of Summer

The Soft Hills- The Bird is Coming Down to Earth

Two Wings- Love's Spring

The Pooh Sticks- Great White Wonder (saw them live last night- they were great, but I can't believe they didn't play 'Desperado' from this album!)

Comus- Out of the Coma (actually, maybe this is the third best album of the year)

The Nightingales- No Love Lost (and this is pretty great too)

The Soundcarriers- Celeste

Jack Kerouac- the Complete Collection

Van Morrison- Moondance (lovely, but I still can't quite forgive Van for using the word 'fantabulous' in the title track)

Jefferson Airplane- After Bathing at Baxters

Lords of Falconry- S/T

Soulsavers- The Light the Dead See (Dave Gahan on vox, and Brain Donor's own Doggen and Kevlar on guitar and drums... gospel tinged grandiosity).