1. Russell Mills/undark.  Pearl + Umbra  A veritable calvacade of "names" chip in - eno, Gabriel, Thurston Moore, Clodagh Simonds, Bill Laswell, David Sylvian, Michael Brook.
2. Ganger.  Canopy  Five new tunes from Scots combo in search of a guitarist.  Rumoured to have folded.
3. Faultline.  Closer Colder  It says here: " some of the most eloquent, intelligent post-dance music that's been made."
4. Tram.  Heavy Black Frame  UK slo-mo.
5. Sonic Youth.  Goodbye 20th Century  Best album of the year.  Amazing collaboration - pieces from Cage, Yoko Ono, Reich et al.
6. Four Tet.  Dialogue  Part of my mega UK order.
7. The Wisdom of Harry.  Stars of Super 8  Rarely does it get better than this.
8. Billy Mahonie.  The Big Dig  Pastoral lo-fi - what?
9. Trans Am.  Who Do We Think You Are?  We're who you think you are.
10. Isotope 217.  Utonian Automatic  Chicago based post-rock collides with jazz.
11. John Scofield.  A GO GO This is what jazz should be - ancient US guitarist goes ape-sh*t.
12. Stereolab.  Dots and Loops  We all love Laetitia really, don't we?
13. Portishead.  Roseland NYC Live  Mysterons - marv, innit.
14. Slint.  Spiderland  The one, the only.  Lunches in their own legend.
15. Bowery Electric.   Beat  Kranky goes to New York City.  Can you say shoe-gazing?
16. by water.  Part of the Travels In Constants cd eps series.
17. Fridge.  Eph  UK post-rockers.
18. godspeed you black emperor!  Slow Riot for New Kanada E.P.  The legendary gybe (at least on this web site) strut their Montrealesque stuff.
19. Eleventh Dream Day.  Eighth  More from my Thrill Jockey order.
20. Orb.  Live '93  "is Haile Selasse, there?  It's Marcus Garvey."

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