Leslie's faves for 2021 ....

 1. Squid - Bright Green Field

Promoted from my 6 month chart I keep coming back to it as the freshest most original release of the year. Inventive, noisy, melodic - in pretty much every track

2. Dry Cleaning - New Long Leg 

3. Black Country, New Road - For the First Time 

4. Black Midi - Cavalcade 

5. Buena Vista Social Club - 25th Anniversary Edition

6. Steve Earle & The Dukes - JT 

7. Boy From Michigan - John Grant

8. Celebrate the music of Peter Green etc - Mick Fleetwood & Friends

9. St Etienne - I’ve Been Trying To Tell You

10. Viagra Boys - Welfare Jazz