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