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A List for 2010 – Phantom Noise by Brian Turner

Brian Turner is a former infantry team leader from the US Army.  He toured in Iraq in 2003-4, where he wrote his first published collection, Here, Bullet.  That was an extraordinary set of poems, documenting the violence of Iraq’s troubled streets far more intensely than the indifferent reportage of newsrooms.  I discovered it through one …

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A List for 2010 – Gonjasufi’s A Sufi and a Killer, with The Caliph’s Tea Party

Even back in the summer, when it was released, I had a suspicion that Gonjasufi’s A Sufi and a Killer might be my favourite album of 2010.  In the following months I became convinced that nothing would beat its mix of spooky sitar-sampling production and wild-eyed-prophet vocals.  Then along came The Caliph’s Tea Party, which …

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