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Blah blah blah, whatever. Weirdo, sometimes funnyman. Who cares. I will say this though: I didn't include Uche Yara's EP in the top ten but mark my words, she's gonna be huge. One of my favourite discoveries of the year. I did start an Instagram account recently called Rich Talks Music talking about CDs and records in my collection, if you're interested give it a follow - it's gonna cover a range of genres. And here's a playlist so you can listen to what was on my radar for 2024. Shout out to these albums/EPs that I've also been enjoying a lot...

Another year, another horrible attempt at keeping up with everything. Admittedly I just end up finding old releases/bands and falling head over heels with 'em (big ones this year for me was Sibylle Baier, Mulatu Astatke and Pharoah Sanders). That said, there were some great stuff this year, and here's a playlist of the new releases (and singles!) I've been enjoying. Shout outs to these releases that are also worth your time: The Caretaker Everywhere At The End Of Time (Stage 1) [Ambient]; Meg Baird Furling [Folk]; Thoom Fantasy For Danger [Pop/Electronica]; Colin Stetson When we were that what wept for the sea...

Another year and I’ve been horrible at keeping up with releases for this one – but I definitely have my favourites. Want to give shout outs to other great releases that came out this year including Earl Sweatshirt Sick! [Hip-Hop]; Dälek Precipice [Experimental Hip Hop]; Abduction Black Blood [Black Metal], Lord Mantis Tormentor [Sludge/Death/Black Metal]; Lustmord The Others (Lustmord Deconstructed) [Experimental/Drone]; Boris W [Alternative Rock/Metal]; Sault Angel [Classical]; Infinity Knives/Brian Ennals King Cobra [Experimental Hip-Hop]; Gnod Hexen Valley [Experimental/Noise Rock]; Your Old Droog YOD Presents: The Shining [Hip-Hop]; The Body/OAA Enemy Of Love [Electronica/Industrial]; Blackbraid Blackbraid I [Black Metal]; Viagra Boys Cave [Noise Rock]; Thraa Into Earth [Drone] and Adwaith Bato Mato...

It’s this time of year again. I’ll admit I was fairly horrible at keeping up with new releases this year and found myself taking comfort in familiars, plus finding undiscovered loves from the past (especially John Prine and Karen Dalton – cheers Matt!). I want to give these artists/albums a shout out too, these are other releases I’ve really enjoyed and returned to repeatedly, all of these you might have heard in the shop while I’ve haunted it: Underdark Our Bodies Burn Bright On Re-Entry [Atmospheric Black Metal]; Armand Hammer Halam [Hip-Hop], Flying Lotus Yasuke OST [Electronica]; Alice Coltrane Kirtan: Turiya...

A lot of you will be familiar with Matt and Simon with their time behind the desk at Tangled Parrot, so I’d like to introduce myself: I’m Rich (the new guy), I make stupid videos for the shop every Saturday and currently work in my favourite place in the world. So here are my top ten releases of the year, but I would like to shout out these as well: Dragged Into Sunlight Terminal Aggressor II; Quelle Chris & Chris Keys Innocent Country 2; Dragunov Arkhipov, ShitKid 20/20 ShitKid; Deftones Ohms; Run The Jewels RTJ4; Bib’s Delux; Elysian Fields Transcience...