This weeks litany of loveliness included classic songs of the old west reinterpreted by psychedelic country adventurers Spindrift from their new LP “Ghost Of The West” and a host of other belters that would leave the cloth-eared Mercury Music Prize judges even more bewildered and confused than they already are.

Gesaffelstein – “Pursuit” (LP – “Aleph”) (Parlophone)
Mutation feat Mark E Smith – “Relentless Conviction” (LP – “Error 500”) (Ipecac)
The Fall – “Leave The Capitol” (LP – “13 Killers”) (Secret)
Special Request – “Soundboy Killer” (LP – “Soul Music”) (Houndstooth)
Mad Professor – “Deliverance Dub” (download single) (Ariwa Japan)
Swearin’ – “Echo Locate” (LP – “Surfing Strange”) (Witchita)
Fold feat Mr Gee – “Passing Strangers” (EP – “Salvation”) (Seth Mowshowitz)
Spindrift – “Blood On The Saddle” (LP – “Ghost Of The West”) (TeePee)
Spindrift – “Navajo Trail” (LP – “Ghost Of The West”) (TeePee)
Spindrift – “Ghost Riders In The Sky” (LP – “Ghost Of The West”) (TeePee)
Cern feat Receptor – “Formless” (EP – “Nostromo”) (Renagade Hardware)
Lightnin’ Hopkins – “Bottle Up And Go” (4CD Set – “The Acoustic Years 1959-1960”) (JSP)
Gunslingers – “Massacre Rock Deviant Inquisitors – Part 1″ (12”) (Riot Season)