Ear Candle Radio's Top 20 for May 2013

A comprehensive list song that lovingly outlines everything that is quintessentially English by ex-Slit Viv Albertine tops our charts for May! Viv's new album, The Vermilion Border, is an absolute must, a brutally honest portrait of how it feels to be a hip 50-something woman looking at the next stage of life, and the credits are jaw-dropping. All the old-school punk and new wave luminaries you might expect to show up on Viv's comeback album, plus surprises like Jack Bruce and Danny Thompson (whose one-of-a-kind bass adds so much to "Still England"). Viv is also represented by the Slits classic "FM". Elsewhere we have two solo projects from key members of Erase Errata, two Lijadu Sisters grooves, and our own Content Providers. As the wise man Dr. Alimantado would say, jump, jump, wiggle and wind, and keep your ears tuned to Ear Candle Radio.

1. Viv Albertine - Still England - The Vermilion Border
2. Tsunami - DMFH - A Brilliant Mistake
3. Sara Jaffe - Heron's Head - Salt & Water
4. The Detroit Cobras - It's My Delight - Tied & True
5. Jenny Hoyston - I Don't Need 'Em - Isle Of
6. J Neo Marvin & The Content Providers - Running Up A Tab On The Universe - Slowly I Turned
7. The Cannanes - 52 Linthorpe Street - A Love Affair With Nature
8. The Lijadu Sisters - Life's Gone Down Low - The World Ends: Afro Rock & Psychedelia In 1970s Nigeria
9. Curtis Mayfield - Other Side Of Town - Curtis
10. The Small Faces - E Too D - Small Faces
11. The Slits - FM - Cut
12. Shovelman - Rollin' - The Dirty West
13. Paul Revere & the Raiders - Get It On - Midnight Ride
14. Langley Schools Music Project - In My Room - Innocence & Despair
15. Kristin Hersh - When The Levee Breaks - Strings
16. Julie London - Yummy, Yummy, Yummy - Yummy, Yummy, Yummy
17. Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros - Gamma Ray - Global A Go-Go
18. Iggy Pop - Life Of Work - Zombie Birdhouse
19. Doctor Alimantado - Dreadlocks Dread - Born For A Purpose
20. The Lijadu Sisters - Turbulent Waters - Sunshine