In League With Paton

I like this blog to be mainly positive in outlook, but sometimes it's both satisfying and necessary to prepare a good hatchet job. There...

Radiohead - In Rainbows So, is it actually any good then? This being Radiohead of course, there are some fairly characteristic and dependabl...

OK, we'll ignore the stupidly small-minded 5/10 review of the actually mind-blowing Dirty Projectors album. We'll also ignore the pa...

Beirut – The Flying Club Cup The prodigiously talented songwriter Zach Condon has followed up his debut ‘Gulag Orkestar’ with unfashionable ...

Control (Dir. Anton Corbijn, 2007) I’ve never really liked Biopics very much. First of all, enjoyment of them tends to depend on your apprec...

I know the world and his wife are writing about Radiohead’s new ‘free’ album, but I’ve been encouraged to join in. Are Radiohead really unde...

The Decemberists @ London Royal Festival Hall Until their most recent album ‘The Crane Wife’ was bizarrely afforded two UK releases, The Dec...

Polar Bear @ The Museum of Garden History Outhouse @ The Oxford, Kentish Town The Museum of Garden History in Lambeth Palace is an odd place...

The Films of Apichatpong Weerasethakul Thai film director Apichatpong Weerasethakul, who mercifully calls himself 'Joe', is currentl...

Dirty Projectors - Rise Above Dave Longstreth is completely insane. Fortunately, both for him and for us, he’s also a maverick genius. His c...

Bruce Springsteen - Magic Getting straight down to business, I'd say it's pretty unlikely that this one will give Springsteen anothe...

NB: Personal View – not written in a work capacity. Until next Monday morning, you can hear a rather excellent edition of the BBC World Serv...

Iron and Wine - The Shepherd's Dog Perhaps I’ve waxed lyrical about Iron and Wine more than enough on these pages already but I can’t he...

PJ Harvey's 'White Chalk' PJ Harvey clearly has little care for continuity. With each new album, she has reinvented herself. She...

Elmore Judd - Insect Funk Elmore Judd are an unusual group comprising some of North London’s finest musicians, including the superb drummer ...

Nevermind US sub-prime mortgages - it was next Monday's album releases that were the most likely cause of financial disaster for me. Luc...

Sylvie Lewis - Translations Can I really be in love with a woman I’ve not even seen in person let alone met? Not really of course, but there...

Kevin Ayers - The Unfairground Robert Wyatt - Comicopera It’s a special couple of months that sees these two pioneering collaborators (both ...

How unfortunate that the Led Zeppelin reunion has directly coincided with the release of Robert Plant's rather excellent new record with...