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Radiohead - In Rainbows pt.2 Olafur Arnalds - Eulogy For Evolution Recently I’ve been becoming more and more intrigued by, if not the comple...

Neil Young - Chrome Dreams II I feel somewhat ambivalent towards Neil Young these days. He’s written a number of my favourite songs of all t...

It's not often that I speak in praise of a British monthly magazine end of year poll, but Uncut's latest offering isn't all that...

Django Bates and The BBC Big Band - Tribute To Joe Zawinul Poor planning sadly left me unavailable for much of this year's London Jazz F...

Paris Motel - In The Salpetriere At long last! Amy May’s band of fluctuating musical conspirators have long been one of my favourite live ac...

(I had intended to write many more of these columns than I’ve managed so far….) Why has everyone now forgotten all about The Boo Radleys? Of...

Burial - Untrue (Hyperdub) Last year’s debut Burial album caused something of a word-of-mouth sensation, moving well beyond hardcore dubste...

I'm spending the next couple of weeks away from dependable internet access - will be back in the frame around the weekend of the 17th No...

Yeasayer – All Hour Cymbals There’s a similar buzz around this debut album from Brooklyn’s Yeasayer as surrounded Arcade Fire’s ‘Funeral’ on...

Supersilent - 8 Norwegian improv group Supersilent allegedly only meet in order to make music. Their albums are the result of spontaneous se...

Rufus Wainwright, Carling Apollo Hammersmith, 30th October 2007 In heaven, all gigs will be like this. They will open with a short, but swee...

Steve Earle - Washington Square Serenade Bettye LaVette - Scene Of The Crime It's not really necessary to add to the voluminous amount o...

The Edition of Contemporary Music label can always be relied upon to produce intriguing and challenging output in any given year but 2007 do...

Band of Horses – Cease To Begin The rather lovely packaging for Band of Horses’ second full length (a collection of photocards in keeping w...

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...