In League With Paton

The Dramatics - A Dramatic Experience Chairmen of The Board - Skin I'm In For this feature, I’ve decided to bundle together two of the m...

Just before I kick off the final instalment, a quick reminder of the previous albums of the year here: 2006: Bruce Springsteen - We Shall Ov...

50. Aesop Rock – None Shall Pass (Definitive Jux) Aesop Rock still remains one of my favourite rappers, and he hasn’t yet really put a foo...

,In an attempt to make this more digestible, I'm dividing this into four chunks this year, so here's the second. The Top 50 will fol...

ingThere seems to have been rather a lot of negative whingeing about the quality of new music in 2007. All I can say to that is genuine musi...

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...