In League With Paton

Skyphone – Avellaneda (Rune Grammofon, 2008) Scorch Trio – Brolt! (Rune Grammofon, 2008) Box – Studio 1 (Rune Grammofon, 2008) Since its inc...

Spiritualized - Songs in A&E (Spaceman, 2008) Somewhere, somehow, Jason Spaceman lost his spacesuit. After all the justified acclaim tha...

The Last Shadow Puppets - The Age Of Understatement Regular readers might be shocked to realise that I’m beginning to wonder if my indiffere...

Portishead - Third (Island, 2008) I’ve resisted the urge to write a knee-jerk reaction to Portishead’s first studio album in eleven years. T...

Elvis Costello - Momofuku (Lost Highway, 2008) At first glance, ‘Momofuku’ looks like one of those back-to-basics rock records everyone keep...

Fleet Foxes – Sun Giant EP (Sub Pop/Bella Union) Brethren of the Free Spirit – All Things Are From Him, Through Him and In Him (Audiomer) An...

Jamie Lidell – Jim Sam Sparro – Sam Sparro A lot of people are going to react violently against this album. Jamie Lidell’s previous album, t...

Bjork - Hammersmith Apollo, 14th April 2008 Bjork’s Volta tour finally arrives in London with discussion focussing more on the singer’s rece...

It's unfathomable to me why the shockwaves following Michael Eavis' announcement that Jay-Z would be the Saturday night headliner at...

The B-52s – Funplex Was (Not Was) – Boo! What on earth is going on here? Two of the most memorable singles of my childhood years were ‘Walk ...

diskJokke - Staying In (Smalltown Supersound, 2008) Although part of a movement amusingly dubbed Oslodisco in his home country of Norway, I’...

The Long Blondes – Couples (Rough Trade, 2008) The consensus already seems to be that this Erol Alkan-produced follow up to the poptastic ‘S...

Sian Alice Group – 59.59 (Social Registry, 2008) There seems to be an obsession with time going on here. Sian Alice Group (their vocalist is...

On a rare non-musical tip, the news that Britain's only brewing museum is to close in June strikes me as rather sad. I've never been...

The Dodos - Visiter (Frenchkiss, 2008) Naming your group after a famously extinct bird might be inviting trouble, but luckily The Dodos have...

Pivot/Three Trapped Tigers, The Luminaire 2/04/08 At the end of last year, I described Three Trapped Tigers as ‘the most ambitious new band ...

Gnarls Barkley – The Odd Couple (Warner, 2008) A couple of years ago, I had a chat with Joe Goddard from Hot Chip in which he expressed his ...

The Orphanage (Juan Antonio Bayona, 2008) NB: This review contains significant plot spoilers. I am at something of a loss as to why this fil...

Neil Cowley Trio – Loud…Louder…Stop! (Cake Music, 2008) Talented pianist Neil Cowley has had an unpredictable and versatile career trajector...