In League With Paton

Need...more...time...to...write...about...great....records.... Zed-U – Night Time on the Middle Passage (Babel) Steve Lehman Octet - Travail...

Acoustic Ladyland - Clore Ballroom Sunday 14th June Charlie Haden's Liberation Music Orchestra/The Bad Plus - Saturday 20th June Ornette...

Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca (Domino, 2009) ‘Bitte Orca’ would appear to be Dirty Projectors’ breakthrough album – the one that somehow mak...

James Blackshaw - The Glass Bead Game (Young God, 2009) In spite of (or perhaps because of?) once naming a song ‘The Sound and The Fury’, I’...

Antony and the Johnsons - London Hammersmith Apollo, 27th May 2009 This was my first full live encounter with Antony and the Johnsons. I’m p...

Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest (Warp, 2009) Having studiously ignored the leak of Grizzly Bear’s latest magnum opus that set the internet alight...

The Field - Yesterday and Today (Kompakt/Anti, 2009) Junior Boys - Begone Dull Care (Domino, 2009) Fever Ray - Fever Ray (Rabid/V2, 2009) Ev...

Iron and Wine - Around The Well (Sub Pop Compilation, 2009) I've been quite vocal in my admiration for the songwriting of Sam Beam many ...

The Broken Family Band - Please and Thank You (Cooking Vinyl, 2009) Whilst I derived great enjoyment from the softening of Steven Adams’ lac...

Nick Lowe and Ron Sexsmith - London Royal Albert Hall, 18th May 2009 Can there be a less fashionable musician currently at work than Nick Lo...

Branford Marsalis Quartet - Metamorphosen (Marsalis Music, 2009) Perhaps the title is laced with irony. Whilst it implies radical change, ‘M...

Alasdair Roberts - Spoils (Drag City, 2009) Whilst I’ve liked everything Alasdair Roberts has recorded, both as a solo artist and as Appendi...

Bat For Lashes - Two Suns (Echo, 2009) At what point did Natasha Khan become a proper pop singer? Was it when ‘Fur and Gold’ received its de...

Big Air – Big Air (Babel, 2009) I’m baffled and intrigued by this album but, ultimately, I’m also mesmerised by it. The ensemble itself is u...

The Decemberists – The Hazards of Love (Rough Trade, 2009) I know I’m not exactly hot off the press on this one, but I’ve been pondering exa...

Bill Callahan - Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle (Drag City, 2009) From Smog to his own name via a set of confounding parentheses, the moni...

Bob Dylan - Together Through Life (Columbia, 2009) Unusually, I find myself almost agreeing with Petridish in The Guardian. His observation ...

I'll write something again soon, I promise, but in the absence of any new critical thinking, here's another one of those lists to re...

Marianne Faithful - Easy Come, Easy Go (Anti, 2009) Micachu - Jewellery (Rough Trade, 2009) Blimey. If it wasn’t shocking enough hearing Mor...

Sweet Billy Pilgrim - Twice Born Men (Samedhi Sound, 2009) Super Furry Animals - Dark Days/Light Years (Rough Trade, 2009) Here are two very...