In League With Paton

Ian Carr - A Celebration of a Life in Music Nikki Yeoh Art Themen, Norma Winstone, Michael Garrick, Don Rendell, Dave Green, Trevor Tomkins ...

I haven't had much time to write recently - apologies for that. I definitely need to write something about last night's epic Ian Car...

Peter Gabriel - Scratch My Back (Realworld) For those who have us who have been waiting for ‘I/O’, the new album of original material Peter ...

Yeasayer – Odd Blood (Mute) Yeasayer’s debut album ‘All Hour Cymbals’ seemed precariously balanced on a knife-edge between two extremes – hi...

Gil Scott Heron - I'm New Here (XL Recordings) This intriguing comeback from Gil Scott Heron is actually an incredibly difficult album t...

Hot Chip - One Life Stand (DFA/EMI) It’s quite a long way from ‘drivin’ in my Peugeot, blazin’ out Yo La Tengo’ and being ‘sick of motherf*c...

The Magnetic Fields - Realism (Nonesuch) Anyone who still thinks that Americans don’t get irony should be pointed to the work of Stephin Mer...

Four Tet - There Is Love In You (Domino) Kieren Hebden has been so busy over the past few years DJing, remixing and collaborating (notably w...

Bill Fay – Still Some Light (Coptic Cat) I should probably warn at the outset that this is likely to be a somewhat confused and disoriented ...

Vampire Weekend – Contra (XL) Pretty much every review and feature I’ve read on Vampire Weekend in the past couple of months starts in the s...

So, having bid 2009 and the noughties farewell it seems only right and proper to highlight some forthcoming releases for 2010. I don't p...

I've tried to do something a little different with this list. Instead of writing reams of text on all these albums, many of which I'...

100. Primer (Shane Carruth, 2004, UK release 2005) This low-budget, hugely claustrophobic science fiction feature, brilliantly and merciless...