In League With Paton

I Am Love (dir: Luca Guadagnino) Perhaps this movie’s very title, pretentious and grandiose as it is, should have been a giveaway, but I’d r...

Field Music - (Measure) (Memphis Industries) The story of Field Music is one of the more interesting industry sagas of recent years, and a r...

Polar Bear - Peepers (Leaf) I don't always admire the work of Paul Morley, but his current Guardian video series investigating the natur...

Laura Veirs - July Flame (Bella Union) Laura Veirs is the sort of singer-songwriter it's all too easy to take for granted, releasing new...

I've not been able to blog in some time now. My life is taking all sorts of interesting twists and turns at the moment, involving plenty...

John Cale and The Heritage Orchestra perform Paris 1919 Royal Festival Hall – 5th March 2010 Having never seen the great John Cale live befo...

Joanna Newsom - Have One On Me (Drag City) Joanna Newsom seems to be one of those artists about whom writers are incapable of exercising nua...

Corinne Bailey Rae - The Sea The fact that I'm sitting down to write a review of a Corinne Bailey Rae album comes as something of a surp...

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'...