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An intense, and intensely satisfying, solo venture from the Oysterband man
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A surprisingly sophisticated triumph.
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Keith Emerson's first prog trio in full live action.
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The prog trio's orchestral masterpiece featuring some legendary jazz names.
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Capable of raising goosebumps or bringing a tear to the eye.
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A 35-minute manifesto standing against the wide-eyed drift of the day
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Suggests the band have the capacity to grow and evolve into something very special...
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Power aplenty without ever getting showy.
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Black and white alt country, with just a hint of sepia-tinged nostalgia around the...
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Still pursuing their uber-muscular progressive metal agenda with ruthless dedication.
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A snappy combination of intellect and intuition.
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One of the best jazz reissues of the year.
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They construct a fragile, resonant world with a lingering American after-taste.
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Never have so many been given so little to do.
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Familiarity shouldn't dull our appreciation of what many of these artists achieved.
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Grasp just how brief but utterly magnificent their reign was
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It's evident that Gilmore enjoys a good rapport with an appreciative audience.
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Delivering an engagingly lavish set replete with quirky, off-centre atmospheres.
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Flat Earthers hurl themselves over the edge.
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A fine starting point to explore a songbook brimming with warmth.
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An album of experimental music you can cut the rug to: every dream home should have one!
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When Christy Moore sings you can't help but pay attention.
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Reader is capable of so much more.
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Amidst such up-tempo sunshine there's moments of an altogether darker splendour.
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Time flies when you're having fun and in 1985 XTC were having plenty of it.
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The really interesting part of the Madeleine Peyroux story starts here.
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Prepare to have you jaw on the way to the floor with this one.
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Hatcham Social have that life-and-death passion of a life lived in three minutes flat.
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Blessed with a peerless set of pipes and a fierce musical intelligence.
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The pace throughout the record is sedate and smooth and unashamedly sentimental.
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A beautifully profound and dramatic record that has all the makings of a future classic.
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Mountains' music has real depth and personality.
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Music filled with love and not a little wit.
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Artists this good deserved to be savored.
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Swirls of pipe and fiddle whip and whittle through time
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He always shoots from the heart.
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One can't help but be touched by many of these amiable, sparsely furnished folk tunes.
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There's probably a great single album lurking between the filler.
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New Zealand's Flight of the Conchords are seriously funny.
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Filled with explosive and eclectic invention.
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This is still a must-have collection!
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These are ultimately songs about, and of, hope.
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Quite literally in the case of The Doors, the stuff of legend.
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Irresistible thumping avant-pop.
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Old-fashioned brooding rock, brimming with strength and passion.
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The final choice for best album of 2008 just got a lot harder!
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Perhaps the best thing to do is simply grab this album, turn up the volume and enjoy a...
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...beautifully fragile, remarkably melodic and enticingly charming.
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It would be a perfect Hollywood ending for She & Him if Volume One was a summer hit.
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Finn's journey may have only just begun but I'll Be Lightning suggests it's going to...
