Albums of the year: #18

LIBRARY TAPES: Höstluft
The Library Tapes (David Wenngren to his mum) specialize in a winning combination of melancholy piano melodies and found sound, giving the recordings a worn and world-weary complexion. Like previous records, Höstluft is short and sweet, with a running time of just over half an hour. It’s half an hour well spent.
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Top Ten Movies of 2007 (part one)

Here are my favourite ten films out of twenty odd that I’ve seen this year.
10 CATCH A FIRE (Phillip Noyce)
This didn’t get too much box office attention when it came out in the spring, hot on the heels of several other African set political thrillers (Last King Of Scotland, Blood Diamond). It’s an excellent tale [...]

Albums of the year: #19

SUPERSILENT: 8
I haven’t actually got round to reviewing this for the simple reason that I’ve yet to grab myself a copy. I have heard it through (once), and have one track on the recent Wire / Rune Grammofon compilation. Even so, it could be considered more than a little presumptious of me to chuck it [...]