Reviews

Various Artists – Philadelphia Roots 2

Another tasteful Soul Jazz series rolls on

Antony And The Johnsons

Lou Reed's favourite trans-gender chamber-pop troupe's debut

The Grain Parade

Howe Gelb's peripatetic lifestyle captured on record

Donovan – Beat Café

Return after eight years' silence from '60s legend

Black Pearls

Glittering twin set from revitalised godfather of gloom

Melanie – Paled By Dimmer Light

Self-styled Chauncey Gardiner of cute implies a lot but says little

The Arlenes – Going To California

London country duo relocate to US and make masterpiece

Full Glottal

Icelander moves into new career phase with experimental vocal fantasies

She Hate Me

Bewildering misfire from Spike Lee

The Station Agent

In a New Jersey backwater, Fin (Peter Dinklage), a dwarf fed up with the way the world reacts to him, moves into the derelict train station he's inherited and tries to ignore offers of friendship from a lonely snack-van man (Bobby Cannavale) and a divorced artist (Patricia Clarkson). Tom McCarthy's gem has something like the drift and precision of early Jarmusch—nothing much happens, except life.
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