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PJ Harvey: “Let England Shake”

The past few days I’ve been reading, on Rob Young’s recommendation, Alexandra Harris’ Romantic Moderns, an excellent survey of how British artists and writers in the mid-20th Century tried to reconcile a modernist impulse with the residual lure of English cultural traditions.

BLACK SWAN

Compelling thriller explores ballet’s dark side...

Date Palms: “Of Psalms”

As I mentioned on Friday, I’m indebted to David for turning me onto this album by Date Palms. Quickly, it reminds me of a bunch of my favourite music - Alice Coltrane, Terry Riley, Pandit Pran Nath, Cluster, Sun Araw, Brightblack Morning Light, PG Six – while combining the influences into something relatively original.

The Fall; “This Nation’s Saving Grace: Omnibus Edition”

Fans of The Fall are, as a rule, hardy beasts. Complaint may come naturally to them, but then so does loyalty. John Peel’s famous encomium, “They are always different, they are always the same,” is the perpetual excuse for their favourite band, which disregards a certain erosion of Mark E Smith’s charms.

TOM PETTY AND THE HEARTBREAKERS – DAMN THE TORPEDOES

Their breakthrough: platinum-coated rock’n’roll...

DUFFY – ENDLESSLY

Welsh songstress excels – with the help of Albert Hammond and The Roots...

Slow Previewing 3: Ölöf Arnalds, The Coral, Zombie Zombie

Another round-up today, following on from the Slow Previewing blogs I filed a week or two back. Again, a few records that I didn’t get round to writing about at time of release, but which definitely deserve flagging up.

Arbouretum: “The Gathering”

Looks like we’re heading deep into 2011 releases now, and this latest by Arbouretum, slated for January, is a really good one. If you’ve not latched on to this distinctly underrated Baltimore band, there’s a bit of catching-up available here: a piece on their last album, “Song Of The Pearl”; a live review from 2009’s blinding Club Uncut show; and something about Dave Heumann’s recent side-project, Coil Sea.

SUFJAN STEVENS – THE GENIUS OF ADZ

Genius or show-off? This over-indulgent eighth shows evidence of both...

BRYAN FERRY – OLYMPIA

First album of new material in eight years offers tantalising glimpses of the old modernist...
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