Tim Hall’s Top 10 Albums of 2010

Top ten lists are a very subjective thing. While they can be a useful pointer to albums you might have missed, I always loathe the compiled-by-committee lists you read in places like Pitchfork or The Guardian. They all seem to contain exactly the same albums, and without fail they have absolutely zero overlap with the [...]

Ten 21st Century Progressive Rock Albums You Really Must Listen To

Contrary to popular myth, progressive rock did not disappear overnight in a massive pyre of twin-necked guitars and Mellotrons the day after Johnny Rotten dropped the F-bomb in prime-time TV in 1976.  Instead, after a brief revival in the early 80s, it just went underground, in the UK at least.  In the past decade, the [...]