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 [...]

Therion, Shepherds Bush Empire, 31 October 2010

I blame my parents for this. Before I discovered rock’n’roll in my teens I was exposed to a lot of classical music, including many, many choral concerts at an age when I was probably too young to really appreciate them. Some of this must have rubbed off, because decades later I find myself listening to [...]