Latest reviews 18-24 January 2010
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The Music Scene Blockhead
An engrossing instrumental hip hop album to be admired.reviewed by Sam Hesketh
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Chopin: Cello Music Frédéric Chopin
Imbued with a youthful enthusiasm underpinned by interpretational maturity.reviewed by Charlotte Gardner
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Fly Yellow Moon Fyfe Dangerfield
An album in love with life, and a document of pulling it into focus.reviewed by Matthew Horton
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End Times Eels
As startlingly direct and melodically assured as ever.reviewed by James Skinner
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The Betrayed Lostprophets
A success on their own, aggressively populist terms.reviewed by Louis Pattison
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Waking Up OneRepublic
Waking Up’s mass-appeal anatomy is oddly admirable.reviewed by Mike Diver
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Heartland Owen Pallett
Like Peter and the Wolf re-imagined by an electronic-leaning Neil Hannon.reviewed by Andy Fyfe
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Hot Stone Dr. Rubberfunk
The good doctor presents some amazingly elastic grooves.reviewed by Lloyd Bradley
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Expando Timothy B. Schmit
Schmit’s most satisfyingly complete solo offering yet.reviewed by Mike Diver
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Hidden These New Puritans
It’s not out to please you, but Hidden is well worthy of investigation.reviewed by Louis Pattison