And passing that difficult second album test with flying colours we have Vampire Weekend, first out of the blocks this new year. This is a better album than the first, less frantic and less self conscious. Some critics have drawn tenuous links to the Clash, based on a fondness for culture clash musicality and a 
And so, having survived the icy wastelands of Yorkshire, Chimera Musica returns to the South Coast, only to find temperatures plummeting to hitherto unrecorded depths. The roads being too icy to drive, the sensible option is surely to take a moment of calm reflection, to evaluate some of the gems that were somehow missed in 
