Going solo

Writing about music can be tricky enough at the best of times, but writing about the largely instrumental soundtrack to a film you haven't yet seen is even trickier. Still, out of context, Phil Selway's Let Me Go is a fine record - I hesitate to use the word "enjoyable", as it's too unsettling for that, and thus in keeping with the film's grim subject matter.

Selway and his Radiohead bandmates Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood are no strangers to going it alone, and now guitarist Ed O'Brien is set to join them, with work on a debut LP well underway. Presumably Colin Greenwood is busy formulating plans for an album of bass solos as I write.

Alongside my thoughts on Let Me Go in Buzz's November albums round-up are verdicts on the latest offerings from John Carpenter, John Maus, Quicksand, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Daniele Luppi & Parquet Courts and locals Farm Hand, Martin Carr and Goldie Lookin Chain.