I don’t think Simon Sweetman exaggerated much when he titled a poetry book “The Death of Music Journalism” recently. Despite the heroic endeavours of Graham Reid and the occasional flash of other music writing allowed in a newspaper supplement, there’s no longer a guarantee that your album will be reviewed locally, and there’s no longer a guarantee that you’ll be able to read what a local writer thinks about your favourite overseas artist’s new album either. We have endured a further decline in that dreary state of affairs described, in 2010, by Kiran Dass in her essay for Landfall 219