Writing Reviews: How do YOU do it?

Where do you write?
What do you about tight turn-arounds?
Do you try and listen to only the album under review as much as possible or do you let your listening habbits remain relatively unchanged?
How many drafts should you do?
How much biographical information is necessaary?

Basically just tell us your methods and practices, there's so many great writers on here and it'd be awesome to get a peek into the creative process.

Disclaimer: I've been writing reviews for a few years now and have got some cool work from it as a result, but I don't think I'm very good at it and I certainly don't think I've improved hugely since I began, so this thread is kinda selfish on my part. Sorry.

also, things to avoid, complete no-nos, etc.

A lot of this kind of thing is covered in this thread:

Rolling Music Writers' Thread

I have my own personal site that I do reviews on - it's pretty fun but it's a little tough, you don't know if your audience is people who have heard the album before or people who haven't.

frogbs stop teasing us and post the url already

http://www.grantland.com

http://listology.com/user/109704/content

i do think i've posted this site a few times before

Given that I have been writing music reviews for c. 20 years you would think that maybe by now I would have got beyond making each review an endless account of inane irrelevent drivel before throwing in a sentence like "the concert was very good", but no.

You know who was good at that kind of simple declarative sentence/judgment? Ellen Willis.

And you, just then.

I basically just throw up in Word.