Three years on from their first album, Lightships, London avant-folk band Firefly have struck a match and become Firefly Burning for their second album Skeleton Hill. The resulting sulphurous heat produced has warmed their sound with an added urgency and…
View More Firefly Burning – Skeleton HillMonth: January 2016
Johannes Luley & Ryan Hurtgen – Perfect Beings
In Search of Perfect Beings… To coincide with his review of Perfect Beings‘ second album, II (which you can read HERE), The Progressive Aspect’s Tony Colvill spoke with Johannes Luley and Ryan Hurtgen from the band. Once connected over the…
View More Johannes Luley & Ryan Hurtgen – Perfect BeingsPerfect Beings – Perfect Beings II
Albums are offered up, reviewers dip in, taste, and then select their meal; so I got Perfect Beings. In some dark recess of cyberspace lives a record of our initial thoughts, sometimes insightful, sometimes delightful, and sometimes irrationally judgemental. We…
View More Perfect Beings – Perfect Beings IIPTF – What is Constant
What is Constant is the second full album outing for Japanese Prog 4-piece instrumental outfit PTF who feature keys, drums, bass and violin. The album opens with an odd melange of styles in Time Lapse, the title perhaps suggesting that…
View More PTF – What is ConstantQuantum Jump – Quantum Jump
I’ve gotta say, I was pretty disappointed when I heard the opening notes of Captain Boogaloo, the initial track on this album. Cheesy, saccharine and utterly inane as this funky bit of fluff was, I really thought I’d picked up…
View More Quantum Jump – Quantum JumpIsaac Vacuum – Isaac Vacuum EP
I’m listening to Isaac Vacuum’s eponymously entitled EP. Based in Krefeld, Germany, Isaac Vacuum describe themselves as Post Rock. I’m not sure what that is, but they manage to put together something that sounds as menacing as your yardstick for…
View More Isaac Vacuum – Isaac Vacuum EPThe Keith Emerson Trio – The Keith Emerson Trio
Whilst searching and compiling articles for the TPA News last year, I stumbled across an interesting item pertaining to the discovery of a very early recording from Keith Emerson, who, along with Godfrey Sheppard on upright bass and drummer David…
View More The Keith Emerson Trio – The Keith Emerson TrioPandora Snail – War and Peace
What’s in a name? Well, if you call yourself Pandora Snail quite a lot I’d say. This is a name that does nothing to aid the cause of these Russian musicians, which is a real shame. I get the “Pandora’s…
View More Pandora Snail – War and PeaceThe Tirith – Tales From The Tower
Of late there have been a raft of reissued, re-mastered albums from the “golden” prog years of the Seventies which allows the collector to increase their stash, or allow the newer fan to see what all the fuss was about.…
View More The Tirith – Tales From The TowerThe Mute Gods – Do Nothing Till You Hear From Me
Describing Do Nothing Till You Hear From Me as “a rather disgruntled rant at the dystopia we’ve created for ourselves and our children”, founder Nick Beggs barely scratches the surface of a début album whose tracks are a bold, moody…
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