There is something gloriously primal about this recording, evident from the moment the jagged edges of the otherwise chooglin’ pop moves of spiky album opener Dark Sleep Fortress rip out the speakers and tear at your consciousness. Don’t make the…
View More Inner Ear Brigade – DromologyMonth: November 2017
Stray – All In Your Mind (The Transatlantic Years 1970-1974)
This rather fabulous box set contains every track that Stray recorded for Transatlantic over a five year tenure with the label, encompassing five full album, various B-sides and a few obscure rarities, generously spread across 4 CDs and with a…
View More Stray – All In Your Mind (The Transatlantic Years 1970-1974)The Knells – Knells II
From New York City, The Knells do ‘art rock’ in their own inimitable fashion. It’s a deft mix of instrumentation and voices, the coup de gras coming from the latter, a fascinating trio of female vocalists singing in complementary classical…
View More The Knells – Knells IIRick Wakeman – Art In Music Trilogy
This is a 2017 Esoteric remastered reissue of three albums that made up the ‘Art in Music Trilogy’ from 1999, these were The Sculptor, The Artist and Sketches, and although each stands alone they are thematically linked in that each…
View More Rick Wakeman – Art In Music TrilogySweet Synth Prince – Sweet Synth Prince
I’m lucky and musically I’m in a good place. I am trying to cut down on carbohydrates, though. I may even be slightly obsessed with my craving for yummy food. I’m lucky to be writing album reviews for The Progressive…
View More Sweet Synth Prince – Sweet Synth PrinceDusan Jevtovic – No Answer
It is good to see a new album from Dusan Jevtovic, some four years on from the rather feisty Am I Walking Wrong? A truly multi-national project, this recording shows what can be done in the spirit of international co-operation…
View More Dusan Jevtovic – No AnswerThe Great Discord – The Rabbit Hole
Imagine that Lady Gaga and Alice Cooper collaborated with the creative minds behind American Horror Story on a musical retelling of Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland. You’ve just imagined The Rabbit Hole — the sophomore album by Swedish “progressive death…
View More The Great Discord – The Rabbit HoleTangerine Dream – Quantum Gate
I am, as any who read my reviews will know, something of a Tangerine Dream aficionado and have rather a substantial collection of all the Virgin and Jive Electro era releases by this very fine band. In addition, I also…
View More Tangerine Dream – Quantum GateFish on Friday – Quiet Life
There is a curious bitter sweetness in the Melancholy in which we clothe ourselves at times. Paradoxically, it is the great intensity of Love which inspires great creativity when that Love is lost. Loss affects us all in different ways…
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