Galahad are back, and they really have produced the goods on The Last Great Adventurer. It was about halfway through the scintillating Blood, Skin and Bone, as Stuart Nicholson sings passionately about what unites us all as human beings, and…
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Comedy Of Errors – Time Machine
Comedy of Errors return with an ambitious new album, Time Machine. Five years is a long time since their fine 2017 album House of the Mind, so it is perhaps apt that Time is an important aspect of this new…
View More Comedy Of Errors – Time MachineRed Bazar – Inverted Reality
Red Bazar return with Inverted Reality, their first album since 2019 and their third vocal album with Peter Jones of Camel and Tiger Moth Tales. Inverted Reality takes the Red Bazar sound in an even heavier direction than their previous…
View More Red Bazar – Inverted RealityGazpacho – Fireworking At St. Croux
Back in 2020, Gazpacho inimitably added to the general strangeness of that momentous Covid year with their own particularly peculiar and unmistakably ‘Gazpacho-flavoured’ release, Fireworker, a darkly hypnotic concept album. The pandemic prevented them from presenting it in a live…
View More Gazpacho – Fireworking At St. CrouxCosmograf – Heroic Materials
Robin Armstrong’s imminent new Cosmograf album, Heroic Materials, focuses on environmental concerns, which seems particularly timely in a summer in which the UK has seen unprecedented temperatures and drought has been declared. Describing this album in that way may seem…
View More Cosmograf – Heroic MaterialsmobiUS – Make the Promise
mobiUS are a new band which came together in the summer of 2021, formed by a group of session players led by the ‘creative architect’ Tim Newcombe. Their debut album, Make the Promise, is released by White Knight Records, which…
View More mobiUS – Make the PromiseAlex Henry Foster & The Long Shadows
Thekla, Bristol Sunday, 26th June 2022 This review started life rather conventionally, but apart from almost boring myself into oblivion I concluded that it simply just would not do to convey the truly awe-inspiring and mind-blowing experience of Alex Henry…
View More Alex Henry Foster & The Long ShadowsAlex Henry Foster – Standing Under Bright Lights
Following the recent release of his remarkable cover of Lou Reed’s classic The Power of the Heart the charismatic French Canadian post rock artist, Alex Henry Foster, returns to the U.K. this June for his ‘Not All Wonder Have Been…
View More Alex Henry Foster – Standing Under Bright LightsYes
Tavistock Wharf, Tavistock, Devon Monday, 13th June 2022 Some gigs just stand out for unusual reasons, and this is certainly one which will live long in the memories of the lucky few gathered in this small venue, and probably in…
View More YesSalva – Ghost Story
Swedish Progressive rock band Salva have recently released their latest album, Ghost Story, on Rob Reed’s White Knight Records. The band formed in 2003 in Gothenburg and have previously released six albums, the first in 2004 with three since 2018,…
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