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TPA Best Albums of 2021

Happy New Year! Well, hopefully things will start to show an improvement at last. Despite the restrictions on social gatherings, live music and fun in general, the boffins at various music-making facilities around the globe have been beavering away to…

Ulver – Flowers of Evil

My mental image of The Progressive Aspect’s demographic dictates that I should warn you: What I am about to say must not put you off. Please read all of this review!!! Questions. I have loads of questions about Ulver. What…

The Decade in Review – Roger Trenwith

“Pick your ten best albums from the decade about to end” you said. Never ask me to do something like this again… I jest, I’m a glutton for punishment and we all love a good list, eh? Anyway, from a…

TPA Best Albums of 2017

As we approach the end of another exciting year of wonderful music and enjoyed the delights of many fabulous releases, The Progressive Aspect, in collaboration with Anthony Rowsick’s radio programme Prog-Watch, have collected together our “The Best Albums of 2017”.…

Ulver / Stian Westerhus

Islington Assembly Hall, London Wednesday, 15th November 2017 Islington, long since gentrified by incremental Hipster Creep, is the sort of place where, if so inclined, Tarquin and Jemima could waste their ludicrous salaries from Perfect Curve* in sundry branches of…

Ulver – The Assassination of Julius Caesar

It would be easy to say of any new release from Norwegian sonic pioneers Ulver “Well, that wasn’t what I was expecting!”, but I have long come to realise that it is far easier to leave all expectations at the…

Ulver – ATGCLVLSSCAP

Mostly Norwegian sonic explorers Ulver have over the two decades and more of their existence steadily built a reputation for never standing still, of always looking to see where that rugged path over there – yes, that one disappearing into…

Sunn O))) & Ulver – Terrestrials

Four years in the making, Terrestrials is a collaboration between two beacons of alternative music, shining their black light at one another across the vastness of the tumultuous Atlantic Ocean and the entire uncaring width of the North American continent.…