Real World Studios, Box, Wiltshire 22nd May 2016 Big Big Train are a band which does not follow the usual and mundane in any shape or form, whether it is in their finely crafted progressive rock albums or their commitment…
View More Big Big Train – Folklore Album Launch EventMonth: May 2016
A Different Aspect #2 – May 2016
In this update we feature:- David Kollar – The Son Circus Maximus – Havoc Celestial Teapot – One Big Sky Térébenthine – Térébenthine Toxic Smile – Farewell Hello readers, and welcome to the second edition of our occasional series A…
View More A Different Aspect #2 – May 2016New Keepers Of The Water Towers – Infernal Machine
Over the years I have developed an occasional hankering for the more obscure end of the vast metal scene, one supposes it is Dark or Black Metal, frankly I don’t care, I just like the portentousness of it all when…
View More New Keepers Of The Water Towers – Infernal MachineThree Trapped Tigers – Silent Earthling
“TTT is at the cutting edge of contemporary music. Watch your fingers!” – Brian Eno When Eno says something like that you’d do well to listen. Three Trapped Tigers are an instrumental noise-rock trio from London. This description does not…
View More Three Trapped Tigers – Silent EarthlingIamthemorning – Lighthouse
It doesn’t seem any time at all since Belighted, Iamthemorning have been added to the dictionary and no longer cause spellchecker to throw a wobbly (not that it needs much encouragement). I love Belighted, easily in my top ten for…
View More Iamthemorning – LighthouseHawkwind – The Machine Stops
This album is like a breath of fresh patchouli’d air wafting unannounced across your nostrils from a wormhole connecting to an alternate universe where Hawkwind are still narrating imminent Sonic Attack. One is transported back to a lysergic wasteland of…
View More Hawkwind – The Machine StopsThe Samurai of Prog – Lost and Found
This is my second encounter with The Samurai of Prog, the first being three years ago when I reviewed their second album, Secrets of Disguise, largely a cover album which didn’t bring very much to the songs it covered. Indeed,…
View More The Samurai of Prog – Lost and FoundStu Nicholson – Galahad
Longevity isn’t a dirty word in the music business. Neither is prog for that matter. Galahad are both. A band which has had over thirty members passing through its ranks since its inception back in the mid-eighties, singer Stuart Nicholson…
View More Stu Nicholson – GalahadKatatonia – The Fall of Hearts
Progressive music is profoundly existential. Not only does it capture the spirit of our time, it also resonates with crystal clarity in the generations who live in and through those times. For many of us prog, in particular, is a…
View More Katatonia – The Fall of HeartsMessenger – Threnodies
When Romantic poets Messenger arrived on the scene in 2014 with the worshipful offering that was Illusory Blues many sat up and took notice, for here was a band out of time, a band in that old post-hippy mystic sense,…
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