This is an odd but somewhat intriguing album in many respects as this is the latest album from the band that evolved in 1968 to become Yes. They have since reconvened and started to record again, using certain ex-Yes members,…
View More Mabel Greer’s Toyshop – The SecretMonth: January 2018
GRICE – The Grey of Granite Stone EP
Grice Peters returns, some two and a half years after his thoughtful and impressive LP Alexandrine with a little teaser of an EP that bodes well for a forthcoming long player. Describing himself on the Bandcamp page as an “electro…
View More GRICE – The Grey of Granite Stone EPMildlife – Phase
Melbourne-based four-piece band Mildlife enter the scene with their debut album Phase, drawing on such diverse influences as jazz, disco and psychedelic rock to create a heady and truly intoxicating concoction. The opening track and lead single The Magnificent Moon…
View More Mildlife – PhasePerfect Beings – Vier
It shouldn’t have come as a surprise, as both of the previous albums by L.A. based Prog-Rock outfit Perfect Beings were mature in sound and execution with highly original compositions, but third outing, Vier, leaves this listener completely floored –…
View More Perfect Beings – VierGalahad – Seas Of Change
Well, a BIG subject sometimes just deserves a BIG treatment, and in modern day Britain there is no issue currently BIGGER than the contentious issue of ‘BREXIT’. Galahad have bravely decided to plunge head on into those rather turbulent waters…
View More Galahad – Seas Of ChangeKayak – Seventeen
Imagine, if you will, David Bowie crossed with the Electric Light Orchestra and Foreigner, performing songs from a deranged prog-rock version of Phantom Of The Opera. Welcome to the seventeenth and possibly best studio album by Kayak. Entitled, with stunning…
View More Kayak – SeventeenFlying Circus – Starlight Clearing / 25 Live
And now for something completely different… “Communiqué number one. Allied naval forces, supported by strong air forces began landing Allied armies this morning on the northern coast of France.” At first, it struck me as odd that a German band…
View More Flying Circus – Starlight Clearing / 25 LiveSteve Hackett
Steve Hackett is to release a new live DVD/CD set recorded at Symphony Hall, Birmingham in May 2017 during his Genesis Revisited tour, when he performed most of Wind and Wuthering on the occasion of its 40th anniversary. TPA’s John…
View More Steve HackettIntervals – The Way Forward
I remember well the first time I heard the debut album from Liquid Tension Experiment. An explosive wall of sound fizzing with life, carrying a high energy surge of technical musical brilliance and delivering insane levels of innovative artistry at…
View More Intervals – The Way ForwardAcqua Fragile – A New Chant
A New Chant is that perfect excuse to take a little walk down memory lane, an unmissable excuse to wipe the dust off those old CDs that represented the golden era of Italian Progressive rock, to take them out for…
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