April 2020 – T P A

A Different Aspect #38

In this update we feature: • Neil Campbell – The Forest Dwellers [EP] • Vasudeva – Generator • Liontortoise – Photosynthesis [EP] • Plastic Noose – PN50 • Widmer-Stauss – Duos • Markus Stauss – 5 Compositions 2017-19 & Neolithic…

Echorec – The Island

If you google Echorec, apparently it’s some kind of guitar effect pedal. Well, it could have been worse, they could have called themselves Wah Wah. Anyway, this Echorec are a young trio from the West Country, and The Island is…

Toby Driver & Nick Hudson – Black Feather Under Your Tongue

Writing reviews of albums that hardly anyone will listen to is becoming an increasingly pointless task, as I ponder its usefulness while far more pressing matters take up one’s time. I suppose if it serves as a diversion from the…

A Different Aspect #37

In this update we feature: • Lemurian Folk Songs – Logos • Satorinaut – Montañas, Mares, Desiertos y Vagabundos • Liquidacid – Soylent Solstice • Képzelt Város – Samizdat Until days ago, I had albums from only two Hungarian bands…

Hawkwind – Roadhawks

Hawkwind have a great track record of releases, and to be fair it is rare that any fall through the re-release net, but here we have one that maybe did. Roadhawks gets its first release on CD through Cherry Red…

The Opium Cartel – Valor

The Opium Cartel is a band I was aware of but had never come around to listening to. My thanks to Spike Worsley for suggesting me to Jacob Holm-Lupo as a potential reviewer for the new album, Valor, as it…

Katatonia – City Burials

There is a significant difference between a concept album and the concept of an album. It is not a distinction which had previously caught my attention until I read a recent interview with Katatonia’s vocalist Jonas Renske. Comparing ‘our’ generation…

Thank You Scientist / Exploring Birdsong / Lost In Lavender Town

Satan’s Hollow, Manchester Saturday, 22nd February 2020 I have a confession, it is less than a year since I discovered the energetic jazzy prog stylings of Thank You Scientist (TYS) (they’ve been around since 2009). Now since my musical taste…

InTechnicolour – Big Sleeper

This debut album from InTechnicolour has been a struggle for me to review, for what is possibly a strange reason. While back when I was young (yes, a long, long, long time ago) it was fairly normal to know well…

Stian Westerhus – Redundance

Sometimes, an album inspires me to write in a fashion that mirrors its artistic endeavour, and avant guitar wrangler Stian Westerhus’s last album, Amputation, was one such. Words such as “fraught”, “twitching”, “maelstrom” and “melancholic” abound, and that’s just the…