Last year’s De Facto was the fifth release by Mexican duo, Lorelle Meets The Obsolete, the third of their albums to be released internationally, and the first that I heard. It grabbed me immediately, from its jarring and bruising opener.…
View More J. Zunz – HibiscusMonth: August 2020
Vulkan – Technatura
I don’t know if it’s something they add to the water supply in Sweden, but it has been a hotbed of great new progressive music for years now, with a seemingly endless list of new bands emerging each year to…
View More Vulkan – TechnaturaOHHMS – Close
Recently, ArcTanGent Festival posted on their Facebook page asking their followers what they thought the top five post-rock releases of 2020 were so far. There were a lot of familiar and expected names, but one I was surprised to see…
View More OHHMS – CloseJargon – The Fading Thought
2018, Islington O2, four flights of stairs – justice would have made me fit. I wheezed out the question to Jargon, defibrillator in one hand, oxygen mask in the other: What was coming for the following year? More Verbal Delirium…
View More Jargon – The Fading ThoughtElectric Mud – Quiet Days on Earth
I first became aware of German band Electric Mud from a review of their 2018 album The Deconstruction of Light on The Prog Mind. I was intrigued enough by the review, and impressed enough by the music, to buy that…
View More Electric Mud – Quiet Days on EarthThe Utopia Strong – Dreamsweeper
Sometimes, don’t you want to just buy stuff? When I saw this was out, I bought it without bothering to check anything, I thought it was a safe bet. I was expecting a studio album but was not in the…
View More The Utopia Strong – DreamsweeperKalevi Hämäläinen Group – First Days of Summer
KalevIi Hämäläinen Group’s debut album, First Days of Summer, is one I’ve had for review for quite some time, yet have never managed to put down words for it. The one major reason for this is that every time I…
View More Kalevi Hämäläinen Group – First Days of SummerThat Joe Payne – By Name. By Nature.
This debut from That Joe Payne seems to have been a long time coming. Since leaving The Enid, there have been singles and EPs previewing songs, teasing us almost, and he has been playing some of this material for some…
View More That Joe Payne – By Name. By Nature.Alam Khan – Solace
I don’t think there can be many people who won’t agree that 2020 has been a tough year. Music has been my solace for most of my life, and it seems, especially so this year. In recent times, I have…
View More Alam Khan – SolaceKimmo Pörsti – Wayfarer
Wayfarer is the second solo album by the Finnish drummer, multi-instrumentalist and producer Kimmo Pörsti, perhaps best known as part of The Samurai of Prog project. So my initial thoughts, glancing through the list of musicians, which also includes bassist…
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