2020 seems to have been a banner year for New Zealand music with a progressive bent. The long-awaited City of Souls debut finally arrived. Coridian released the penultimate chapter of their Elements series, and it’s the longest and most impressive…
View More Koert Wegman – Pull Down the SunMonth: October 2020
Pull Down the Sun – Of Valleys And Mountains
Sometimes you hear an album and it just sweeps you away. New Zealand band Pull Down the Sun’s Of Valleys and Mountains is the latest album to fall into my lap for review, and so there’s no way I should…
View More Pull Down the Sun – Of Valleys And MountainsWobbler – Dwellers Of The Deep
Take some retro instruments, a love of retro prog rock bands, especially a flavour of Yes with a pinch of Gentle Giant, add a modern twist with a sprinkling of technical proficiency and what do you get? Wobbler’s fifth album,…
View More Wobbler – Dwellers Of The DeepA Different Aspect #44
In this update we feature: • The Osiris Club – Blazing Worlds: Live at Roadburn & Twicefold Of Kind • Dušan Jevtovic – If You See Me • Slomosa – Slomosa • Boris – NO • Taskaha – Taskaha •…
View More A Different Aspect #44Adult Cinema – Hot And Cold
Adult Cinema is a remarkable one-man project helmed by multi-instrumentalist Mike Weston. Hot and Cold is his third release and displays a mercurial talent, seemingly at ease with an array of instruments, skilfully moulding together an entertaining melange of styles.…
View More Adult Cinema – Hot And ColdWorldService Project – Hiding In Plain Sight
Right from the opening energetic blast of Deeper, I just know I’m going to enjoy this! WorldService Project are described as “punk jazz”, an entirely appropriate label, Now on their fifth album, they marry the energy of punk to a…
View More WorldService Project – Hiding In Plain SightFragile – Golden Fragments
Golden Fragments is Fragile’s first original album. Fragile was the original European Yes Tribute band formed in the late 1990s. The group now works as an original band that pays tribute to Yes in its own unique way. This album…
View More Fragile – Golden FragmentsBook ADA
In this update we feature: • Stephen Hanley & Olivia Piekarski – Life Inside The Fall • Mike Barnes – A New Day Yesterday: UK Progressive Rock & The 1970s • Ed Vulliamy – When Words Fail Stephen Hanley &…
View More Book ADAVarious Artists – Musik, Music, Musique – 1980: The Dawn Of Synth Pop
Another one of Cherry Red’s magnificently curated boxed sets, Musik, Music, Musique (taking it’s name from the single by Zeus – included in this set) gathers together, across three discs, the moment when synth pop transitioned from the underground to…
View More Various Artists – Musik, Music, Musique – 1980: The Dawn Of Synth PopDeep Purple – Whoosh!
2020 COULD have been the title to a Sci-Fi book written, say, in 1968 the year that a certain English beat combo released Shades of Deep Purple, their first album. The plot revolved around a global pandemic virus caught from…
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