After the excellent Transition from 2012, there is now its successor I Found the Sun Again, already the eighth studio album by Steve Lukather, best known as the founder/guitarist/composer/singer of the incredibly successful American band Toto. The album will be…
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A few weeks ago we published Nick Hudson’s review of Aborym and their Hostile album, “a schizophrenic, kaleidoscopic, ever-changing barrage of hostility occasionally wrapped up in a more melodic skin, but never something that feels fully safe”. We now present…
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Having previously taken on Albert Einstein and Isaac Newton, it comes as no surprise that Simon McKechnie draws inspiration from the likes of Charles Darwin and Ada (‘Not Linda’) Lovelace for this, his first release for the venerable Bad Elephant…
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Esthesis are a new progressive rock band from France who won the ‘Best Unsigned Act’ in the Prog Magazine Readers’ Poll of 2020, and released their debut album The Awakening later that year. Securing such an accolade deserves some attention…
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Renowned music documentary makers Adele Schmidt and José Zegarra Holder return with the fifth instalment of their “Progressive music saga”, and the second trawl through that fascinating European experience, loosely collected within the borders of what was West Germany under…
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I have to admit, I’m a bit of a laggard when it comes to accepting that music may not always come with a physical product these days, so it absolutely fills my heart with joy when a release like Deadburger’s…
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Much water has passed under many bridges since Leo Trimming’s review of Multi Story’s previous album, Crimson Stone, in 2016. Much has changed, but for the main part that means in the personnel. Multi Story is now a core of…
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Tommy Bolin, the guitarist who replaced Ritchie Blackmore in Deep Purple. Ok, that’s got the obvious out of the way, but of course there was a reason he was offered the job in the first place, and many more sides…
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“I think it’s a testament to the passion for music between everyone in Yes, there’s so much music in us all that we have too much for one unit”, says Yes bass guitarist Billy Sherwood. Yes’s ‘young guard’ have collectively…
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John Holden returns with his third album Circles in Time, following his somewhat unexpected but captivating debut Capture Light in 2018 and the excellent 2020 follow-up Rise and Fall. Circles in Time in some ways follows the successful template of…
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