After their burst of three superb albums which made up “The Gullvåg Trilogy”, including their masterpiece The All is One (my personal album of the year 2020), you could forgive the band for taking a well-earned break and rest on…
View More Motorpsycho – Kingdom of Oblivion
The Other Place is the fourth and final part of a naturally evolving vox pop drama-documentary-rock opera (!) that incongruously started with an appearance on trash karaoke show The Voice, Part II then progressed from deepest Devon via a South…
View More Billie Bottle & The Multiple – The Other Place
With over 60 documentary films accredited to him, along with music and concert videos he has directed and produced, David Minasian has finally found the time to complete and release what is effectively his fourth symphonic album. The first, Tales…
View More David Minasian – The Sound of Dreams
It seems that almost every album I review lately has been born as a result of the time and space afforded whilst working musicians are stuck at home with nothing but their home studios, a bunch of instruments and a…
View More Stephan Thelen – Fractal Guitar 2
This Mexican band have two very big hurdles to overcome. Firstly, they are the Mexican Cast, and not the UK Cast. I don’t think I’ve yet talked about this band without having to explain that it’s not the Cast people…
View More Cast – Vigesimus
Don’t you just love it when artists take notes that don’t belong in a key and create passing dissonance? I like drums, gritty guitar, distorted bass, quiet bits with piano, soft harmonised backing vocals against a building riff. I like…
View More Blacklist – Superpredator EP / Saul Blease Interview
BOING! That’s the sound of my jaw hitting the floor. Actually, it’s more of a clunk. But ‘Boing!’ is appropriate because that’s the name of the record label responsible for this jaw-dropping release. If you hear a more astonishing instrumental…
View More The Aristocrats – FREEZE! Live in Europe 2020
“Hello, and welcome to the rest of your life”, the opening line from our narrator, a child-like English voice whose name may or may not be Alice, introducing us to Day and Age, the latest recording from Frost*, and their…
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So, Altitude, album number three from Lifesigns, and this one seems important somehow. A new line-up, no chance of touring to promote it, and their staunch refusal to give their art away on streaming platforms all make this a critical…
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Sometimes, jazz is just the tonic you need. We don’t often dip our toes into the purer end of this particular ocean of possibilities, but there’s no reason why we can’t, so here goes. Jazz always works best in a…
View More Night Bus – Second Trip