Wow…! I mean, WOW! Los Angeles-based Coevality have announced their arrival with an absolutely stunning debut album. So impressed with Multiple Personalities, I will go on record now and say 2021 will be a truly spectacular year indeed if this…
View More Coevality – Multiple PersonalitiesMonth: July 2021
Dusan Jevtovic & Vasil Hadzimanov – Duo
Listening to this album for the first time, from the first notes I knew I was in love. That reaction wasn’t unexpected, as the previous albums from both Dusan Jevtovic and Vasil Hadzimanov that I have (If You See Me…
View More Dusan Jevtovic & Vasil Hadzimanov – DuoPale Mannequin – Colours of Continuity
Pale Mannequin are a Polish progressive rock band from Warsaw, who started out as a solo project of guitarist and vocalist Tomasz Izdebski in 2016. However, as the process of writing for the debut album progressed, Tomasz joined forces with…
View More Pale Mannequin – Colours of ContinuityThe Swan Chorus – The Swan Chorus
The Swan Chorus are a six-piece progressive rock group of seasoned musicians from the Liverpool-area. Formed as a result of the reunion of the song-writing duo of David Knowles (keyboards) and Colin McKay in 2015, they soon recruited a number…
View More The Swan Chorus – The Swan ChorusÅrabrot – Norwegian Gothic
Norwegian Gothic may well be the album where some of Årabrot’s fans feel the band has “jumped the shark”. After two decades of making some stonkingly great and abrasive noise, Norwegian Gothic is melodic and catchy. It’s full of hooks…
View More Årabrot – Norwegian GothicBig Big Train – Common Ground
Big Big Train don’t really need reviews any more to sell records, such has been their trajectory in recent years, all down to their enormous hard work and dedication. Whenever they produce anything new, it flies off the shelves. It…
View More Big Big Train – Common GroundMarillion – With Friends at St. David’s
Marillion’s latest live release follows on from their 2019 With Friends from the Orchestra album, in which they adapted a range of their material, augmented by classical orchestra players. They are not the first artists to collaborate with orchestras and…
View More Marillion – With Friends at St. David’sTomi Kankainen – Confusion Field
After my review of Confusion Field’s Disconnection Complete, main-man Tomi Kankainen contacted me to thank me, and let me know that he was unfamiliar with Riverside before hearing about similarities with his music. I offered an interview to set the…
View More Tomi Kankainen – Confusion FieldHalcyon Phase – Tendrils
After a string of albums as a duo with Jeremy Sills (the latest Sills & Smith album, Maps – Burned or Lost, was reviewed by TPA in 2018), singer-songwriter Frank Smith has formed the collaborative Halcyon Phase with producer/multi-instrumentalist Phillip…
View More Halcyon Phase – TendrilsExistentia – The Planet in the Universe
Existentia is a new band from Russia who impress greatly with their debut album, The Planet in the Universe. It’s a particularly clever title, as it contains the layers of meaning that are explored within the album. The planet in…
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