Music is a lighthouse, according to Devin Townsend, and his new album Lightwork certainly runs with that. The theme of illumination, reflection and personal discovery features in many of the tracks, and how could it not refer to the pandemic…
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Abel Fuentes – Tramp’s Footprints (The History of Supertramp)
For a band that have sold millions of records, books about Supertramp don’t seem to come around very often, certainly not compared to other ’70s rock giants such as Yes or Pink Floyd. That’s a shame because there are certainly…
View More Abel Fuentes – Tramp’s Footprints (The History of Supertramp)Frost* – Day And Age
“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…
View More Frost* – Day And AgeJohn Mitchell – Lonely Robot
In Part One of Dave Cookson’s interview with John Mitchell, he talks about his new Lonely Robot release, Feelings Are Good, songwriting, collaborating, being the robot and putting it all out there. Congratulations on the new album! Thank you. I…
View More John Mitchell – Lonely RobotLonely Robot – Feelings Are Good
Feelings Are Good, huh? The phrase comes out differently depending on how you say it to yourself, it makes a clever album title and, as you will read below, is appropriate for this new collection of eleven songs, written and…
View More Lonely Robot – Feelings Are GoodGlass Hammer – Dreaming City
“In the Vales of Pagarna there is a doom-haunted city where no man dreams; for dreams are the price of entry”. That’s the intriguing opening line of the accompanying notes for Dreaming City, the new release from Glass Hammer, their…
View More Glass Hammer – Dreaming CityJadis – Medium Rare II
Following on from 2018’s successful 25th anniversary remixed edition of the album that put Jadis on the map, 1992’s More Than Meets The Eye, affable bandleader Gary Chandler has continued the momentum built by that project, and the well-received tour…
View More Jadis – Medium Rare IIGlass Hammer – Chronomonaut
I had been aware of Tennessee based Glass Hammer from various festival lineup posters, magazines and such, but have never heard any of their music until their newest and seventeenth release Chronomonaut dropped into my folder. The band celebrated their 25th anniversary…
View More Glass Hammer – ChronomonautKarcius – The Fold
The Fold is Montreal based Karcius’ fifth release, their current sound forming in the previous album, 2012’s The First Day when they added vocalist and bass player Sylvain Auclair to the band that was previously mainly an instrumental outfit that has been on the…
View More Karcius – The FoldPublic Service Broadcasting – Every Valley
Public Service Broadcasting’s third long player Every Valley, follows a similar path to 2015’s The Race for Space in that the album is centred around a theme (or ’concept’ if you like!), but this time the subject is closer to…
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