James R. Turner (Guest)

The Move – Message From The Country (Expanded Edition)

This remastered reissue of the fourth and final The Move album is out now on Esoteric, completing their The Move remaster campaign, and remarkably, for the first time in the band’s history their entire released back catalogue is now available…

Cephid – Sparks In The Darkness

Cephid will be a new name to us all here at TPA, however this debut album released in February this year is the culmination of years of solo work by talented keyboard player Moray Macdonald, who will be familiar to…

If Not If – Structure

Released in June 2023, Structure is the first album from London based multi-instrumentalist and composer Graeme Ginsburg under his ‘If Not If’ alter-ego. Graeme’s third release as If Not If follows up the two EPS (Sunshine Everywhere 2018 & Forgiveness…

And So I Watch You From Afar – Jettison

Northern Irish four-piece And So I Watch You From Afar released their fifth album, Jettison, back in February this year, following on from 2017’s The Endless Shimmering. Consisting of Rory Friers and Niall Kennedy on guitars, Ewen Friers on bass…

Curved Air – The Albums 1970-1973

Back in 2017, it was announced that Esoteric had picked up the rights to part of the vast Warner Music back catalogue, and the first fruits of this (with plenty of really exciting re-issues including Barclay James Harvest, Be-Bop Deluxe…

Various 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…