Godspeed You! Black Emperor has been a familiar name for a long time, but it occurred to me that I’d never actually listened to anything by the band, so I thought I’d better rectify that with this, their seventh album…
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Italian producer, composer and guitarist Corrado Rustici may not be a household name but having worked with some of the biggest names in the music business during a near 50-year career, there is no doubting his calibre. A founder member…
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As seems to be the way with a lot of maturing extreme metal bands these days, French duo Crown have toned down the excesses and accentuated the texturing to come up with a work that can be readily enjoyed beyond…
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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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This is Irish musician Jim Griffin’s third solo album, after 2015’s The Ranger & The Cleric and 2017’s To A Far City, but this one shows a different side of Jim’s musical muse. Where the previous releases took a lot…
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Hot on the heels of McStine and Minnemann’s debut album – less than six months later – Randy and Marco have only gone and popped out another one. If there is any kind of positive to be had with Covid…
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Once again, hot on the heels of the wonderful Cathedral with Tom Doncourt, the doors of Mattias Olsson’s Roth Händle Studios swing wide to release new sounds into a grateful world. He really is on a roll at the moment…
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This one came straight out of nowhere and immediately captured my heart. More exceptional beauty from Scandinavia, it’s Finland this time where Ensemble Gamut! offer breathtaking reinterpretations of Finnish folk and early music with a modern sheen. Expansive soundscapes driven…
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Come hither as – forsooth! – here be a new and contemporaneous collection of long-since unheard sounds from ye olde and venerable Gryphon! And Gadzooks, ’tis worth a groat or two of your hard-earned! Known for their generally acoustic sound,…
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Earlier this year, Mattias Olsson released a beautifully emotional and deeply personal album called Tom & Tiger, inspired in large part by the passing of his friend Tom Doncourt. Keyboardist Doncourt will be known to many as an integral part…
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