“All at sea. Anchorless. Adrift.” Many will know Craig Fortnam as the composer behind the North Sea Radio Orchestra, and here he presents the first album under his own name, a very personal recording that takes the sea and the…
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‘Aphelion’ represents the point in an object’s path where it is furthest away from the Sun. Things can only get warmer and brighter from here, so it’s the perfect title for the new album from Leprous, following on from 2019’s…
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“Who would have thought it starts in Lowestoft?” Well, it actually emanates from Southampton, where A Formal Horse have diligently gone about crafting the successor to the startlingly brilliant Here Comes a Man from the Council with a Flamethrower, released…
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Over the last decade and more, Thumpermonkey have produced a string of exhilarating albums and become a fantastically exciting live band in the process. This week, the band’s singer, guitarist and writer Michael Woodman releases the first music under his…
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‘Psithurism’ is a word that rolls off the tongue very pleasantly. With a desire to use it, further investigation reveals that it comes from an ancient Greek term to reference the sound of wind through the trees. Bingo! “The psithurism…
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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…
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Not too long ago, The Lion’s Daughter were recommended to me as something weird enough that I might like them. I guess I’m known for liking weird things, but I gave their album Future Cult a listen, and was quite…
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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…
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There remains an organic authenticity in the music of Trettioåriga Kriget. Formed in 1970, in the resort town on Saltsjöbaden near Stockholm, there were a couple of early line-up changes, but the majority of the band as it remains today…
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Prolific producer, composer, Grammy nominee, CEO and 25-year veteran bassist with New Hampshire’s Dreadnaught (a band who I have thoroughly enjoyed in recent years), Bob Lord has found the time to release his first solo album. Playland Arcade is a…
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