Forty years on from when Steve Overland and his original posse, FM, rode out from London into the wild west of the music industry, they are still entertaining in saloons around the world. Over many years in the saddle they…
View More FM – Old Habits Die Hard
Do you like bass? I asked DO YOU LIKE BASS?!!!!!! The Omnific return with this audacious sophomoric gem after the blast of their first album. The use of a bass guitar as lead may not appeal to everyone, but in…
View More The Omnific – The Law Of Augmenting Returns
Post Rock these days is far from gloomy and ponderous, encompassing as it does many musical forms into melting pots of ideas, in a genre of mostly instrumental pieces with many exponents. As with all types of music there are differing…
View More Sleepmakeswaves – It’s Here, But I Have No Names For It
2024 blusters in with storms and rain but despite widespread world problems it fails to stem the flow of new music flooding into our ears. Rushing in a torrent towards us there have already been a number of commendable albums…
View More The Raging Project – Future Days
A great man I was lucky to call friend, but no longer with us, recommended I listen to an album by a band called Soup, as he was sure I would like them. That album was Children of E.L.B., which…
View More Giantsky – Giant Sky II
Life In Digital are duo John Beagley and Robin Schell, their music being reminiscent of Buggles’ era Yes with a modern twist and it’s easy to make comparisons at times as the vocals also sound very much like Jon Anderson,…
View More Life In Digital – None of the Above
In October 2015, Earthside released their debut album, A Dream in Static, featuring a plethora of international guests. I’m not sure who tipped me off regarding this release but I listened, and was immediately stricken by the fabulous sounds created.…
View More Earthside – Let the Truth Speak
Devin Townsend is a one-of-a-kind force of nature. The man’s mind is a maze of wild concepts and wacky ideas, giving birth to songs only Devin could concoct. His albums continually evolve and just as you think you have a…
View More Devin Townsend – Devolution Volume 3: Empath Live in America
Someone recently described Marc Atkinson as the ‘man with the golden voice’. Not a hint at the next Bond (though he is ably assisted on backing vocals by his very own Bond girl Tamsin Wonderland), but a very apt description…
View More Marc Atkinson – Heart & Soul
‘Seamless’ – Definition: Smooth, without seams and obvious joins. It’s a word readily associated with the rag-trade, sewing, fashion combining materials and surfaces with no apparent gaps or spaces between one and the next. It can also apply to music,…
View More IO Earth – Sanctuary