Latent Avidity is the latest album from Polish progressive rock band Retrospective, who have been releasing music since 2007. I do not know what they feed them on in Poland but it does seem to be producing some impressive bands,…
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To put it very simply, John Holden has done it again. Lightning has indeed struck twice, after 2018’s Capture Light. In Rise And Fall, John Holden has released a very fine album, encompassing a range of fascinating stories, packed with…
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Once Around the World Tour Bush Hall, London, Sunday, 19th January 2020 & Slade Rooms, Wolverhampton, Friday, 17th January 2020 BUSH HALL, LONDON by Rosamund Tomlins Francis Dunnery’s It Bites mini UK tour, following on from the past three years,…
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Sometimes assumptions can lead us down blind alleys. This was the case for me with Abandoned, the third album from Canadian melodic progressive rock band Huis (pronounced ‘House’), featuring the renowned guitarist and songwriter of Mystery, Michel St-Père. It was…
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Barock Project from Italy utterly blew me away with their previous album, the utterly outstanding Detachment, which was my favourite of 2017. They recently launched their latest album into the Seven Seas and have maintained their level of high-quality with…
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In the summer of 2019 Warmrain finally released their ambitious double album Back Above the Clouds, in a prolonged process with roots way back before their original 2011 E.P., Absent Friends. In a PROG magazine interview in 2011 main songwriter Leon…
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Since Bruce Soord of The Pineapple Thief released his first eponymous solo album in 2015 he has seen ‘The Thief’ go from strength to strength, with the recruitment of Gavin Harrison of King Crimson and Porcupine Tree fame and releasing…
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The chances are that even if you have never heard of Les Penning you may well have heard him – he recorded recorders and other instruments with the legendary Mike Oldfield in the 1970s, most notably on the excellent Ommadawn…
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It seems to be traditional to start these things by saying just how difficult it was to choose 10 of the best albums, and that if you asked me to tomorrow the list would be totally different. However, to be…
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Twelfth Night are truly a force unto themselves. What other band would have a 32-year gap between their last studio album in 1986 and the release of the stunning Sequences in 2018, and somehow manage to produce one of the…
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