Some music seems to simultaneously come from the indefinable in-between places and yet also from far away, imbued with contrasting dark mystery and shimmering light. Strangers, the latest entrancing album from Rise, is born from those places. Strangers shows a…
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Comatose is Lee Abraham’s latest ambitious release in his increasingly impressive and varied solo career. This release is a continuous flowing song cycle imagining the experience of someone in a coma following an accident, which is a world away in…
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Under the Fragmented Sky was a rather unexpected release in 2018 from Lunatic Soul. In late 2018 there was understandably a lot of focus upon Riverside’s new album Wasteland, but earlier in the year there was this rather less lauded…
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Islington Assembly Hall, London Saturday 7th September Resistance Album Launch Event The launch of a new IQ studio album is a special event – they only happen about every 4 or 5 years, so it’s understandable that there was a…
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After the Last Stroke is the seventh album by German multi-instrumentalist Hans Jörg Schmitz, who releases solo albums under the curious soubriquet ‘King of Agogik’. This name came from a humourous exchange experienced by Schmitz when he was playing with…
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Norwegian progressive rockers, Magic Pie, return with their fifth album, appropriately called Fragments of the 5th Element. As those familiar with Luc Besson’s fine 1997 cult (and rather bizarre) Sci-Fi film ‘The Fifth Element’ will know the ‘Fifth Element’ turned…
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There are some albums that just surprise you, coming right out of left-field and socking you right between the eyes – that’s what Black Bead Eye from How Far to Hitchin has done to me. To be honest, until recently…
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“The Depth of Field a Moment sealed in Time… The Images Live on, but the Cameraman has Gone.” These resonant words from Depth of Field, the gentle and elegiac final track of the second album by Kaprekar’s Constant, touchingly honour…
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Let’s not beat around the bush – when Hand. Cannot. Erase. was originally released in 2015, it immediately became one of the finest progressive rock albums released in the 21st Century, and must rank amongst the truly great albums of…
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Royal Albert Hall, London Thursday, 25th July 2019 To mark the 50th anniversary of the Moon landing by Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin in Apollo 11, Public Service Broadcasting had the honour of performing their Race for Space album at…
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