Six by Six is a collaboration between three accomplished and acclaimed musicians from different parts of the globe, Canadian Ian Crichton (Saga), Englishman Nigel Glockler (Saxon) and American Robert Berry (3). What drew me to this release was Ian Crichton.…
View More Six by Six – Six by SixAuthor: Mel Allen
Motorpsycho – Ancient Astronauts
Motorpsycho are back with their fourth album in as many years, 2019’s The Crucible having been followed by the “Covid years” albums The All is One (2020) and Kingdom of Oblivion (2021), and here we are presented with Ancient Astronauts.…
View More Motorpsycho – Ancient AstronautsSchnauser – Altra Seccatura
This is Schnauser’s first release since their highly praised Irritant album, which I reviewed for TPA in 2017. The band first came to my attention when I saw them supporting Knifeworld in a Bristol pub and I was impressed with…
View More Schnauser – Altra SeccaturaI Like to Sleep – Sleeping Beauty
One of the wonderful bonuses, for me, of doing the review thing is you can so often find music that throws something different into a particular musical style. It is probably due to this fact that most of us reviewers…
View More I Like to Sleep – Sleeping BeautyTim Bowness – Butterfly Mind
Butterfly Mind is Tim Bowness seventh solo album, and his sixth for Inside Out Music. It was due to be released to coincide with the 40th anniversary of Tim starting to perform music in bands back in his native North…
View More Tim Bowness – Butterfly MindNational Diet – The Noon Hour
National Diet is a music project formed by self-confessed “Prog rock nerds” Jake Rose (Rainbow Face) and Conner Reilly (Mercury Tree, Rainbow Face, Nick Prol), their aim being to create songs which are melodic and complex. The songs are written…
View More National Diet – The Noon HourMöbius Strip – Time Lag
This album has taken a while to come to my attention, which is a shame as I was so impressed with the band’s self-titled debut album, released in 2017, and began to look forward to their follow-up release. So here…
View More Möbius Strip – Time LagDrongo – Drongo 2
Drongo are a band that hail from Kristiansand, Norway. There is an air of mystery about them as not much information is readily available, except that they refer to themselves as providing ‘space disco’. Maybe that mystery is not a…
View More Drongo – Drongo 2Hawkwind – Dreamworkers of Time: The BBC recordings, 1985-1995
Cherry Red Records now have a long history of releasing Hawkwind albums, having handled box sets of their late seventies releases and following those up with their eighties/nineties albums. Each release has been excellently packaged and remastered to create a…
View More Hawkwind – Dreamworkers of Time: The BBC recordings, 1985-1995Nanna Barslev – Lysbærer
Nanna Barslev is a Danish singer, songwriter and multi instrumentalist. From 1998 she was lead vocalist and drummer in Gny, and in 2003 joined Asjnje as the singer, composer and lyricist before fronting the band Huldre between 2006 to 2019.…
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