Towards the end of 2022 events that were personally cataclysmic and life-changing saw me not only put my reviewing on indefinite hiatus, but withdrawing from music completely. While I did return to listening to music again eventually (inevitably, some might…
View More IKITAN – Shaping The Chaos
Featured artists: No Answer Trio (Dusan Jevtovic, Vasil Hadzimanov, Asaf Sirkis) | Envy Of None | Nebala | Guranfoe | Sikasa ||: In this ADA (shorter reviews) update TPA’s Nick Hudson looks at five recent albums featuring: • No Answer…
View More A Different Aspect #85
It’s not often that I would review two albums together, but there’s really no way to do justice to either volume of Barrdo’s Équivoques by tackling them individually. In terms of length, the two could certainly have been released as…
View More Barrdo – Équivoques, Vols. 1 & 2
A couple of years ago, I attended the Ten Years of Chaos celebration of Chaos Theory’s first decade. It was an incredible gig of two halves for me, each half chock full of the weird and wonderful. As I wrote…
View More GGGOLDDD – This Shame Should Not Be Mine
I think this has been the hardest review for me to finish. The album itself is well out of my usual comfort zone, and realistically the reason I took it on for review is because Eric Bouillette was so clearly…
View More Imaginærium – The Rise of Medici
I’ve always found books more interesting and enjoyable than film or tv, because I almost always prefer the images my imagination can conjure up from the words on a page than that which is presented to me. Similarly, I often…
View More Daal – Daedalus
The gold medal for the most under the radar release for a long-hoped for return must surely go to Extra Life, who might not be one of the most well known bands, but who have a faithful following. Charlie Looker…
View More Extra Life – Secular Works, Vol. 2
Long Distance Calling are a band that has a reputation for almost starting from scratch with each new album. I made the comment in my review for their previous album that the band “seem to take on a different aspect…
View More Long Distance Calling – Eraser
Before I begin this review, I probably need to apologise to Cola de Zorro, as I suspect I have inferred meaning from this instrumental album that was not intended. The album translates as ‘The Desert Advances’, and I can only…
View More Cola de Zorro – El Desierto Avanza
Erosion is the third release in a triptych from Fred Lessing. Except it isn’t. Or maybe it is? Honestly, I don’t know if it were intended to be, but regardless of intentions, I believe Fred has created that triptych, as…
View More Daymoon – Erosion