There is always a danger when one has been anticipating a release for a long time, and it felt like a long time waiting for the debut release from Quel Che Disse Il Tuono. Actually, the album was put together…
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“There’s no point in just ripping something off, but if you hear something and think ‘I like what that guy is doing; I know what I could do with that’, it’s like having a new colour to paint with, and…
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Earlier this year, TPA’s Nick Hudson reviewed Julia Marcell’s latest album, and first on Long Branch Records, Skull Echo. Julia is writing a screenplay with Natalia Grzegorzek based upon the album, which would have been released already were it not…
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What do you get when you marry an indie-folk-jazz sextet with a classical string quartet? Something incredibly beautiful, that’s what! I have to admit to not being familiar at all with the Taïga String Quartet, but I’ve always found I…
View More I Think You’re Awesome & Taïga String Quartet – Suite to be You and Me
In this update we feature: • Lemurian Folk Songs – Logos • Satorinaut – Montañas, Mares, Desiertos y Vagabundos • Liquidacid – Soylent Solstice • Képzelt Város – Samizdat Until days ago, I had albums from only two Hungarian bands…
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The Opium Cartel is a band I was aware of but had never come around to listening to. My thanks to Spike Worsley for suggesting me to Jacob Holm-Lupo as a potential reviewer for the new album, Valor, as it…
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This debut album from InTechnicolour has been a struggle for me to review, for what is possibly a strange reason. While back when I was young (yes, a long, long, long time ago) it was fairly normal to know well…
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The Bloody Mallard are a new band for me. The tags on their Bandcamp page indicate, in various permutations, that the music will be heavy, psychedelic and progressive. The band’s website states that “musical influences can be heard from bands…
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A while ago, I reviewed the final album from Alex’s Hand, Hungarian Spa. I wrote it less as a review, more as a eulogy, and it flowed out from me on the day the break-up of that band was announced…
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In these uncertain times, there’s nothing like listening to calming music – and despite the dynamics of Haunt the Woods’ debut album, Opaque, even at its most boisterous, it remains remarkably calm. Don’t get me wrong, there are searing solos…
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