Have you ever started listening to something and become so entranced by it that you switch off from everything else? That has been my biggest problem with reviewing the new album from Swede Jonathan Hultén. I’d never heard of Hultén…
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Upon receiving Homeless, the latest album by Australian band Anubis, I felt compelled to get in contact with them because I had a couple of queries about the album, and I didn’t want to make assumptions that might end up…
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I’m not one to write off entire (sub)genres of music with blanket statements of dislike or disinterest, but I admit I’m wary whenever the label neo-prog is used. There are definitely far more bands described thus which bore me or…
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Recently I reviewed the new compilation album from K+K-tactics. The duo described their music as drum and bass, but this is literally a description of the two main instruments, and usually sole instruments, played. That said, I was still able…
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Well that was interesting. I had to check I was listening to the right thing, so much has the sound of Maquinas changed since last I heard them on 2016’s Lado Turvo, Lugares Inquietos. The band did release a collaboration…
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Aadal are an instrumental jazz band from Norway who, according to the PR sheet which accompanied the album, have clear references to Americana. This was a description that didn’t sound particularly appealing to me, and it was the addition of…
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VASA. Who are VASA? That’s a question I couldn’t have answered until earlier this year. The PR blurb for VASA states that they have an “unrelentingly upbeat and joyful approach to the occasionally tawdry world of post-rock”, and that new…
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I have never been a great lover of the stoner rock scene that came out of the Californian desert. If I had, I might have heard of Swedish stoners Lowrider. I assumed this year’s Refractions was a debut, but it…
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Throughout the last few years, I’ve found myself listening to more and more jazz from Spain. Bands such as El Tubo Elàstico and On The Raw have thoroughly impressed me, and now add Canarian Juan Belda and his Bit Band.…
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As the founder, Zio is the project of Karnataka drummer Jimmy Pallagrossi, and I have to admit this made me wary. Karnataka, along with other similar bands playing a mellow prog tinged with Celtic folk, plodded along for years at…
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