[WARNING: This review may contain hyperbole – read with caution] Jon Hunt is the best songwriting multi-instrumentalist from That London that has ever existed. Jon Hunt’s music could be described as being part of the singer-songwriter stable. But it isn’t…
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Being somewhat late in submitting this review, the first part is aimed squarely at anyone who has not yet heard Rivers Of Heresy. I unapologetically say that late reviews can give an album a second wind – and even revive…
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Nefarious Industries’ describe themselves on their Bandcamp page as: “(an) independent label & music collective extending its tentacles into far-flung regions of the musical spectrum… …home to crime, slime & grime since 2010”. Home to crime? Isn’t that prison? And…
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Liminal, I presume, is derived from subliminal, limen the Latin for “threshold”. The album title suggests to me, therefore, that we, or at least VALERIAN SWING, are at the threshold. At it. Not below it, but on the threshold of……
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You may be familiar with The Bob Lazar Story from such albums as Baritonia, Vanquisher, No Foodstool Left Behind, The Bob Lazarus Chronicles Pt1 : Foodstool Resurrection and from such reviews as Baritonia, Vanquisher, Ghost Of Foodstool and The Bob…
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Dario Saraceno is a singer, guitarist and Stickist native to Ripacandida, situated in the Italian province of Potenza, about 150Km east of Naples, and 1300Km from London, where he settled in in the sixties. Dario and his band, The Clear,…
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Central Theatre, Chatham Friday, 19th April 2024 I don’t often go and see tribute bands. It’s not that I’m some weird purist who disapproves of tribute acts, far from it! If the band that originally created the music is no…
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It was so refreshing to see an album offered for review to TPA with such a pithy name. There’s none of this multisyllabic name nonsense, like Distended Algorithm or Beelzebub’s Hoover, this is the least Proggy name I’ve seen in…
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John Tyler Kent is a guitarist and Stickist based in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. You may remember Mr. Kent from such reviews as Geph and Apophenia by Geph. I urge you to check these out because they are absolutely fabulous albums.…
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Towards the West is Rhys Marsh’s fourth solo album. Being an album of seemingly simple songs (in itself, no bad thing), it was in production for quite some time. But this is misleading. The music reflects Rhys’s personal experiences relating…
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