The Bob Lazar Story is Matt Deacon. You may remember him from such albums (and reviews) as Ghost of Foodstool (2014, reviewed by Jez Rowden), Self-Loathing Joe EP (2015, reviewed by Jez Rowden), Baritonia (2017, reviewed by Jez Rowden [I’m…
View More The Bob Lazar Story – The Bob Lazarus Chronicles, Pt.1 : Foodstool Resurrection
Here’s some music that’s worthy of your attention. It’s by Silje Marsh — formerly known as Silje Leirvik. Although Aware, shown in the above video, was apparently on YouTube back in 2020, the song appears on Whispers – Silje’s third…
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“Dreams are messages from the deep” – Dune, 2021 London based Benjamin Blank started Binary Order in 2008. He makes no secret of deriving inspiration from Sci-fi and cyberpunk. In the press release, “Dune, Akira, Blade Runner, Total Recall, Deus…
View More Binary Order – Messages From The Deep
An Englishman, an Irishman and a Frenchman walk into a pub… Englishers are famously a reserved lot. Some learn to play musical instruments but hide themselves away, worried that someone might hear them before they become competent and smash their…
View More CKRAFT – Epic Discordant Vision
In an unusual move for TPA, here we offer a selection of views on the forthcoming and fervently anticipated (by many) new album from a reanimated Porcupine Tree, due in one month from… Now. Magnus Moar Porcupine Tree finally return…
View More Porcupine Tree – Closure/Continuation
“Music without predefined structures or scores, built on improvisations in one take with Chapman Stick and loops, a minimalist journey of sonic experimentation through the events that are born from this telluric land at the end of the world.” The…
View More Bizirik – Revelaciones del Fin del Mundo
Well, what do we have here, then? Being a musical ignoramus, I started with the metadata, which tells me that this album is Ambient. This useful tag gives a common frame of reference that not only helps us to build…
View More Jo Berger Myhre – Unheimlich Manoeuvre
Warning #1: There’s no Prog here! If you’re expecting IQ or Marillion then you will be disappointed. This is about modern, progressive Rock. And Jazz. And Metal. Probably. Warning #2: The deliberate and seemingly incorrect use of upper and LoweR…
View More art against agony – Reincarnation Suite [plus interview with Stefan Huth]
Unusual in the World of Rock, though not unheard of, there are no guitars on Earth Mother Grapefruit. The absence of guitar, in some ways, is a bold move, as it unshackles Clamb from the expectations we have of a…
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Don’t you just love it when artists take notes that don’t belong in a key and create passing dissonance? I like drums, gritty guitar, distorted bass, quiet bits with piano, soft harmonised backing vocals against a building riff. I like…
View More Blacklist – Superpredator EP / Saul Blease Interview