Phil Lively

The Fierce And The Dead – Magnet (EP)

We are all mere rabbits, tucked up safely in our warren and they are scary, but hopefully benign Bear-Man creatures, capable of destroying all in their path with nothing more than big, scary sound. Whether they intended to be or…

Mollmaskin – Heartbreak In ((Stereo))

A place for everything and everything in its place. I’m listening to Mollmaskin’s debut album. My first and lasting impression is of the attention to detail across every aspect of this album, even the packaging. This double CD comes in…

Tom Slatter – Fit The Fourth

When I first heard of Tammy Slater I thought: “Hmmm”. For most of her day Tammy is high on a cocktail of Baby Bio and diet pills from the 1950s. At night she drags herself by her tentacles through the…

…And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead – IX

Once again I come to this review with little more knowledge of the band than hearing their name and no knowledge or their previous albums. The album has been out long enough for you to find other reviews so I…

Rhys Marsh – Sentiment

I’m listening to Sentiment by Rhys Marsh. I’m mindful that some people will already be familiar with his work but I was not. Did you read my Mandala review? Perhaps that’s where you’ve heard of Rhys Marsh before. This is…

Schnellertollermeier – X

As many of you already know, I’ve been living in a box for the last two decades so I know nothing about anything. Perhaps less. That means I didn’t know about SCHNELLERTOLLERMEIER. I can see that the name is basically…

Anthony Phillips – The Geese And The Ghost

I’m taking a look at the latest reissue of Anthony Phillips’s 1977 debut solo record, The Geese And The Ghost. Over the years, and to my shame, I had pieced together a kind of composite memory of Anthony Phillips’s later…

Mandala – Midnight Twilight

Mandala is a Sanskrit word describing a spiritual and ritual symbol used in Hinduism and Buddhism, representing the Universe. They place themselves in the genre of Folk-noir / Eastern-influenced progressive rock. But then, who doesn’t these days! Mandala initially seemed,…

We Are Kin – Pandora

This is a mature and well realised album. Pandora is awash with melodic and varied compositions that are multi-layered and complex, plus there is an underlying narrative describing a potential future. You can get lost in it all. Not really…

Stearica – Fertile

Stearica, from Torino, Italy, have been around for about 10 years. This is only their second album so even though I have actually been living in a box for the last decade could I be blamed for never having heard…

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Author: Phil Lively