Phil Lively

Nick Beggs

With his third solo album, Words Fail Me, being released imminently by Esoteric Antenna, TPA’s Phil Lively spoke to Nick Beggs about Chapman Stick and music and the new album and lots of things… and it went like this: PHIL:…

Nick Beggs – Words Fail Me

Esoteric Antenna are about to release Nick Beggs’s new solo album, Words Fail Me. It is impossible to review without mentioning his other solo works and the instrument he uses to deliver them. It is for me, anyway. Much-loved and…

CIRCU5 / I Am The Manic Whale / Let’s Swim, Get Swimming

Level 3, Swindon Saturday, 30th September 2019 This is as much a review of this fantastic little sticky-floored venue with its inexpensive bar, as it is the bands I saw. Apparently, Level 3 closed because another Swindon venue was getting…

Charlie Cawood – Blurring Into Motion

This is Charlie Cawood’s second solo album. Unlike The Divine Abstract, his first solo album, which took several years to write and record, this one came about more quickly. Not only is Charlie the bassist with Knifeworld and Lost Crowns,…

The Bob Lazar Story – Vanquisher

Welcome to my review of Vanquisher, in which I use the word “titular” and the phrase “…had been written by Jason Voorhees”. It was partly written based on a version of this album from an alternate reality. Want to know…

A Different Aspect #29

In this update we feature: > A Sweet Niche – WIRES > Vola – Applause Of A Distant Crowd > Trojan Horse – Wicker [EP] > Jumble Hole Clough – A king finding a croissant amusing > Rainburn – Insignify…

Neurosis & Jarboe – Neurosis & Jarboe [Remastered]

This release is a re-mastering of a 2003 collaboration between Neurosis and singer-songwriter, Jarboe La Salle Devereaux, AKA Jarboe. I’m pitching it at people who have never heard the album. Aside from my only comparison, between the MP3s I’m reviewing…

Mediaeval Baebes - A Pocketful Of Posies

Mediæval Bæbes – A Pocketful of Posies

The ninth studio album by Mediæval Bæbes, A Pocketful of Posies has been five years in the making for musical director, Katharine Blake. Recorded against a backdrop of tremendous loss, Katharine continued the work she started with her partner Nick…

The Mercury Tree – Spidermilk

[Warning: This review may contain some utter bollocks based on a limited understanding of musical theory. Strap yourself in, I may turn this thing over.] “… synthetic sounds, and a newly expanded line-up, we’ve tried to craft something that’s beautiful…

Firefly Burning – Breathe Shallow

I first became aware of Firefly Burning when they appeared as the Sunday morning “Wildcard Act” during Chepstow’s 12th Summer’s End Prog Festival in 2016: “I heard sounds that were unlike those made by all the other bands – and…

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Author: Phil Lively