Do you remember 2013? Here are some fun facts about that year: Natalie Coleman won Masterchef, Jorge Mario Bergoglio won Best New Pope and the words “twerk” and “selfie” were added to the dictionary. Notable and factual events, all. It…
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From the website: “Songs about lust for power, mass extinction, chocolate, apathy and the Voyager spacecraft – Lathe of Heaven is a solo music project from Hampshire, UK. People have compared LoH to Pink Floyd, Andy Latimer, and Steve Hackett…
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This is why I go interwebbing: I inhabit several Worlds. In one, which I shall call Reality 1.0, I am a Stick Player. Through that FaceTube I know a Boston-based Stickist called Josh Goldberg. Occasionally Josh sends me the heads-up…
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It feels as if there’s way more Fierce and Dead music around than their discography would suggest. This is only the third studio album by the critically acclaimed and very hard working The Fierce And The Dead. The Fierce And…
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This is the second album from Spiral Key. Formed in 2012, the band describe their music as progressive, symphonic, melodic and thoughtful metal with a “subtly dark sense of humour”. That covers a lot of bases. It’s certainly a huge…
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Boston, Massachusetts-based GEPH are back with a second album. According to the Interwebs, Apophenia is “the spontaneous perception of connections and meaningfulness of unrelated phenomena”, the term first coined by German neurologist and psychiatrist Klaus Conrad (1905-1961). Conrad focused on…
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Not just the 21st letter of the Greek alphabet, Phi is referenced in aesthetics, in the natural World and in a mathematical context as “The Golden Ratio”. The band, Phi, originates in Austria where the Golden Ratio is referred to…
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Murder & Parliament is a project by Tom Slatter, a Bad Elephant Music artist. The eponymous debut album has been out for a little while now and there have already been reviews. I was busy doing things. And stuff. Consequently,…
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When Bad Elephant Music signs a new act one can never quite predict what the band will sound like, though the label seldom disappoints. Described by the label as an “art-rock quintet”, it is fair to say that in Tonochrome…
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KNIFEWORLD AT THE LEXINGTON Or An Adventure In That London With A Gentleman And Some Music. It was a winter’s day of contrast and light, pummelled by cold winter rain, but illuminated in so many ways. My companion for the…
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