You all know who Peter Buck is, but maybe Luke Haines is one of those names you’ve heard but can’t quite pin down? He was the guitarist and frontman for reluctant Britpop outliers The Auteurs, who were a lot better…
View More Luke Haines & Peter Buck – Beat Poetry For Survivalists
In this update we feature: • Bird Problems – Beyond the Nest • Daïda – La Passion Du Cri, Pt 1 • Feather – Convalesence • Nova Charisma – Exposition II • OZO – Saturn • VASA – Heroics Everyday…
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Markus Reuter is perhaps best known as one third of Stick Men, whose sprawling and mighty live document, PANAMERICA was reviewed in this very boutique not long ago. However, there is much more to this musical polymath’s muse than the…
View More Markus Reuter feat. Fabio Trentini & Asaf Sirkis – Truce
This album is the first by the post-Froese band where no new music was provided by Edgar, even as sketches for new material, as was the case with 2017’s Quantum Gate, the previous and rather good studio album. Released to…
View More Tangerine Dream – Recurring Dreams
“Make a wish, ride a bike, you can do anything you like”, says the third optimistic line from opening track Just Bloody Lovely. It carries an extra poignancy, given its writer’s precarious condition. One half of Churn Milk Joan is…
View More Churn Milk Joan – I’m nearly 60 miles high
In this update we feature: • Seven That Spells – The Trilogy Live at Roadburn • Casimir Liberski – Cosmic Liberty • Petbrick – I • Jeffrey Brooks with Bang On A Can All-Stars & Contemporaneous – The Passion •…
View More A Different Aspect #33
In these turbulent times, there are several good bands fronted by female singers inhabiting a small and somewhat crowded avant-pop-prog crossover shed, with an inkling for experimentalism, and a jazz sensibility. Bands such as Moe Tar, Infinien, District 97, Inner…
View More A Formal Horse – Here Comes A Man From The Council With A Flamethrower
Pin-Ups, Islington, London Saturday, 1st February 2020 With a selection of TPA scribblists in attendance, it would be rude not to ask some of them how it went… Roger Trenwith Frowns. We all wear them too readily these days, so…
View More Admirals Hard
Tonight, TPA branches out into scriptwriting, and this is our first word explosion! With Your Host (naked, except for a pair of speedos, over-large gum boots, and a polkadot bow tie) and guest EE (casually elegant in a charcoal suit…
View More Arts On Fire
In this update we feature: • Kinkajous – Hidden Lines • PYJÆN – PYJÆN • Maria Chiara Argirò – Hidden Seas • Nim Sadot – Nim Quartet II Today we present a special “ADA”, which features four albums released earlier…
View More A Different Aspect #32