There are few if any bands that made such a significant contribution to the nihilistic and dizzily creative first wave of post-punk experimentalism as Cleveland’s Pere Ubu, the mighty PiL apart, of course. Like most Brits, my first exposure to…
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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…
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Dingwalls, Camden, London Friday, 7th June 2019 Over fifteen quid for fish’n’chips, with a small pot each of tartare sauce and mushy peas? That’s a typical Camden pub for you. And it came pre-salted! What’s that all about then? Aside…
View More Tim Bowness / Amy Birks / Nick Beggs
“Gong is more than a band. It’s an idea. A way of life. A continuum that exists in all times, in all places, everywhere.” So says the opening line of the press release accompanying the album now firing its way…
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AKKU Quintet seem to be part of a modern Swiss tradition of cyclical minimalist music, where the beginning is the end is the beginning. Or if you will, the departure of one theme transposes the arrival of another. Led by…
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EartH, Hackney, London Monday, 27th May 2019 After an afternoon spent within the highly interesting confines of London Docklands Museum for the Lost Rivers of London exhibition, we arrive at the faded glamour of EartH (Evolutionary arts Hackney, in case…
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St. Pancras Old Church, London Wednesday, 22nd May 2019 St. Pancras Old Church sits in an island of arboreal consecrated ground, sitting there as if a visitor from another time, surrounded as it is by the hubbub of modern living.…
View More Firefly Burning / Samantha Whates
“A punk album being reviewed on TPA?”, I hear your incredulous question, but read on and all will hopefully become clear… “By early 1976 as a teenager, although I was a fan of the usual prog giants, … and a…
View More Various Artists – 1977: The Year Punk Broke![Van der Graaf Generator – The Aerosol Grey Machine [50th Anniversary Edition]](https://theprogressiveaspect.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/VdGG-Aerosol.jpg)
As luck would have it, just before I was told about the review download of the 50th anniversary reissue of the first album to bear the name Van der Graaf Generator becoming available, I had commenced on a trip through…
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London based trio Teeth Of The Sea would be an ideal band to soundtrack the forthcoming apocalypse, what with their nightmarish yet strangely groovy missives, last evidenced on 2015’s essential Highly Deadly Black Tarantula, a howl of techno-rage at the…
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