Taking 1967 as a cultural “Year Zero”, this fine compilation, featuring over three and a half hours of what back then would have simply been called “underground sounds”, takes an in-depth look at the year that followed Sgt. Pepper. Almost…
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Motorpsycho are now 30 years and 22 albums (excluding live albums and sundry collaborations) into their multi-faceted existence. As you would expect from such seasoned veterans, everything they release exudes an easy confidence, but perhaps more unexpectedly they still manage…
View More Motorpsycho – The Crucible
Michel Delville is a busy man. Recently he has played a big part in the thrilling new Gödel Codex album, and now along comes a new release from his well-established fusion band The Wrong Object, entitled Into The Herd. Judging…
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Underground music scenes in all urban centres naturally develop their own amoeba-like existence, dissolving and reforming in different shapes as the mood and the Muse takes them. Belgian capital Brussels is no different, and one such meeting of like minds…
View More The Gödel Codex – Oak
The Slaughtered Lamb, Clerkenwell, London Friday, 8th February 2019 Time portals, sausages in the air, and heads leading independent lives to bodies are just three things one goes to gigs like these for, oh yeah, baby! A tempestuous and bursting…
View More Lost Crowns / Ham Legion / Wryneck
The problem with most biographies is that ultimately any insight they give is mere speculation. Unless the biographer is or was particularly close to their subject, that speculation is just another opinion to be taken no more or less seriously…
View More Chris Salewicz – Jimmy Page: The Definitive Biography
A theology of sound, gliding serenely in the upper atmosphere, then? I know I’m not allowed to say “sonic cathedrals in the sky”, obviously! It might seem remiss of me to open a review of an album that appears to…
View More Stephan Thelen – Fractal Guitar
The first time I dropped out, turned on, and tuned in to this broadcast sent from a pile of weird synapses left behind in lysergic abandon by visitors from an alternate Pagan universe where peyote in the water supply is…
View More Lost Crowns – Every Night Something Happens
The Garage, Islington, London Friday, 21st December 2018 After a splendid day as a tourist in the company of my trusty TPA colleague Mr Phil Lively, during which we visited the Post Office museum and took a trip on their…
View More Spratleys Japs / Knifeworld / ZOFFF
I first discovered The Bevis Frond around the time of their second album, the still wonderful Inner Marshlands. That was 31 years ago and since then the Frond, aka Walthamstow’s psychedelic elder statesman Nick Saloman and his trusty crew, have…
View More The Bevis Frond – We’re Your Friends, Man