Three years ago I reviewed a strange but engaging album entitled The Ranger And The Cleric by Irish guitarist and songsmith Jim Griffin, and it pleases me to tell you that here is the follow up, released in November last…
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“I command you to be my master and I will not take no for an answer”, ends the introductory paranoiac’s jerk that is The Answers, the opening track on 7shades’ brand spanking new album of dark pop-tinged psychedelic hot egg…
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The second “songs” instalment of Mr Minister’s chanelling his Great Aunt Coleslaw’s muse into an expected 26 albums spread over the year – that’s an infeasible one a fortnight for anyone slightly math-headed – arrives with all the fanfare of…
View More Elk Minister – Aquarius
“Dobbeltgjenger” – it’s fairly obvious what it means, don’t you think? I’ve had it confirmed by a Norwegian friend, too. Google Translate disagrees, but then the overused and frequently rather poor and often unintentionally comical online translator will turn any…
View More Dobbeltgjenger – Limbohead
The fourth album from Norwegian sonic explorers Major Parkinson arrived in November last year on Degaton Records, who seem to have connections with the always interesting Karisma Records label, and that is what attracted me to this in the first…
View More Major Parkinson – Blackbox
Schnellertollermeier, house band at the court of the neo-brutalist regime, and makers of music to accompany Salvador Dali’s darkest thoughts, return nearly two years after the fearsome X to punish your ears with another fistful of their precise but punishing…
View More Schnellertollermeier – Rights
Grice Peters returns, some two and a half years after his thoughtful and impressive LP Alexandrine with a little teaser of an EP that bodes well for a forthcoming long player. Describing himself on the Bandcamp page as an “electro…
View More GRICE – The Grey of Granite Stone EP
For nearly 35 years now, Louisville, Kentucky based Mike Sary has been assembling bands under the name French TV, and to date has released twelve albums under the banner. This, the latest, features a multi-national cast. Opening track Ghost Zone…
View More French TV – Operation: Mockingbird
Edgar Froese was planning for Tangerine Dream to continue after his death, as we now know from the release of Particles and Quantum Gate in 2017, but this interview took place about 8 months before he sadly died in January…
View More Edgar Froese – Tangerine Dream
Lorenzo Esposito Fornasari is a singer with an impressive range and enough drama in his highly expressive voice to fill the Old Vic several times over. Having appeared with various bands on numerous releases on the RareNoise label, LEF now…
View More LEF – Hypersomniac