Not heard of Gizmo? Well, as I do not wish to spend too much time repeating myself, I suggest you read the long and hopefully not too rambling intro to my review of the Canterbury band’s previous and self-titled album,…
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Entering stage left, Rêve Général arrive fully formed with a Euro spring in their step, offering the huddled masses a new take on a surprisingly well populated, if largely unnoticed forest track off the main drag of progressive music –…
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Let’s take a trip backwards through time and space with those rather groovy veteran American spacerockers Djam Karet. Trawling the floating cosmic debris and detritus keyboard player Gayle Ellett has caught some real gems in his net…was that a sample…
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Sonar are a Swiss band consisting of two guitars, bass and drums, and they play progressive music that uses contrapuntal polyrhythms entwined with precise melody and counter melody to create an intense rising tide of minimalistic but simultaneously dense sound…
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Stuck way down there in the heat and dust, or maybe up a mountain in south western-central USA, there exists one of the most important avant-rock bands of the modern age. I’m guessing that most of you will not have…
View More Thinking Plague – In This Life
Back in 2012 I reviewed Pangaea Proxima, the first album from French avant-rock band Unit Wail, formed by a founder member of and by then ex-Shub Niggurath guitarist Franck Fromy. Shub Niggurath were a seminal band in the progression of…
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This improvised dark fear-fest of a record is inspired by Charles Bukowski’s text A Copulating Mermaid In Venice. Ah, that explains those track titles then! The names David Kollar and Paolo Raineri may be familiar to you, as the duo…
View More The Blessed Beat – M I V
Necromonkey, the project of ex-Änglagård drummer Mattias Olsson and Gösta Berlings Saga keyboard wizard David Lundberg, are a band I have followed since their crazy debut Necroplex was unleashed on an uncaring world in 2013. This was followed last year…
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Brothers Casey and Jesse Cooper, otherwise known as synth pop duo The Receiver, hide deep in their bedrooms in Colombus, Ohio where for two years they have beavered away in the making of this introspective album of dream pop. I…
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Nordic Giants are an elusive duo who go by the mythological Norse names of “Loki” and “Roka” and have managed to cloak themselves in a carefully woven shroud of mystery, no easy thing to do in this ever-prying digital age.…
View More Nordic Giants – A Séance Of Dark Delusions