Leo Trimming Trilogy (2016 Remastered Edition / 2015 3-Disc Edition including 5.1 Mix of the original 1972 Album) [A quick note: in 2015 we reviewed the then newly reissued Deluxe 3-Disc Edition of Trilogy which included a 5.1 Surround Mix…
View More Emerson Lake & Palmer – Trilogy | Brain Salad Surgery | Welcome Back My Friends… (2016 Remasters)Category: Album Reissues
Magma – Köhnzert Zünd
Say the phrase ‘box set’ and you’ll immediately grab anybody’s interest. It may be a brightly coloured flimsy bit of cardboard clasping your CDs or DVDs together, but somehow in the eye of the beholder, that simply makes it immeasurably…
View More Magma – Köhnzert ZündBrand X – Nuclear Burn
I’m a grumpy sod sometimes and when I’m trying to concentrate I absolutely cannot stand the relentless banter that my colleagues have about house prices, dietary righteousness, gym habits; basically anything that isn’t work. Because there’s only so many times…
View More Brand X – Nuclear BurnHawkwind – The RCA Active Years 1981-1982
Following on from the recent release of the Hawkwind Charisma Years box set we are now presented with the RCA Active Years set, this one covering the three albums that the band released on the RCA label in 1981 and…
View More Hawkwind – The RCA Active Years 1981-1982Hawkwind – The Charisma Years 1976-1979
Hawkwind continue to have a long and interesting career, recently releasing their latest The Machine Stops album that proves their ability to provide consistent song writing. Here we have a box set re-release of four of their albums which were…
View More Hawkwind – The Charisma Years 1976-1979The Fierce And The Dead – If It Carries On Like This We Are Moving To Morecambe (2016 Remaster)
Is it really more than 5 years since this came out? The Fierce & The Dead have built a very loyal following in the intervening period and continue to go from strength to strength, being due to embark on their…
View More The Fierce And The Dead – If It Carries On Like This We Are Moving To Morecambe (2016 Remaster)Tony Banks – A Curious Feeling (Deluxe 2 Disc Expanded Edition)
From the moment you hear the opening chords of From the Undertow there is a reassuring and comforting sense that you are in familiar waters. Both the style and the tone signal not only clear connections with And Then There…
View More Tony Banks – A Curious Feeling (Deluxe 2 Disc Expanded Edition)Gravy Train – Second Birth & Staircase To The Day
St.Helens band Gravy Train were one of hundreds on the undercard of the nascent progressive rock scene at the turn of the ’60s into the ’70s, and they made their first two LPs for Philips’ underground subsidiary Vertigo. Their first…
View More Gravy Train – Second Birth & Staircase To The DayThe Move – Looking On
The marvellous cross-genre Leicester band Family had a U.K. hit earlier in the same year Looking On was released called Strange Band, which certainly applied to them, but could also have been just as easily a theme tune for The…
View More The Move – Looking OnColosseum – Live
When Colosseum played their final gig on 28th February 2015 at Shepherd’s Bush Empire they brought to a close the career of one of the first and most influential U.K. jazz rock bands. Fittingly, the line up that played the…
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