Listening to this album for the first time, from the first notes I knew I was in love. That reaction wasn’t unexpected, as the previous albums from both Dusan Jevtovic and Vasil Hadzimanov that I have (If You See Me…
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Pale Mannequin are a Polish progressive rock band from Warsaw, who started out as a solo project of guitarist and vocalist Tomasz Izdebski in 2016. However, as the process of writing for the debut album progressed, Tomasz joined forces with…
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The Swan Chorus are a six-piece progressive rock group of seasoned musicians from the Liverpool-area. Formed as a result of the reunion of the song-writing duo of David Knowles (keyboards) and Colin McKay in 2015, they soon recruited a number…
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Norwegian Gothic may well be the album where some of Årabrot’s fans feel the band has “jumped the shark”. After two decades of making some stonkingly great and abrasive noise, Norwegian Gothic is melodic and catchy. It’s full of hooks…
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Big Big Train don’t really need reviews any more to sell records, such has been their trajectory in recent years, all down to their enormous hard work and dedication. Whenever they produce anything new, it flies off the shelves. It…
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Marillion’s latest live release follows on from their 2019 With Friends from the Orchestra album, in which they adapted a range of their material, augmented by classical orchestra players. They are not the first artists to collaborate with orchestras and…
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After a string of albums as a duo with Jeremy Sills (the latest Sills & Smith album, Maps – Burned or Lost, was reviewed by TPA in 2018), singer-songwriter Frank Smith has formed the collaborative Halcyon Phase with producer/multi-instrumentalist Phillip…
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Existentia is a new band from Russia who impress greatly with their debut album, The Planet in the Universe. It’s a particularly clever title, as it contains the layers of meaning that are explored within the album. The planet in…
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“Once upon a time, there was a young lady named Katy Cocks. Katy was a classically trained singer, and I’m sure you know what that means. Katy might put on a big dress, and sing standing next to a man…
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In this update we feature: • Reflection Club – Still Thick As A Brick • Daïda – La Passion Du Cri (Kyrielle) • Oxygene8 (Linda Cushma) – Rhino [EP] • Caeli Concept – The Dark Playground • Isobar – Isobar…
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