Album Reviews – Page 142

Boris and Merzbow – 2R0I2P0

If you’re a fan of Japanese band Boris, 2020 has been a great year. NO is a phenomenally good album. It’s a real belter – short, sharp and to the point. I didn’t write much about it in a recent…

Trapeze – Trapeze / Medusa / You Are The Music, We’re Just The Band

Cherry Red Records are well known for curating remastered and expanded sets from yesteryear, and the latest band to get this treatment to their early back catalogue is Trapeze. The label really does invest time and effort into doing a…

Roz Vitalis – Compassionizer

With Roz Vitalis main man Ivan Rozmainsky releasing the debut album from a new project called Compassionizer, I felt it an opportune time to revisit its namesake. I recently wrote another nostalgic look back at an older album, with my…

Martin Barre – 50 Years of Jethro Tull

Martin Lancelot Barre (now 74) has been known for years as the guitarist and trustworthy companion of founder/singer/flutist Ian Anderson with the English folk/prog rock band Jethro Tull. It came like a bolt from the blue for the loyal right…

Kevin Godley – Muscle Memory

“I’m expecting nothing but something out of this world”, is one of the first lines of Expecting A Message, the opening track on Kevin Godley’s new-but-old solo album Muscle Memory. This is a fair premise, given the intriguing way this…

Our Oceans – While Time Disappears

Our Oceans, as some may know, came from the ashes of Exivious. Well even that’s not quite true, as Our Oceans was originally envisaged as being a one-off side project, and Exivious was reduced to ashes only after Tymon Kruidenier…

Ensemble Gamut! – UT

This one came straight out of nowhere and immediately captured my heart. More exceptional beauty from Scandinavia, it’s Finland this time where Ensemble Gamut! offer breathtaking reinterpretations of Finnish folk and early music with a modern sheen. Expansive soundscapes driven…

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