After having recently reviewed New Zealand’s Cut Off Your Hands, I moved on to Germany’s Kaskadeur. Their recent release, Uncanny Valley, is an absolute delight. Both bands play a brand of funky and dubby art rock with powerful pop hooks…
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In the early nineties there were a number of singer songwriters, a hit or two then disappear, including Tanita Tikaram, and Tasmin Archer. Tasmin managed four years with EMI before fading and having a crisis of confidence, and that’s an…
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Brudini’s debut album, From Darkness, Light, has blown me away, and come from nowhere to being a contender for my favourite album of the year. Brudini (aka Erik Brudvik) has created an absolutely magical and melodramatic album of poetry and…
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With this second solo album from Nick D’Virgilio, his first being 2001’s Karma, Nick (or NDV, as he is known) has been part of the prog framework for a very long time, first appearing with Spock’s Beard in 1995. Invisible…
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I was introduced to Swiss band The Erkonauts in 2017, when their second album I Shall Forgive was recommended to me. Despite my initial confusion as to what the hell I was listening to, I was already in love. That…
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Wizzard – Introducing Eddie and the Falcons Roy Wood had a curious attitude to fame in the 1970s, or so it seemed. The founder member of one of the ’60s best singles bands, with a thrillingly dangerous live act to…
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We are the sum of our experiences. Who we are today is different from who we were, and who we will be. I had nothing to fall back on when listening to elliot.’s debut release under his own name, so…
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Unleash The Archers didn’t make it easy on themselves with this record. Writing the second half of a continuing concept is always a challenge, especially when the first volume was a breakout success like 2017’s Apex. It’s a scenario that…
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Pelagic Records was founded by Robin Staps in 2009 as a way to re-release previous albums by his band, The Ocean. New Zealand is about as far geographically as it is possible to be from Pelagic’s home, but that country’s…
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Released towards the end of this disagreeable year, this album will certainly bring sunshine to the Swedish winter, even when their sun has stoically decided to not bother for a few snow-capped months. Written during what will hopefully be historically…
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