Adult Cinema is a remarkable one-man project helmed by multi-instrumentalist Mike Weston. Hot and Cold is his third release and displays a mercurial talent, seemingly at ease with an array of instruments, skilfully moulding together an entertaining melange of styles.…
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Right from the opening energetic blast of Deeper, I just know I’m going to enjoy this! WorldService Project are described as “punk jazz”, an entirely appropriate label, Now on their fifth album, they marry the energy of punk to a…
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Golden Fragments is Fragile’s first original album. Fragile was the original European Yes Tribute band formed in the late 1990s. The group now works as an original band that pays tribute to Yes in its own unique way. This album…
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Another one of Cherry Red’s magnificently curated boxed sets, Musik, Music, Musique (taking it’s name from the single by Zeus – included in this set) gathers together, across three discs, the moment when synth pop transitioned from the underground to…
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2020 COULD have been the title to a Sci-Fi book written, say, in 1968 the year that a certain English beat combo released Shades of Deep Purple, their first album. The plot revolved around a global pandemic virus caught from…
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Utgard brings us to album #15 in Enslaved’s nearly 30 year career, a discography nearly unmatched in terms of consistency, both of purpose and execution. The duration of their career is an achievement unto itself, but the fact they’ve methodically…
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My mental image of The Progressive Aspect’s demographic dictates that I should warn you: What I am about to say must not put you off. Please read all of this review!!! Questions. I have loads of questions about Ulver. What…
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The border between jazz and prog is a bit like the one separating Northern Ireland from the Republic. Some people act as if it doesn’t exist, others want it marked with barbed wire and patrolled by helicopter gunships. I’m of…
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Wow! Talk about growth! I enjoyed Pencarrow’s debut four years ago, but I wouldn’t say I raved about it. It was a solid album, with a lot going for it, and I don’t think I ever read a negative review…
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Formed in Madrid in 2007, Toundra’s latest, an alternative soundtrack to the legendary silent movie The Cabinet of Dr Caligari, is their sixth release and it came out in February this year, a 100 years after Robert Wiene’s seminal German…
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