Let’s face it, 2020 has been a bloody strange and tumultuous year, and then along come Gazpacho to add their own particularly weird flavour to these peculiar times with a darkly hypnotic and ambitious concept album in five parts. As…
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I first came across Charlie Barnes as the enthusiastic fresh-faced guy behind the merch desk at a few Amplifier gigs I attended years ago. Since then Charlie has gone on his own path and is now a multi-instrumentalist touring with…
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“Beauty always comes with dark thoughts”, warns Tuomas Holopainen (Nightwish). When the liner notes of an album have a final page dedicated to an impressive bibliography of further reading, containing titles with phrases which include ‘Narcissistic Abuse’, ‘Chronic Shame’, ‘Covert…
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Argentine band Akenathon do not appear to be particularly prolific. Their second album, Como Hormigas, released this year, comes some ten years after their debut. The band has apparently continued throughout, with many line-up changes. The one constant has been…
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There are times when an album drops into your review list and on first listen it makes you want to start writing straight away, this is one of those albums. Motorpsycho have done it again for me with this release.…
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The Red Planet is Rick Wakeman’s first proper instrumental prog offering of completely original material for quite a number of years. Consciously a return to the styles of his Seventies heyday, the album is also the first collaboration with the…
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In this update we feature: • Coma Wall – Ursa Minor [EP] • An Apparition – An Apparition [EP] • Anthroprophh – Toilet Circuit [EP] • SEIMS – 3 + 3.1 • Tangents – Risk Reaps Rewards • Woomera –…
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After 20 years working as Karda Estra in a largely instrumental zone, Richard Wileman stepped out under his own name in 2018 to follow a more acoustic singer/songwriter path, firstly with his Veil album, followed last year by Cabal of…
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The last time I heard anything from Norwegian band Fatal Fusion was 2013’s The Ancient Tale. It was sold to me as Dream Theater with Mellotron. It sounded to me, more like Rush with Alex choosing to play vintage keyboards.…
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Lee Abraham is clearly on some sort of creative kick right now with a new solo album hot on the heels of his Echo Rain instrumental project EP, Western Skies, and not long after his release of one of the…
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