It’s been a decade since Polish band Acute Mind last released an album. This year’s release, Under the Empty Sky, is surely proof that good things take time. This second album from the band is absolutely incredible, and blows away…
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Tim Bowness has over recent years released an excellent quartet of solo albums. He is also known for his vocal and co-writing contributions with no-man in collaboration with Steve Wilson, but here the focus must be on his solo work.…
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It’s been a particularly strong year for music from the Italian province of Ravenna. Nero di Marte’s Immoto, was released in January this year. The following month saw the release of Postvorta’s Porrima. The month after, Void of Sleep’s Metaphora.…
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Alone Together might sound an appropriate title for an album in these weird times, but the themes that make up this latest Gungfly effort have little to do with the global situation. According to Rikard Sjöblom, the inspiration comes from…
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August is Te Marama Pūoru Waiata Māori, or Māori Music Month. And, serendipitously, the one album from a New Zealand artist I’ve listened to more than any other this month is from a multi-talented Maori artist, Ruby Solly. In fact,…
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This may well be my album of the year. Figures was released back in May, so I have given it a while before scribbling about it, to let its gorgeous and beguiling wonkiness thoroughly infuse itself into my weary cranium.…
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Occult rock is a thing, or so I’m led to believe. It seems to be a catch-all for any ‘60s and ‘70s inspired, psychedelic, progressive rock with radio friendly melodies, and many of the groups that play it seem to…
View More Dool – Summerland
Soft Machine are a band with a complex fifty year history which I will make no attempt to précis here, but the current incarnation has just released a new live album recorded during their 50th anniversary tour last year, and…
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From the first notes of Maud the Moth’s album, Orphné, I’m reminded of a mix of Mariana Semkina’s debut solo album from earlier this year, and Tori Amos from many years earlier. It’s a timeless and ageless mix of beauty…
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Perhaps with one panel of the fold-out CD digipak leering at us with a picture of Johnson, Putin, Jong-un, and Trump, one in each of the quartered panel, and given the album title, it’s just as well this journey through…
View More Das Rad – Adios Al Futuro