Album Reviews – Page 162

Ghost Toast – Shape Without Form

So after listening to a Hungarian post-rock band, and thoroughly enjoying it, what next? Hmmm….how about a Hungarian post-rock band? Luckily, I think I chose to listen to the two bands whose albums I had for review in what turned…

aJna – Rengeteg

A few days ago, I found myself in possession of not one, but two forthcoming releases from two very different Hungarian post-rock bands. But apart from coming from Hungary, and being released on the same label, they couldn’t be more…

The Bardic Depths – The Bardic Depths

First things first. The opening of this album is simply incredible, and unbelievably engaging. I have never been so immediately entranced by an album’s opening number. Over some appropriate ambient and atmospheric music and noise, a quote from one of…

Blue Öyster Cult – Live In Cleveland 2014

So the burnin’ question on your lips must be, “Do we need another BÖC live album?” That was my first thought too, and the answer is “Yes, probably!” I guess the first thing to say is the obvious really, but…

Matt Stevens – The Stratford Tapes

Here at TPA we have a decent, but not quite incestuous relationship with Bad Elephant Music, who send us their releases, a good proportion of which we have reviewed over the years. A fine label who promote independent music in…

Lazuli – Le Fantastique Envol de Dieter Böhm

Lazuli have, over the last decade and more, become one of the finest live bands in the world, thrilling audiences across Europe with their dazzling and accessible mix of melodic prog, industrial tones and ethnic musical influences. It’s a melting…

Ishkero – Brume

There’s an expression a lot of my musicals friends use that explains well what happens when one is introduced to something new: ‘the rabbit hole’. For when you first find yourself listening to something new and exciting, it’s only natural…

Brian Davison’s Every Which Way – Every Which Way (Remastered 50^th Anniversary Edition)

An album that forms an interesting stitch in Rock’s Rich Tapestry™ is the sole album recorded by Brian Davison and the group he assembled after being cast aside by Keith Emerson as the latter strove to find musical egos as…

Julia Marcell – Skull Echo

First things first. This is an absolutely glorious and gorgeous prog pop album. If you’re one of those who think that’s an oxymoron, you may as well stop reading now. If, like me, you believe prog is not, and has…

Luo – Unspoken

People who go to gigs and deliberately choose to miss the support bands are very silly. Yes, some supports can be dire, but the opposite is also true and over the years I’ve been startled by many bands I’d never…

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