I confess, I was not aware of Davey Dodds until the opportunity to review this album came up. The Interwebs and his press release tell me that Davey wrote the songs for and fronted a symphonic folk rock band called…
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Well this little EP has surprised and disconcerted me, and in fairness to the band the complexity it presents deserves much more than the exploration, dissection and analysis of the contents of a quick ADA review. Many bands are in…
View More Karakorum – Fables & Fairytales [EP]
Music and drama are perfect partners when it comes to telling stories. The ability to weave the carefully crafted threads of a plot along with shifting changes of mood, tempo and events by using the layers and textures of a…
View More Art – Asylum
As we all know, there are albums that divide opinion. Sometimes these opinions are so extreme as to make the uninitiated think that different albums are being discussed. In this first of a possibly semi-regular feature, depending on, you know,…
View More Camel – Breathless
Have you ever started listening to something and become so entranced by it that you switch off from everything else? That has been my biggest problem with reviewing the new album from Swede Jonathan Hultén. I’d never heard of Hultén…
View More Jonathan Hultén – Chants From Another Place
Markus Reuter is perhaps best known as one third of Stick Men, whose sprawling and mighty live document, PANAMERICA was reviewed in this very boutique not long ago. However, there is much more to this musical polymath’s muse than the…
View More Markus Reuter feat. Fabio Trentini & Asaf Sirkis – Truce
We all know what’s been happening down under. For getting on for six months, Australia’s bush has been burning. People have died, thousands of homes have been destroyed, the sky has been turned toxic and wildlife has been devastated. This…
View More Boz For Oz – Boz For Oz
Left-field is indeed left-field and this album is the work of Laurie Anderson, Jessie Paris Smith and Tenzin Choegyal; Laurie first coming to the attention of me, via the single O Superman in 1981, a slow-burning piece that crept up…
View More Anderson, Choegyal & Paris Smith – Songs From The Bardo
I’m not one to write off entire (sub)genres of music with blanket statements of dislike or disinterest, but I admit I’m wary whenever the label neo-prog is used. There are definitely far more bands described thus which bore me or…
View More Anubis – Homeless
Pete Townshend and Roger Daltrey are the two surviving members of British institution The Who, and 13 years since they gave us Endless Wire, which in turn was after a 24-year gap, there is a new album. WHO misses out…
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