According to Google Maps, it takes 12 hours 28 minutes to drive the 859.2 miles from Austin, Texas, home to the splendid Southern Gothic skewed Americana rock of Lord Buffalo, to Nashville, Tennessee. This gives an average speed of over…
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What do you get when you marry an indie-folk-jazz sextet with a classical string quartet? Something incredibly beautiful, that’s what! I have to admit to not being familiar at all with the Taïga String Quartet, but I’ve always found I…
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Reading the synopsis of their back story, you would expect a far heavier cutting edge to songs created by Phil Stuckey and Ade Fisher, whose musical heritage appears to have been carved from stern stuff! However, the melodious opening of…
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In this update we feature: • Neil Campbell – The Forest Dwellers [EP] • Vasudeva – Generator • Liontortoise – Photosynthesis [EP] • Plastic Noose – PN50 • Widmer-Stauss – Duos • Markus Stauss – 5 Compositions 2017-19 & Neolithic…
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If you google Echorec, apparently it’s some kind of guitar effect pedal. Well, it could have been worse, they could have called themselves Wah Wah. Anyway, this Echorec are a young trio from the West Country, and The Island is…
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Writing reviews of albums that hardly anyone will listen to is becoming an increasingly pointless task, as I ponder its usefulness while far more pressing matters take up one’s time. I suppose if it serves as a diversion from the…
View More Toby Driver & Nick Hudson – Black Feather Under Your Tongue
Hawkwind have a great track record of releases, and to be fair it is rare that any fall through the re-release net, but here we have one that maybe did. Roadhawks gets its first release on CD through Cherry Red…
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The Opium Cartel is a band I was aware of but had never come around to listening to. My thanks to Spike Worsley for suggesting me to Jacob Holm-Lupo as a potential reviewer for the new album, Valor, as it…
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There is a significant difference between a concept album and the concept of an album. It is not a distinction which had previously caught my attention until I read a recent interview with Katatonia’s vocalist Jonas Renske. Comparing ‘our’ generation…
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This debut album from InTechnicolour has been a struggle for me to review, for what is possibly a strange reason. While back when I was young (yes, a long, long, long time ago) it was fairly normal to know well…
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