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…
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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…
View More The Who – WHO
Recently I reviewed the new compilation album from K+K-tactics. The duo described their music as drum and bass, but this is literally a description of the two main instruments, and usually sole instruments, played. That said, I was still able…
View More Nerve – Music For Sharks
Well that was interesting. I had to check I was listening to the right thing, so much has the sound of Maquinas changed since last I heard them on 2016’s Lado Turvo, Lugares Inquietos. The band did release a collaboration…
View More Maquinas – O Cão de Toda Noite
Aadal are an instrumental jazz band from Norway who, according to the PR sheet which accompanied the album, have clear references to Americana. This was a description that didn’t sound particularly appealing to me, and it was the addition of…
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Back in 2017, Nick Barrett posted a blog entry about the process of writing and how a deep personal engagement with his material meant he couldn’t simply churn out albums to order. Reflecting on the recent passing of his father,…
View More Pendragon – Love Over Fear