Album Reviews – Page 191

Wills Dissolve – The Heavens Are Not On Fire

Texas-based progressive metal band Wills Dissolve’s debut album, The Heavens are Not on Fire, is an Opethian meditation on misanthropy and religion told through the lens of a rural West Texas religious community’s reaction to the Leonid meteor storm of…

Dream Theater – Distance Over Time

Let me start by quoting the last couple of sentences from my review of 2016’s The Astonishing: “While it’s definitely the band’s most solid and consistent work for a long time, one wonders if this album is indicative of future…

Alan Emslie – Obnubilate

‘Obnubilate’: “darken or cover with or as if with a cloud; obscure” – according to the Oxford Dictionary, and just in case you were curious. Mmmm… Obscured By Clouds now there’s a thought, and although I’ve been listening to Alan…

Cheeto’s Magazine – Amazingous

This is the sort of upbeat, preppy music that I have to be in the right mood for these days, and right now as our stupid little rock whizzes round the plug hole in ever decreasing circles in a vortex…

Tim Bowness – Flowers At The Scene

I’m not going to lie, I have been a massive fan of Tim’s work since a kind friend gave me a copy of Flowermouth by No-Man back in the dim and distant ’90s, and his recent run of solo albums…

GRICE – One Thousand Birds

In 2019 Grice Peters recorded this, his third album, One Thousand Birds at Forward Studios in Rome which is due to be released on 22 March. In 2019 and 2020, Grice will be promoting his new album through live streaming…

Kinetic Element – The Face of Life

Sometimes you really have to work it, scratching beneath the surface to get the drift of what an album is really trying to say to you. At other times it comes easy and quickly. Well I have to say that…

Ruphus – New Born Day

During my time reviewing albums I have become very interested in the great music being produced by the Norwegian music scene, therefore when I saw this reissue album by the Seventies band Ruphus my curiosity was tested further. The fact…

Hedvig Mollestad Trio – Smells Funny

“Jazz isn’t dead, it just smells funny”, was one of the many inimitable one-liners from rock music’s very own Groucho Marx, Frank Zappa. I probably shouldn’t be writing this, as it’s “like dancing about architecture” apparently. Frank’s caustic description of…

The Room – Caught by the Machine

Caught by the Machine is the new album from U.K. outfit The Room, who hail from the south of England and is their first release for the White Star label, run by John Mitchell (It Bites, Kino & others). The…

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