Grand Tour’s Clocks That Tick (But Never Talk) follows up their outstanding post-apocalyptic 2015 release Heavy On The Beach with an album inspired by Hew Montgomery’s career in Mental Health services, combined with his interest in conspiracy theories, particularly the…
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[Warning: This review may contain some utter bollocks based on a limited understanding of musical theory. Strap yourself in, I may turn this thing over.] “… synthetic sounds, and a newly expanded line-up, we’ve tried to craft something that’s beautiful…
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Progressive metal is enjoying something of a spectacular resurgence. Whether the sheer scale of the output from progressive metal bands, both established as well as new, is entirely healthy remains to be seen. What is undoubtedly true, however, is that…
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‘Sooner or Later the World will Wake Up’ – the first spoken words by Satish Kumar on Planetary Overload Part 1: Loss, the second ambitious album from the United Progressive Fraternity, sum up the hope that inspires this release. As…
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Slightly delayed, but only by a few months, is the concluding part of Neil Campbell’s ambitious ‘Global Flood Trilogy’ album releases. Initially all three titles were scheduled for 2018, however Last Year’s News was slightly delayed and therefore made the…
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Danish art-rock band Liserstille’s eighth album, Ilt, is a binaural recording of a live composition piece that unfolded over the course of six days with the recording taking place. As such, track names are more accurately thought of as movements…
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Under Stars is the third album from John Mitchell project Lonely Robot, diversifying from his impressive career as guitarist, producer and vocalist with bands such as It Bites, Frost*, Arena and Kino. Using the ‘Astronaut’ central character as an observer,…
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You can skip this ad in 3,2,1, etc., but a worthy shout out must go to Esoteric Recordings and label manager Mark Powell for finding and presenting stuff that to many have been consigned to dusty lofts or car boot…
View More Greenslade – Time And Tide (Remastered & Expanded Edition)
Debuting in 2015 with their critically acclaimed album Hyedology, Symphony of Pain (vocalist Tracie Laws and classically trained multi-instrumentalist Pam Chowhan) return with their follow up album, Virology, a darker, harder and more powerful beast of an album. This time,…
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Sometimes life gets in the way of completing reviews, the growing pile needing your attention, but in this case just playing the album, enjoying it, means kind of forgetting that you need to make some notes. Yep that’s the case…
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