Album Reviews – Page 213

Hely – Borderland

Swiss piano and drums duo Hely are Lucca Fries and Jonas Ruther. Their third album, Borderland, has been brewing for a number of years, but it’s conception took a mere two days to complete. Ostensibly this is a jazz styled…

Frequency Drift – Letters to Maro

Frequency Drift return with their latest album, Letters to Maro. The band was formed in Bayreuth, Germany by classically trained keyboard player and multi-instrumentalist Andreas Hack, releasing their debut Personal Effects, Part 1 in 2008 followed by a list of…

Fractal Mirror – Close to Vapour

This is the fourth release from Dutch based Fractal Mirror, their first for Bad Elephant Music – it’s actually the first that I’ve had the pleasure to listen to, and I have to say it’s a good one. I acknowledge…

Mothertongue – Where The Moonlight Snows

The secret love child of a four-way that starred Michael & John Head, Paddy MacAloon, and Andy Partridge, Mothertongue make the kind of classy pop that yours truly has always been a sucker for, way back into the last century,…

Weend’ô – Time of Awakening

Music always has the ability to affect emotions, but although those moments are quite far between surprises happen. I first heard Weend’ô (pronounced ‘Window’, it’s Japanese) at the Summer’s End festival in Chepstow last year, and as seems to be…

Professor Caffeine & the Insecurities – Video Game [EP]

Never judge a band by their name, as on the surface Professor Caffeine & the Insecurities is something I would have expected to discover through fellow TPA co-conspirator Roger Trenwith. Alas this rather spiky edged ensemble have stuck marshmallows on…

Jonathan Wilson – Rare Birds

I have been a fan of Jonathan Wilson ever since hearing his first album Gentle Spirit, released back in August 2011, and timed perfectly during a very difficult period for me – it’s an album that helped me get through…

Procol Harum – Still There’ll Be More: An Anthology 1967-2017

In the 2012 foreword notes of Henry Scott-Irvine’s amazing book Procol Harum: The Ghosts Of A Whiter Shade Of Pale, film maker Martin Scorsese describes the band in this way; “Procol Harum’s music drew from so many deep wells –…

Richard Wileman – Veil

Released in late summer last year, the Ghost EP was the briefest of calling cards to mark the start of Richard Wileman’s musical career outside the Karda Estra brand, within which he has worked for the last 20 years. This…

Camembert – Negative Toe

The excellent cheese-rock that is not cheesy in the slightest of French troubadours Camembert returns with a delightfully skewiff trip along the blue lines and down into the holes entitled Negative Toe. Not as immediate as their debut Schnörgl Attahk,…

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