A Deal with the Devil is the central theme to the Christopher Marlowe play ‘Dr.Faustus’, and Amplifier main man Sel Balamir in his inimitable style explores the relationship between Man and the ’ultimate baddy’ in their most recent album… at…
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This 5CD clamshell box set, reissued by Esoteric Recordings this year, consists of one of the most legendary bands to come out of the West Coast psychedelic scene, Spirit. Formed from the Red Roosters in 1967, Spirit often flew under…
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Ring Van Möbius come from Kopervik, which is situated on the west coast of Norway, and they are about to unleash their debut album Past The Evening Sun. The band is a sort of power trio, consisting in this case…
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A band hitherto unknown to me, The Monks of Doom are an intermittently active American collective formed in 1986 as a harder edged spin-off from indie stalwarts Camper van Beethoven, and here they offload their first new material in 25…
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This is an age in which a mendacious, manipulative manchild lunatic has taken over the Asylum whilst elsewhere a blackened, ruined stump of a Tower shamefully overshadows a nation that’s lost its moral compass, amidst the stench and filth of…
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I have been a fan of The Innocence Mission since the early 1990s. I have most of their CDs and love Glow, My Room in the Trees, and Now the Day is Over, so when I heard that their new…
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The instant I saw this title it put me in mind of Morgan Fisher’s curated compilation Miniatures. No doubt there have been other attempts at the concept. I believe The Residents tried a similar thing on their mere 40-song long…
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2018 sees Arena return with their ninth studio album, as well as a tour to commemorate the 20th anniversary of their excellent The Visitor. Arena are now three albums into their comeback with singer Paul Manzi, and it’s fair to…
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Gazpacho return with Soyuz, their tenth studio album since 2003. There really is no band quite like these Norwegian artists, distinctive, moving and haunting, each new release imbued with their unique brand of ambitious music, full of idiosyncratic themes, inventive…
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This 2-CD set consists of Sonja Kristina’s career outside of her work with both Curved Air and Mask, containing not just her solo work but various releases that she’s been involved with beyond the two bands, showing that she’s more…
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