From New York City, The Knells do ‘art rock’ in their own inimitable fashion. It’s a deft mix of instrumentation and voices, the coup de gras coming from the latter, a fascinating trio of female vocalists singing in complementary classical…
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This is a 2017 Esoteric remastered reissue of three albums that made up the ‘Art in Music Trilogy’ from 1999, these were The Sculptor, The Artist and Sketches, and although each stands alone they are thematically linked in that each…
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I’m lucky and musically I’m in a good place. I am trying to cut down on carbohydrates, though. I may even be slightly obsessed with my craving for yummy food. I’m lucky to be writing album reviews for The Progressive…
View More Sweet Synth Prince – Sweet Synth Prince
It is good to see a new album from Dusan Jevtovic, some four years on from the rather feisty Am I Walking Wrong? A truly multi-national project, this recording shows what can be done in the spirit of international co-operation…
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Imagine that Lady Gaga and Alice Cooper collaborated with the creative minds behind American Horror Story on a musical retelling of Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland. You’ve just imagined The Rabbit Hole — the sophomore album by Swedish “progressive death…
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I am, as any who read my reviews will know, something of a Tangerine Dream aficionado and have rather a substantial collection of all the Virgin and Jive Electro era releases by this very fine band. In addition, I also…
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There is a curious bitter sweetness in the Melancholy in which we clothe ourselves at times. Paradoxically, it is the great intensity of Love which inspires great creativity when that Love is lost. Loss affects us all in different ways…
View More Fish on Friday – Quiet Life
Lighthouse is a companion album to the mighty fine The Stone House, released earlier in the year but actually recorded before it during a marathon session in 2016, from which three albums will eventually emerge blinking into the uncaring daylight.…
View More Wingfield Reuter Sirkis – Lighthouse
In 2015 I reviewed, in some depth, King Of Agogik’s Exlex Beats, the studio project of drummer and multi-instrumentalist Hans Jörg Schmitz. An enjoyable release if not a tad overlong in my humble opinion. Morning Star, albeit about five or…
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Apollo, the Greek God of many aspects including music, truth, and light, being a beardless and athletic youth may not have approved of his hirsute sons (well, at least Billy Sheehan and Derek Sherinian have had a haircut), but his…
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