Album Reviews – Page 245

Odd Logic – Effigy

I found this band from the Bremerton/Tacoma area of Washington state on CD Baby one night while searching for some new music and, so far, it has been the best discovery I have made in 2017 – they are excellent!…

White Willow – Future Hopes

In a career that has so far spanned over twenty years, from their debut Ingis Fatuus in 1995 through to 2011’s acclaimed Terminal Twilight we are now ready to receive the seventh offering from White Willow, Future Hopes. From prog/folk…

RIVIẼRE – Heal

RIVIẼRE’s debut album, Heal, is one whose sounds bring to life its name and that of the band. It cradles and heals, it flows like a river. It is very solid post prog metal (in that order) and well worth…

Freedom Fuel – Happy People

HERE’S how we roll at TPA – our editor offers up tasty morsels of all the new releases and we fall upon them like ravenous prog vultures, before deciding whether to scoff the entire meal. On this occasion, he dangled…

All Them Witches – Sleeping Through The War

Occasionally we need bands that slap us out of our complacency, that reset our expectations, that demonstrate that individuality is still an attainable trait. All Them Witches accomplish this effortlessly. Their sound is an organic melting pot that spans genres…

Shamblemaths – Shamblemaths

Further proof to my contention that everyone in Scandinavia is in, or has been in a band is offered by the glorious duo Shamblemaths, who hail almost inevitably from Trondheim in Norway. Simen Å. Ellingsen on guitars, saxophones and vocals…

Drifting Sun – On The Rebound (2016 Remix)

The Charade opens with almost a Travis-like melody – prog Travis? The instruments are better defined and clearer, the balance between vocal and instrumental favouring the musical passages, and, if anything, it sounds more French on this 2016 remix of…

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