Album Reviews – Page 246

Moving Structures – Awake

Released in the middle of 2016, Awake, the debut album from Los Angeles-based Moving Structures, is a concept album that begins with a burial at sea and ends with an ascension to a higher plane. Whoa! From the website:- “The…

Wingfield Reuter Stavi Sirkis – The Stone House

That these four musicians got together and recorded this nigh on hour-long excursion into stellar improvisation with no rehearsal beforehand is frankly astonishing. Then again, given the calibre of the musicians involved it is almost to be expected. Three of…

Big Big Train – A Stone’s Throw From The Line

Difficult. A favoured band, gigs I actually attended, and memories that resurface with the playing of the album. Well, I could gush, wallow, say how beautiful it is, or I could attempt to be neutral – at least until the…

Steve Hackett – The Night Siren

Steve Hackett is not a man to rest on his laurels or use his illustrious past as a member of Genesis in an exploitative manner, thankfully that is because on this, his 25th solo album, The Night Siren, he has…

Morning Mode – Short Story EP

Post Rock seems to be a popular genre these days, at least by the numbers of releases, but as is often the case, plenty of uninspiring releases overwhelm the market making it hard to find the few real gems –…

Il Rumore Bianco – Antropocene

There are a number of young Italian bands around at the moment who are starting to develop a good reputation in 21st Century progressive rock. Il Rumore Bianco (White Noise), who hail from Verona, is one such band. When one…

Orange Clocks – Tope’s Sphere 2

Tope poked his head above the parapet of the Rushden of Iniquity and spied a hole in space…you know, one of those left by Fohat. This being East Northants, a place where they still practice the Olde Religion, Tope saw…

Fairport Convention – 50:50@50

If there was any justice – and music taste – in the world, Fairport Convention would be treated in the U.K. with the same reverence as, say, The Band in the U.S. After all, they have been with us for…

Blackfield – Blackfield V

If you are reading this then Blackfield, the well-known collaborative project between Steven Wilson and Israeli artist Aviv Geffen, probably need little or no introduction. There have been four albums previously, the last two, Welcome to my DNA and IV…

Eclection – Eclection

This album is a real throwback to the late 1960s. Eclection made their first public appearance supporting Tom Paxton at the Royal Festival Hall in 1967. Their debut album was originally released on the Elektra Records label in 1968, amidst…

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