When we last left our intrepid instrumental road warriors, Marbin was stranded in the rural Tennessee compound of some seriously Aggressive Hippies. Now the finale of that nail-biting cliffhanger has been scored with the album-closing track Escape From Hippie Mountain.…
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Honesty is best. I liked the cover of Magnolia, I didn’t dislike the songs, but the music did not touch the nerve that goes ‘Woo Hoo’! Why not? Shrug! This time however, the spark is there. Okay, it sounds like,…
View More The Pineapple Thief – Your Wilderness
At the Summer’s End Festival in 2014, Verbal Delirium proved to be an unexpected treat. During that show their singer and leader, who goes by the name of Jargon (not sure what his Mum thinks of that), delivered a compelling…
View More Verbal Delirium – The Imprisoned Words Of Fear
Craig Fortnam’s North Sea Radio Orchestra produce music of elegiac beauty, a sound that is both joyous and reverential, and uplifting to the spirit. It comes as no surprise then to learn that a fair proportion of their intermittent gigs…
View More North Sea Radio Orchestra – Dronne
Remember Dust in the Wind and Carry on My Wayward Son? The million selling, golden songs of a garage band from Topeka, Kansas. They also penned a song called The Wall three years before Pink Floyd took the concept to…
View More Kansas – The Prelude Implicit
Crimson Stone is the latest album by the recently reformed Welsh band Multi Story who originated in the early ’80s, at the same time as the rise of other newer Prog bands, such as Marillion, IQ, Pallas, Pendragon and Twelfth…
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Sometimes people assume progressive rock should be ever-changing, always experimental and constantly ground-breaking. But sometimes, when you’re lying in your bed with a book to read and a cup of tea, and when you’re not in the mood for listening…
View More Favni – Windswept
Theocracy is back! Matt Smith founded christian progressive power metal band Theocracy in Athens, Georgia in 2002, originally as a one-man project with Smith playing and singing all the parts, but it is now a full quintet. Their last album,…
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Rejoice, for there is new music from Half Past Four in the world! Not so smartly on the heels of their two previous albums, Rabbit In The Vestibule (2008) and Good Things (2013), we have a new EP in the…
View More Half Past Four – Land of the Blind EP
Many weeks ago on Mr Elvin’s Facebook page he was delivering cut up missives as status updates, such as “Tryptamine vandals in shattered clogs haunt the Derricks now. Here-a-dog, there-a-dog, their vaunted sunpower flees. The ghost of Polycarp, slackjawed, brings…
View More Emmett Elvin – Assault on the Tyranny of Reason