This is The Gift in their third incarnation on their third album. Why the Sea is Salt is both exhilarating and challenging as the band, and audience to a degree, step out of their respective comfort zones. The writing team…
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Boston band Bent Knee are the current rising stars of the new progressive scene in the USA and are lauded, rightly so it must be said, for bringing a much needed blast of energy and youthful enthusiasm to the alternative…
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The seemingly innocuous appearance of Barack Obama’s voice at the start of Another Hope is a pivotal and profoundly brilliant seminal moment for this exceptional third solo album from Dec Burke. Taken from his New Hampshire primary speech in 2008,…
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After Van der Graaf Generator split up following the release of Pawn Hearts, and while Peter Hammill was off pursuing his solo career, the other three in the band formed an occasional instrumental side project by the name of The…
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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,…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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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