I’ve gotta say, I was pretty disappointed when I heard the opening notes of Captain Boogaloo, the initial track on this album. Cheesy, saccharine and utterly inane as this funky bit of fluff was, I really thought I’d picked up…
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I’m listening to Isaac Vacuum’s eponymously entitled EP. Based in Krefeld, Germany, Isaac Vacuum describe themselves as Post Rock. I’m not sure what that is, but they manage to put together something that sounds as menacing as your yardstick for…
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Whilst searching and compiling articles for the TPA News last year, I stumbled across an interesting item pertaining to the discovery of a very early recording from Keith Emerson, who, along with Godfrey Sheppard on upright bass and drummer David…
View More The Keith Emerson Trio – The Keith Emerson Trio
What’s in a name? Well, if you call yourself Pandora Snail quite a lot I’d say. This is a name that does nothing to aid the cause of these Russian musicians, which is a real shame. I get the “Pandora’s…
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Of late there have been a raft of reissued, re-mastered albums from the “golden” prog years of the Seventies which allows the collector to increase their stash, or allow the newer fan to see what all the fuss was about.…
View More The Tirith – Tales From The Tower
Describing Do Nothing Till You Hear From Me as “a rather disgruntled rant at the dystopia we’ve created for ourselves and our children”, founder Nick Beggs barely scratches the surface of a début album whose tracks are a bold, moody…
View More The Mute Gods – Do Nothing Till You Hear From Me
Bad Elephant Music have fresh act with a new release, and what a signing this is! Martin Hutchinson (Head of Sales, Marketing and PR for Bad Elephant) says of the album: “It isn’t for the faint hearted but (it’s) bloody…
View More N.y.X – The News
Divide is a fascinating musical journey which is powerfully melodic and enjoyably addictive. There is a direct and refreshing honesty at work throughout the album creating vivid musical landscapes which are captivating, exciting and intense. The progressive voyage on which…
View More Seven Second Circle – Divide
Three years after 2012’s Quickly, Quickly, Quickly, a rather lopsided release dominated by a somewhat disjointed sprawling epic, and an album that seemed to let its sheer ambition get the better of it, these New Jersey nu-proggers by the name…
View More The Tea Club – Grappling
Big in Norway, Susanne Sundfør has been a darling of the highest reaches of the Scandinavian charts for several years. Lesser known in the UK, this mostly but not exclusively synth-pop album may well bring her a deservedly larger audience.…
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