French wonders Lazuli return with their sixth album, Nos âmes saoules, and – as with everything that this fantastic band do – I have been awaiting it eagerly. Cards on the table time: I am a huge fan. The glorious…
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Multi-instrumentalist Rikard Sjöblom has had a busy time of late, from last year’s accomplished release +4626 Comfortzone with his band Beardfish to becoming part of the U.K. progressive rock band Big Big Train for their highly successful concerts at Kings…
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The Room are a recent signing to the growing roster of Bad Elephant Music, repeated listens over the last few days would lead me to describe them as a solid rock band with elements of prog. Bedlam, for those of…
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Three years on from their first album, Lightships, London avant-folk band Firefly have struck a match and become Firefly Burning for their second album Skeleton Hill. The resulting sulphurous heat produced has warmed their sound with an added urgency and…
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Albums are offered up, reviewers dip in, taste, and then select their meal; so I got Perfect Beings. In some dark recess of cyberspace lives a record of our initial thoughts, sometimes insightful, sometimes delightful, and sometimes irrationally judgemental. We…
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What is Constant is the second full album outing for Japanese Prog 4-piece instrumental outfit PTF who feature keys, drums, bass and violin. The album opens with an odd melange of styles in Time Lapse, the title perhaps suggesting that…
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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…
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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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