Album Reviews – Page 285

Tin Spirits – Scorch

Swindon band Tin Spirits return with their second album to the introductory slowed down sound of a match being struck and then burning, an aural image that is repeated in the visual of the cover artwork. Carnivore then lumbers in…

Kaipa – Sattyg

An introspective intro leaps into heartfelt exaltations from Aleena Gibson at the top of her range, echoing as if across a silent Scandinavian lake at dusk, and we’re off into a rampaging instrumental overture to open the seventh album from…

The Mercury Tree – Countenance

Ben Spees, guitarist and keyboard player and vocalist with eclectic Portland, Oregon band The Mercury Tree describes Countenance as being “stylistically all over the map” and he is right. Being “all over the map” might often be a phrase used…

Manning – Akoustik #2

The last few years seem to have taken on a more reflective stance for Guy Manning with two acoustic albums, re-visiting previously released works and last year’s studio release, The Root, The Leaf And The Bone, being the only new…

Yes – Relayer | Remixed & Expanded by Steven Wilson (2014)

This will be a brief review of the album as there are already far too many words out there about Yes’s most progressive work. Ah, I see the old trick of starting off with a mildly controversial statement worked, you’re…

Pearls Of Swines – Pearls Of Swines

The last album I reviewed that involved the ever-busy and highly talented eclectic bass wrangler Frederick Galiay was Apokálupsis by Big (drum&bass), but Pearls Of Swines could not be more different. Apokálupsis was a strange and hard to like “deeply…

Pink Floyd – The Endless River

It was during the recording of Pink Floyd’s last album “The Division Bell” back in ’94 that they also recorded a number of pieces for an unfinished ambient album that went under the working title of The Big Spliff. These…

Juha Kujanpää – Kivenpyörittäjä | Tales And Travels

Kivenpyörittäjä (Tales And Travels) was released this time last year and you could well be forgiven for not coming across this album in your travels. Had I not received an email from Juha himself asking if we would be interested…

Wrupk Urei – Kõik Saab Korda

In a departure for AltrOck, a label normally associated with the more avant end of the progressive spectrum, Estonian band Wrupk Urei have crafted a highly individual instrumental palette that dips its brush into space rock, or possibly inner-space rock,…

Help Yourself – Reaffirmation: An Anthology 1971-1973

Esoteric Recordings have come up trumps with this delightful career-spanning retrospective of English band Help Yourself. Featuring tracks from all four of the group’s studio albums issued during the band’s short lifespan, plus singles and rare live cuts, Reaffirmation does…

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