Exploring Birdsong have been knocking around since 2017 – indeed, this reviewer distinctly remembers them appearing at a Summer’s End Festival in Chepstow around that time with an intriguing and rather folky performance. Soon after they released their distinctive version…
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I will admit to being more than a bit chuffed when Malcolm Galloway of Hats Off Gentlemen Its Adequate offered early access to the band’s ninth and newest album, Parallel Lives. There’s always that moment of “what will I do…
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Also Eden released the excellent Holy Books and Credit Cards 1: Promises EP earlier this year, and they now follow up with the second of three planned EP’s in 2026. The band described their first EP as ‘a series of…
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To state the obvious, John Greenwood has not taken the typical path to becoming a prog rock guitar hero. Having grown up in Manchester, UK, where he studied medicine and finished training in plastic surgery, he and his family subsequently…
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When I discovered Mohini Dey a little less than a year ago and reviewed her fiery self-titled debut, I stated that “If she has started as she means to continue, then I cannot wait to see what comes next.” Since…
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Elder recently released their impressive seventh album Through Zero, a darkly atmospheric album filled with layers of sound. Elder originated in Massachusetts in around 2005/6, and have released a series of albums moving from heavy stoner rock into releases characterised…
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Atomic Rooster emerged from the ashes of The Crazy World of Arthur Brown when Vincent Crane and Carl Palmer regrouped to record the band’s 1970 debut. Nick Graham joined on bass, vocals and flute, though his tenure was brief, and…
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With an NWOBHM-shaped hole in my life after reviewing Holocaust’s second boxset and interviewing guitarist John Mortimer, I was only too pleased to find out that another British hard rock band from the early 80s was getting a box set,…
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This album, Refractions by Cornelius, aka Keigo Oyamada, the Japanese guitarist and producer, lies at the very edge of the progressive rock world as we know it, and possibly even just outside it. However, sometimes our aural comfort zone needs…
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My favourite Cherry Red compilations are those that cover a scene as opposed to a particular artist. A Strange Light From The East, subtitled Eastern Influenced Western Music 1965-72, is a romp through the introduction of Indian sounds, the sitar…
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