For their sixth album in eight years – which is almost approaching Steve Hackett in productivity – Spock’s Beard spin-off Pattern-Seeking Animals may well have found the perfect balance between progressive rock complexity and melodic accessibility. Grimalkin is an album…
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Nazareth, one of Scotland’s finest exports, were surely one of the hardest working in the Seventies. They spent most of the first half of that decade achieving some tangible success culminating with Hair of the Dog, their best selling album…
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2025’s release of Gentō by Steve Rothery’s other recent side project, Bioscope, with Alex Reeves and Torsten Quaeschning, was an ambient/electronic/cinematic masterpiece that gave emphasis to how versatile and experimental he can be outside of his day-job with Marillion. The…
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If you follow Hawkwind closely, you’ll know their archive is rich with live recordings, many of which have surfaced as official releases over the decades. Even so, this new issue from Cherry Red Records stands apart. Captured at Queen’s Hall,…
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Eighteen seconds into ᎠᏌᏃ ᎩᎦᎨ (The Red Dress), something vaguely familiar catches your attention. A sound you feel you know: a voice, a flute, definitely something human, but gone before you can actually put your finger on it. It returns…
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Sir Steven Wilson (surely he should have been knighted by now for services to music?) did a brilliant job resurrecting and repackaging Jethro Tull’s classic albums, the ones that made us fans fall in love with them, but bowed out…
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As I said before in my review of We Can Work It Out: Covers of the Beatles, 1962 – 1966, Beatles music is like comfort food to me, and I’ll always be fascinated to hear other musicians’ takes on the…
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Hailing from Melbourne, with over 10 years’ experience of performing in and around the local music and club scene, PSI PHI (pronounced sci-fi) have now released their self-titled debut album. This set of songs was recorded over a single weekend…
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The release of Advent Horizon’s fourth album, Falling Together, finds the band in an introspective mood. If you think that translates to sappy ballads and mordant MOR, you would be wrong. As heavy as any of their previous releases musically,…
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As a film lover, I’ve long admired Werner Herzog’s astounding and often bizarre catalogue, ranging from fever-dream-like tales such as Aguirre, the Wrath of God to tributes like Nosferatu the Vampyre and unbelievable jaw-dropping visuals such as the famous hauling…
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