Album Reviews – Page 55

Anthony Phillips – Slow Dance [2 CD Edition]

Anthony Phillips has had a long and varied career. From his stint as the original guitarist for Genesis, to his instrumental-heavy Private Parts and Pieces series, to his song-centred masterworks, and even his library pieces of music composed for film…

Rick Wakeman – Live at the London Palladium 2023 [4CD Box Set]

Cards on the table first: Up until 1977, and the release of Yes’s Going for the One, when I was 13 years old, my collection of ‘new’ LPs consisted solely of the first four of Rick Wakeman’s solo albums. I…

Family – It’s Only A Movie

The liner notes for this new reissue of Family’s 1973 album It’s Only A Movie begins with this sentence: “Whenever a reissue series covers a highly respected band […] there is always an awareness of when the releases stop, and…

Caligula’s Horse – Charcoal Grace

2020 was a strange year, the pandemic and the worldwide lockdown that ensued put everything on pause and ushered in a sense of uncertainty and some real existential dread, particularly for musicians. There has been a glut of lockdown albums,…

Some of the Best of 2023

Happy New Year! Hopefully 2023 treated you well. In most respects it was a step further along the road to getting back to whatever normal is/was, but the world still feels like a different place these days. As ever, a…

A Different Aspect #92

Featured artists: Cédric Theys | Great North Star | Siobhan McCrudden with Grice Peters | Daniel Crommie | Exowst Scotland Rounding off the ADA section for 2023 we have five bite-sized reviews taking a snapshot of just some of the…

PoiL Ueda – Yoshitsune

Eight months to the day after the release of the fantastic collaborative album from PoiL Ueda, a second volume has arrived, entitled Yoshitsune. The initial release is hands down my favourite of 2023, underlined by the two shows I saw…

David Cross Band – Ice Blue, Silver Sky

If you know your lyrics, then the title of this record gives a clue as to its heritage, although opener Nurse Insane charges out of the traps with its prog metal armour shining in the half-light, to throw you off…

Moon Safari – Himlabacken Vol.2

“Welcome back to Heaven Hill. Same old sounds, same old thrills.” Thus sing the band from Skellefteå, Sweden to open their new album, Himlabacken Vol.2, released on 8th December 2023 by their own label, Blomljud Records. If those lyrics sound…

Dandelion Charm – Scream Inside The Tear

Four years on from their last full length album, Newhaven duo Dandelion Charm return with album number three, Scream Inside the Tear. Although primarily a duo, DC are in every respect a band delivering a rich blend progressive folk rock,…

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