Two-and-a-half years after DBA enthralled melodic rock fans with their tremendous fourth album, the bucolic Halcyon Hymns, they return to our CD players and turntables with their latest effort, Celestial Songs. Dave Bainbridge, Andy Hodge and Ash Soan are on…
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Hey, maaan. We’re putting on our multi-coloured bell-bottoms and phosphorescent tie-dyes, daubing our faces with day-glo paint and dropping acid here at TPA in preparation for 90-minutes of British psychedelic rock. Hang out, just been told we’re out of acid…
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Grab your favourite tipple, turn the lights down, and soak up a session of amongst the best Soft Machine material in years. It’s been five years since their last album, the well-received Hidden Details, and as the band approach 60 years…
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So, The Flower Kings unleashed album number sixteen, Look At You Now, on 8
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Lately it seems that the reimagining of classic albums is in vogue (see the recent TPA reviews of Pink Floyd reimaginings). Rarely, in my opinion, do these albums stray from the original template, something that would be difficult considering how…
View More Various Artists – Abbey Road Reimagined
The Id have been making music as a band since 2016. They work remotely on different continents and the band members are all involved in multiple collaborative and solo projects. Drummer Mark Murdock has a background in jazz fusion, also…
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Randy George is probably best known as the go-to bassist for Neal Morse, but if that is all you know about the man, you are selling yourself short. As the bassist/multi-instrumentalist for Ajalon, he helped to elevate Christian progressive rock…
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Devin Townsend is a one-of-a-kind force of nature. The man’s mind is a maze of wild concepts and wacky ideas, giving birth to songs only Devin could concoct. His albums continually evolve and just as you think you have a…
View More Devin Townsend – Devolution Volume 3: Empath Live in America
Unitopia are back with their first new studio album since 2012, the expansive Seven Chambers, a double album partly inspired by personal adversity for the artists. The title is a poetic reference to the human heart, reflecting both the literal…
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Someone recently described Marc Atkinson as the ‘man with the golden voice’. Not a hint at the next Bond (though he is ably assisted on backing vocals by his very own Bond girl Tamsin Wonderland), but a very apt description…
View More Marc Atkinson – Heart & Soul