Time is not, as popular legend now has it, a big ball of wibbly wobbly timey wimey stuff. Rather, time is actually that which is needed for things to change. It speaks of movement from the past, into the present,…
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It’s rather nice to welcome Flamborough Head back with this new album, Jumping The Milestone. The last album, Lost In Time was released nine years ago. In the intervening years, the band have undergone line-up changes, and were of course…
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“behind closed doors is an instrumental trio from the Netherlands, Germany and Sweden. Their amalgam of guitars, bass and drums, at times enriched with synths and a classical string quartet, creates a unique sonic image that embraces ferocious heaviness as…
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The prolific The Samurai of Prog, along with its many offshoots, are certainly on a roll. If, for the moment, we set aside the half-a-dozen albums produced since 2020 by the TSoP collective, we also have six collaborative albums from…
View More Pacha & Pörsti – Views From the Inner World
Dave Kerzner writes prog songs with a pop sensibility. This is not to say you’ll be hearing his music on Top 40 Radio (and more’s the shame for it), but you’ll inevitably be humming along with his tunes within seconds…
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The French progressive rock band Esthesis made quite a splash with their high quality 2020 debut album The Awakening, winning the ‘Best Unsigned Act’ in the Prog Magazine Readers Poll, and they have recently returned with second album Watching Worlds…
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“What’s the Australian equivalent of Close to the Edge?” is a question you’ve probably never asked yourself, although you might be curious about it now that you’ve read this sentence. The answer is almost certainly this very album, which I…
View More Sebastian Hardie – Four Moments
As a lover of progressive rock music and an occasional reviewer, it is always a real pleasure to ‘take the road less travelled’ and explore less well-known prog rock bands and artists. The likes of Bandcamp, internet radio and smaller,…
View More Straight Light – Archaeology
O.R.k.’s last album, Ramagehead, was one of my favourite records of 2019, so I have been eagerly awaiting their latest offering since it was first announced. Their previous effort included a track with guest vocals from System Of A Down’s…
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Compelling and intriguing are the first thoughts that come to mind when I recall my introduction to the music of the German band Starfish64. It was 2018 with the release of The Future in Reverse, that I found to be…
View More Starfish64 – Scattered Pieces of Blue