There is something irresistibly infectious about Poets of the Fall. I had the pleasure of meeting the band in Berlin in 2012 as part of the Temple of Thought tour, courtesy of my then teenage son who’s fanatical passion for…
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Everyone knows the old adage of not judging a book by its cover, but you can certainly infer a lot about an album by its cover art. Before I’d even listened to a note of Mental Fracture’s debut album, Disaccord,…
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Following the recent release of his remarkable cover of Lou Reed’s classic The Power of the Heart the charismatic French Canadian post rock artist, Alex Henry Foster, returns to the U.K. this June for his ‘Not All Wonder Have Been…
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Featured artists: Dirty Shirt | I Built The Sky | Jean Pascal Boffo | Dopapod | Daniel Crommie & Leslie Gray ||: Continuing the theme of the previous ADA update (#81), we continue with five contrasting releases highlighting a ‘broad…
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Serendipity! No sooner had I finished my review of Amanda’s Weltenraum – in which I lamented that the similar retro-prog act Astra had been offline for a decade – than I discovered Astra had been revived… sort of. Astra released…
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Introducing Amanda. Here are a bunch of Austrians that must have sat down and listened to Shine on You Crazy Diamond and thought, “That sounds bloody nice!”. The title of this album loosely translates to “Space” and so it shouldn’t…
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Songwriter and composer Richard Wileman released fourteen albums under the Karda Estra name before commencing on a solo career that is now three albums old, the latest being Arcana in 2020, with a collaboration with Matt Baber of Sanguine Hum…
View More Karda Estra – Alternate History Vol. 2
With the simultaneous explosion of popularity in both video games and streaming, the phenomenon of speedrunning has never been more popular than it is now, with pro speedrunners streaming their attempts live for curious fans to watch at home. Speedrunning…
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Enjoyable and diverse instrumental debut solo album from guitarist and songwriter Steve Anderson of The Room. A journeyman is the term given to a craftsman who is between an apprentice and a master craftsman. It is therefore a suitably modest…
View More Journeyman’s Progress – Journeyman’s Progress Part One [plus interview with Steve Anderson]
Knekklectric are another fantastic find from Bergen, Norway. It seems to be a hotbed of creativity, and this is a delight. Alt Blir Verre (Everything Gets Worse) is their third full album, and I can confidently confirm that the sentiment…
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