Listening to the Grapefruit label’s compilations of seminal years in rock is a lot like reading a history book. Much of it is boring and forgettable, some of it piques your interest, and occasionally there is something that just gobsmacks…
View More Various Artists – Can’t Seem To Come Down – The American Sounds Of 1968
Nefarious Industries’ describe themselves on their Bandcamp page as: “(an) independent label & music collective extending its tentacles into far-flung regions of the musical spectrum… …home to crime, slime & grime since 2010”. Home to crime? Isn’t that prison? And…
View More Nefarious Industries – Burn After Hearing
This release caught my attention primarily because of some of the musicians and singers featured on it, and Todd Rundgren being involved was certainly a huge personal bonus for me. It is, as the title implies, a ‘tribute’ project to…
View More Various Artists – Reimagining The Court Of The Crimson King
The California music vibe came to prominence in the sixties and seventies. Like most scenes, it fed on itself, sucking in and spitting out artists at a relentless pace. One of the hippest places to be at the time was…
View More Various Artists – I See You Live On Love Street – Music From Laurel Canyon 1967-1975
The late ’70s and early ’80s has been a fertile era for Cherry Red Records, with releases covering the heydays of various genres of music that rode the wave of the commercial and creative booms for popular music at that…
View More Various Artists – New Guitars in Town: Power Pop 1978 – 1982 [3CD Boxset]
Having recently enjoyed the 3CD Beatles covers box set We Can Work it Out, I decided to give Patterns on the Window – which is presented in a very similar format – a try. The subtitle is The British Progressive…
View More Various Artists – Patterns on the Window: The British Progressive Pop Sounds of 1974 [3CD Boxset]
TPA / The Prog Mill – Infinity Special, with guest host Leo Trimming. Over the course of two hours of superb music we explore the mysterious subject of ‘Infinity’, including an extended segued song cycle connected to the concept, threaded…
View More Infinity Special on The Prog Mill [Audio Feature]
As a reviewer, wrapping your head around new music and finding the words to explain it can be exhausting, especially if the music in question is no bueno. It helps when there are already some assurances of quality, and this…
View More Various Artists – We Can Work It Out: Covers of the Beatles, 1962 – 1966 [3CD Box Set]
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…
View More Various Artists – When the Alarm Clock Rings
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