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A Different Aspect #2 – May 2016

In this update we feature:- David Kollar – The Son Circus Maximus – Havoc Celestial Teapot – One Big Sky Térébenthine – Térébenthine Toxic Smile – Farewell Hello readers, and welcome to the second edition of our occasional series A…

New Keepers Of The Water Towers – Infernal Machine

Over the years I have developed an occasional hankering for the more obscure end of the vast metal scene, one supposes it is Dark or Black Metal, frankly I don’t care, I just like the portentousness of it all when…

Three Trapped Tigers – Silent Earthling

“TTT is at the cutting edge of contemporary music. Watch your fingers!” – Brian Eno When Eno says something like that you’d do well to listen. Three Trapped Tigers are an instrumental noise-rock trio from London. This description does not…

Iamthemorning – Lighthouse

It doesn’t seem any time at all since Belighted, Iamthemorning have been added to the dictionary and no longer cause spellchecker to throw a wobbly (not that it needs much encouragement). I love Belighted, easily in my top ten for…

Hawkwind – The Machine Stops

This album is like a breath of fresh patchouli’d air wafting unannounced across your nostrils from a wormhole connecting to an alternate universe where Hawkwind are still narrating imminent Sonic Attack. One is transported back to a lysergic wasteland of…

The Samurai of Prog – Lost and Found

This is my second encounter with The Samurai of Prog, the first being three years ago when I reviewed their second album, Secrets of Disguise, largely a cover album which didn’t bring very much to the songs it covered. Indeed,…

Stu Nicholson – Galahad

Longevity isn’t a dirty word in the music business. Neither is prog for that matter. Galahad are both. A band which has had over thirty members passing through its ranks since its inception back in the mid-eighties, singer Stuart Nicholson…

Katatonia – The Fall of Hearts

Progressive music is profoundly existential. Not only does it capture the spirit of our time, it also resonates with crystal clarity in the generations who live in and through those times. For many of us prog, in particular, is a…

Messenger – Threnodies

When Romantic poets Messenger arrived on the scene in 2014 with the worshipful offering that was Illusory Blues many sat up and took notice, for here was a band out of time, a band in that old post-hippy mystic sense,…

Tony Patterson – Equations of Meaning

I first heard Tony Patterson with Brendan Eyre on the album Northlands, a texture rich canvas of musical filmscapes reflecting on their Northern backgrounds. I liked it very much in my Southern nancy sort of way. Well not really, the…