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Emmett Elvin – Bloody Marvels

Emmett Elvin must slice himself very finely to get enough time to be part of Guapo, Knifeworld, Chrome Hoof and others as well as attend to his artwork. Most will be aware of him via his keyboard contributions to the…

Luna Rossa – Secrets & Lies

Great music is simply great music no matter what label or genre tag you apply to it so we’ll be having none of that “but is it Prog?” debate with this one! A side project for Anne-Marie Helder and Jonathan…

Lazuli & Moon Safari

With many thanks to Martin Reijman for his photos. [You can view more of his images at www.martinreijmanimages.com] The Globe, Cardiff 27th November 2014 There are plenty of extraordinarily good bands of real quality around at the moment but there…

Tin Spirits – Scorch

Swindon band Tin Spirits return with their second album to the introductory slowed down sound of a match being struck and then burning, an aural image that is repeated in the visual of the cover artwork. Carnivore then lumbers in…

A Celebration Of Lindsay Cooper

Barbican Hall, London 21st November 2014 An unfortunate combination of our navigational failings and a signal failure on the Circle Line meant we arrived at this plush central London venue about half-way through Henry Cow’s first number Half The Sky,…

Kaipa – Sattyg

An introspective intro leaps into heartfelt exaltations from Aleena Gibson at the top of her range, echoing as if across a silent Scandinavian lake at dusk, and we’re off into a rampaging instrumental overture to open the seventh album from…

The Mercury Tree – Countenance

Ben Spees, guitarist and keyboard player and vocalist with eclectic Portland, Oregon band The Mercury Tree describes Countenance as being “stylistically all over the map” and he is right. Being “all over the map” might often be a phrase used…

Manning – Akoustik #2

The last few years seem to have taken on a more reflective stance for Guy Manning with two acoustic albums, re-visiting previously released works and last year’s studio release, The Root, The Leaf And The Bone, being the only new…

Yes – Relayer | Remixed & Expanded by Steven Wilson (2014)

This will be a brief review of the album as there are already far too many words out there about Yes’s most progressive work. Ah, I see the old trick of starting off with a mildly controversial statement worked, you’re…

Pearls Of Swines – Pearls Of Swines

The last album I reviewed that involved the ever-busy and highly talented eclectic bass wrangler Frederick Galiay was Apokálupsis by Big (drum&bass), but Pearls Of Swines could not be more different. Apokálupsis was a strange and hard to like “deeply…