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Crooked Mouth – Lost:Time

Crooked Mouth return with album number four and the follow up to the very enjoyable One Bright Midnight released in 2015, which in turn followed on from their equally enjoyable albums Hold In The Sun (2007), and a personal favourite,…

Nektar – Mission To Mars

Nektar is one of those bands that have always intrigued me, but not always enthralled me. Having released their first album in 1971 (Journey to the Centre of the Eye), they hit their commercial peak two years later with the…

Jon Anderson & The Band Geeks – True

In a recent interview, by Blake Maddux, Jon Anderson had this response to what we could expect from his upcoming album True. “You’re going to enjoy it. It’s called True. We had a great tour together; then a couple of…

Sloane Square Band – Thoughts

Thoughts are strange things. They come and go. Sometimes, they thrust themselves upon us; at others, they sneak up unnoticed and surprise us. They are always there, even if we are unaware of them. When one thought ends and another…

Grice – Mordant Lake

The best thing about a Grice album is that whatever is delivered, quality is assured. Mordant Lake continues the current trend of an album with eight songs, which range from simple constructions to multi-layered compositions. The production values are high.…

Jon Hunt / MartPaul

The Water Rats, London Friday, 9th August 2024 A fine meal with some fine people at the venue preceded this album launch gig for An Explosion Of Nothing, the keenly awaited new waxing (well in my house, at least!) by…

Jon Hunt – An Explosion Of Nothing

[WARNING: This review may contain hyperbole – read with caution] Jon Hunt is the best songwriting multi-instrumentalist from That London that has ever existed. Jon Hunt’s music could be described as being part of the singer-songwriter stable. But it isn’t…

Karl Eisenhart – Lessons

Karl Eisenhart first came into view for me with the debut album by his band Pinnacle. Since then, he has performed with Simon Godfrey (Tinyfish, Valdez) as part of Tribe of Names and acoustic duo Red with Chris Michels. Although…

Meer – Wheels Within Wheels

Meer’s first, self-titled album, released in 2016 and followed in 2021 by Playing House, simply stopped me in my tracks. The band’s sound is fresh, vibrant and exciting, blending elements of folk, prog and pop to create an original and…

Gavin Harrison & Antoine Fafard – Perpetual Mutations

The arrival of the second full length outing from Gavin Harrison & Antoine Fafard was certainly one I had looked forward to as their previous album, 2020’s Chemical Reactions, was such a wonderful alchemy of progressive-fusion replete with exhilarating music…