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A Different Aspect #97

Featured artists: Doris Brendel & Lee Dunham | Jocelyn Pettit & Ellen Gira | This Winter Machine | Úna Quinn | Raphael Weinroth-Browne Five bite-sized reviews taking a snapshot of just some of the albums and EPs to land at…

Moon Letters – This Dark Earth

The Seattle-based progressive/psychedelic rock band, Moon Letters, are back with their excellent third album, This Dark Earth. Following on from their last album, 2022’s Thank You From The Future, which I reviewed for The Progressive Aspect at the time, it…

Malabriega – Frippada Andaluza

There’s nothing quite like discovering new music to stop you in your tracks – something with such a distinctive sound and charismatic presence you can’t help but keep listening, enthralled, fascinated. This is exactly what happened to me with Malabriega’s…

Tangerine Dream – From Virgin To Quantum Years: Coventry Cathedral 22

2022 was a seminal year for the current version of Tangerine Dream. They released a ‘new’ album, Raum, their second studio album since the death of founding member Edgar Froese in 2015. It was created with access to Froese’s Cubase…

The Wood Demons – In Rabbits & Corners

It has been 5 years since the London-based band, The Wood Demons, released their acclaimed Angels of Peckham Rye album, and 4 years since I reviewed it for the Progressive Aspect, following a refreshingly vibrant set at the first Prog…

Various Artists – I Wanna Be A Teen Again: American Power Pop 1980 – 1989

Ever since the Beatles announced “I want to hold your hand”, power pop has had a significant grip on popular music. That influence has waxed and waned throughout the years, but never has it disappeared. The branding may have changed…

Van Morrison – Remembering Now

I think that, having been in the music business since 1958, released almost 50 studio albums, 7 live albums, along numerous compilation albums, Sir George Ivan ‘Van’ Morrison knows how to make music. Yet, despite attempts to make collaboration albums…

Pymlico – Core

Norwegian jazz prog stalwarts Pymlico return with their eighth album, Core, their first for three years. Unusually for Pymlico, the band’s line up is unchanged from 2022’s Supermassive. It seems that they believe they have hit upon a particularly rewarding…

Yak – The Pink Man & The Bishop

It is very welcome news that Martin Morgan has resurrected his keyboard-led symphonic prog rock project Yak, with an excellent, new album called The Pink Man & The Bishop. It comes a decade after 2015’s Quest For The Stones, with…

Ghost Of The Machine

The Old Rectory, Sutton Benger Saturday, 5th July 2025 Some concerts are more than just appearing on a stage, playing the music, taunting the fans with a mock end before the obligatory encore, and tonight was one occasion when it…