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Tilt to release new album ‘Hinterland’ on 30th June 2016
Over 5 years in the making, HINTERLAND is the long awaited debut album from progressive rock band, TILT. Following on from their acclaimed debut EP Million Dollar Wound, HINTERLAND has over 60 minutes of new music. TILT members Robin Boult, David Stewart and Steve Vantsis are all probably better known for recording, writing and touring…
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Review – Frost* – Falling Satellites – by Progradar
You can decorate absence however you want- but you’re still gonna feel what’s missing.? Siobhan Vivian Bloody hell, I didn’t realise it has been 8 years since Frost*, the brainchild of seminal keyboard wizard Jem Godfrey, released their last album ‘Experiments In Mass Appeal’. This was a band who I saw supporting Dream Theater in…
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Review – Napier’s Bones – Hell and High Water – by Emma Roebuck
Gordon Midgely and Nathan Tillet, two musicians that found each other by chance, separated by a few hundred miles from Yorkshire to Plymouth, managing to create music together via the wonders of modern technology and the interweb. Another of these types who inhabit the no label world and do it for the love and wanting…
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The Pineapple Thief return with new album ‘Your Wilderness’ on 12th August (to be released through Kscope)
(Featured image credit: Rob Monk) The new album was a joy to make. More so than any other The Pineapple Thief album before it. Everything came together so effortlessly and I think this comes across when you hear the record. – Bruce Soord After the worldwide acclaim generated by the 2014 anthemic rock release Magnolia,…
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Review – Purson – Desire’s Magic Theatre – by Shawn Dudley
Is everybody in? The ceremony is about to begin.? Jim Morrison – I want you to get down and come with me to the D.M.T.? Rosalie Cunningham For those unfamiliar, Purson is the brainchild of singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist Rosalie Cunningham, who I firmly believe is one of the most exciting rock musicians to come along in ages.…
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Review – Red Bazar – Tales From The Bookcase – by Progradar
“A good marriage winds up as a meeting of minds, which had better be pretty good to start with. When minds meet, they don’t just exchange facts: they transform them, reshape them, draw different implications from them, and engage in new trains of thought.” I know, you’re wondering what the heck am I going…
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Review – Messenger – Threnodies – by Shawn Dudley
What a difference 20 years makes. In the far distant past of the 1990s, Prog was still a dirty word; reviled, ridiculed and lampooned by the critical establishment and cynical music fans alike. You could count the number of bands playing the music on two hands and you’d still have fingers to spare. Fast forward…
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Review – Marco Ragni – Land Of Blue Echoes – by Progradar
I suppose you could call it being a music nerd but I am sure many of my fellow music fans also have this innate ability, identifying musicians by their signature sound and, for the purposes of this review, it is particularly applicable to guitar players. Be it the great blues players like B.B. King, Stevie…
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Review – Sanguine Hum – What We Ask Is Where We Begin – The Songs For Days Sessions – by Rob Fisher
Good music is often unexpected. It piques your interest, takes you by surprise and gently lures you, slowly but surely, into the complex twists and intriguing turns of the journey that awaits. Sanguine Hum’s fourth studio album ‘What We Ask Is Where We Begin: The Songs for Days Sessions’ is precisely that kind of unexpected…
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Review – Circus Maximus – Havoc – by Sabrina Beever
Circus Maximus is a very apt name when you hear their new album ‘Havoc’. I may be looking at this way to creatively but that’s what music does to you, the Norwegian band create melodic material with maximum strength and force; powerful riffs and intertwining melodic lines that are not always where you expect them…