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Review – Marillion – Holidays In Eden – 2022 Remix Deluxe Edition – by Leo Trimming
Holidays in Eden, first released in 1991, is the latest edition in Marillion’s series of deluxe re-releases. This was a release for which their record company E.M.I. had high expectations of the band after Steve Hogarth’s debut album with the band in 1989. Seasons End was relatively successful, but crucially for E.M.I. it did not…
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Review – Ghost Of The Machine – Scissorgames – by Leo Trimming
‘Scissor Games‘ is the debut album by Ghost of the Machine, formed when the majority of This Winter Machine split with singer, Al Winter, and joined up with Charlie Bramald, previously vocalist with covers project Harmony of Spheres. This Winter Machine had built a growing reputation with their first two excellent albums, The Man Who…
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Review – This Winter Machine – Kites – by Leo Trimming
Kites can be blown about in many unpredictable directions but somehow they remain tethered to the ground, and that appears to be a perfect symbol of the journey of the third This Winter Machine album ‘Kites‘, which is due out on 25th October. Let’s face it, the world has taken a rather unexpected battering in…
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Review – Marillion – Afraid Of Sunlight – Deluxe Edition Re-Release
Today sees Leo Trimming helping Progradar catching up with the most recent deluxe edition re-release before the imminent deluxe edition of Script for a Jester’s Tear in April! Marillion’s great series of re-releases in Deluxe editions continues with Afraid of Sunlight , first released in 1995. This was the last album Marillion made for EMI,…
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Review – Nova Cascade – A Dictionary Of Obscure Sorrows – by Leo Trimming
What exactly is ?A Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows? According to Wikipedia (and who could doubt that source of information!) ?A Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows? is a website created by John Koenig that defines neologisms (that’s new words and phrases to you and me) which are designed to define emotions for which we do not yet…
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Review – IQ – Resistance – By Leo Trimming
We live in contentious and dark times so maybe it’s not surprising that IQ’s latest album Resistance has a real sense of titanic struggles, whether they are internal conflicts or global issues, as the band create a tidal wave of dense and dramatic music. If you thought 2014’s brilliant The Road of Bones was dark…
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Review – The Gift – Antenna – by Leo Trimming
Antenna, the diverse fourth album from The Gift signals a significant change in direction and style for this London based band, driven by a fresh and accessible impetus. In a recent interview Mike Morton of The Gift summarised their new album as focusing on the Difficulty of being Human , and added that it was…
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Review – Tiger Moth Tales – Storytellers Part Two – by Leo Trimming
The mercurial Pete Jones seems to have an exhaustible supply of musical ideas at present. Fresh after playing with Camel on a triumphant tour of Europe ending at the Royal Albert Hall, and not long after his last fine Tiger Moth Tales album ‘The Depths of Winter’, Peter Jones returns with the second instalment of…
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Review – Valdez – This – by Leo Trimming
When first hearing about Valdez, a new band based in Philadephia, featuring Simon Godfrey (ex-Tinyfish and Shineback) and Echolyn bassist, Tom Hyatt, I made some initially lazy assumptions about it’s probable sound. I was wrong. Please check in your assumptions at the door because this is an album a long way away from Echolyn or…
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Review – Bj?rn Riis – Forever Comes To An End – by Leo Trimming
