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  • Review – No Dakota – New Bronze Age

    Review – No Dakota – New Bronze Age

    No Dakota’s debut LP ‘New Bronze Age’ is, essentially a post-rock ‘concept album’, musing on the nature of AI and human identity, it takes us on an imagined journey through time as Talos, the original automaton, mutates and reinvents. Drawing from diverse sources – the Colossus of Rhodes, ‘Hel’, the robot in Metropolis, and eventually…

  • Review – Shriekback – 1000 Books

    Review – Shriekback – 1000 Books

    A book read by a thousand different people is a thousand different books? – Andrei Tarkovsky “1000 Books is Shriekback’s 16th album and boldly marks the band’s 40th birthday. Big numbers for a big record – this is Shriekback in depth and detail, nine songs by turns majestic, elegiac, confrontational and just plain funky. The…

  • Review – Martyn Barker – Water & Stone

    Martyn Barker is an English drummer, percussionist, multi-instrumentalist, composer and producer, best known as the drummer for Shriekback. He has also been a member of King Swamp and worked with many of the world’s best known and loved musicians. He currently has co-written and co-produced two records with songwriter, vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Talitha Rise, as…

  • Review – Talitha Rise – An Abandoned Orchid House – by Progradar

    Review – Talitha Rise – An Abandoned Orchid House – by Progradar

    Some people have lives; some people have music.? – John Green, Will Grayson, Will Grayson Music is what makes my life complete, it fills the holes and spaces in time and I honestly couldn’t be without it. Some music is so compelling that it can take over your life, pausing you in a moment in…

  • Review – Talitha Rise – Blue EP – by Progradar

    Review – Talitha Rise – Blue EP – by Progradar

    “There is beauty in the unspoiled innocence of music, a beauty that cannot be quantified but one that fills the soul with empathy and love.” I wrote that after my umpteenth listen to the first EP from Talitha Rise – ‘Blue’, I like music that has pomp and circumstance and power and glory but I…