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Review – AshFeathers – World Building
AshFeathers is a new acoustic project by singer-songwriter Tom Slatter. A mixture of one-man-and-a-guitar acoustic songs with synths and electronic percussion, ‘World Building’ is 10 tracks about getting lost – deliberately or accidentally – in fictional worlds. “Part of the motivation in starting AshFeathers was that I wanted to do something quite different in tone…
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Not a Review of Shineback – Dial – by Tom Slatter
People don’t know how to talk about genre. There are prog rock related online forums that sensible people avoid because their denizens have endless, idiot arguments about whether certain artists are prog or not.? That isn’t how it works. Genre is not a box in which a band is placed, distinct and separate from other…
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Review – Mothertongue – Where The Moonlight Snows by Tom Slatter
Mothertongue Mothertongue Mothertongue Mothertongue Mothertongue Mothertongue! This is great. A big dollop of proper pop. A slice of singalong hooks, followed by the rest of the cake. The earworms you didn’t know you needed until they wiggled down your eustachian tube and wrapped their little bodies round your cochlea. Your new favourite album. Bad Elephant…
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Review – Tom Slatter’s Murder and Parliament – Murder and Parliament – by Emma Roebuck
Secret Project **** released, and I have to admit my personal prejudices got the better of me when the worst kept secret at Evil Pachyderm Central Lab 558 was actually announced ready for release. My bigotry being I see Tom Slatter as a wordsmith turned musician rather than a musician who can do words too!…
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Review – Tom Slatter – Happy People – by David Rickinson
Tom Slatter – ‘Happy People’. I started off this review by writing a load of overblown drivel about Steampunk Troubadours and Stalinist Dystopias. But then I stopped, because I realised there is not a lot that needs to be said about this album. It is BRILLIANT. What can I say about this album that doesn’t…
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Review – Mike Kershaw – What Lies Beneath – by Gary Morley
Mike Kershaw is a Passenger, or fan of Big Big Train, and we’ve met (in cyberspace) and our lives have been connected through their Facebook page. I was invited to review this, Mike’s latest solo recording, by Martin Hutchinson, another Passenger whose life is a little more connected to mine in that we have had…
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Progradar’s ‘Best of 2015’ review – by Progradar
A scary picture to get things started, it’s that time of year again when everyone puts out their ‘Best of 2015’ album list and I’m no different to every other music journalist, budding or otherwise. Lists like these are very subjective, after all, one man’s poison is another man’s wine but they’re fun to do…
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Tom Slatter has some rather nasty creatures loose in his Lab.
You thought the day of the bombastic, big budget video were gone? Well think again, the marvelous Joe Slatter over at The Dark Power has produced a stunning, tongue in cheek and mildly disturbing video (big budget may be pushing it) for the first song from Tom Slatter’s new album. Some of the Creatures Have…