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Pigeon Toe – The First Perception
Posted on April 13, 2012 | No Comments
The Fischer brothers, who go by the two-syllable pseudonyms Marsn and Hanson, came up with the idea of Pigeon Toe in 2008. Having played separately in the bands Fear My Thoughts, Mongouse and Backslide they pooled their resources into a new band, bringing drummer Norman...
Tangled Thoughts of Leaving – Deaden The Fields
Posted on April 12, 2012 | No Comments
There’s a special something about people from Western Australia. The maps and atlases there all show just two states of Australia; WA; and Over East. Over here in OE, we just don’t understand. Sure they are as friendly and welcoming as anyone else, but don’t...
Arjen Anthony Lucassen – Lost In The New Real
Posted on April 12, 2012 | No Comments
Arjen Anthony Lucassen of Ayreon fame going solo, no holds barred. Intriguing idea, right? The newest outing by this multi-instrumentalist and musical mastermind is called “Lost In The New Real”. Which – if taken too literally – is kind of a misleading title, since there...
Zechs Marquise – Getting Paid
Posted on April 10, 2012 | No Comments
One cursory glance at the cover of the latest album by El Paso based Zechs Marquise would lead the listener to believe they were about to listen to an album of intense bass laden funk or an album of children’s songs by the Animal Kwackers....
T.R.A.M – Lingua Franca
Posted on April 6, 2012 | No Comments
One of my good friends told me about the fusion jazz act T.R.A.M. a few months back, and I was, frankly, pretty intimidated by the prospect of listening to jazz. It is just not my favorite genre, which may be why I have never explored...
OSI – Fire Make Thunder
Posted on April 6, 2012 | No Comments
I’d not heard OSI before reviewing this latest record from the dual creators Jim Matheos and Kevin Moore. On first listen it didn’t really grab me; it’s high production a little cold and, for want of a better word, contrived. In a way I’m still...
The Mars Volta – Noctourniquet
Posted on April 5, 2012 | No Comments
The Mars Volta’s latest “Noctourniquet” has already been the subject of quite a bit of debate among my music-geek friends and associates. One former The Mars Volta die-hard fan, a close friend of mine, mourned their ‘death’ on Facebook last week, stating that they have become...
Hawkwind – Onward
Posted on April 4, 2012 | No Comments
More than four decades since the release of their eponymous debut, rock luminaries Hawkwind are still churning out albums with pleasing frequency. Many bands of this vintage get to a point where they tour constantly doing a greatest hits set and do little to challenge...
Pyramidal – Dawn In Space
Posted on April 4, 2012 | No Comments
There’s a scene in Metallica’s “Some Kind of Monster” documentary where Lars Ulrich is at an art auction and he contemplates how an artist knows when he’s added enough detail to a painting, and then applies the question to making an album.”Dawn In Space” by...
In Mourning – The Weight Of Oceans
Posted on April 3, 2012 | No Comments
Last week I reviewed the most anticipated metal album of 2012. This week I have the second most anticipated: In Mourning‘s third album “The Weight of Oceans”. The band’s first two albums, “The Shrouded Divine” and “Monolith”, are both supremely accomplished pieces of work in...
The Samuel Jackson Five – Samuel Jackson Five
Posted on April 3, 2012 | No Comments
I often wonder what it would have been like to hear Miles’ seminal ’Bitches Brew’ for the first time… when it was released. There must have been some serious wow going on. I say this because I have experienced some serious wow whilst listening to ”Samuel...
Trigon – 2011
Posted on April 3, 2012 | No Comments
Every time I listen to the latest record from veteran ‘Jam-a-Delic’ German rockers Trigon, I wonder how in the hell I could have missed this band over the last quarter-century it has been in existence. HOW? Unfortunately for me, it’s probably due to the fact...
Incoming Cerebral Overdrive – Le Stelle: A Voyage Adrift
Posted on April 2, 2012 | No Comments
You know the feeling. Yes, you do. You know, EXACTLY. The one where you’re on a roller coaster, one of the old fashioned ones that climbs slowly but inexorably to the top of a wooden slatted “hill” before plunging downwards, courtesy of gravity and some...
Cynic – The Portal Tapes
Posted on March 29, 2012 | No Comments
Back in the day, I remember getting a second hand copy of Cynic‘s ‘Focus’ album from a record store in Wigan for a couple of quid. I had heard the name before, after hearing mention of them touring with bigger bands in the states in...
Sigh – In Somniphobia
Posted on March 28, 2012 | No Comments
If you’ve been into the rock and metal scenes for a considerable amount of time like myself, you will find that quite often it can become a blur. One thing sounds like another thing, this band has riffs similar to that band, the vocals in...
Anathema – Weather Systems
Posted on March 27, 2012 | No Comments
When Anathema switched direction in the late 90s from a respected doom metal band to a Floyd-influenced prog outfit I don’t think anyone could have predicted where the fork in the road would take them a decade later. Inexorably, album after album, they chipped away...
Delusion Squared – II
Posted on March 26, 2012 | No Comments
“II” by Delusion Squared is a deliciously varied album… with some tremendous instrumentation and an enthusiasm for melody. To call this album “progressive rock” would be a disservice because, whilst the music is distinctly and proudly progressive, there is more than just rock going on...
It Bites – Map Of The Past
Posted on March 22, 2012 | No Comments
When It Bites reformed in 2008 they had their work cut out for them. How to carve a niche in a progressive rock scene which had flourished during their hiatus, while carrying die-hards along from their chart-busting days in the late 80s? How also to...
Peter Matuchniak – Uncover Me
Posted on March 19, 2012 | 1 Comment
Based in Orange County, California, Peter Matuchniak’s music has been described as being influenced by the variety of sounds he was exposed to at home, jazz, rock, classical and the current radio friendly “hits”, although, one could argue, this hardly goes without saying. In the...
Astra – The Black Chord
Posted on March 19, 2012 | No Comments
Sometimes Wikipedia is bang on. About Astra it says they are from San Diego, California and that their sound is 70s progressive and psychedelic rock and features a variety of keyboards and long jams. That seems to sum it up nicely…assuming the bit about San...