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Category Archives: ALBUM REVIEWS
News: Albums Of The Month (January – March 2024)
MYRATH Karma (earMUSIC) They have big songs and even bigger ideas on how to present them live and are not short on confidence in their collective abilities, and rightly so. ‘Karma’ will only serve to further the Myrath cause … Continue reading
Album review: DEFECTS – Modern Error
Mascot Records [Release date 24.05.24] ‘Modern Error’ is breathtakingly raw with emotion. Conceptually, it is a deeply cathartic album that acts as a vessel for singer Tony Maue to organise his thoughts on the trauma of being taken into care … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Defects, Mascot records, metal, Modern Error, modern metal, review, Tony Maue
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Album review: JACK BADCOCK – Cosmography
www.jackbadcock.com [Release date 03.05.24] Jack Badcock is best known as frontman and founding member of Dallahan. After releasing ‘The Driftwood Project’ EP in 2021 we now arrive in 2024 and Jack Badcock releases his first solo album. Jack plays guitar, … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Cosmography, Dallahan, folk, Jack Badcock, jazz, prog, review, singer songwriter, Siobhan Miller
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Album review: SHADES OF PLATO – Blackout
Platonic Arrangements [Release date 20.06.24] shadesofplato1.bandcamp.com/ Any album with a song title ‘Bacteria With Shoes’ demands attention. And you’ll find it on the third album from gothic rockers Shades Of Plato. By their own admission this album predicts a post-pandemic apocalypse … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Blackout, hard rock, New Wave, prog, review, Shades Of Plato
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Album review: VARIOUS – Reimagining The Court Of The Crimson King
Purple Pyramid Records [Release date 19.04.24] King Crimson’s 1969 album is one of the most significant and influential prog albums and here gets a fresh coat of paint courtesy of a stellar gathering of prog and fusion A listers. And, … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Davey, album, Arthur Brown, Brian Auger, James LaBrie, Joe Lynn Turner, King Crimson, Mel Collins, Paul Rudolph, prog, Progressive Rock, Reimagining The Court Of The Crimson King, review, Steve Hillage, Todd Rundgren
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Album review : FRANCIS ROSSI & HANNAH RICKARD – We Talk Too Much (2024 vinyl version with bonus track)
earMUSIC [Release date : 03.05.24] 2014’s Aquostic (Stripped Bare) was Status Quo’s first full blown tilt at “reimagining” older material in an acoustic set up. It was a big success, commercially and critically. It led to this collaboration between Francis … Continue reading
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Tagged album, bonus track, Cheap Trick, Francis Rossi, Hannah Rickard, Jeff Lyne, review, Vinyl, We Talk Too Much
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Album review: BIG BIG TRAIN – The Likes Of Us
Inside Out [Release Date: 01.03.24] When David Longdon tragically died in an accident at his home in 2021, Big Big Train, one of the finest folk/prog bands this country has produced, were shattered to the core. How could they continue … Continue reading
Album review: THE MILK MEN – Holy Cow!
Website [Release date 03.05.24] The Milk Men comprise of former Pirates drummer Mike Roberts, Lloyd Green (son of guitar legend Mick Green, also a member of the Pirates in the past) on bass, vocalist Jamie Smy, and guitarist Adam Norsworthy … Continue reading
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Tagged album, blues, blues rock, Holly Cow!, review, rock, The Milk Men
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Album review: ROBIN TROWER – Bridge Of Sighs (50th Anniversary Edition)
Pete Feenstra chatted to Robin Trower for his show on Get Ready to ROCK! Radio. First broadcast 30 June 2024 Chrysalis (3CD/Blu Ray, 50th Anniversary Edition) [Release date 17.05.24] Blues/rock guitarist Robin Trower has had a long and distinguished career, … Continue reading
Album review: MANIC EDEN
Mascot Records [Release date 12.04.24] When Manic Eden released their self-titled debut, and only, album back in 1994 I was keen to get hold of a copy (I seem to recall this was a Japanese only release at first and … Continue reading
Album review: WARHORSE – The Recordings 1970-72
Cherry Red [Release date : 26.04.24] In 1970, on leaving Deep Purple, bassist/songwriter, Nick Simper, joined Marsha Hunt’s backing band, later striking out on its own under the band name, Warhorse. In the seventies, Metal and Hard Rock blossomed in … Continue reading
Album review : WILDSTREET IV
Golden Robot Records [Release date 26.04.24] US band, Wildstreet, took note of music’s direction of travel (ie there’s no money in standing still) some years ago and have toured incessantly ever since… frequent appearances at SXSW & M3 Rock Festival, … Continue reading
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Tagged Backyard Babies, glam rock, Nikki Sixx, review, Rocklahoma, Sunset Strip, Wildstreet
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Album review : WAYSTED – Won’t Get Out Alive Volume 1 (4 CDs 1983-86)
Cherry Red [Release date: 26.04.24] CD1: Vices CD2: I Won’t Get Out Alive CD3: The Good, The Bad And The Waysted CD4: Save Your Prayers In 2019, the late great Pete Way and his band played an unannounced gig in … Continue reading
Album review: QUINN SULLIVAN – Salvation
Provogue [Release date 07.06.24] Quinn Sullivan’s “Salvation” is a guitar driven white boy soul album, with jagged edged funk and fleeting blues influences. It’s a well crafted album that pushes Quinn Sullivan further into a singer-songwriter direction with a broad … Continue reading
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Tagged album, blues, Delbert McClinton, Earth Wind & Fire, Eric Gales, funk, Hall & Oates, Jimi Hendrix, Jonny Lang, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Michael Jackson, Michael McDonald, Quinn Sullivan, review, rock, Salvation, soul, Steve Ray Vaughan, Ten Years After, Walter Trout
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Album review: LEE AARON – Tattoo Me
Metalville [Release date 26.04.24] Lee Aaron is probably at that stage of life where she doesn’t have to please anyone. She still makes relevant albums and if her previous ‘Elevate’ was not quite up to ‘Radio On!’ (in 2021) they … Continue reading
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Tagged album, classic rock, cover versions, Covers, hard rock, Lee Aaron, review, Tattoo Me
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Album review: 25 YARD SCREAMER – The Memory Cheats (The Pictures Within 2023)
White Knight Records [Release date 24.01.24] 25yardscreamer.bandcamp.com/music 25 Yard Screamer, who we first reviewed back in 2005, are now typical of those solid bands who feed the gnarly backbone of prog rock without being touched by wider success or recognition. … Continue reading
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Tagged 25 Yard Screamer, album, prog, prog rock, Progressive Rock, review, The Pictures Within
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Album review: D’ERCOLE – Near Death Experience
Rock Company Records [Release date 25.04.24] Album number ten from D’Ercole (and goodness knows what number album this is to feature the talents of Phil Vincent!), who consist of Phil Vincent (vocals, keyboards, guitars, bass), Damian D’Ercole (guitars) and B.F. … Continue reading
Album review: BALANCE OF POWER – Fresh From The Abyss
Massacre Records [Release date 19.04.24] Balance of Power are a band this reviewer has been aware of, mainly for featuring former vocalist Lance King, but would never class myself as a fan. Balance Of Power seemingly went missing in action … Continue reading
Album review : UFO – Covenant + Sharks + Live (3 CD)
Twin reissue package plus a bonus CD, from British rock legends, UFO. Covenant (2000), Sharks (2002) and Live At Blind Melons (1995). The problem with releasing a career high album like Walk On Water (1995), the band’s de facto “comeback” … Continue reading
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Tagged 3 CDs, Covenant, Live Blind Melons, Michael Schenker, New York, Phil Mogg, reissue, review, Sharks, UFO
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Album review: DAVE KELLY – Sun On My Face
Repertoire [Release date 13.02.24] ‘Sun On My Face’ could easily be a metaphor for the veteran British blues artist Dave Kelly, who in the slipstream of The Blues Band’s retirement, can now enjoy exploring the formative influences that have helped … Continue reading
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Tagged acapella, album, Arthur Crudup, blues, Bob Hall, Brinsley Schwartz, cngwrter, Cole Porter, country, Dave Kelly, Dog Cox, folk, funk, Hank Williams, Homer Kelly, Joann Kelly, John Denver, Lou Stonebridge, Paul Jones, Pete Emery, review, Rob Millis, Sam Kelly, Smoky Robinson, Steve Simpson, Sun In My Face, Sun On My Face, The Blues Band, Tony McPhee
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Album review: A TREEHOUSE WAIT – Kaleidoscope
Volkoren [Release date 25.05.24] Singer songwriter Jenny Gajicki and producer Emil Sydhage have come together again for this latest piece of Scandi Noir (their debut ‘Interlude’ was in 2016). Jenny has a vocal delivery not dissimilar to the late Dolores … Continue reading
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Tagged A Treehouse Wait, album, alt rock, electronica, indie, indie pop, Kaleidoscope, review
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Album review: BLUE ÖYSTER CULT – Ghost Stories
Frontiers [Release date 12.04.24] Blue Öyster Cult have always been an enigma and this ‘new’ album continues that trend, or as the press blurb states – “This highly anticipated album marks a fitting finale to the recording legacy of one … Continue reading
Album review : THE CRYIN’ SHAMES – Please Stay, Joe Meek’s Tea Chest Tapes
Cherry Red [Release date: 12.04.24] The Cryin’ Shames were late to the Merseybeat party, and departed almost as soon as they arrived. This a 2 CD reissue of every recording made by the band in its various guises. 48 tracks … Continue reading
Album review: JJ GREY & MOFRO – Olustee
Alligator [Release date 23.02.24] JJ Grey & Mofro’s tenth album ‘Olustee’ is a heartfelt journey through the musical swamp lands of North Florida, though the various story telling themes routed in the past, present and fired by his fertile imagination, … Continue reading
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Tagged album, blues, funk, gospel, J.D. Loudermilk, JJ Grey & Mofro, JJGrey, R&B, review, rock, Sly Stone, soul, Todd Rundren, vocal
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Album review: EMERSON, LAKE & POWELL – Complete Collection
Spirit of Unicorn Music [Release date 12.04.24] Emerson Lake & Palmer had imploded by the mid-eighties and the age of prog and pomp ceremony was seemingly over. In the late seventies there had been a last flourish of excess with … Continue reading
