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Category Archives: ALBUM REVIEWS (Mobile)
Album review: NICK LOWE – Quality Street
Proper Records (released 28th October) Nick Lowe has had a long and varied career, with ‘Cruel To Be Kind’ perhaps his best known hit, that and ‘Milk And Alcohol’ he co-wrote with Dr. Feelgood, plus he’s worked with Elvis Costello, … Continue reading
Album review: FLYING COLORS – Live In Europe
Mascot 2CD+DVD+BluRay+vinyl ltd edition [Release date 14.10.13] Flying Colors are (whisper it quietly) a supergroup consisting of Neal Morse, Mike Portnoy, Steve Morse, Dave LaRue (Dixie Dregs) and Casey McPherson (Endochine/Alpha Rev). They released a superbly enjoyable debut album last … Continue reading
Album review: THE CONTRAST – A Sinister Flick
Angel Air Records www.angelair.co.uk [Release date 07.10.13] This Peterborough-based band have some big name backing in the shape of Little Steven and Mott The Hoople’s Overend Watts, in fact the band support Mott The Hoople on their Manchester UK date … Continue reading
Album review: SAMMY HAGAR & FRIENDS – S/T
Frontiers www.frontiers.it Sammy Hagar has had an amazing career when you look back at it from Montrose, through to Van Halen, coupled with a successful solo career and more recently the supergroup Chickenfoot. This album with all its guests … Continue reading
Album review: STEVE HARLEY & COCKNEY REBEL – Birmingham Live With Orchestra & Choir
Comeuppance [Release Date: 14.10.13] The commercial potential of pop or rock music is largely determined by a time, a place and a context. This was never more so than with the ego posturing of Steve Harley (and Cockney Rebel), … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrew Powell, Barry Wickens, Brian Ferry, Cockney Rebel, David Bowie, Ian Anderson, Ian Hunter, James Lascelles, Mark Knopfler, Orchestra Of The Swan and Chamber Choir, Steve Harley, Steve Norman, The Human Menagerie, The Psychomodo
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Album review: DENNIS DeYOUNG – Desert Moon/Back To The World
BGO Records www.bgo-records.com Dennis DeYoung was the vocalist and keyboards player in Styx, a band he helped form and left under a cloud in 1999. These two solo albums are re-issued on one disc with sleeve notes from Neil Daniels, … Continue reading
Album review: AJENDA – Unrecognizable
[Release date 28.09.13] We all have our guilty [musical] pleasures. Mine – apart from a general weakness for female vocalists (from Pat Benatar and Ann Wilson to Anne-Marie Helder and Eleanor McEvoy) is Pink. Or at least the Pink who … Continue reading
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Tagged Ajenda, album, Northern Ireland, review, rock, Unrecognizable
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Album review: GRACE SOLERO – Hundred Years Apart
Wohone Records [Release Date: 30.09.13] Startling Italian vocalist Grace Solero lends her name to an international band whose second album ‘Hundred Years Apart’ is full of full of passionate vocals, poetic lyrics, crashing chords and steely riffs. It’s a thinly … Continue reading
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Tagged Bjork, Bjorn Zetterlund, Dan Beaularier, Grace Solero, grunge, Maurizio Liberato, review, rock, The Edge
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Album review: WOLFPAKK – Cry Wolf
AFM Records Wolfpakk are Michael Voss of Mad Max fame and Mark Sweeney of Swiss band Crystal Ball plus a host of guest stars. This follow up to 2011’s self-titled debut features the talents of Amanda Somerville, Ralf Scheepers (Primal … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Amanda Somerville, Blaze Bayley, Cry Wolf, Crystal Ball, Don Airey, Hermann Rarebell, Johnny Gioeli, Kee Marcello, Mad Max, melodic metal, Michael Voss, Paul Sweeney, Ralf Scheepers, review, rock, Roland Grapow, Tony Carey, Wolfpakk
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Album review: THE GRAVELTONES – Don’t Wait Down
Lagoon Dog Records [Release Date: 21.10.13] There’s a lot to be said for being in the right place at the right time and The Graveltones are knocking on the door at a time when their balls to wall bombast will … Continue reading
EP review: FLORIDA ROOM – After The Autumn Hours
www.floridaroom.co.uk [Release date 09.09.13] There is something highly engaging about this EP from East London’s Florida Room. Together in their present form for barely twelve months this is effectively a re-promotion of their debut EP. The music is infectious, melodic, … Continue reading
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Tagged After The Autumn Hours, EP, Florida Room, review, rock
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Album review: ARC ANGEL – Harlequins of Light
Frontiers www.frontiers.it Arc Angel is Jeff Cannata and Jeff (and Arc Angel) go back a long way. Jeff (going then by the name of Christopher Hawke) was a founding member of Connecticut based progressive rock band Jasper Wrath who … Continue reading
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Tagged album review, ARC ANGEL, Asia, Harlequins of Light, Jeff Cannata, John Payne, pomp rock, Yes
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Album review: MOJO MAKERS – Wait Till The Morning
Hypertension Music [Release Date: 16.09.13] Danish blues-rock outfit the Mojo Makers attempt to recycle 70’s blues-rock and give it contemporary twist. Their rough hewn and visceral approach to recording leaves plenty of room for moments of real spark and … Continue reading
Album review: JESSE DAMON – Temptation In The Garden Of Eve
AOR Heaven Jesse Damon is the guitarist/frontman with Silent Rage and this is his fifth solo album. He has renowned producer and melodic rocker Paul Sabu in the producer’s chair (Sabu also handles bass on the album) and Eden’s Curse … Continue reading
Album review: DAVID ROTHERAY – Answer Ballads
Navigator Records (released October 14th) Former Beautiful South guitarist David Rotheray has produced a star studded album based on a novel premise, that of a collection of songs where he writes an ‘answer ballad’ (or what happened next) to classic … Continue reading
Album review: JOSEPH ARTHUR – The Ballad of Boogie Christ
Real World Records Joseph Arthur has built up a loyal following of fans as well as plaudits from fellow musicians including Peter Gabriel. This two disc set is loosely based on a fictionalised character, Boogie Christ, who bears some resemblance … Continue reading
Album review: ERIC STECKEL – Dismantle The Sun
Eric Steckel Music [Release Date: 31.10.12] Eric Steckel’s ‘Dismantle The Sun’ was originally released in the States towards the end of last year, but is being belated promoted in the UK on the back of his first proper UK … Continue reading
Album review: THE RED PAINTINGS – The Revolution Is Never Coming
[Release date 30.09.13] If aliens were scanning earth’s frequencies then The Red Paintings’ The Revolution Is Never Coming could well be the summation. Quite what they’d make of it, I’m not sure. They’d either think humanity was ripe for harvesting, … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Red Paintings, review, rock, The Revolution is Never Coming
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Quick plays: RUSTY SHACKLE, STEPHEN KELLOGG, THE DUNWELLS, ROD PICOTT
Rusty Shackle – The Bones Rusty Shackle appear to have tripped over the ‘difficult second album’ stepping stone with the follow up to their 2012 debut album Wash Away These Nights which was a more varied offering than the ‘pedal … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Blunderstone Rectory, Follow The Road, Get Up, Hang Your Hopes On A Crooked Nail, Kevin Peroni, review, rock, Rod Picott, roots, Rusty Shackle, singer, songwriter, Stephen Kellogg, The Bones, The Dunwells, Wiretree
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Album review: TONY McLOUGHLIN – The Contender
He may look uncannily like Billy Connolly’s long lost brother, but opening with strains of Muhammad Ali getting ready to ‘rumble in the jungle’, Tony Mcloughlin’s fifth album The Contender is a glorious Telecaster-infused slab of Tom Petty/Springsteen inspired Americana. … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Americana, review, rock, roots, singer, songwriter, The Contender, Tony McLoughlin
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Album review: HAKEN – The Mountain
Inside Out www.insideout.de This is Haken’s third album, although they only came across my musical radar after seeing an excellent performance at this year’s Celebr8.2 prog festival. This is a concept album about each everyone’s personal mountain they have to … Continue reading
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Tagged album review, Dream Theater, Haken, Inside Out, prog metal, Queen, Ross Jennings, The Mountain
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Album Review: THE TEMPERANCE MOVEMENT – The Temperance Movement
Earache [Release date – 16.09.13] There is a lot of industry buzz around The Temperance Movement at the moment with the guys gaining plenty of airplay across the country and great live reviews appearing in the press. … Continue reading
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Tagged album, blues, Phil Campbell, review, rock, The Black Crowes, The Temperance Movement
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Album Review: ANNIHILATOR – Feast
UDR [Release date 26.08.13] This album is the 14th studio release from Canadian thrashers Annihilator. I have been aware of the band for many years but have never really warmed to them, even their ‘Alice In Hell’ … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Annihilator, Feast, Jeff Waters, metal, review, rock, Thrash
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Album review: TOUCHSTONE – Oceans Of Time
Hear No Evil [Release date 07.10.13 ] Having signed a new deal with Hear No Evil/Cherry Red Records, Touchstone have adopted the ‘if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it’ principle with their fourth studio album and leading single ‘Flux’. Recorded … Continue reading
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Tagged metal, Oceans Of Time, prog, progressive, review, Rob Cottingham, rock, Touchstone
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Album review: JOANNE SHAW TAYLOR – Songs From The Road
Ruf [Release date 04.11.13] There’s nothing like a live album to deliver the bacon. I don’t mean a doctored product with overdubs and the like, but simply a live recording with an expectant audience, a hot band and the recording … Continue reading
