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Category Archives: ALBUM REVIEWS (Mobile)
Album review: IAN McCULLOCH – Holy Ghosts
Edsel Records (Released 22nd April) Ian McCulloch releases a sumptious new double album. The first CD is a live album recorded at the Union Chapel in London last year and the second disc is a new … Continue reading
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Tagged Echo & the Bunnymen, Holy Ghosts, Ian McCulloch, Youth
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Album review: KILL FOR EDEN – Kill For Eden
Kill For Eden are a new and unsigned London-based outfit who are self-releasing their self-titled debut album. The band play radio friendly chunks of pop metal wrapped around a dynamic vocal delivery. The look and sound is rooted in classic … Continue reading
Album review: VARIOUS – Prog Rocks! (Compilation)
EMI/Harvest/Charisma/Liberty-UnitedArtists/Virgin/InsideOut Post-punk decimation in the bloodbath of ‘76, progressive rock has been something of a guilty secret, a troubling sore for sufferers soothed only with drops of tricky time signatures over layers of extenuated Mellotronic drones (best meted out in … Continue reading
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Tagged 70s, Charisma, compilation, EMI, Harvest, Insideout, Prog Rocks!, Virgin
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Album review: TREETOP FLYERS – The Mountain Moves
Loose Music [Release date 29.04.13] Having won the Glastonbury Emerging Talent competition in 2011, and released two well received singles – ‘Things Will Change’ and ‘It’s About Time’, 2013 sees the release of the London based five-piece’s debut album on … Continue reading
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Tagged album, country, review, rock, roots, The Mountain Moves, Treetop Flyers
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Album review: RILO KILEY – Rkives
After a couple of lesser known albums LA indie rockers Rilo Kiley’s ‘More Adventurous’ album (2004) provided the springboard for a major record deal with Warners. Their subsequent 2007 release ‘Under The Blacklight’ looked like the big time had finally … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Americana, review, Rilo Kiley, Rkives, rock, roots
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Album review: BEN REEL – Darkness & The Light
Release date 22.04.13 You never quite know what to expect from Ben Reel. Over his previous 5 studio albums he’s touched on rock, soul, blues, alt-folk, Americana and even indulged in a little reggae. His new album, his first recorded … Continue reading
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Tagged acoustic, album, Ben Reel, Darkness & The Light, inger, review, rock, songwriter
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Album review: MELISSA GREENER – Transistor Corazon
Music has been a part of Melissa Greener’s life from day one. Raised in Detroit by her Playboy Club lounge singer mother and politically bent hippie father, her musical roots are in the soulful 1960′s Laurel Canyon scene. Her two … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Melissa Greener, review, singer, songwriter, Transistor Corazon
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Album review: BARRY PALMER – Night Thoughts
(Hold Your Horses Records) Something of a well-kept secret, Barry Palmer is singer whose presence has permeated pop and rock since the 1970′s, and whose principal ‘claim to fame’ is being Mike Oldfield’s singer of choice on the 1984 ‘Crime … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Barry Palmer, Mike Oldfield, Night Thoughts, pop, review, rock, singer, songwriter, Triumvirat
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Album review: SKARLETT RIOT – Tear Me Down
Release date 25.03.13 Young North Lincolnshire 4 piece Skarlett Riot have embraced the energy of punk and meld it with bludgeoning hard rock riffery on their debut album ‘Tear Me Down’. An explosive rhythm section (Luke and Tom), and blistering … Continue reading
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Tagged album, review, rock, Skarlett Riot, Tear Me Down
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Album review: ORIANTHI – Heaven In This Hell
Spinefarm Records [Release date 11.03.13] You don’t get endorsement by Carlos Santana and Steve Vai, and become the King Of Pop and Alice Cooper’s ‘must have’ lead guitarist without having two things – a) talent and b) image. And in … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Alice Cooper, Dave Stewart, guitar, guitarist, Heaven In This Hell, Orianthi, review, rock
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Album review: DOUG MACLOUD – There’s A Time
Reference [Release date 13.05.13] The blues must be in reasonably good shape if there’s room for a great album like this. Doug MacLeod has lived, breathed, played, sang and written the blues for longer than most of … Continue reading
Album Review: DEVIL TO PAY – Fate Is Your Muse
Ripple Music (Release date 09.04.13) ‘Fate Is Your Muse’ is the fourth album by Indianapolis rockers, Devil To Pay. The band formed ten years ago and have honed their sound over this period transforming into a heavy, eight legged monster … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Black Sabbath, CD, Clutch, Devil To Pay, Fate Is Your Muse, metal, review, rock
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Album review: THIEVES’ KITCHEN – One For Sorrow, Two For Joy
Self-released – 2013 Well, where to start with this one? There are just so many good things going on and so many influences here that it’s difficult to pin down exactly where it’s coming from. A simple distillation would be … Continue reading
Album review: DAVE GROHL & Others – Sound City Real To Reel
Sony Music Hot-housing for 24 hours in a studio using a legendary Neve 8028 mixer sounds like musical nirvana. And indeed it was during the making of Nirvana’s ‘Nevermind’ album that Dave Grohl was introduced to the desk. He bought … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Chris Goss, Dave Grohl, Paul McCartney, review, Rick Springfield, Sound City, soundtrack, Stevie Nicks
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Album review: RORY GALLAGHER – Live At The Montreux Festival 1975-94
Salvo Records [Release date 08.04.13] Although these recordings are available separately (previously released in 2006 and 2008) this is the first time they are available as a dual-format release. The compilers have brought together a single CD which spans a … Continue reading
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Tagged blues, guitar, guitarist, Live At The Montreux Festival 1975-94, review, rock, Rory Gallagher
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Album review: THE JEFF HEALEY BAND – House On Fire/As The Years Go Passing By
As The Years Go Passing By – Live In Germany 1989-1995-2000 (Inakustik) Since his death in 2008 there have been a steady steam of releases featuring one of the modern blues greats. This boxed set, recorded by German TV, brings … Continue reading
Album review: SIDONY BOX – Rules
Sidony Box play what they call, ‘music of the moment’, revelling in free- form spontaneity which leaves the listener wondering just where they will go next. Nothing is predictable, except perhaps the opening blast of cacophony and … Continue reading
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Tagged albumj, alto sax, Arhthur Narcy, avant garde, drums, Elie Dalibert, Ex-tension records, free=from, guitar, imorov, jazz, Manuel Adnot, percussion, progressive, review, rock, Rules, Sidony Box, spontaneity
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Album review: SPOCK’S BEARD – Brief Nocturnes And Dreamless Sleep
Inside Out www.insideout.de Spock’s Beard return after the well received ‘X’ album and a major line-up change as drummer/vocalist Nick D’Virgilio left in 2011. In his place come two new members, drummer Jimmy Keegan and Enchant vocalist Ted Leonard (do … Continue reading
Album review: BLUES TRAVELER – Suzie Cracks the Whip
Freeworld Records Blues Traveler was always a blues based jam band at heart, but with an eye on the main chance, and not much has changed on ‘Suzie Cracks the Whip’. There’s plenty of great playing, and … Continue reading
Album review: BARCLAY JAMES HARVEST – 25th Anniversary Concert
Voiceprint Recorded back in 1992 at the Town & Country Club in London, this 25th anniversary concert isn’t quite ‘an absolute must for any Barclay James Harvest fan’ as suggested by the brief liner notes. The budget … Continue reading
Album review: THE NEW GROOVE – Quit Bitchin’
The New Groove Records [Released 10:12) If passion and commitment equated money, The New Groove would be millionaires. ‘Quit Bitchin’ delivers 10 belting rhythm and blues related tracks that mix hot playing and meaningful lyrics with … Continue reading
Album review: ALAN HEWITT – High Fidelity
Angel Song Records With a playing and production background spanning Earth Wind & Fire, Warrant, and more recently The Moody Blues, as well as high profile TV and film soundtrack work, keyboard playing vocalist Alan Hewitt’s … Continue reading
Album review: JIMMIE VAUGHAN – Reissues
Repertoire Records [Release date 05:2013] Perhaps only Jimmy Vaughan could cut a trio of albums that started with a nomination for Best Contemporary Blues Album Award (‘Strange Pleasure’) , nearly won the Best Rock Instrumental Performance Award for … Continue reading
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Tagged Al Green, blues, Dr John, Eric Clapton, Fabulous Thunderbirds, Fonzi Thornton, Greg Piccalo, Greg Sain, instrumental music, Jimmie Vaughan, Johnny Guitar Watson, Little Richard, Lou Ann Barton, Nile Rogers, R&B, Repertoire, Robert Cray, soul, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Texas Blues, Tyrone Vaughan
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Album Review: UFO At The BBC: On Air 1974 – 1985
Chrysalis This is a lovely thing. Admitedly, it is likely to be of most interest to collectors and completists. Then again, at just over £12 at a well known on-line music retailer (other retailers are available), who wouldn’t want to … Continue reading
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Tagged Live at the BBC 1974 – 1985, UFO
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Album review: SODOM – Epitome Of Torture
SPV – Release Date 29/4/2013. Coming up with a decent introduction to a new Sodom album has always been a difficult task for me. I mean, what is there to say that hasn’t already been stated about Tom Angelripper and … Continue reading
