News: Albums of the Month (January – March 2025)
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A quarterly feature highlighting album releases rated highly by the GRTR! review team and worthy of your investigation. We try and pick out a cross-section of albums that reflect the range of genres reviewed at the website.
Heart Of A Lion is a superb, beautifully crafted melodic rock recording, mixing keys and guitars in varying measures, creating the classy AOR that engages the casual fan as well as the obsessive. ****1/2
Review by Brian McGowan
STONE FOUNDATION The Revival Of Survival
Stone Foundation are up there, jostling elbows with the best that soul music has to offer.
Review by Brian McGowan
These are additional evidence that the memories of pop metal’s illustrious past have never faded. Loudly and skillfully, Thrill Of The Bite confirms this.
And it has done so by delivering an album of highly melodic, declamatory pop metal at its finest. ****
Review by Brian McGowan
JULIET’S NOT DEAD This World Is Ours
…hard hitting rhythmic rock and had a big nod to the metal lovers. It is very fresh and current and I feel it would appeal to the new generation of rock fans as well as old. ****
Review by Lucy Parr
THEA GILMORE These Quiet Friends
Thea Gilmore has crafted an album here that imbues a haunting acoustic sheen to well known songs and, indeed, enhances the iconic status of many of them – her voice, as ever, is peerless and the acoustic guitar and piano a perfect accompaniment.
Songs to inspire, songs to comfort and songs that calm – they’re all here, delivered with breathtaking skill and empathy by an artist at the top of her game. *****
Review by Alan Jones
Morganway have an album here with a wide appeal and a few supports/joint headliners with the likes of say Brave Rival or Skerryvore would help their fanbase grow even bigger. What a great musical start to the year. ****
Review by Jason Ritchie
Albums of the Month (Main index)
Featured Artist: JOSH TAERK
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UK Blues Broadcaster of the Year (2020 and 2021 Finalist) Pete Feenstra presents his weekly Rock & Blues Show on Tuesday at 19:00 GMT as part of a five hour blues rock marathon “Tuesday is Bluesday at GRTR!”. The show is repeated on Wednesdays at 22:00, Fridays at 20:00). This show was first broadcast on 4 March 2025
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Power Plays w/c 7 April 2025
SEVEN BLOOD To The Unknown (indie)
FROM FALL TO SPRING Incomplete (Arising Empire)
POP EVIL Side Effects (MNRK Heavy)
ERJA LYYTINEN Abyss (Tuohi Records)
SKY VALLEY MISTRESS Too Many Ghosts (New Heavy Sounds)
RED GIANT Free Me (indie)
Featured Albums w/c 7 April 2025
09:00-12:00 The Best of 2003 – 2024 (Melodic Rock)
12:00-13:00 The Best of 2003 – 2024 (Melodic Hard Rock)
14:00-16:00 The Best of 2003 – 2024 (Singer Songwriter)
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