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Latest Album Reviews
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Album review : FRANCIS ROSSI -The Way We Were, Volume 2
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Album review: DIAMOND RAIN – Chapter One
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Album review: IT – The Stranger Inside the Self
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Album review : PAUL LAINE : The Long Road Back
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Album review : BIG COUNTRY REDUX – Eastworld
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Album review: CARLA GOVER & FRIENDS – Williams Branch Is Hard To Find
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Category Archives: ALBUM REVIEWS
Album review : FRANCIS ROSSI -The Way We Were, Volume 2
Ear Music [Release date : 25.09.26] The half life of many Francis Rossi / Bob Young songs seems to extend way beyond the music of other artists. The Way We Were Volumes 1 and 2 are the living proof. Most … Continue reading
Album review: DIAMOND RAIN – Chapter One
Pride & Joy Music [Release date 23.10.26] Diamond Rain are a new band led by the silver masked High Priest, who is backed by Arch Lector and The Faithful Disciples. It sounds on paper like a Lidl version of Ghost, … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Chapter One, Diamond Rain, Ghost, hard rock, melodic rock, review, rock
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Album review: IT – The Stranger Inside the Self
Website [Release date 16.10.26] An interesting album by IT as the original album was written, recorded and produced by Nick Jackson back in 1994, and it was only ever released on self-made cassettes. Nick takes up the story, “In 2020, … Continue reading
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Tagged album, alternative, IT, It Bites, Nick Jackson, Pink Floyd, progressive, review, rock, The Stranger Inside the self
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Album review : PAUL LAINE : The Long Road Back
Frontiers Music [Release date : 25.09.26] There’s a lot of traffic right now on The Long Road Back from the Eighties. The AOR genre just refuses to die. GRTR’s AOR Guru, Andy Nathan, who travels the world in a search … Continue reading
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Tagged AOR, Bruno Ravel, Danger Danger, Dark Horse, Frontiers Music, melodic rock, Paul Laine, review
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Album review : BIG COUNTRY REDUX – Eastworld
Eastworld Records [Release date : 18.09.26] Twenty-five years after Stuart Adamson’s passing, the band has re-emerged as Big Country Redux, delivering Eastworld, a 10-track collection that bridges decades of unfulfilled musical history. At the heart of this project is Bruce … Continue reading
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Tagged Big Country, Bruce Watson, Eastworld, review, Stuart Adamson, Tommy Paxton, Tony Butler
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Album review: CARLA GOVER & FRIENDS – Williams Branch Is Hard To Find
www.carlagover.com [Release date 02.10.26] Attention all lovers of old American or traditional Americana music – this album is for you. Make a mark in your diary, it’s out Oct 2. Written by Si Kahn and featuring 10 different vocalists, including … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Americana, Carla Gover, Carla Gover & Friends, folk, Kentucky, review, roots
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Album review: OZRIC TENTACLES – Harmonic Mind
KScope [Release date 18.09.26] Festival favourites Ozric Tentacles formed at the Stonehenge Free Festival in 1983 and have kept a solid fanbase ever since. They released a number of cassette only albums during the 80s, releasing their first full album … Continue reading
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Tagged album, ambient, Harmonic Mind, Ozric Tentacles, prog, progressive, psychedelic, review, rock
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Album review: SIGH – Goh-Ka
Peaceville [Release date 04.09.26] Formed in Tokyo, Japan in the late 80s, Sigh were originally influenced by the Nordic black metal scene, the band have progressed experimentally since then, falling more and more into the Art Metal camp. This new … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Goh-Ka, Japan, metal, review, Sigh
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Album review : BUDGIE – Running From My Soul (3 CDs) The MCA Years 1973-75
Cherry Red [Release date : 25.09.26] The seventies have always been considered to be the hard rock and heavy metal years. Welsh band Budgie was at the epicentre. Their songs were covered by Soundgarden, Metallica, Van Halen and Iron Maiden. … Continue reading
Album review : VELVETEEN QUEEN – The Greater Good
Silver Lining Music [Release date 18.09.26] Who said Glamrock is dead? Not me. And certainly not Velveteen Queen. This band from Gothenberg is Glamrock’s second generation European progeny, whose rock’n’roll music has a solid sonic core and always has something interesting … Continue reading
Album review: TROY REDFERN – Astral Doorways
Self release [Release date 30.10.26] Troy Redfern’s ‘Astral Doorways’ is a 6 track instrumental album, spanning 32 and half minutes and includes an opening 11 minute title track suite. It’s a major departure from his usual high energy, barn burning, … Continue reading
Album review : TODD RUNDGREN – Live At The Ritz NYC 1989 (2CDs)
Cherry Red [Release date 25.09.26] Todd Rundgren’s first promotional gig of his 12th studio album and first for 4 years, Nearly Human (1989), took place at the New York City Ritz on its release date. Rundgren being Rundgren had taken … Continue reading
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Tagged Daryl Hall, Live At The Ritz, Marvin Gaye, Motown, Nearly Human, NYC, Stephen Tayler, The Tubes, Todd Rundgren
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Album review: WOOD BURNT RED – Hold On Tight
Website [Release date 04.09.26] Before I get started on the album, I just want to say that given good management and keeping their shit together Wood Burnt Red could be massive. You just know something special when you hear it, … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Americana, Burnt Red Wood, country rock, Hold On Tight, review, rock, southern rock, Wood Burnt Red
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Album review : VARIOUS ARTISTS – No Static At All : A Journey Into AOR (3CDs)
Cherry Red [Release date: 18.09.26] No Static At All is a 3 CD, 60 tracks journey through the halcyon days of AOR. It’s a tip of the hat to Steely Dan’s movie (FM) music hit of the same title. And … Continue reading
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Tagged AOR, Cherry Red, Chicago, eighties, FM, Foreigner, Journey, No Static At All, review, Steely Dan, Survivor
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Album review: EUROPE – Come This Madness
Silver Lining Music [Release date 25.09.26] It’s been seven years since Europe’s last album. Since 2017 the band haven’t been idle (with many a festival event under their collective belts) but the lack of a new studio album has been … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Come This Madness, Europe, hard rock, Joey Tempest, John Norum, melodic rock, review
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Album review: GARY JOHN BARDEN – Empowered Emotions
Frontiers [Release date : 18.09.27] There’s an abundance of richly melodic twists, ear-catching hooks and smoky Coverdale vocalisms running through the veins of Empowered Emotions, a new album from Gary John Barden. Barden’s CV is well documented online. He’s fronted many … Continue reading
Album review: MAIAH WYNNE – Into The Waves
Kscope [Release date 25.09.26] Maiah Wynne has been making music since she was seven and has been an integral part of Envy of None, who also feature Rush’s Alex Lifeson and Coney Hatch’s Andy Curran amongst their line-up. On this, … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Alex Lifeson, alternative, Envy of None, folk, indie pop, Into The Waves, Maiah Wynne, melodic, review, Rush
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Album review: MIKE GUINEY – The Grace of Eloquence
Bandcamp [Release date 25.06.26] The jury is out on this I’m afraid. Guiney was born on Newfoundland, Canada’s most easterly island. So pretty remote. His first musical memory is listening to Johnny Cash on an 8 track cartridge, so must have … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Leonard Cohen, melodic, Mike Guiney, review, singer songwriter, The Grace of Eloquence
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Album review: BOB HOLZ – Next In Line
MVD Audio [Release date 06.11.26] We last reviewed Bob Holz in 2023 and his album which gave equal billing to co-producer Rob Stathis. The latter takes more of a production role on this latest release which once again harnesses the … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Bob Holz, compilation, fusion, jazz fusion, Larry Coryell, Mike Stern, Next In Line, Randy Brecker, review, Stanley Clarke
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Album review: RITA BLISS – One More Winter
Website [Release date 02.10.26] Feeling lonely as a pea, what an exquisitely innocent line. And this kinda describes the album by Rita Bliss in two words. For those of you who don’t know Rita, as I didn’t, as well as … Continue reading
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Tagged album, American folk, banjo, One More Winter, review, Rita Bliss, traditional
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Album review : SEVEN SPIRES – A Fortress Called Home (Master Key Edition / 3CDs)
Frontiers Music [Release date : 04.09.26] “Seven Spires”, says Sascha Paeth, “are one of the few new real personalities in metal”. And you would need an abundance of personality and indeed, confidence to assemble such a suite of music as … Continue reading
Album review : SHAKRA – Just Live Loud
Frontiers [Release date : 04.09.26] Since 1995, Swiss band, Shakra have shared stages worldwide with everybody worth knowing, from Guns’N’Roses to Great White, from Stratovarius to Iron Maiden. And in between times they’ve released 14 albums. Their secret, apart from … Continue reading
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Tagged Frontiers Music, Live Life Loud, Mark Fox, melodic rock, review, Shakra, Thom Blunier, Thomas Muster
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Album review: KRIS BARRAS BAND – Monsters We Made
Earache [Release date 14.08.26] Kris Barras is consolidating his out and out heavy rock stance with the latest album. And what an album! There is a superb crunching groove throughout. I was impressed with the three previous albums which saw … Continue reading
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Tagged album, heavy rock, Kris Barras Band, metal, Monsters We Made, review
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Album review: THE UGLY GUYS – Highway Shoes
Conquest Music [Release date : 03.07.26] The Ugly Guys 9th album ‘Highway Shoes’ is everything you would want from a good country rock album, and more! It’s a perfectly balanced showcase of their own song craft, tempered by well chosen … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Americana, Bb Clouter, Cosmic Country, Country Music, Doug Sahm, George Jones, Gram Parsons, Highway Shoes, Jimmy Webb, Michael Murphy, Micky Jupp, Mikey Newbury, Nevil Kiddier, Paul Shuttleworth, pub rock, review, Steve Oliver, Tex Mex, the Ugly Guys, Vic Collins, Vince Gill, Willie Nelson
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Album review: STEVE HACKETT & STEVE ROTHERY – The Roaring Waves
Inside Out Music [Release date 28.08.26] Some years ago when I saw Steve Rothery’s band his second guitarist Dave Foster was providing support. Halfway through that set there came a guitar sound that was fashioned in the Lap of the … Continue reading
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