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Category Archives: ALBUM REVIEWS
Album review: LAURA EVANS – Out Of The Dark
Website [Release date: 17.10.25] Laura Evans returns with her second album, which is set to further her building musical reputation to add to daytime plays on BBC Radio 2, along with a recent tour supporting Robben Ford. ‘Out Of The … Continue reading
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Tagged album, blues, Elles Bailey, Laura Evans, Out Of The Dark, pop rock, review, rock, singer songwriter
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Album review: STRAPPS – Bound For Glory (Complete Recordings 1976-1979)
Cherry Red Records [Release date: 19.09.25] Strapps were a late 70s band with a wonderful straight ahead rock sound, and a raunchy (some said misogynistic) image. They formed in 1975 when former Episode 6 and Quatermass drummer Mick Underwood teamed … Continue reading
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Tagged Bound For Glory, box set, Complete Recordings 1976-1979, funk, Gillan, hard rock, Mick Underwood, review, rock, Strapps
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Album review: MAY THE MUSE – No Please, Yes Thank You
Bandcamp [Release date: 27.06.25] American/German singer/songwriter Désirée Mishoe who records under the name of May the Muse, has released an intriguing debut album full of musical variety. The album is produced by Justin Hawkins, who also plays most of the … Continue reading
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Tagged album, funk, Justin Hawkins, May the Muse, melodic, No Please, pop, review, rock, The Darkness, Yes Thank You
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Album review : RISEN ATLANTIS feat: FRANK BECK – Power To The Past
Frontiers Music [Release Date : 26.09.25] Singer, Frank Beck, touring sideman with Kai Hansen’s Gamma Ray for many years, now gets his solo opportunity. Risen Atlantis is the brainchild of Alessandro Del Vecchio, writer, producer, musician, commonly associated with Frontiers … Continue reading
Album review: PAUL ARCHER – Art
Website [Release date 08.08.25] First solo release from Disraeli Gears/Burning Codes frontman Paul Archer, which has been designed to be enjoyed best on vinyl. ‘Art’ splits in two: Leeds-recorded alt-rock anthems on Side A, and Belfast-grown cosmic soul on Side … Continue reading
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Tagged album, art, Burning Codes, Disreali Gears, Duke Special, indie, Paul Archer, pop rock, review, rock, Snow Patrol, Solo
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Album review : MIKE TRAMP – The Songs Of White Lion Vol III
Frontiers Music [Release date : 19.09.25] Few musical artists get the chance to rerecord their old material. Still fewer improve upon the originals. Mike Tramp continues to claim – clearly very sincerely – that he is surprised to have got … Continue reading
Album review : PRIDE & JOY ANTHOLOGY – 10 Years Of Pride & Joy
Pride&Joy [Release date : 19.09.25] The Pride & Joy label is celebrating ten years active in the world of rock and metal. Founder and CEO Birgitt Schwanke has created a bijou music business that just grows and grows. The 10 … Continue reading
Album review: NINEBARROW – The Hour of the Blackbird
Website [Release date 03.10.25] Over the course of 12 years and five studio albums Ninebarrow (Jon Whitley and Jay LaBouchardiere) have earned themselves a reputation for their songwriting, imaginative reworkings of traditional songs, skilled musicianship, and their exquisite vocal harmonies. Now, … Continue reading
Album review: DAVID PALFREYMAN – Opening Time For The Battered
Bandcamp [Release date 26.09.25] David Palfreyman has released music in various guises in the past, including 2017’s ‘Decades’, a concept album with Nicholas Pegg. ‘Opening Time for the Battered’ David refers to as his debut solo album, musically aided by … Continue reading
Album review: LITTLE KING – Lente Viviente
Facebook [Release date 26.09.25] Little King was formed in November of 1996 by guitarist/singer/songwriter Ryan Rosoff in El Paso, Texas. Ryan is joined in the current Little King line-up by David Hamilton (bass, cello) and Tony Bojorquez (drums), and this … Continue reading
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Tagged album, alt rock, Lente Viviente, Little King, melodic rock, prog rock, review, rock
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Album review : BEBOP DELUXE – The Albums 1976-78 (3 CD set)
Esoteric Music [Release date : 26.09.25] Nowadays, founder, guitarist, writer and driving force behind the band Be Bop Deluxe, Bill Nelson, is not for looking in the rear view mirror, so it’s good that Cherry Red offshoot, Esoteric is doing … Continue reading
Album review: THREE DAYS GRACE – Alienation
RCA Records [Release date 22.08.25] The main recent development for Three Days Grace is the return of original vocalist Adam Gontier who now shares duties with Matt Walst (who replaced him in 2013). Formed in the late 1990s in Ontario, … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Alienation, alternative rock, nu-metal, review, Three Days Grace
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Album review : THE BANGLES : Watching The Sky (4 CD Boxset)
Cherry Red [Release date : 26.09.25] The title of this Bangles’ boxset, Watching The Sky, is taken from their third (and at the time, assumed to be their last) album, titled Everything, released in 1988. CD1 : All Over The … Continue reading
Album review: THE RASMUS – Weirdo
Better Noise Music [Release date 12.09.25] It’s as if the last 20 years never happened. The Rasmus first came to our attention back in 2003 with their Scandi brand of pop/nu-metal and ‘Weirdo’ sees them on a bit of a … Continue reading
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Tagged album, goth metal, nu-metal, pop metal, review, The Rasmus, Weirdo
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Album review: CORY MARKS – Sorry For Nothing Vol.2
Better Noise Music [Release date 03.10.25] Cory Marks new album is a follow-up to last year’s volume 1. Like its predecessor it was produced by Kevin Churko (Ozzy Osbourne, Shania Twain), Kile Odell, and Andrew Baylis. The album, in Cory’s … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Cory Marks, country, country rock, melodic, review, rock, Sorry For Nothing Vol.2
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Album review : FANNY – Rock’n'Roll Survivors (Remastered and Expanded 2 CD Edition)
Cherry Red [Release date 19.09.25] We reviewed Fanny’s first 4 studio albums (as a boxset) last year. Their fifth and last album, released in 1974, was called Rock’n’Roll Survivors. Aptly named. This new, 2 CD version has been expanded and … Continue reading
Album review : CARL BALDASSARRE – Deep Grooves
CB Music [Release date : 12.09.25] You have to admire Carl Baldassarre’s honesty for treating this self produced album as an academic exercise rather than a labour of love, although love of music of whatever stripe is clearly his motivation. … Continue reading
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Tagged Carl Baldassarre, funk, Jacob Dupre, Kool and the Gang, Nick D’Virgilio, review, Sly Stone, soul, Stevie Wonder
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Album review: FIRST TIME FLYERS – Bound To Break
Website [Release date 12.09.25] This is their debut album – get out of here, you gotta be kidding me!!! Seriously, the maturity of the songwriting, the palpable chemistry of the four artists, the harmonies, all seem way beyond a debut … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Bound to Break, country, country pop, First Time Flyers, Lady A, pop, review, The Wandering Hearts
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Album review: VARIOUS ARTISTS – A Tribute to Clifton Chenier
Valcour Records This album has been out since June, but I felt duty bound to bring your attention to it. Released on Valcour Records, it features Mick, Keith and Ronnie, and whole host of other heavyweight Zydeco, Cajun and country … Continue reading
Album review: BLACKLIST UNION – Slay The Dragon
BLU Records [Release date 12.09.25] Los Angeles based Blacklist Union are a band I highly recommend checking out if you haven’t before now, and they are about to release their 6th album “Slay The Dragon”. Having highly rated the band’s … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Blacklist Union, Guns 'N' Roses, hard rock, review, rock, Slay the Dragon, The Cult
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Album review: DEEP PURPLE – Rapture Of The Deep (20th Anniversary Edition)
earMusic [Release date 05.09.25] Released in October 2005, Deep Purple’s 18th studio album gets a well deserved reissue. This wonderful album was the 2nd to feature pianist Don Airey and 4th with guitarist Steve Morse. Many still imagine this album … Continue reading
Album review : THE SWITCH – No Way Out
Frontiers [Release date 12.08.25] It’s in some way inspiring to hear a band embracing the past wholeheartedly. Pretty well everywhere you scratch the paint on No Way Out, you’ll find the 1980s underneath. The Switch was formed by identical twin … Continue reading
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Tagged Bobby John, Cruzh, Denis Butabi Borg, James Martin, melodic rock, Nitrate, review, The Switch, Tom Martin, Vega
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Album review: TEDESCHI TRUCKS BAND and Leon Russell Present – Mad Dogs & Englishmen Revisited, Live at Lockn’
Concord [Release date 12.09.25] Tedeschi Trucks Band’s ‘Mad Dogs & Englishmen Revisited’ ticks most of the right boxes in honoring the music of the original live album and the band does what it says on the tin! Unsurprisingly, it struggles … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Anders Osborne, Chris Robinson, Chris Stainton, Claudia Lenear, Dave Mason, Derek Trucks, JOE COCKER, John Bell, Leon Russell, Live at Lockn', Mad Dogs & Englishmen Revisited, Pamella Holland, review, Rita Coolidge, Susan Tedeschi, Tedeschi Trucks Band, Warren Haynes
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Album review: ELIZABETH & JAMESON – Way Out West
Website [Release date 03.10.25] If their married life is as harmonious as their vocal harmonies, then they should see at least their ruby wedding anniversary. Presenting their second album, Way Out West after a five year gap since their debut, Hannah … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Elizabeth & Jameson, folk, harmonies, Mamas and Papas, review, Way Out West
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Album review: PEACE OF MIND – Blood Is the Price
Bandcamp [Release date 05.09.25] In my mind, when I think of underground metal, I think of Germany. Many great bands have hailed from Germany, Kreator, Sodom, Destruction and the mighty Rammstein to name a few. And I believe Peace of Mind … Continue reading
