Category Archives: ALBUM REVIEWS (Mobile)

Album review : SO HIGH I’VE BEEN European Rock Anthology 1967-73 (V/A 3CDs)

Posted on January 8, 2026 by brianmc

Cherry Red [Release date 16.01.26] Time was you could tell a friend that John Peel likes this band. They would either shy away like you’ve got the plague, or embrace the band like an old friend. There was no middle … Continue reading →

Album review: PETRA – Hope

Posted on January 5, 2026 by jason

Girder Records [Release date 12.01.26] 2026 could well be the year of the comeback and one highly anticipated is this new album from Petra, their first studio album since 2003’s ‘Jekyll & Hyde’. Petra have been touring on and off … Continue reading →

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Album review: ZOE SCHWARZ – Colourful House

Posted on January 2, 2026 by jason

Website [Release date 31.10.25] Are they Blues? Are they jazz? Are they psychedelic? What the hell does it matter when they are are all fused together in such a seamless and powerful way. The Zoe Schwarz Blues Commotion release their … Continue reading →

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Album review: DAVE RENEGADE – Haunted Heart

Posted on January 2, 2026 by jason

Bandcamp If you like taking journeys to despair and melancholy, look no further than this album by London’s Dave Renegade. This boy wears his pain on his sleeve and is not afraid to admit it. He himself acknowledges that it … Continue reading →

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Album review: RETREAT FROM MOSCOW – The Illusion Of Choice

Posted on January 1, 2026 by alanjones

White Knight Records [Release date: 07.11.25] Third album from Retreat From Moscow since they reformed in 2016 and this one’s a belter. Active from 1979 – 82, the band have been on hiatus, while life happened, but re-emerged with ‘The … Continue reading →

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Album review: 3 MILE SHOUT – Round We Go

Posted on January 1, 2026 by GRTR! HQ

Who Said That Records [Release date: 03.11.25] Here at GRTR! Towers at the end of the year there is a certain amount of housekeeping, reflection, and resolve. This process can reveal those albums that “got away” during the year and … Continue reading →

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Album review – JOHN WEIDER (50th Anniversary Edition)

Posted on January 1, 2026 by GRTR! HQ

Think Like A Key Music [Release date 12.12.25] John Weider is one of those unsung heroes of British rock. Not exactly a household name but a creditable CV nevertheless, with early stints in Johnny Kidd & The Pirates, The “New” … Continue reading →

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Album review: MOONRIDER (50th Anniversary Edition)

Posted on January 1, 2026 by GRTR! HQ

Think Like A Key Music [Release date 12.12.25] Those of a certain age will remember Keith West for his Top Ten hit “Excerpt From A Teenage Opera” and the tale of “Grocer Jack” aided by a posse of children, a … Continue reading →

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Album review: TIGER MOTH TALES – A Visit To Trading Boundaries

Posted on December 31, 2025 by alanjones

White Knight Records [Release date: 7.11.25] Multi-instrumentalist Peter Jones’s star has been on a meteoric rise since he became part of progressive rock royalty Camel in 2016 – and just in case you doubt his abilities, check out Camel’s sensational … Continue reading →

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Album review: BEYOND THE BLACK – Break The Silence

Posted on December 28, 2025 by jason

Nuclear Blast [Release date 09.01.26] Amazingly Beyond The Black have been around since 2014 and this is their sixth album, although to this recent convert it seems like they only started out a few years ago! Beyond The Black’s line-up … Continue reading →

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News: Albums of the Month (October-December 2025)

Posted on December 27, 2025 by GRTR! HQ

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. The star rating … Continue reading →

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Album review: MIDNITE CITY- Bite The Bullet

Posted on December 26, 2025 by andynathan

Pride and Joy Music [Release Date 21.11.25] Unapologetically promoting themselves as ‘hair metal’ when other more self-conscious bands might balk at the description, Midnite City are impressively now onto their fifth album since 2017. Rob Wylde’s men are not about … Continue reading →

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Album review: CHARLOTTE SMITH & DAVID CLIFTON – The Tree In The Wood

Posted on December 24, 2025 by jason

Little Room Recordings [Release date 17.10.25] An album of traditional folk tunes reinterpreted by Charlotte Smith, a London based singer songwriter and David Clifton, an Oxford based guitarist and singer, formerly a member of the indie band Sensible Jerseys and … Continue reading →

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Album review: JUDIE TZUKE – Now Or Never

Posted on December 23, 2025 by GRTR! HQ

Big Moon Records/www.tzuke.com [Release date 01.12.25] According to her liner note: “This album’s a bit noisier in places…Best played loud” When the opening track of Judie Tzuke’s latest album blasts out – surprisingly – I was reminded of that fairly … Continue reading →

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Album review: SPOCK’S BEARD – The Archaeoptimist

Posted on December 21, 2025 by GRTR! HQ

Madfish [Release date 21.11.25] Album reviewers, including this one, are often guilty of mining the cliché vaults and using five words where one would suffice. But then, every so often, something so good comes along that it defies words. ‘The … Continue reading →

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Album review: ROSS HARDING – The Blood and the Blues

Posted on December 18, 2025 by jason

Website [Release date 14.11.125] I have reviewed Ross’s two singles from this album, Revelator Blues and Lucifer and Me. And I must admit on first listening of Revelator Blues, I fell in love with him, in a bro sort of way … Continue reading →

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Album review: PETE KOSANOVICH – Beauty Within You

Posted on December 18, 2025 by jason

Bandcamp [Release date 21.12.25] Prolific song writer and multi instrumentalist Pete Kosanovich releases his eleventh album, including three with his band The Pale Blue Eyes, and two live ones. This one is called Beauty Within You, and the cover features Pete … Continue reading →

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Album review : ROB MORATTI – Sovereign

Posted on December 16, 2025 by brianmc

Frontiers [Release date: 12.12.25] Rob Moratti’s all star cast is arguably more famous than he is : Joel Hoekstra, Tony Franklin, Felix Borg, Fredrik Bergh and Pete Alpenborg. Alpenborg’s written stuff for Harry Hess, Robin McAuley, Kee Marcello, Tommy Heart … Continue reading →

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Album review : BRAZEN ABBOT – Live And Learn and Guilty As Sin (CD reissues)

Posted on December 13, 2025 by brianmc

Frontiers [Release date : 12.12.25] Classically trained Bulgarian multi-instrumentalist, Nikolo Kotzev founded Brazen Abbot in 1995. He could play every stringed instrument known to rock’n’roll mankind, but needed a singer. Over these two reissues, released simultaneously, the cream of European … Continue reading →

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Album review : GRAHAM BONNET – Lost In Hollywood Again (Live)

Posted on December 11, 2025 by brianmc

Frontiers Music [Release date 12.12.25] Old Rock Stars never die, and judging by Lost In Hollywood Again, they never fade away either. A 77 year old Graham Bonnet is testament to that. Recorded in the legendary Whisky A Go Go, … Continue reading →

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JIM PETERIK AND WORLD STAGE – River of Song – The Power Of Duets, Volume 1

Posted on December 10, 2025 by brianmc

Frontiers Music [Release date : 12.12.25] Guitarist, vocalist and songwriter, Jim Peterik led his own band, The Ides Of March, prior to forming Survivor in 1978. His subsequent history is well documented on Wiki. River of Song is his third … Continue reading →

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Album review: HENGE – Journey to Voltus B

Posted on December 10, 2025 by jason

Website [Release date 31.01.2025] Thanks to occasional GRTR! live reviewer Matt Curtis my interest was tweaked by the band that is Henge, an intergalactic electronic, electro and space rock musical juggernaut. Henge consists of Zpor (vocals, guitar), Goo (bass, synth … Continue reading →

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Album review : JIMI JAMISON – 1998 Live Hits

Posted on December 8, 2025 by brianmc

Frontiers Music [Release date 12.12.25] A live Nashville gig in 1998 from the late Jimi Jamison, who died in 2014, aged 63. Survivor’s fifth album, Vital Signs (1984), the first with Jamison on board as the band’s vocalist, was a … Continue reading →

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Album review: DEWOLFF – Fuego!

Posted on December 8, 2025 by jason

Website [Release date 05.12.25] What do Redbone, Leon Russell, Lowell George, Bad Company, Link Wray, Henri Garella, Cray Fox and Dr. John have in common ? They all crafted masterpieces which have inspired the ridiculously fertile imaginations of Dutch blues/soul/psychedelic … Continue reading →

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Album review : KEITH WEST – Cross That Bridge, The Anthology 1965-99 (2 CDs)

Posted on December 7, 2025 by brianmc

Strawberry Music [Release date 5.12.25] Like most musicians, Keith West’s life as a professional musician began inauspiciously. His career cycled through several bands in the early sixties, including most notably, Four Plus One and The In Crowd, before settling on … Continue reading →