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Category Archives: ALBUM REVIEWS (Mobile)
Album review: JOSEPH ARTHUR – The Ballad of Boogie Christ
Real World Records Joseph Arthur has built up a loyal following of fans as well as plaudits from fellow musicians including Peter Gabriel. This two disc set is loosely based on a fictionalised character, Boogie Christ, who bears some resemblance … Continue reading
Album review: ERIC STECKEL – Dismantle The Sun
Eric Steckel Music [Release Date: 31.10.12] Eric Steckel’s ‘Dismantle The Sun’ was originally released in the States towards the end of last year, but is being belated promoted in the UK on the back of his first proper UK … Continue reading
Album review: THE RED PAINTINGS – The Revolution Is Never Coming
[Release date 30.09.13] If aliens were scanning earth’s frequencies then The Red Paintings’ The Revolution Is Never Coming could well be the summation. Quite what they’d make of it, I’m not sure. They’d either think humanity was ripe for harvesting, … Continue reading
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Quick plays: RUSTY SHACKLE, STEPHEN KELLOGG, THE DUNWELLS, ROD PICOTT
Rusty Shackle – The Bones Rusty Shackle appear to have tripped over the ‘difficult second album’ stepping stone with the follow up to their 2012 debut album Wash Away These Nights which was a more varied offering than the ‘pedal … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Blunderstone Rectory, Follow The Road, Get Up, Hang Your Hopes On A Crooked Nail, Kevin Peroni, review, rock, Rod Picott, roots, Rusty Shackle, singer, songwriter, Stephen Kellogg, The Bones, The Dunwells, Wiretree
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Album review: TONY McLOUGHLIN – The Contender
He may look uncannily like Billy Connolly’s long lost brother, but opening with strains of Muhammad Ali getting ready to ‘rumble in the jungle’, Tony Mcloughlin’s fifth album The Contender is a glorious Telecaster-infused slab of Tom Petty/Springsteen inspired Americana. … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Americana, review, rock, roots, singer, songwriter, The Contender, Tony McLoughlin
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Album review: HAKEN – The Mountain
Inside Out www.insideout.de This is Haken’s third album, although they only came across my musical radar after seeing an excellent performance at this year’s Celebr8.2 prog festival. This is a concept album about each everyone’s personal mountain they have to … Continue reading
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Tagged album review, Dream Theater, Haken, Inside Out, prog metal, Queen, Ross Jennings, The Mountain
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Album Review: THE TEMPERANCE MOVEMENT – The Temperance Movement
Earache [Release date – 16.09.13] There is a lot of industry buzz around The Temperance Movement at the moment with the guys gaining plenty of airplay across the country and great live reviews appearing in the press. … Continue reading
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Tagged album, blues, Phil Campbell, review, rock, The Black Crowes, The Temperance Movement
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Album Review: ANNIHILATOR – Feast
UDR [Release date 26.08.13] This album is the 14th studio release from Canadian thrashers Annihilator. I have been aware of the band for many years but have never really warmed to them, even their ‘Alice In Hell’ … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Annihilator, Feast, Jeff Waters, metal, review, rock, Thrash
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Album review: TOUCHSTONE – Oceans Of Time
Hear No Evil [Release date 07.10.13 ] Having signed a new deal with Hear No Evil/Cherry Red Records, Touchstone have adopted the ‘if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it’ principle with their fourth studio album and leading single ‘Flux’. Recorded … Continue reading
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Tagged metal, Oceans Of Time, prog, progressive, review, Rob Cottingham, rock, Touchstone
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Album review: JOANNE SHAW TAYLOR – Songs From The Road
Ruf [Release date 04.11.13] There’s nothing like a live album to deliver the bacon. I don’t mean a doctored product with overdubs and the like, but simply a live recording with an expectant audience, a hot band and the recording … Continue reading
Album Review: CRYSTAL PALACE – The System Of Events
Gentle Art Of Music [Release Date: 04.10.13] The history of rock music is peppered with great albums – but the ones that truly sit in the Pantheon of iconic albums are those which have that one defining track, that … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Crystal Palace, Progressive Rock, review, RPWL, The System Of Events
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Album review: STEVE CRADDOCK – Travel Wild, Travel Free
Proper Records (released 30th September 2013) This is the third solo album from Ocean Colour Scene/Paul Weller’s guitarist Steve Craddock, who also has his wife Sally help out on vocals adding a folk air to the proceedings in places. The … Continue reading
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Tagged album review, Ocean Colour Scene, Paul Weller, Proper Records, Steve Craddock, Travel Free, Travel Wild
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Album review: BLODWYN PIG – Pigthology
Gonzo Multimedia [Release date 10.06.13] This release promises much – previously unheard recordings from influential blues rock band Blodwyn Pig led by original Jethro Tull guitarist Mick Abrahams. Unreleased material from this band (especially the formative years) must be as … Continue reading
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Tagged album, BBC, Blodwyn Pig, blues, compilation, gig, Jack Lancaster, Jazz rock, John Peel, live, Mick Abrahams, Pigthology, radio, review, rock, session
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Album review: IVAN MIHALJEVIC & SIDE EFFECTS – Counterclockwise
Zeta Factory [Release date 01.04.13] ‘Counterclockwise’ is a concept album of sorts. It’s not an album with a single overbearing theme as such, but more of a cerebral examination of the state of our collective consciousness. Front man Ivan Mihaljevic … Continue reading
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Tagged Alen Frijak, Counterclockwise, Croatia, guitar, Ivan Mihaljevic, Marko Karacic Karo, metal, prog, review, rock, Side Effects
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Album review: PETE BROWN & PHIL RYAN WITH PSOULCHEDELIA – Perils Of Wisdom
Repertoire [Release date 24.06.13] Pete Brown and Phil’s Ryan’s Psoulchedelia is a misleading name for a band whose music only occasionally broaches soul and is not remotely psychedelic. The punned title ‘Perils of Wisdom’ turns out to be an oblique … Continue reading
Quick plays: REBELLIOUS SPIRIT, UGLY KID JOE, KING KOBRA
REBELLIOUS SPIRIT – Gamble Shot (SPV) The recent success of Reckless Love has had an impact on a number of young bands. A good example of this is young German band Rebellious Spirit, whose logo is not dissimilar from the … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Doll, Gamble Shot, II, KING KOBRA, Ragdoll Diaries, Rebellious Spirit, review, Stairway To Hell, The Quill, UGLY KID JOE
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Album review: THE BLUES BAND – Live At Rockpalast
Repertoire [Release date 10.06.13] The Blues Band ‘Live at Rockpalast’ is that rare thing, a live DVD that connects as much with the viewer at home as the band did with the audience on the night. Too often a multi … Continue reading
Album review: ALVIN LEE & TEN YEARS LATER – Live At Rockpalast
Repertoire [Release date 10.06.13] Alvin Lee & Ten Years Later actually came 5 years after the dissolution of Ten Years After. It was essentially a virtuoso power trio who relentlessly toured The US and Europe and on this live DVD … Continue reading
Album review: EWAN DOBSON – Acoustic Metal
Candy Rat Records [Release date 06.02.13] ‘Once you see the line between metal virtuosity and classical music the challenge begins.’ So says Canadian guitarist Ewan Dobson whose 2 CD ‘Acoustic Metal’ is a challenging, innovative and hugely enjoyable CD. If … Continue reading
Album review: FERGIE FREDERIKSEN – Any Given Moment
Frontiers www.frontiers.it Fergie sang on Le Roux’s wonderful So Fired Up and then joined Toto for one of my absolute favourite Toto albums, namely Isolation…it was just a shame that his time in the band was so short. Back in … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Any Given Moment, AOR, FERGIE FREDERIKSEN, Frontiers, melodic rock, review, Toto
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Album review: MAGGIE REILLY – Heaven Sent
Red Berry Records [Release date 11.11.13] www.maggiereilly.co.uk Maggie Reilly frequently features in our singer-songwriter sequence on Get Ready to ROCK! Radio and , since 2009 when we interviewed her, she has become a firm favourite. Her solo albums are always worth … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Cado Belle, Celtic, Heaven Sent, Maggie Bell, Mike Oldfield, pop, review, singer, songwriter
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Album review: ROBERT PALMER – Reissues (1974-1985)
Edsel Records [Release date 26.08.13] 2-CD reissues Robert Palmer came to the music buying public’s attention with Vinegar Joe in 1971 and for a time he formed a formidable singing partnership with Elkie Brooks. Palmer’s transformation to a suave, smart–suited, soul … Continue reading
Album review: RAINBOW BRIDGE REVISITED
Gonzo [Release date 15.04.13] OK first things first. While the significance of Jimi Hendrix’s Rainbow Bridge concert was that it was his penultimate American show, there’s nothing of interest here for the Hendrix fans, outside of a few vague anecdotes … Continue reading
Album review: TYR – Valkyrja
Metal Blade Records (Release date – 17th Sept 2013) This is TYR’s seventh album and once again it plunges the listener into the dark world of Norse mythology and ancient gods. ‘Valkyrja’ is a concept album loosely … Continue reading
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Tagged album, CD, Faroes, folk, Iron Maiden, metal, Norse, Pantera, review, TYR, Valkyrja, Viking metal
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Album Review: MINISTRY – From Beer To Eternity
AFM Records The enigma that is Al Jourgensen. A man who does not do things by halves. In a career with more diversions than the M1 junction 13 roadworks, Jourgensen returns here with a Ministry album that seemed unlikely to … Continue reading
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