Tag Pink Floyd
Poetic in more ways than one. Lyrically here we take to the work of Paul Verlaine, decadent artisan and lover of Arthur Rimbaud. This is the muse followed into the Fin de Siecle period of 19th Century Paris by Belgian… Continue Reading →
The Osiris Club is a band I feel I ought to know something about. They’re from London, I’ve seen their name many times and I know they’re prog-orientated with other old-style strings to their bow, as it were. In fact… Continue Reading →
Of all the wonderful music that 2021 has delivered to our ears when everything else has been far from getting back to normal, to say that Helheim’s eleventh (yes really) album comes with a great deal of anticipation would not… Continue Reading →
Within any music industry, year in and year out there are endless lists of “rising stars”, “ones to watch”, or “the sound of (insert year here)”. The vast majority of these acts will be the darlings of journalists more pretentious… Continue Reading →
Diagonal, hail from the pebbly multicultural mecca of Brighton, which over the years has seemed to morph from just another seabound slide into retirement into a bubbling caldron of counterculture, expressionism and tolerance. I have spent many a lovely time… Continue Reading →
The clue is in the album title, the artwork and the band name. “Psychedelic space lounge music” is what they call it. Electronic at the core, one of the influences is Kraftwerk. I can live with that. So too do… Continue Reading →
I could have sworn I had tackled Dutch ‘whisperers’ Fluisteraars in the past review wise but realised I had been getting them muddled up with countrymen Fluisterwoud who actually split up in 2009. An easy mistake I guess but one… Continue Reading →
Israel’s Subterranean Masquerade have actually been around in one guise or another for over 15 years, but with a pretty much stable line-up in place since 2018, this fourth album (the first by the band since 2017) is a bit… Continue Reading →
French five-piece outfit Los Disidentes Del Sucio Motel release their fourth long player after several years of quiet. This is a band that is a little hard to pigeon hole from a genre point of view. “Polaris” finds them stretching… Continue Reading →
With a style described as dark cinematic progressive rock. Astrakhan from Sweden are regarded as treading a path between Opeth and Pink Floyd. This is their third album release. I’d read that singer Alexander Lycke had a stunning voice, and… Continue Reading →
Folks, let me quote a few statistics that are salient to both me and this review: when I left London in 2014 for Dundee, the local population was reckoned at about 8.5 million, excluding the many “beds in sheds” residents… Continue Reading →
If for whatever bizarre reason you’ve read my inane ramblings over the last few years, you will know that Clouds Taste Satanic is a band I massively admire. Their instrumental doom music is of a scope that is positively cinematic,… Continue Reading →