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Moddi - Floriography Perhaps it is a slow quiet kind of resignation or maybe it is the gentle warmth that it embodies that carries on with me long after the music stops that makes me feel a kind of kinship with this album. MODDI displays an agonising relatability in the songs here. For example Stuck In … Continue reading WORDS FROM THE TEAM: Jacob’s Album Of The Month – April 2023
HAMASAARI is a word I don’t understand and the most popular search engine of our day, Google, returns no results aside from this band. One might even call this word Ineffable, which is a little appropriate. Inspired by titans of the progressive field that include PORCUPINE TREE, PINK FLOYD, and KLONE; this French quintet brings … Continue reading ALBUM REVIEW: HamaSaari – Ineffable
Reissues of albums are a funny thing especially in the modern age. If you bundle a track on the end you have to be certain that the audience cannot get it elsewhere. So what you end up needing to sell is something fresh and interesting by a well loved artist. Needless to say that MOTÖRHEAD … Continue reading ALBUM REVIEW: Motörhead – Bad Magic: Seriously Bad Magic
Woods Of Ypres - Woods 4: The Green Album Arpeggiated minor chords rise and fall, slow but well paced, ponderous and pulling along which are shortly joined with ethereal but hollow strings and a voice that brings weight but is barely singing. A love song after the love, a breakup in which the participants are … Continue reading WORDS FROM THE TEAM: Jacob’s Album Of The Month May 2022
For a franchise that is so well known for its musical content Star Wars has an alarmingly small repertoire of original music made in tribute to it. Now obviously some styles are more fitting than others. For example I doubt easy listening tribute to Tatooine’s finest would go down overly well but a death metal … Continue reading ALBUM REVIEW: Ecryptus – Kyr’am Beskar
Dear readers, It’s that time of year again when the cold wind blows, migratory animals retreat to their winter homes and I eat far too many biscuits. What can be said of 2021 that hasn’t been said already? Oh, I know. Of all the things that have ever occurred, 2021 was one of them. Perfect. … Continue reading WORDS FROM THE TEAM: Jacob’s Top 10 Albums of 2021
The Work is the brand new album by Pennsylvanian Progressive Metallers RIVERS OF NIHIL. It is not strictly a metal album although metal is the dominant genre. Entwined are elements of jazz, easy listening and atmospheric tropes that serve to make something very interesting indeed. The album begins with The Tower (Theme From The Work) … Continue reading ALBUM REVIEW: Rivers Of Nihil – The Work
I went to Leeds. I have done this many times in the past. It is a fine city. Filled with blackened churches stained by the ravages of time, black roads coated in the finest tarmac, and black metal, which is not visually black but still pretty on theme. Yes, Saturday the 6th of November saw … Continue reading WORDS FROM THE TEAM: Damnation Festival
What do we call an album that was not strictly speaking recorded in a studio. And that was not recorded live in front of people, and is definitively not a collection of demos but instead was broadcast live over the internet? We’re going to need a word. The last year and a half robbed musicians … Continue reading ALBUM REVIEW: The Pineapple Thief – Nothing but the truth
It’s often with some degree of dramatic irony that I’m given albums to review. This time it's a progressive black metal and jazz affair by German act LEIþA (Translation from Old German: Suffering). This album was described to me as being akin to a few other albums I have reviewed and naturally I was interested. … Continue reading ALBUM REVIEW: Leiþa – Sisyphus