Headstone – ‘Bad Habits/Headstone’ (2023)
Formed in 1974 by former Rare Bird drummer Mark Ashton and ex-Atomic Rooster guitarist Steve Bolton, Headstone recorded two albums, mixing hard, acoustic based and progressive rock. Cherry...
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Freedom – ‘Born Again, The Complete Recordings 1967-72’ (2023)
English rock band Freedom was formed in August 1967 when founding Procol Harum drummer/vocalist Bobby Harrison and guitarist Ray Royer were joined by bassist Steve Shirley and keyboard...
Frijid Pink – ‘The Deram Recordings 1970-1971’ (2023)
Best known for their guitar-driven arrangement of the traditional song ‘House Of The Rising Sun’, a Top Ten hit in no less than 14 different countries, Detroit’s Frijid...
Sarah Belle Reid & David Rosenboom – ‘NOWS’ (2022)
If one forms preconceptions of the album based on its cover, then the visual artwork of Sarah Belle Reid, (combining graphic notation and lavender blue-and-amber spiraling wave), is...
Sagat | Interview | New Album, ‘Silver Lining’
'Silver Lining' is the full album debut of Brussel-based electronic producer Sagat. It is out now on Vlek. Sagat takes us on a deep dive into a dense...
black sand – ‘Daydream’ (2023)
Black Sand, fronted by Anthony Evans, New Zealand's master of light-handed lysergic cosmic bliss has filtered in a new extended play (under 30 minutes) offering that’s relentlessly tight,...
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band – ‘A Door Inside Your Mind (The Complete Reprise Recordings 1966-1968)’
One of the quirkiest, most idiosyncratic, yet original groups to come out of Los Angeles in the 1960s, The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band served up a...
Michael James Tapscott – ‘Beasts of History’ (2023)
Michael James Tapscott’s new adventure 'Beasts of History' floated through my door like a breath of fresh air, like something I’d been waiting for, yet didn’t know it....
Jeffrey Silverstein – ‘Western Sky Music’ (2023)
'Western Sky Music,' an enchanted lingering disembodied low-keyed America dreamscape by Jeffery Silverstein is a soulful masterpiece, a brilliant deduction and exploration of the cosmic structure that holds...
Deviation Street: High Times In Ladbroke Grove – 1967-1975
For the first time we’re living in a cultural age when last or even "best of" selections are somehow defining or equal to past classics, why else bandy...