Firefriend – ‘Dead Icons’ (2021)
The prolific Brazilian trio Firefriend return with their sixth album since forming in 2016 and 'Dead Icons' continues their psychedelic assault on the senses like a midnight raid...
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Chasing Bone – ‘Now What?’ (2021)
Fast-acting Greek psychedelic trio Chasing Bone typically capture their recordings in a few hours, improvising sound collages until a coherent whole emerges from its myriad side routes and...
Tom Petty – ‘Finding ‘Wildflowers’ (Alternate Versions)’ (2021)
Some thirty years ago, Tom Petty wished for 'Wildflowers' to be a much longer and more inclusive outing, of course his record label disagreed, saying that a stretched...
Reigning Sound – ‘A Little More Time with Reigning Sound’ (2021)
Of course the big news is that this is the band’s first album in nearly seven years, belaying an insightful mix of soulful garage rock and jangle pop,...
Valium Aggelein – ‘Black Moon’ (2020)
The story behind this ethereally blissful album is that the space capsule Valium Aggelein drifted off its planned orbit, ebbing into uncharted regions of the cosmos, beaming back...
Cloud Eleven – ‘Pandora’s Box’ (2021)
Since the late nineties, singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Rick Gallego has been releasing music under the alias Cloud Eleven. To date, the Los Angeles based one man band...
Beyond The Pale Horizon – The British Progressive Pop Sounds Of 1972
The very first single to reach the number one position in the U.K charts in 1972 was a re-recording of a jingle penned to sell Coca Cola. ‘I'd...
Juicy Lucy: ‘Juicy Lucy’ / ‘Lie Back And Enjoy It’ / ‘Get A Whiff A This’
A group of name-banders recording three well-reviewed albums on major labels in barely 18 months, by most criteria should have laid solid foundations for a glittering career. Their...
Magic Castles – ‘Sun Reign’ (2021)
Four years in the making, Minneapolis quartet Magic Castles return with their seventh album and fourth on Brian Jonestown Massacre founder Anton Newcombe’s A Recordings. Again featuring vestiges...
Rare Bird: Beautiful Scarlet – The Recordings 1969-1975, 6CD Box Set
Rare Bird was a late 1960’s/early 1970’s UK progressive rock band that lived up to their name by recording their first two albums without a guitarist, led instead...