\Pop-Rock/Review Sean MacLeod – I Know Not

Pop-Rock/Review Sean MacLeod – I Know Not

I Know Not by Sean MacLeod is on the borderline of commercial pop forms and experimental sound decisions, which creates a unified whole and makes his own musical language. The chorus makes clear 1950s doo-wop allusions, and the aspects of the wall of sound approach of Phil Spector are present....

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ROCK/Review Stainvarp – Complete

ROCK/Review Stainvarp – Complete

Stainvarp have brought it with something that really matters with the complete. The new offering of the Swedish outfit does not conceal its subject–this is parental love in the distorted guitars and the high-flying tones, and it has the full value of its emotional load. The song begins with a...

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ROCK/Review The Spitting Pips – Vicious Circles

ROCK/Review The Spitting Pips – Vicious Circles

The Spitting Pips have something maniacally decadent about their “Vicious Circles”–a song that does not merely recount disorder, but literally flings you down into its intense, swirling core. The Llandudno quintet have created something truly visceral, the type of rock that makes you feel a bit dizzy and uncertain of...

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ROCK/Review Sean MacLeod – Beautiful Star

ROCK/Review Sean MacLeod – Beautiful Star

It has something romantically old-fashioned about Beautiful Star–it seems almost like finding a gem that has been buried in another century but it sounds so very up to date. The former Cisco frontman, Sean T MacLeod (who has worked with the producer of U2, Paul Barrett) has produced a track...

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ROCK/Review Mercy Kelly – Out in The Night

ROCK/Review Mercy Kelly – Out in The Night

Mercy Kelly of Greater Manchester have come back with one, called Out in The Night and it is at once obvious that this four-piece band does not have nothing against doing things in half. Since they played Kendal Calling and Tramlines Festivals, and otherwise, have racked up more than 400...

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ROCK/Review Andy Smythe – Emergency

ROCK/Review Andy Smythe – Emergency

Andy Smythe, a songwriter from London , has produced something that is truly endearing in his song, Emergency, a song that seems to have been discovered by chance in the untold history of the British pop. As the first single of his upcoming album Quiet Revolution, this song is an...

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ROCK/Review Highroad No. 28 – Thistroubledsoul

ROCK/Review Highroad No. 28 – Thistroubledsoul

It brings with it a kind of silence that falls upon the moment when Thistroubledsoul starts. It doesn’t hit all at once. It is time consuming, getting in slowly like some emotions when you have been holding on to them all along. Listening to Highroad No. 28 after almost ten...

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ROCK/Review Cruel Ploy – X's and Ohs

ROCK/Review Cruel Ploy – X’s and Ohs

The Cruel Ploy from Hamilton have created something truly unheard with Xs and OHs, an debut album that transforms the alternative rock into a dystopian vision. As post-human machines find corrupted human music files, this idea of the conceptual model may have been gimmicky – instead, it is superbly performed,...

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Pop/Review Giuseppe Cucé – 21grammi

Pop/Review Giuseppe Cucé – 21grammi

Not all albums play but breathe, and the 21grammi by Giuseppe Cuce sounds like it has been breathing, as the experience compressed and condensed into sound. Something made by Cuce of Catania sits in that indefinite, unstable place between confession and art, and it investigates the invisible burdens we all...

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ROCK/Review ENAVE – Skeletons

ROCK/Review ENAVE – Skeletons

Some songs do not play, they explode, and ENAVEs Skeletons explodes like an orchestrated blast in the shut rooms of the soul. This is music to distract, not to ignore but to invite you to see all that you have closed behind closed doors and hope that silence would make...

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ROCK/Review Ratlehole – Franz and Sissi: Back to Schönbrunn

ROCK/Review Ratlehole – Franz and Sissi: Back to Schönbrunn

What would become of the wonderful imperial couple of Austria when they appear in the modern Vienna and discover their palace full of tourists? Austrian project Ratlehole provides the answer to this question with the gloriously absurd theatrical metal, and the outcomes are as entertaining as they are surprising. The...

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ROCK/Review GLASS CABIN – emmylou

ROCK/Review GLASS CABIN – emmylou

The Glass Cabin of Nashville have created something that is really substantial with emmylou, a third studio album that does not follow the route of easy consolation. This is Americana wrapped in black – bourbon-streaked, philosophical, and eager to crawl inside the moral gray areas that lurk beneath the disguise...

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