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The combination of instruments, the epic build-up of each song section, along with some really smart compositional work make “The Lord Of The Valleys”, by Italian composer Lorenzo Armando Aldo Bazzoni, a track that successfully blurs the line between classical music and progressive art-rock, delivering the best of both...
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Will Wood’s voice is the absolute gem of his latest single “Laplace’s Angel”, which comes off the album “The Normal Album”. His high octaves sprinkle some of that classic vocal magic over the track, matching the pumping pulse that beats throughout the song, like some sort of great big...
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Quietly under all the Urban and EDM rummage, the standard of contemporary progressive minded rock albums being made keeps reaching new heights with a handful of bands leading the way in their pursuit of artistic excellence. New York outfit equape is a band well and truly ingrained in the...
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Gold Shimmer is an independent LA based electro-psych art rock band. It is a surrealist collaboration led by songwriter Jeff Venter on vocals alongside Artyone Turner on synth and Mitchell Manburg on lead guitar. Influenced by the Gorillaz, Young the Giant, and the Moon Duo they can rock, groove,...
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If you are a Radiohead fan, with a penchant for legends like Pink Floyd and King Crimson, then Roger Cole & Paul Barrere will be an easy band to fall in love with. Thick haunting atmosphere, lots of bleeps and beeps, intense melodies, beautiful vocals and mystery-veiled lyrics, are...
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The very first thing I learned while listening to the album “Rise of the Voluminous” by eclectic folk artist, Chaz Hearne, is that the defining question regarding any Hearne song is which Chaz Hearne he’ll be. Will it be the introspective, contemplative Hearne of slow-burning masterpieces like “Falling For Reason”...
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The album “All Are One” is a visceral experience. You have to live it, immerse yourself in it, and give yourself over to it. Confident in her command of the musical landscape, Gwynneth Haynes leader of the band, Sophe Lux & The Mystic, easily, and rather impressively, traverses many...
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Only a band totally confident in its own abilities could produce a song called “Political Freak Show” and not only get away with it but make it sound like an absolute classic. Roger Cole & Paul Barrere is that band and the song is a triumph of intelligent arranging...
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It’s not very often that I’m left open-jawed in amazement by a band. My friend suggested that I check out this poetic, experimental art-rock band called JACK OF NONE made up of siblings A.G. Syjuco (principal composer on guitar, bass and synths), Maxine Syjuco (poet-songwriter and vocalist), and Julian...