Callum Reid, Author at OriginalRock.net

March 16, 2022 one Response

Album Review: Joe Satriani – The Elephants Of Mars

Guitar maestro Joe Satriani, since Not Of This Earth in 1986, has established, re-established, energised, re-energised, imagined and re-imagined the instrumental rock guitar album as an art form. On his latest outing he bristles with vibrant creativity, like a steel...

March 9, 2022 No Responses

Album Review: Theodore – The Voyage

Ride to the stars on waves of synths, powered by the rocket fuel of cosmic imagination, with Theodore’s first album in three years, switching from the spinetingling and subtly ambient to the grand-scale anthemic and out-and-out euphoric. Man And His...

March 1, 2022 No Responses

Album Review: Ilhan Ersahin, Dave Harrington, Kenny Wollesen – Invite Your Eye

Invite Invite Your Eye into your ears. Like all invitations, it demands RSVP – from you, the listener. OK, you might not be into jazz, but maybe the jazzier bits of Black Country, New Road or Alex Henry Foster or...

January 26, 2022 No Responses

Album Review: Drug Couple – Stoned Weekend

The moment will come when you realise Stoned Weekend is so much more than some lame, one-dimensional spliff/ toke/ hemp gag. This is, in all seriousness, one of the most ambitious and engrossing releases of early 2022. Quite when “the...

January 19, 2022 No Responses

Album Review: Tin Woodman – Songs For Eternal Lovers

Wake up to a brave new world of self-realisation and discovery in 2022, courtesy of the second full-length album from this Italian crew. You want some fun? This is some fun. The glammed-up, loved-up, spaced-out guys ask: “Why can’t everyone...

December 3, 2021 No Responses

EP Review: Laura-Mary Carter – Town Called Nothing

Some things hit out of the blue and you just have to tell people – you have to! Isn’t music a wonderful, revelatory, multi-faceted salve of a thing? Listening to the new Alt-country, Americana record by Laura-Mary Carter, I am...

December 1, 2021 No Responses

EP Review: No Bragging Rights – Self Titled

It’s late in the year and you will already be compiling your “best of” lists – but spare a thought and leave a slot for California-based Melodic Hardcore outfit No Bragging Rights. What does it sound like? Well, I’m showing...

November 26, 2021 No Responses

Album Review: Ist Ist – The Art Of Lying

Ist Ist’s The Art Of Lying is a clear, coherent and ordered example of consistency – the considerable class and all-round quality are established early and maintained throughout. Is that consistency sustained partly because of a sameness to the materia...

November 24, 2021 No Responses

Album Review: Various Artists – Alice Cooper, Killer – 50 Years Later

There have already been a host of various-artists tribute albums (my own personal favourite is still 2014’s Ronnie James Dio: This Is Your Life. The recent The Metallica Blacklist contained some sparkling stuff but was perhaps too much of a...

November 18, 2021 No Responses

Album Review: Brion Starr – A Night To Remember

New-York based Brion Starr invites you to a nocturnal 1970s-influenced netherworld in this finely-crafted collection. The mood, the atmosphere, the production and the mix (Starr in cahoots with sonic legend Tony Visconti) are spot on – but are the songs....

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