Album Review: Becky Mills – ‘Tall Tales and Home Truths’

Album Review: Becky Mills – ‘Tall Tales and Home Truths’

Becky Mills,”Tall Tales and Home Truths” (Talking Elephant)-The latest solo offering from  singer-songwriter Becky Mills features a batch of freshly minted songs rooted in the mythologies and folklore of her North Yorkshire home. Becky’s witty, perceptive and touching creations are...
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Album Review: Made of Teeth – Wealth and Hellbeing

Album Review: Made of Teeth – Wealth and Hellbeing

When South Wales mountain men Made of Teeth burst onto the scene in 2017, with their self titled 6 track debut album it caused quite the buzz on the heavy music scene. With a history of playing in bands such...
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Album Review: The Divine Comedy – Office Politics

Album Review: The Divine Comedy – Office Politics

Comedy Gold Welcome my friends to the weird and wonderful world of Neil Hannon, an incredibly talented and insightful man whose work has enlightened and enlivened many a shrivelled existence. He is a man of many words, oozing wit and...
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Album Review: Duff McKagan – Tenderness

Album Review: Duff McKagan – Tenderness

Duff McKagan’s musical CV reads like a ‘The Dirt’  Hollywood comeback script. From his early Punk days in Seattle to decamping to L.A where he subsequently hooked up with Slash and Steven Adler. Guns ‘N’ Roses reformation (of sorts) back...
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Single Review: Deafs Door – Wired Up

Single Review: Deafs Door – Wired Up

All Ears To The Ground Following a live stint at The Sunflower Lounge, our intrepid friends here dip their toes into the murky waters of the music business. Hailing from Brum, THE Home of Metal( I’m not biased, honest, but...
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Album Review: Anoushka Shankar – Reflections

Album Review: Anoushka Shankar – Reflections

Anoushka Shankar,”Reflections”(Deutsche Grammophon)- This absorbing anthology revisits the cream of sitar player and composer Anoushka Shankar’s cross cultural Deutsche Grammophon back catalogue, drawing on collaborations with a diverse assor...
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EP Review: Psychobabylon – Is This All There Is?

EP Review: Psychobabylon – Is This All There Is?

For those still crying over Brit Hard Rockers, The Almighty, Three Colours Red or even Zodiac Mindwarp’s premature demise despair no more, just jump aboard the Psychobabylon train. This  E.P is four cuts of imperious trash covered Rock which has...
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Album Review: Yngwie Malmsteen – Blue Lightning

Album Review: Yngwie Malmsteen – Blue Lightning

Ride The Blue Lightning With tousled hair and chest bare our twinkly fingered friend here returns with an album of covers and some of his own compositions. I can hear you sighing from here, but do not let the word...
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Album Review: Bad Religion –  Age of Unreason

Album Review: Bad Religion – Age of Unreason

Legendary L.A Punks Bad Religion return with the politically savage and bullishly on point ‘Age Of Unreason’. The band don’t throw out the obvious and sometimes faux American-punk lyrics that blight their contemporaries, oh woe is us, releases, no they.....
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Album Review: The Cranberries – In The End

Album Review: The Cranberries – In The End

The Cranberries,”In The End” (BMG)- The untimely death of Cranberries’ vocalist Dolores O’Riordan just over a year ago deprived the Irish rock scene of one of its most distinctive and compelling talents and left behind a collection of r...
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