Roots rock (which is as good a label as any for this album) attracts musicians who like to put a line around their creativity. On Greenling Tenements are inventive, but within quite clearly defined boundaries. So while they are willing, …
Read More: Review: Tenements – Greenling
The songs on this album take frequently unanticipated harmonic turnings, guiding the melodies in directions that recall the sixties, while its textures recall the alternative rock on the nineties. This is the sort of record that is ostensibly quite commonplace, …
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Psychedelia, as a historical style of rock music, was never quite as psychedelic as we might imagine. Yes, there were disorientating, hallucinatory soundscapes, but they were usually applied as transient effects within the context of a conventional song structure. For …
Read More: Review: Herbcraft – Ashram To The Stars
Simon Little’s EP Rejectamenta, ostensibly composed of material rejected for inclusion on this album, was an interesting recording in its own right, and implied certain promises about the creative direction in which Little might be moving. I’m glad …
Read More: Review: Simon Little – The Knowledge Of Things To Come
This album opens with a guitar transcription of an 1892 piece by Isaac Albéniz, a movement from his Suite española, Op. 47, one of the definitive works of modern Spanish art music. The piece is titled ‘Asturias’, but rather …
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