(((O))) Category: Reviews

Moloken – Moloken

Moloken has delivered an immersive, intense experience that demands to be heard. If you are new to the band, this self-titled effort serves as the ultimate introduction.

Black Bananas – Bad Bunch

This bunch may be ‘bad’, but it is great and tasty at the same time.

The Night Eternal – Cold Velvet

It’s an ambitious, challenging, and completely out-of-this-world album that made me want to headbang at times and reminded me that metal is more than just a five-letter word.

Aquiestoy – Til We Dissolve

It is those Latin music touches which Snaider applies here that work as a perfect glue that makes all the presented musical elements give the sonic picture Aquiestoy intended.

a-tota-so – I Told You So

I Told You so is the epicentre of where math rock and alt-rock collide. This is a glorious evolution in sound and scope which really deserves some attention.

Early Moods – Ready For The Grave

It’s brutal, immersive, and proudly noncommercial. Early Moods aren’t here to soften their sound or slip in a Disney‑style ‘I Want’ song. They’re here to deliver the real thing.

Windy & Carl with Optigan Conservatory – Windy & Carl Meet Optigan Conservatory

It is all shadows and light exchanging places, with shadows seemingly taking up the larger part of the scheme. Maybe just reflecting the times we currently live in.

Green Carnation – A Dark Poem, Part III: The Messiah Complex

Green Carnation has brought the trilogy full circle, as it reaches a haunting peak while taking the listener into darker layers that continue to unveil themselves.

Brand X – Theory of Nothing: Recorded Live 1977

Theory of Nothing is more than an archival release, it’s a revelation. Brand X didn’t just play fusion, they detonated it.

Black Oak Arkansas – When Electricity Came to Arkansas, Vol. 1 (1971-1973)

Their fusion of country grit, blues swagger, proto‑metal energy, and theatrical bravado helped shape the future of American rock. Revisiting these albums isn’t nostalgia; it’s rediscovery.

Kevin Ayers – Where Do The Stars End: The Recordings 1974-1980

This box set doesn’t just preserve that story; it lets you live inside it.

Sly & The Family Drone – With Love

There’s a wide open space for them to discover, but you know they’ll approach it with love.

Uncle Acid and the Deadbeats – Shapes of Midnight

Shapes of Midnight is one of their boldest and most adventurous releases, showing just how far this band can push its sound without backing down.

Elephant Stone – Asha

It is an excellent take on psych pop that deserves more attention.

Atomic Rooster – Friday the 13th: BBC Sessions 1970-1981

Across seven studio albums released between 1970 and 1983, it becomes clear just how far ahead of their time they were, even as they frequently remained under the radar.

Russian Circles – Nine

Nine is another quality addition to the Russian Circles collection of sublime music.

Jordsjø – Pestkrønikene

Pestkrønikene is a beautiful, strange, and sometimes ferocious journey through folk mysticism, psychedelic textures, and 1970s-inspired progressive rock.

Fen – Elemental Part One: Mourning Earth

It may not be an immediate album, and repeated listens will certainly bear fruit to where Fen are coming from, but when it hits, it really does feel like the only music that matters.

Lonely Robot – An Ending

An Ending is more than simply an outstanding progressive rock album, it is a deeply moving farewell to one of the genre’s most compelling concept stories.

Bellbird – The Call

This is an energetic, powerful, and exploratory album that refuses to play it safe.

Bajune Tobeta – Anechoic

It is all brief and to the point here, leaving the listener to simply ask for more, or even better, repeated listening, which will constantly reveal more.

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