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Lesoir are a six-piece band hailing from Maastricht in the Netherlands. Since their 2009 self-titled debut, there has always ...

Well, this was a long time coming, but it’s finally here! Square Wild have released their first album, Otherling. They have ...

Two years after the high-quality album, Coming up to Consciousness, full of artful, subtle musical frameworks, Pure Reason ...

Over the course of eleven studio albums, Eivør has established herself as a formidable musical force, blending traditional ...

Like Father Like Son is the intriguing first solo instrumental album by Michel St-Père, the founder, guitarist and creative ...

In the infancy of the internet era there were dial-up / email service providers, including my chosen supplier AOL. What has this got to do with The Pineapple Thief (TPT), you ask? Bear with me for a ...

Another Sunday In September rolls around and here we are again in deepest Balham underneath the infamously vicious aircon of The Bedford for another day of eclectic music. The ratio this time for me, ...

Peter Hammill stands, rightly, as a legend within progressive rock circles, yet his stature comfortably extends beyond that world. His appearance at this year’s Proms underlines just how deeply ...

I have never considered myself a devoted Yes fan. I play their music when I’m in the mood, but they are not a band I regularly revisit with the same deep craving or nostalgia as others. However, the ...

“Where words fail, music speaks”: Hans Christian Andersen’s statement perfectly expresses the way music can evoke images, re-ignite memories and speak directly to our emotions with a directness that ...

With an NWOBHM-shaped hole in my life after reviewing Holocaust’s second boxset and interviewing guitarist John Mortimer, I was only too pleased to find out that another British hard rock band from ...