Album Reviews Archives - Page 228 of 343

Say Psych: Album Review: Kikagaku Moyo – Masana Temples

Masana is a fictional word created by Kikagaku Moyo to express a utopian feeling, an existence where everything can interact harmoniously and offer inspiration and understanding. The fourth LP from…

View Post

Album Review: Various – Harmony In My Head: Power Pop And New Wave Compilation

Cherry Red seem to be in the habit these days of releasing quality Box Sets and this new compilation see`s a natural follow up to the very successful Action Time…

View Post

View Post

Say Psych: Album Review: The Oscillation – Wasted Space

Following a re calibration and consolidation with their recent electronics-inflected album, 2018’s U.E.F., The Oscillation are back with their sixth and most ambitious album to date, Wasted Space. Offered up…

View Post

View Post

Say Psych: Album Review: The Lucid Dream – Actualisation

Carlisle’s The Lucid Dream are back with a new LP, Actualisation, which was released last week on Holy Are You Recordings, much to the delight of their fiercely loyal fan…

View Post

View Post

Album Review: An Early Bird – Of Ghosts and Marvels

Here at Backseat Mafia, we have been following the career of Stefano De Stefano since our very inception when he was the front man for Italian folk/rock band Pipers. He…

View Post

View Post

Box Set Review: Mott the Hoople – Mental Train (The Island Years 1969-71)

Before “All The Young Dudes”, before Top of the Pops appearances, before David Bowie, Mott The Hoople were a brilliant live act that arguably struggled to transfer the tremendous energy…

View Post

View Post

Album Review: John Grant – Love is Magic

Sometimes you just have to accept your own limitations. For example, the last two months have seen me trying to desperately juggle being a father and halfway decent life partner,…

View Post

View Post

Not Forgotten: Genesis – Selling England By the Pound

Genesis may have not been the first, best or even the most original, but to many fans they are the archetypal progressive rock act. From distinctly unpromising beginnings, they had…

View Post

View Post

Album Review: Matt Berry – Television Themes

When Acid Jazz Records announced earlier this year that Matt Berry’s next release would be an album of covers of Television Themes, I only momentarily considered if it was a…

View Post

View Post

Album Review: Jim Clements – A Failure

Every so often Jim Clements puts out an album and not enough people cop on. It’s kind of understandable. There’s very much music to be heard and no shortage of…

View Post

Pages