Nazareth: Surviving the Law (2022) Nazareth are one of the longest-running and most important rock bands to ever come out of Scotland, and even if we discount the years that most of the […]

Crying Club: Big Water Bottle EP (2023) It is some 18 months since I last reviewed a recording by Crying Club, which was the single Taxi Man, but I did see them at EmoFest last year where three […]

Flying Man: Under The Stars (2023) single Flying Man is the stage name of Dunedin based Irish-born live-looping guitarist and singer/songwriter Alan Ned Gray. Flying Man’s song-writings sit in t […]

Beckoned: Luminous (2023) single The word “supergoup” is not one to be bandied around lightly, yet that was very much the first thing which came to mind when I came across this new for […]

Julia Dorry: You Make Me (2023) single You Make Me is the debut single from Julia Dorry, who was born and raised in Berlin but now calls Aotearoa her home. This four-minute-long number is all […]

Fiffdimension: Aguas Brilhantes. 2018​-​2022 (2022) What we have here is the fourth in a series of compilations from Dave Edwards, covering the years 2018-2022 (the others are for earlier years) and […]

Matt Joe Gow: Between Tonight & Tomorrow (2023) single Here we have Matt’s latest single, taken from the album of the same name which is out on March 10th. Matt provides vocals and guitar, and he is again a […]

Fathom: Wink of the Lighthouse (2023) single In my wonderfully formed Kev’s Top Tens for 2022 we can see nestling at #5 in the albums slot The World To Breathe by Nancy Howie, otherwise known as F […]

Oberon: The Mountain of Fate (2016) Oberon is a two-man project of Yuri Crescenzio (acoustic & electric guitars, bass, keyboards, organ, synth, effects) and Alberto Baretta (percussion), […]

Oberon: The Sleep Produces Monsters (2018) The band’s second album showed quite a shift, with Yuri Crescenzio now just providing electric guitars and Giacomo Zanardo joining on bass while d […]

Rebecca Angel: Love Life Choices (2021) As is normal for me, I loaded this album onto the next playlist and didn’t even look at any details until I had listened to it, so consequently had now i […]

Sonata Arctica: Acoustic Adventures – Volume One (2022) It is always interesting when a band decides to revisit their back catalogue in a new way, and this is the first of two albums from Finnish power […]

Fit For An Autopsy: Oh What The Future Holds (2022) The artwork may look pleasant at first glance, and the opening title cut may lead the unwary into a false sense of security, but we all know what FFAA […]

Gin Lady: Camping with Bodhi (2021) I know virtually nothing about these guys, apart from they hail from northern Sweden and I believe this is their fourth album. Going by the funky artwork […]

Julian Gerstin: Music for the Exploration of Elusive Phenomena (2021) If one goes to percussionist Julian Gerstin’s website one will find it is subtitled Music of Africa, the Caribbean and the African Diaspora — […]

The Rising Tide: The Hope We Die For (2023) Palmerston North deathcore band The Rising Tide had a great 2022, touring for the first time in six years and here we are now with their latest EP which […]

Richard "Piano" Scott: Jambalaya Town (2014) Last year one of my daughters went on a travelling tour of the States with her partner, and of course one of the places they visited was New Orleans. […]

Dave Miller Trio: The Mask-erade is Over (2021) In 2009 Miller released his first album on the Summit label, ‘Rapture’, which featured drummer Bill Belasco and bassist Mario Suraci. Over the last ten […]

UFO: No Heavy Petting [2023 Remaster] (1976) Unless you were a teenager in the UK in the mid to late Seventies I don’t think it is possible to understand just how important UFO were to the hard r […]

UFO: Werewolves Of London (2022) On February 10th 1998 UFO strode out onto the Civic Hall stage in Wolverhampton, and the set was recorded and soon made available as an album. Just […]