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Taal - Skymind

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Taal’s Mister Green (2002) [reviewed in Exposé #23] was an impressive debut disk. I’m happy to report that Skymind, the second album, is just as...

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(Posted by Jim Chokey 2003-12-01)

Taal - Skymind

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Taal is a ten-man group that lives up to their medium profile hype by merging high drama with well-crafted semi-classical influences. Guitarist Anthony Guibard and violinist Manu Fournier prove...

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(Posted by Jeff Melton 2003-12-01)

The Building Press - Amplitude of Frequencies over Time

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I guess I can’t blame whoever invented the term “math rock”. After all, if you called it what it really is – prog rock, or more accurately, art rock – only people who...

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(Posted by Jon Davis 2003-12-01)

The Dutch Flat - Ghosts

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The Dutch Flat doesn’t sound much like the other bands I’ve heard in the post rock genre, but if you have to put them in a genre, that’s probably where they’d go. Tim...

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(Posted by Jon Davis 2003-12-01)

The Hook - Will Grab You

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Transitional periods can be very interesting in music. The Hook falls in the transition between 60s garage-psych and 70s hard rock. Reliable information has it that this album dates from 1968 in...

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(Posted by Jon Davis 2003-12-01)

The Mars Volta - De-loused in the Comatorium

Cover art The Mars Volta, on their full-length debut, joins Radiohead as a relatively high profile “alternative rock” group to flirt with progressive elements, and in fact does Radiohead one better (to the...  » Read more
(Posted by Jon Davis 2003-12-01)

The Thicket - The Thicket

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The Thicket is the Edmonton-based duo of Andrei Poukhovski and Ivan Poukhovski-Sheremetyev, a father-son combination. The instrumentation consists only of keyboards and Theremin, with programmed...

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(Posted by Sean McFee 2003-12-01)

The Walkabouts - Ended up a Stranger

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I first encountered the Walkabouts in 1984 when they put out their debut EP on their own Necessity Records. I was struck with their unique interpretation of American folk rock, and really enjoyed...

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(Posted by Jon Davis 2003-12-01)

Thinking Plague - A History of Madness

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Most music critics (and listeners too) tend to get caught up in the genre game when describing music. We think in terms of qualities like loud / soft, electric / acoustic, rocks / doesn’t....

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(Posted by Jon Davis 2003-12-01)

Thinking Plague - A History of Madness

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Thinking Plague seems well equipped to tackle an album with this title. They create a mad sort of progressive rock that some might call RIO, though I’m sure Mike Johnson and company would...

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(Posted by Paul Hightower 2003-12-01)

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