Exposé Online

Ricochet - Zarah - A Teartown Story

Gradually over the last few years, with the help of Progrock Records distribution, Ricochet is gaining word-of-mouth momentum on the prog metal scene. From the outset the Hamburg band has all the...  » Read more
(Posted by Jeff Melton 2007-03-01)

Ritual - Live

Ritual’s first live document is a doozy. Whether it was the audience, the occasion, or having an explosive band like Anekdoten to share the bill with, the group (Patrik Lundtröm –...

 » Read more
(Posted by Paul Hightower 2007-03-01)

Riverside - Voices in My Head

This disk is meant to be a stopgap to fill time between this Polish band’s widely hailed 2004 debut Out of Myself and their latest full-length release

 » Read more
(Posted by Paul Hightower 2007-03-01)

Rob Levit - Touch the Spirit

When this one arrived in my mailbox, I was not thrilled. “Oh, joy,” I thought, “a whole CD of New Age acoustic guitar.” I finally gave it a chance, and was pleasantly...

 » Read more
(Posted by Jon Davis 2007-03-01)

Roger Eno - Fragile (Music)

For those of you still unfamiliar with the brother of Brian Eno, Roger is a composer, arranger and performer who has displayed a wide array of capable skills, whether in the classic realm, techno or...  » Read more
(Posted by Jeff Melton 2007-03-01)

Ron Boots - Acoustic Shadows

Boots loves to do albums with themes – here he has tried to capture the atmosphere of the battlefield. It’s a darker album than one is used too, but of course Boots’s optimism...

 » Read more
(Posted by Roel Steverink 2007-03-01)

Rosebud - Rosebud

Ten songs give almost as many stylistic snapshots. The sound of a love-in, with a keyboard, in Latin America; no trace of Carlos anywhere. A moody testament with sultry vocals grazing...  » Read more
(Posted by Cesar Montesano 2007-03-01)

Rush - Replay x3

Rush fans have been salivating for these early concert videos to see the light of day in DVD format for ages, so to have all three in one collection is manna from heaven. Other than a few promos,...

 » Read more
(Posted by Paul Hightower 2007-03-01)

Rutherford - Mapping out Chaos

With a constant stream of me-too independently produced new releases coming in, all demanding time to be heard and reviewed, it is indeed refreshing when one among them has something genuinely...

 » Read more
(Posted by Peter Thelen 2007-03-01)

Saga - Trust

Trust is the follow-up to 2005’s Network album and finds Saga performing with their third drummer in as many albums. This time around Brian Doerner from Helix is filling the...

 » Read more
(Posted by Mike Grimes 2007-03-01)

SBB - Live in Theatre 2005 & New Century

They began life as the Silesian Blues Band in 1971, and shortly after became the backing band for Polish superstar Czeslaw Niemen, returning as simply SBB in 1974 to ultimately become one of the...

 » Read more
(Posted by Peter Thelen 2007-03-01)

Scarlet Thread - Valheista Kaunein

A couple years back Sami Hiltunen, one of the band’s guitarists sent us a pre-release of this, the band’s second album; at that time they had no regular bassist (bass duties shared...

 » Read more
(Posted by Peter Thelen 2007-03-01)

Scott McGill - Awareness

Guitarist Scott McGill’s newest recording is an updated forum for recently acquired song stylings that mesh well with his acclaimed technical proficiency. Across twelve new tracks McGill...

 » Read more
(Posted by Jeff Melton 2007-03-01)

Scott Mosher - Deep Horizon

Progressive metal has been around long enough now that a new release has to have something different about it in order to catch my interest. Scott Mosher does a good job doing that with the first...

 » Read more
(Posted by Jon Davis 2007-03-01)

Sebkha Chott - Nagah Mahdi - Opuscrits en 48 Rouleaux

This is one truly off-the-wall release. Sebkha Chott is a collection of eight French musicians with strange pseudonyms. The digipack and liner notes are extremely difficult to decipher because of tiny...  » Read more
(Posted by Henry Schneider 2007-03-01)

Secret Saucer - Element 115

Deflector shields up! Arm photon torpedoes! Secret Saucer is about to attack! Coming together from different parts of the galaxy, members from the premiere US Space Rock bands were locked up in a...

 » Read more
(Posted by Henry Schneider 2007-03-01)

Seti - Life Signs

The atmospheric opening suggests we’re no longer on the earth, but somewhere in space. Life Signs is the debut album from a neoprog rock band from Chile. It’s the familiar set...

 » Read more
(Posted by Roel Steverink 2007-03-01)

Shining - In the Kingdom of Kitsch You Will Be a Monster

Hardcore devilry in psychotronic mode hanging about with the schizophrenic crowd. This is a rutilated ruby of the avant-progressive slant. Anyone into Cuneiform and Recommended Records catalogues...

 » Read more
(Posted by Cesar Montesano 2007-03-01)

Slapp Happy - Acnalbasac Noom

Dagmar Krause’s singing tends to be one of those divisive factors in music. A lot of people really detest her voice, mostly due to what they’ve heard on later recordings like Art Bears....

 » Read more
(Posted by Jon Davis 2007-03-01)

Slow Motion Reign - Slow Motion Reign

A fresh, youthful sound is their stock in trade, rich with melodies, hooks and energy, concise and inventive songwriting from beginning to end. Unlike many of the bands we review in...

 » Read more
(Posted by Peter Thelen 2007-03-01)