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Birds and Buildings - Multipurpose Trap

Cover art There is a lot of complex progressive rock out there, but with most, after a number of listens, the knots and twists and convolutions tend to straighten out as a basic familiarity with the...  » Read more
(Posted by Peter Thelen 2013-12-17)

Steven Wilson - The Raven That Refused to Sing (and Other Stories)

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Prog wunderkind Steven Wilson seems to have finally found his happy place. After years of guiding Porcupine Tree into what became a stifling democratic institution, and then producing two albums as...

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(Posted by Paul Hightower 2013-12-14)

David Helpling & Jon Jenkins - Found

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Found is the third and final installment of the trilogy collaboration between Spotted Peccary mainstays David Helpling and Jon Jenkins that began with 2007’s Treasure, and...

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(Posted by Peter Thelen 2013-12-14)

Ligeia Mare - Songs We Never Thought Of

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First of all, I must say that Songs We Never Thought Of is a great title for a collection of improvised music. This collective features an unusual combination of instruments: accordion and...

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(Posted by Jon Davis 2013-12-12)

Jack o' the Clock - All My Friends

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This Northern California ensemble plays an off-kilter mix of a number of styles with enough originality to make what they do hopelessly unclassifiable, yet beckoning on a number of levels. There...

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(Posted by Peter Thelen 2013-12-12)

Salim Ghazi Saeedi - namoWoman

Cover art While the electric guitar is Salim Ghazi Saeedi's primary instrument, namoWoman doesn't sound like a guitarist's album so much as chamber music with electric guitar and (sometimes) drums....  » Read more
(Posted by Jon Davis 2013-12-11)

She Owl - She Owl

Cover art There's something to be said for the simplicity of a songwriter just sitting at a piano and singing his or her songs. When it works, the directness and intimacy can be very affecting. Of course, if it...  » Read more
(Posted by Jon Davis 2013-12-10)

Taylor's Universe - Evidence

Cover art This latest offering by Robin Taylor’s band is a bit different than the previous two releases, perhaps more introspective and contemplative. The brooding and pensive fifteen minute opener...  » Read more
(Posted by Peter Thelen 2013-12-07)

The Knells - The Knells

Cover art Some music seems to exist in a world of its own, a place where it came into being spontaneously because it had to exist. The Knells sounds like that to me, music that is somehow not quite...  » Read more
(Posted by Jon Davis 2013-12-06)

Sonar - A Flaw of Nature

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One look at the cover and the magic square that adds up to 15 in any direction, and one might get the idea that math is a big part of this music, and they would be right. But it’s actually a...

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(Posted by Peter Thelen 2013-12-06)

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