IMMERSION WTF?? SWIM~ Immersion consists of Wire’s Colin Newman, and his wife Malka Spigel (Minimal Compact), and WTF?? is their fourth studio and first full-length album since 2016’s Analogue Creatures Living On An Island. Matt Schulz (Holy [...]
I’M SO BROKEN, AND YOU’RE SO BEAUTIFUL A CONVERSATION WITH ANDY BELL (ERASURE) Andy Bell answered an ad in Melody Maker placed there by Vince Clarke. Clarke had experienced considerable success, first with Depeche Mode and then with Yazoo. He [...]
MYSTERY ROMANCE ELECTRIC LOVE CURRENT RECORDS Mystery Romance released their debut album, Human Sexuality, in 1989 and did extremely well with that album. Since then, the band has split and reformed, with the core of the band being the duo Mike [...]
PHIL MANZANERA & ANDY MACKAY AM.PM SOHO LIVE EXPRESSION/BFD/THE ORCHARD When Phil Manzanera and Andy MacKay came together in 2023 and put together the brilliant AM.PM album, no one thought that they would perform live in this configuration, [...]
LET’S TAKE THIS SOMEWHERE ELSE A CONVERSATION WITH ANDY MACKAY London, 1972. It was two years since The Beatles split, Bob Dylan had turned to country (sort of) and the music world was waiting for something new. When Roxy Music debuted with [...]
CHAMELEONS ARCTIC MOON METROPOLIS RECORDS A new album by Chameleons is big news. It has been 24 years since their last studio album, 2001’s Why Call It Anything, and although they have toured a great deal in the past quarter century, their [...]
ARJEN ANTHONY LUCASSEN SONGS NO ONE WILL HEAR INSIDE OUT MUSIC I love concept albums, especially when the music, story and lyrics all come together and tell a complete story. This is the case with Arjan Anthony Lucassen’s album Songs No One Will [...]
EMMA SWIFT THE RESSURECTION GAME TINY GHOST RECORDS In 2020, Emma Swift released her album. She had released her self-titled debut mini album in her native Australia in 2014 (she has since relocated to Nashville), but Blonde On The Tracks was [...]
ANNE MURRAY HERE YOU ARE UNIVERSAL MUSIC I grew up in the 1970s, and to be honest I have always had a big soft spot for Anne Murray. I could never admit it at the time, but I always loved her voice and choice of songs. She was huge in the 1970s [...]
YUSUF/CAT STEVENS ON THE ROAD TO FINDOUT: GREATEST HITS CAT-A-LOG RECORDS/A&M/UNIVERSAL Steven Demetre Georgiou, better known as Cat Stevens and now known as Yusuf Islam, released his first single in 1966 (“I Love My Dog”) and from that [...]
RHYS FULBER MEMORY IMPULSE AUTONOMY ARTOFFACT RECORDS Memory Impulse Autonomy is Rhys Fulber’s eighth solo album since his solo self-titled debut album in 2018. He is, among other things, a member of Front Line Assembly and Delerium (both [...]
TCHOTCHKE PLAYIN’ DUMB INDEPENDENT Tchotchke is based in New York City and consists of Anastasia Sanchez (drums, vocals), Eva Chambers (bass, piano, keyboards vocals) and Emily Tooraen (guitar, vocals). If anyone wanted to know what The [...]
THIS IS GOING IN THE DIRECTION WE WANT IT TO A CONVERSATION WITH VOX OF THE CHAMELEONS Since The Chameleons debuted with their single “In Shreds” (1982) which was followed by their debut album, Script Of The Bridge (1983), they have attracted a [...]
WHEN YOU LOSE YOUR MIND AND YOU THINK YOU’RE FINE A CONVERSATION WITH RHYS FULBER In 1987, Rhys Fulber burst on the scene with the hard electronic sound of Front Line Assembly. He was one member, but the band quickly developed a very loyal [...]
AN HOUR OF ESCAPISM A CONVERSATION WITH ARJEN ANTHONY LUCASSEN Arjen Anthony Lucassen is an extremely talented artist. Singer, songwriter, musician, storyteller, and so much more. With his project, Ayreon (“you can’t really call it a band, it is [...]
HOWARD JONES DREAM INTO ACTION: THE FARMYARD SESSIONS CHERRY RED RECORDS Dream Into Action, Howard Jones’s second album, was originally released in 1985 and it reached number two in the UK album charts, and the top ten in North America. It [...]
BILL LEEB MACHINE VISION METROPOLIS RECORDS Between his work with Front Line Assembly and Delerium (not to mention other projects in which he is involved, such as Noise Unit, Intermix and Cyberaktif), it is hard to believe that Leeb had time to [...]
KAITLYN AURELIA SMITH GUSH NETTWERK RECORDS Minimal synthesized classical music, three words that don’t always go together but those three words best describe Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith’s latest album, Gush. Smith is a classily trained musician from [...]
GARRY BURNSIDE IT’S MY TIME NOW STROLLING BONES RECORDS There is something extraordinary about Garry Burnside’s new album, It’s My Time Now. He has created an album steeped in tradition in the classic blues rock arena, and at the same time has [...]
MISS FD EUPHORIA QUANTUM RELEASE RECORDS Miss FD has been releasing music since 2009, and in those 16 years, she has released a lot of music. Euphoria, her new EP and her first since 2022’s As Above, So Below, is a welcome return to the EP [...]
SWEET SWEET FANNY ADAMS REVISITED METALVILLE Sweet Fanny Adams was Sweet’s second studio album, released only in Europe in 1974. Five of the songs from the album were cobbled together with other songs for their North American breakthrough album, [...]
EXPLORING OUR SOUND AND NOT OVERTHINKING IT A CONVERSATION WITH TIAN QIYI Tian Qiyi is a very unique sibling duo, featuring brothers John Tian Qi Wardle and Charlie Tian Yi Wardle. The two Liverpool- and London-based brothers come by their [...]
AREA RESIDENT PROTANOPIA INDEPENDENT Area Resident is the band name for Doug Hempstead, who is a solo act and does basically everything on the album. He does have a help from Jordon Zadorozny (Blinker The Star), who not only plays on it but [...]
ANDY STOCHANSKY POETRY OF BIRDS ARTHAUS Since 1995, Andy Stochansky has been making very intriguing albums and has worked with some very talented artists (Kurt Swinghammer, Ani DiFranco, Goo Goo Dolls and Annie Lennox). But with Poetry Of Birds [...]
