Tag Archives: post rock

I can’t quite believe that I am already half-way through my ‘Album of the Year 2016’ top 30 countdown. It doesn’t seem like five minutes ago that I was contemplating starting out of this annual journey and yet, here we are. 15 albums down, 15 to go. I hope you have enjoyed the posts in  Continue Reading »

Welcome to day two of my ‘Album of the Year 2016’ top 30 countdown. If you missed the first post in this series, check it out here: Album of the Year 2016 – Number 30 As I stated at the beginning of the last post, 2016 has been an incredibly strong year for my personal  Continue Reading »

Artist: Arcade Messiah Album Title: III Label: Stereohead Records Date Of Release: 25 November 2016 Prolific is a word often misused in music circles. If a band releases an album every two or three years then they can sometimes be given the ‘prolific’ tag. In which case, what descriptor can be given to a solo  Continue Reading »

Artist: Crippled Black Phoenix Album Title: Bronze Label: Season Of Mist Date Of Release: 4 November 2016 I love my blog. It gives me so much freedom to review what I want and, in the process, I can ‘discover’ a whole load of new music in the process. It also makes me realise, joyously, that  Continue Reading »

Welcome to my third and final post summarising the best releases during the first half of 2016. If you’ve missed parts 1 and 2, here are the links: Half-Way Through 2016 – The Best So Far – Part 1 Half-Way Through 2016 – The Best So Far – Part 2 But onto the main event  Continue Reading »

Artist: Long Distance Calling Album Title: Trips Label: Superball Music Date Of Release: 29 April 2016 Normally I deride press releases for being full of vacuous nonsense, soaring on a thermal created by its own hot air and gushing superlatives. So when the press release to accompany the new album from Long Distance Calling reached  Continue Reading »

Artist: Iron Mountain Album Title: Unum Label: Prophecy Productions Date Of Release: 1 April 2016 I’m not normally the biggest fan of post rock, post metal or, for that matter, folk elements within rock and metal music. Equally, I don’t tend to like purely instrumental albums either. However, there are exceptions to every rule and  Continue Reading »

Artist: Ghost Bath Album Title: Moonlover Label: Nuclear Blast Date of Release: 19 February 2016 It’s no wonder Nuclear Blast have snapped Ghost Bath up because, frankly, they are brilliant. And I do hang my head in shame that I didn’t pay any heed to the original release back in March 2015 on the label  Continue Reading »

Welcome to what I fully expect is the final part in my series looking at my most anticipated albums due out during 2016. You’d think that the quality would be drying up now having already picked 30 potentially great albums. But not a chance – as Part 4 demonstrates, there are still some top quality  Continue Reading »

The countdown is beginning to gather pace now as we get to the lower echelons of the 20s. I hope that my choices thus far have managed to convince you that a Top 30 rather than a Top 20 was necessary. It is ambitious to say the least, but there has simply been too much  Continue Reading »