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[Review] Peninsula – Revelation Space

Jacopo Vigezzi — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 17:29:16 +0000

Peninsula are a quartet from Mallaig, UK, with a well-established practice of long-form improvisation that has defined their output since their earliest recordings. “Revelation Space,” released on April 17, 2026, is their most ambitious and cohesive statement to date: three extended compositions, each timestamped with the precision of a field recording log, born from two […]

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[Review] The Birch – Vicious Mind

Jacopo Vigezzi — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 16:40:14 +0000

There’s a particular kind of conviction that separates a band with something to say from one simply going through the motions. The Birch — the Heavy Psych-Blues trio from Quedlinburg, Germany — make that distinction clear from the very first bar of “Vicious Mind,” their debut full-length released on November 21, 2025 via Tonzonen Records. […]

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[Review] Brass Camel – Brass Camel

Jacopo Vigezzi — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 16:18:03 +0000

Canada’s Brass Camel return on April 15, 2026 with their self-titled third album — an independent release co-produced by Kevin Comeau (Crown Lands) and mixed by none other than Terry Brown, the man behind the desk for some of Rush‘s most definitive recordings. That name alone signals intent: this is a band stepping into a […]

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[Review] Lunear – There Is Always Next Time

Jacopo Vigezzi — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 15:13:07 +0000

Lunear is a French trio — JP Benadjer (guitars, bass, vocals), Seb Bournier (drums, vocals), and Paul J.No (lead vocals, keyboards) — whose work has consistently occupied the intersection between accessible song construction and Progressive Rock architecture. “There Is Always Next Time,” released on February 27, 2026 as an independent production, is the record on […]

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[Review] PSI PHI – PSI PHI

Jacopo Vigezzi — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 21:21:26 +0000

The self-titled debut of PSI PHI, released on March 06, 2026, arrives without label infrastructure or promotional machinery behind it — a record that stands or falls entirely on what its four musicians bring to the table. And what they bring is considerable: Sam Cope on Hammond and keyboards, Kumar Shome on guitar, Ryan Monro […]

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[Review] Lazer – Far Way

Jacopo Vigezzi — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 17:04:18 +0000

With “Far Away,” the Austrian outfit Lazer deliver their first full-length statement, released on March 4, 2026 via StoneFree Records. Positioned firmly within a modern Heavy Rock framework with clear Stoner and Heavy Psych inflections, the album presents a focused and coherent approach, built on weight, atmosphere, and controlled dynamic development rather than excess or […]

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[Review] Purple Skies – A Million Years

Jacopo Vigezzi — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 20:20:21 +0000

Bergen, Norway. A city whose relationship with darkness — meteorological, cultural, existential — has historically generated music of uncommon density and emotional weight. It is from this context that Purple Skies emerge: a four-piece formed in 2017 around the creative axis of guitarist Henrik Solheim and vocalist/guitarist Marius Aasen Moe, with the rhythm section of […]

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[Review] Minimum Vital – La Royaume

Jacopo Vigezzi — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 15:15:25 +0000

Few ensembles within the French Progressive tradition have cultivated an artistic identity as singular and enduring as Minimum Vital. Since their emergence in the mid-1980s, the twin brothers Jean-Luc and Thierry Payssan — alongside their long-standing collaborator Eric Rebeyrol — have forged a musical language entirely their own: rooted in the melodic sophistication of Classic […]

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[Review] Me El-Ma – Forward Owner

Jacopo Vigezzi — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 21:27:40 +0000

Me El-Ma does not introduce himself with biographical preamble. Forward Owner, released independently on March 8, 2026, announces its intentions through the music alone — eight compositions of structural density and compositional rigour that require no contextual scaffolding to assert their weight. That the record was conceived, performed, recorded, and produced entirely by a single […]

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[Review] Unité Douleur – Pollen Haze EP

Jacopo Vigezzi — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 17:15:09 +0000

Unité Douleur deliver “Pollen Haze” on March 21, 2026 — four tracks and just under twenty-two minutes that map the band’s coordinates across Progressive Rock, Alternative, and Post-Rock with enough structural conviction to hold the listener’s attention from start to finish. The EP is not a document of radical ambition, but it does not need […]

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