NOW THEN (Tao Forms) 9/10 Raindrops on a window move with glacial slowness until two or three converge, whereupon they race as one with extraordinary velocity. This trio is like that. When the music converges, all sense of self is lost in the exhilarating rush of collective music-making: a spiral…
Category: Album Reviews
HAVEN (Earshift) 7/10 They found the ideal title in Haven. The opening lament, No Shepherds Live Here, has, like most of the pieces, such a profound stillness at its centre that it’s as if, just by pressing play, you step out of the world for its duration and into a…
THE PUSSYCAT TAPES VOL 1 (davemacrae.bandcamp.com) 9/10 What’s hits you between the eyes is the sheer energy! Four 24-year-olds playing their take on bebop at full-throttle and with no seatbelts. You feel it in your nerve-endings and racing heart, as if becoming a participant in the spiralling excitement. The Heads…