The Phantom Tollbooth

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The steps to ultimate Genesis lead here. How can Hackett keep getting better, when there seems nowhere else to go? This one was always going to be special. I even got goosebumps watching the trailer.

Loved by critics, rock sound magpie Bruntnell writes songs about obscure subjects and Brexit. If Americana and surf had a child, fostered by psychedelic dream-pop, it might sound like this.

Cardington is the latest project from Lifesigns, a prog band that combines virtuosity with a strong melodic stance grounded in solid songwriting …

Cardington

Lifesigns

www.lifesigns.me  

LML Records
7 tracks / 49:36

Moody Blues bass player Lodge doesn’t release much under his own name and this is a best-of, drawing together band, duo and solo material.

High Standards features guitar master Mike Pachelli in a small jazz-combo setting, playing familiar standards with style, finesse, and a hint of blues for added flavor…

This set is like time travel – soulful singer-songwriter Vance recording in Alabama's iconic FAME studios, where the late Rick Hall masterminded some of the greatest sounds of the ‘sixties. It is a fine match.

Mostly Autumn’s last release Sight of Day was superb. Now they’re back – and this time it’s personal. Very personal.

Some beautiful piano here, with just the right back up from the rest of the jazz trio  

This is an exquisite package – both music and visuals have beauty and style, while trying to recover precious things being lost.

This summery piano, flute and saxes re-issue for label’s 50th anniversary meanders between jazz and classical.

This thoughtful folk collection – an English teacher’s dream – features supremely intelligent and moving content bathed in simplicity and atmosphere, often from a female perspective.

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