Today:
Airbag - Disconnected
Mystery - Delusion Rain
Pendragon - Love Over Fear
The Pineapple Thief - Versions Of The Truth
Blind Ego - Numb
Bjørn Riis - Coming Home (EP)

np: Emerald City Council - Motion Carries

I do hear more Kansas than Toto in the music, not bad at all .

Today:
Airbag - The Greatest Show On Earth
Huis - Abandoned
Frost* - Day And Age
Mystery - The World Is A Game
Moon Safari - Himlabacken Vol. 2

np: Different Light - Binary Suns Part 1 (Operant Condition)

Quote from: PH on Sat, 2024-01-27, 17:11:49Anyone familiar with The Smile? It's both the singer and the guitarist of Radiohead. The first album ("A Light For Attracting Attention") was interesting and had a few nice songs here and there. The new album ("Wall Of Eyes") is also interesting. But needs a lot of listens I guess. What a strange album! Actually, I don't know what to think of it.

I really like their first album, have not heard the new one yet but will surely check it out. Like the later Radiohead and Yorke solo stuff which I am very much into it is probably an acquired taste but I like it 😁

Quote from: PH on Sat, 2024-01-27, 17:11:49Anyone familiar with The Smile? It's both the singer and the guitarist of Radiohead.

Nope, but I'm not into Radiohead either .

pp: IQ - Subterranea (classic )

np: Caligula's Horse - Charcoal Grace

Will play it again, but I'm afraid it is not my taste ... a bit too heavy and don't like the vocals that much. And the latter thing is pretty important .

Yesterday I listened to:
The Smile - "Wall Of Eyes"
The Smile - "A Light For Attracting Attention"
Caligula's Horse - "Charcoal Grace"
Haken - "Fauna"

Today I listened to:
Caligula's Horse - "Charcoal Grace"
Caligula's Horse - "Rise Radiant"
Moon Safari - "Himlabacken Vol. 2"

The new Caligula's Horse album ("Charcoal Grace") is pretty good! Don't know if it can beat "Rise Radiant", because that album is a masterpiece. Still very nice and already ordered the album.

Anyone familiar with The Smile? It's both the singer and the guitarist of Radiohead. The first album ("A Light For Attracting Attention") was interesting and had a few nice songs here and there. The new album ("Wall Of Eyes") is also interesting. But needs a lot of listens I guess. What a strange album! Actually, I don't know what to think of it.

Will give Emerald City Council and Caligula's Horse a try .

Today:
Airbag - All Rights Removed
Huis - Neither In Heaven
Moon Safari - Himlabacken Vol. 2
Mystery - One Among The Living
Soen - Imperial
Asia - Alpha

np: Pink Floyd - The Final Cut

Previously played (during work):
Neal Morse - "The Dreamer - Joseph: Part One"
Neal Morse - "The Restoration - Joseph: Part Two"

Now listening to:
Emerald City Council - "Motion Carries"

I'm really starting to like this one! I've listened to it four or five times now and I keep coming back to it.
Not as good as Neal Morse, but after that, it's the best new thing I heard in January.


I'm really looking forward to tomorrow, because the new Caligula's Horse will be released then!
"Rise Radiant" was my number one album in 2020!

Antimatter - The Judas Table

Quote from: Teunis on Mon, 2024-01-22, 19:04:15Today:
np: Magnum - Here Comes The Rain

I also listened to that one, but unfortunately it didn't stick. Nothing memorable, at least for me.
I am no Magnum expert. In fact, I only know about them because of Bob Catley (through Jabberwocky, Hound Of The Baskervilles and Ayreon). I bought "Lost On The Road To Eternity" a couple of years ago. I thought that album was really good actually! But subsequent albums were a bit of a let down. (But never bad.)
Tony Clarkin, guitarist and founder of Magnum, died on the 7th of January this year. A week before the release of "Here Comes The Rain". Sad...
2024 has only just begun, so plenty of time to retry this album. Maybe it will click with me later.

Now listening to:
Emerald City Council - "Motion Carries"

Actually, not bad! Jake Livgren, nephew of Kansas guitarist Kerry Livgren, is the singer. He is pretty good. I knew him from Neal Morse's albums ("Jesus Christ: The Exorcist", "The Dreamer - Joseph: Part One" and "The Restoration - Joseph: Part Two"). The drummer is Noah Hungate, son of Toto's first bass player. So, Toto + Kansas = Emerald City. Heh, clever...
It sounds a little bit like those bands, but not too much. Nice one to check out and I will definitely listen again!