Branch Line, The (Irish Traditional Music From Galway to New York) - Jack Coen & Charlie

Advantages: Scottish, celtic niche, very pleasant
Disadvantages: band seems to be always falling out

...Highland Glory- A review by Addy. ±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±± "From the ashes of Phoenix Rizing ascends Highland Glory, to continue the eternal crusade" (2003) Band quotation AN HISTORY OF FROM THE CRADLE TO THE BRAVE Highland Glory are a Norwegian Power Metal formerly recording as Phoenix Rizing and releasing two albums that achieved global success. These albums were; "Rise From The Ashes" (1998) "Eternal Crusade" (2000) In 2001 the musicians recruited a new lead singer called Jan Thore Grefstad and formed Highland Glory. Starting from scratch and with a renewed vigour, the new band line up were far more versatile creating a fresh diversity, exploring all aspects of Metal slow to upbeat whilst always veering toward the more traditional... Read review

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Advantages: Some Superb Songs
Disadvantages: Some Tracks Are Quite Short

...however something that the Band were never entirely happy with. There was no doubt that they had been heavily influenced by the new wave of New York Punk Bands that had emerged in the middle of the seventies and their first Album had been very well received. Its follow up Plastic Letters however was not quite so warmly received although it had given the Band their UK breakthrough on the singles chart with its two singles, Denis (number 2) and (I'm always touched by your) Presence, Dear (number 10). A change of direction was needed for their third Album, something that would drop their Punk tag in favour for something much more experimental, and more commercially acceptable to the masses. In 1978 that change of direction came with the release of Parallel Lines. Over 25 years after its original release Parallel Lines is now widely accepted... Read review

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Advantages: Moments of brilliance, original inventive sound.
Disadvantages: Extremely unaccessible for a casual listener

...Somewhere in the distant shire of Oxford, Thom Yorke sits with a laptop under his nose and a broad smile on his face. Very few would take pleasure from an album as politically draining as The Eraser, but if anybody is to smile about it, you can count on it being the Radiohead star himself. Here is a man who should never have been a rock star. An agitated grumbler with the audacity to tell his own fans to "calm down and shut the f- up" should a gig threaten to spiral out of control. When Yorke decided to venture out of his usual five-piece rock band domain, there was very little in the way of a mainstream reaction. Probably because he refused to go public about it until a month prior to the album's release. "This is not a solo album." says the Radiohead frontman. Then what is it? Well, we're allowed to call it a side project, as Yorke... Read review

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