Label Spotlight: Kscope Music
One of my favorite labels in the current prog scene is Kscope Music. Its first release was The Pineapple Thief’s Tightly Unwound in 2008, and it has rapidly become a force to be reckoned with. Steven...
View ArticleA Potpourri of Pineapple Treats
Kscope Music has been reissuing The Pineapple Thief’s albums beginning with their third, Variations on a Dream. With the recent release of their sixth, What We Have Sown, a wonderful back catalog is...
View ArticleNorwegian Visions of Purgation: The Eddas of Gazpacho
[Progarchists, I published a version of this about six months ago, but I've revised it significantly since then. I'm also very much desirous of celebrating the re-release and bettering of a must-own...
View ArticleMini-Review: The Pineapple Thief’s 137
Continuing its series of top-quality reissues of The Pineapple Thief’s back catalog, Kscope Music has just released their sophomore effort, One Three Seven. It’s a surprisingly mature and accomplished...
View ArticleThe Siren Songs of Se Delan
There are music labels, and there are music labels. By which I mean: occasionally a label appears that maintains such a high quality roster of artists, and its production is so consistently excellent,...
View ArticleSwinging On the Porcupine Tree
Well, this is certainly a surprise! Gavin Harrison, drummer par excellence of Porcupine Tree, has recorded an album of reworked PT songs, and it is not what you would expect. Rather than stick to a...
View Articleiamthemorning’s Lighthouse: Neoclassical Beauty
Imagine, if you will, a world where Aerial-era Kate Bush, Dumbarton Oaks-era Igor Stravinsky, and Sketches of Spain-era Miles Davis got together to compose a song cycle. They might come up with...
View ArticleA Not So Gentle Reminder: Anesthetize from Porcupine Tree
Porcupine Tree, ANESTHETIZE: LIVE IN TILBURG, OCTOBER 2008 (Kscope, 2cd/1dvd, 2015). Kscope, 2010, 2015.I admit, I have a strange relationship with Steven Wilson. Well, ok, it’s a totally one-sided...
View ArticleAn Apology to Mr. Steven Wilson
Steven Wilson, The LONDON GUARDIAN. I will admit, I find it hard to believe that Steven Wilson’s HAND.CANNOT.ERASE. is now fourteen months old. It arrived on my doorstep—courtesy of amazon.com—on the...
View ArticleThe Genius of Routine (Video)
If you need a reminder of what artistic genius is, please watch this deeply and utterly humane Steven Wilson video from last year’s HAND.CANNOT.ERASE. No one who has a lost child can make it through...
View ArticleNAO’s THE THIRD DAY
NAO, THE THIRD DAY (Kscope/Snapper, 2014). Tracks: Great Plains II; Elsewhere; August; A Nice Little Place; Penrose; Do Something Useful; Wires; Pines of Eden; Dust; When to Stop. Not sure if The...
View ArticleA Return to Brilliance: THE OPTIMIST by Anathema
Review of Anathema, THE OPTIMIST (Kscope, 2017). A return to brilliance. THE OPTIMIST is a wonderful album, a true expression of the best that is in, ironically enough, a band named Anathema. When the...
View ArticleKscope Podcast 86: Steven Wilson Featured
The mighty Billy Reeves talks with the equally mighty Steven Wilson on the new Kscope podcast. Enjoy. Lots of great music as well. Kscope Podcast Eighty Six – Top 10 Steven Wilson Songs...
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