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Author: Rob Walsh

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Review: Øresund Space Collective ‘Progably you’re Wrong’

24th June 202624th June 2026 Rob Walsh Kraut, Øresund Space Collective, Prog, Space Rock, Space Rock Productions

I am no stranger to either instrumental music or long-form improvisation. I’ve delved into the depths of ‘60s and ‘70s

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Review: Yawning Balch ‘Volume Four’

18th June 202618th June 2026 Rob Walsh Desert Rock, Heavy Psych Sounds, Yawning Balch

In all honesty, improvisational music can be somewhat difficult to review. I’m fully convinced that supergroup/revival group/meditation collective Yawning Balch

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Review: Dreamwave ‘Drifter / Moon Dogs’

9th June 20269th June 2026 Rob Walsh Alternative, Dreamwave, Psych, Stolen Body Records

As Stolen Body Records brought Dreamwave’s new Drifter EP and April 2025’s Moon Dogs together onto one album, I’ll be

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Review: TONS ‘Stoned Villains’

22nd May 202622nd May 2026 Rob Walsh Heavy Psych Sounds, Sludge, Tons

A menacing laugh – most likely from the late great Vincent Price (think the end of Thriller) – opens TONS’

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Review: Radian ‘Subterfuge’

12th May 202612th May 2026 Rob Walsh Elburno Records, Radian, Sludge

What if Ancient Egypt never fell? Would we live in a world of massive modern pyramids ruling our skylines? Would

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Review: Weedpecker ‘V’

19th March 202619th March 2026 Rob Walsh Heavy Psych Sounds, Prog, Psych, Weedpecker

Poland’s Weedpecker has been one of my favorites for a number of years. Their dare-I-say silly (intentionally?) band name might

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Review: Homegrown ‘Homegrown’

20th January 202620th January 2026 Rob Walsh Homegrown, Instrumental, Majestic Mountain Records, Psych

Homegrown… in our circle, it generally means two things. One is a local act, the other is local devil’s lettuce.

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Review: Cosmic Reaper ‘Bleed The Wicked, Drown The Damned’

27th October 202527th October 2025 Rob Walsh Cosmic Reaper, Doom, Heavy Psych Sounds

North Carolina’s Cosmic Reaper have returned to reap the unworthy, the pitiful, the uncool… You know who you are! And

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Review: Pyramids ‘Pythagoras’

8th August 20258th August 2025 Rob Walsh Blackgaze, Dream Pop, Electronic, Pyramids, The Flenser

Pythagoras was a Greek mathematician and philosopher that many modern scholars are still stumped on several millennia later, unsure of

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Review: Temple Fang ‘Lifted From The Wind’

27th May 202527th May 2025 Rob Walsh Prog, Psych, Stickman Records, Temple Fang

From the opening bit of The River from Dutch psych outfit Temple Fang, I knew things had gotten very interesting.

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Review: Neptunian Maximalism ‘Le Sacre Du Soleil Invaincu’

16th May 202516th May 2025 Rob Walsh Drone, I Voidhanger Records, Jazz, Neptunian Maximalism, Psych

Two things immediately struck me when I came across the Belgian collective Neptunian Maximalism’s 2021 record Solar Drone Ceremony. The

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