Being given the chance to review something new by an artist I haven’t heard of before is an honour for me here on Blazing Minds and recently I’ve had the chance to check out Hectic Zeniths with the forthcoming album of the same name.

So after receiving my preview copy of the album I got on to playing it for a few days so that I could give a good listen and decide my thoughts on it and whether I liked it or not, but you’ll have to read on if you want to know my thoughts on this new album from Hectic Zeniths
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It’s certainly been a long wait for the latest album from the Tech wizard Thomas Dolby, back in the 80′s we were delighted with the sounds of “She Blinded Me With Science” and “One Of Our Submarines” from “The Golden Age Of Wireless“.

Over the years Thomas Dolby’s music has grown and those gadget sounding tracks slowly disappeared, the album “Aliens Ate My Buick” was the turning point in his style of music for me and though I still enjoyed his work.

A Map of the Floating City

The album has those similar sounds and tones of the Atronauts & Heretics, but more stylish and still has those wonderful Thomas Dolby vocals anda style that only he could produce. It’s a soothing album and catchy all at the same time, with guests such as Eddie Reader, Mark Knopfler and Imogen Heap.

But with this piece of fiction, it took a slice of real life to bring me to a place where I could complete the song. Someone I’m close to told me they have gender dysphoria.

Which I find quite a moving, but wonderful track to listen to as is the double album which includes a disc full of instrumental version of the tracks, amazing and all nicely mixed with brilliant quality from start to finish.

If I was asked to pick out one particular track from the album and say it’s my favourite, then I would have to say that I can’t, for me the whole album is a joy to listen to and it’s so great to have @ThomasDolby back producing great music, here’s hoping that he decides to bring us some more musical masterpieces soon!

Many moons ago, when I originally set up the Inde Net Label Atom Sounds, I did several reviews of the artists on the label, so I thought I would bring you a review that I posted up of the album See The Light by Bob Evans.

Those needing some culture will certainly find it on Bob’s album “See the Light”, with great guitar work and soothing beats to some nice rock/country sounding tracks.

Now I will openly admit that upon first hearing the title track “See the Light” on the Atom Sounds CD, I thought to myself, here is an artist that has a god given talent and that talent is Bob’s vocals tied into some amazing guitar work.

“See the Light” consists of twelve tracks and each track on the album has that Bob Evans feel, but at the same time each track is different from the next, a change these days. The CD opens with the immensely toe tapping title track “See the Light” and from that point on it just gets better.

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As a lot of you who read Blazing Minds will know, from time to time I get the chance to review some new music by some amazing artists. The other day I was sent the new forthcoming EP from the band In Darklight, you may have seen the review I did of their album “Dying To Confess” so I was over the moon to get a chance to hear and review their latest work.

Tell me more about the In Darklight EP!

The “In Darklight EP” features five tracks: Slaves, Turn Your Back, Break, Quick Fire and Greenhouse, all of which have that In Darklight sound and feel that I’ve become accustomed to since first hearing them on the album I reviewed some time back.

What appeals to me with In Darklight and specially with this EP is the quality of the recordings, they are top quality with the sound production being spot on with plenty of power for me to have the music blasting out of my 1,000 watt system and still keeping any distortion away.
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Hugh Laurie has had a fairly varied career, especially with his award winning role in House. However, for British people he will always be synonymous with comedies Fry & Lauria & Jeeves & Wooster. His plummy British accent has been replaced though recently with an American accent on House and now in Let Them Talk, his debut album, he sounds about as Americana blues as any posh English man possibly could.

Throughout his career, especially in the early days on Fry & Laurie, Hugh has played the piano, and on Let Them Talk he brings his skills to bear. He’s helped along the way by the likes of Irma Thomas on John Henry and Baby Please Make a Change, Rock & Roll Hall of Famer Dr. John on After You’ve Gone, and Welsh crooner Sir Thom Jones on Baby Please Make a Change.

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What’s this another music review, yes indeed folks they are coming in now aren’t they, you remember the other day I reviewed an album by Pink Floyd Floydhead which was Pink Floyd with an electronica twist, so this week I’m brining you an electronica EP that was brought to my attention whilst reading my Twitter timeline and was mentioned by my good friend @Dave_Radcliffe the 7 track EP in question is Mono by S13.

So I shot by the S13 website to check out the album and boy oh boy, it’s just the kind of music I love, so after paying the £1.50 for the download, yes I know that’s so cheap, I added it to my iTunes and started playing it through my sound system. It sounded even better!

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Cover of The Floydian Propulsion Project

If you’re like me when it comes to music, then there are usually that many albums that you want to get your hands on that on the odd occasion, you let one slip by, you’ve simply not got enough cash to get it or, as this one did with me, you just completely forgot about it.

So the other day, while going through my personal wish list of albums that I wanted to get my hands on, I came across The Floydian Propulsion Project by Pink Floyd Floydhead, an album which had been overlooked and quite frankly it shouldn’t have been.

I’m a big fan of Pink Floyd and have nearly every album, except the compilation ones, so this album, though not by Pink Floyd, was one that I was really looking forward to getting hold of.

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