Rome - To Die Among Strangers

2010-05-06 / Wiecznoc / Reads: 6511

I’ve been following Rome since their beginnings in 2005. All their albums have a similar climate – a climate leading us into the world of magic... I would like to take you on this journey. Please sit down, relax, and listen... The album starts with a track called "To...

Rome - Flowers from the Exile

2009-09-15 / Medea / Reads: 6019

‘Flowers from the Exile’ is the latest album by Rome (Luxemburg). Jeremy Reuter’s deep voice and the music in general are quite similar to the early achievements od Leonard Cohen. The influence of Johny Cash is also clearly visible. Melodies are polished up to the last detail, while being at...

Rokas Zubovas & Phil Von – Live at Kotryna

2025-03-30 / khocico / Reads: 478

I was handed this album by someone I admire deeply — not only as a musician and performer, but also as an actor. We met in Warsaw, during a festival of post-punk and electronic music, of all places. That alone makes this gift more special. It felt unexpected, intimate. Before...

Robochrist - EP

2006-03-03 / _lin / Reads: 6220

When you take a signed CD and want to write a review you feel that you add to the success of the future artist. I think an introduction is needless : Chris Catalyst. The guitarist of Sisters of Mercy. How does it happen that the man connected with widely understood...

Rise and Fall of a Decade - Love it or leave it

2011-07-08 / Bašnia / Reads: 3392

This review is a reminiscence of the band called Rise and Fall of a Decade which released the last album in 2008. The circumstances where tragic, because in May 2007 Pierre-François Maurin-Malet (the singer, the author of the lyrics and co-composer of the songs) died of cancer. The double...

Rina Pavar - six

2025-03-26 / khocico / Reads: 474

There’s a special kind of thrill when an album begins in a way that makes you sit up and whisper to yourself, "This is going to be something extraordinary." Six, the second full-length release by Rina Pavar, opens exactly like that — with a subtle jolt to the senses, with...