Year: 2012
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Higher Plain Music’s Top 10 Artist Albums of 2012
In 2012 I felt that actually some of my usual favourite artists played it very safe and therefore when I came to look at whose…
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Merry Christmas Everyone – With Santa Rockstar HD!
A massive Merry Christmas to all our reader, viewers & listeners of Higher Plain Music, Higher Plain Games, I Love Disaster Movies, BetaCast & Sitorimon.…
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Game Review: Sonic & Sega Allstars Racing Transformed (PS3)
Sonic’s first kart outing was a massive surprise. It was slick, beautiful, competitive and quite frankly the definitive racer for fun family four player action…
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Austra – “Feel It Break” Review
“Feel It Break” is the opening album from trio Austra – a smooth minor key laden electronic group from America. You can hear things being…
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Video Vault – David Bronson
A beard and lantern – can’t beat that really.
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Video Vault – Panda Transport
Panda Transport’s new album “Wildlife” is out now.
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ISUM – “Bloom” Review
“Bloom” is an excellent obscure EP for ISUM. I can’t even remember how I came across it initially! One things for sure though – I’m…
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Winifred Phillips – “Assassin’s Creed III Liberation OST” Review
Sometimes an artist does something that I think showcases everything they are about. Their quality, their emotion, their commitment to their work. For Winifred Phillips…
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Generator Ohm – “Upon the Me Om I” Review
Generator Ohm, a three-piece rock band have released their début album and have been busy rocking my speakers for a little while. Time to tell the world!…
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Rob Lach – “POP Methodology Experiment One OST” Review
POP Methodology Experiment One caused a lot of hi-5ing on the indie game scene and Rob Lach’s one man wonder game has a chip track…
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Jessica Curry – “Dear Esther OST” Review
Jessica Curry’s “Dear Esther” soundtrack is one that soaked heavily in emotion and stands on its own two feet apart from the game. The reason…
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Concert Review – Thea Gilmore (Union Chapel 2012)
Having only heard one Thea Gilmore song before, I wasn’t sure what to expect when I saw her live but my partner gives her two…
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OverClocked Remix Does Donkey Kong Country 3!!
These guys continue to be utterly awesome. In 2013 I’ll be going back and reviewing a lot of their back catalogue of releases. Everyone needs…
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Justin Levinson – “Take My Time” Review
Justin Levinson returns from his diversion with the Valcours for his own little EP “Take My Time”. Indeed the EP is three tracks long and…
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Shnabubula – “Fading Light” Review
Shnabubula is more know for his work on OverClocked Remix but I wanted to draw everyone’s attention to his latest album “Fading Light” which is…
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Bjork – “Bastards” Review
Bjork’s latest CD release is a remix compilation from the Biophilia album – an album I loved and reviewed earlier in the year. The album’s…
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Rebekah Delgado – “Don’t Sleep” Review
Rebekah Delgado’s opening album establishes her witchy presence perfectly with haunting guitar melodies, strong overbearing vocals and a penchant for some infectious melodies. “Don’t Sleep”…
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Benbrick – Video Vault
This is a beautiful version of Utada Hikaru’s latest track which Benbrick co-wrote with Utada. Here is his piano version of Sakura Nagashi
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Bat For Lashes – “The Haunted Man” Review
I’ve taken a lot of time to review this album and its down to one reason. Initially I was very, very underwhelmed. I wanted to…
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Poliça – “Give You The Ghost” Review
Poliça are a new band I’ve discovered very recently and they need to be shouted about because their début album “Give You The Ghost” is simply excellent. Poliça is…
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Game Review: F1 Race Stars (PS3)
An F1 Karting game?! Whatever next! F1 Race Stars is a new concept and the first pure arcade type driving experience for the F1 franchise…
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Video Vault – Bjork
A Mutual Core indeed. “Bastards” came out this week, a Biophilia remix album – a review will be coming soon!
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Gamadelic & Samy Cheboub – “Magical Drop V OST” Review
It’s so great to see Magical Drop back on our gaming systems and V comes with a free soundtrack too. What’s more it’s actually pretty…
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Jim Guthrie – “Indie Game: The Movie Soundtrack” Review
Whilst I was not the most enamoured person in the world with Indie Game: The Movie, I enjoyed it for what it was but did…
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ForeverSonic – “Sonic Unplugged” Review
ForeverSonic’s little EP “Sonic Unplugged” is a low fi recording of some wonderful renditions of sonic themes. “Star Light Zone” is a great rendition as…
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Ben Landis – “Adventures in Pixels” Review
Ben Landis has gone one slightly beyond a lot of MP3 album releases. Where others place a picture of their album in the mp3 player…
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Atra Aeterna – “Rift” Review
Atra Aeterna, we at HPM love the beauty in his breakdown on the speakers. With “Rift” things take a more percussive approach to the noises…
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12 Followers – Meteo Xavier – “Impulse OST” Review
12 Followers-Meteo Xaxier have been busy making the soundtrack for a new game Impulse. The result is a technological mesh of all kinds of different…
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Ben Kyle – “Ben Kyle” Review
Lead of Romantica, Ben Kyle has strutted out to do his own solo album. This is an album of delicate soft acoustic based rock with…
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Ari Hest – “The Fire Plays” Review
Ari Hest releases his seventh album on Tuesday entitled “The Fire Plays” and it’s a beautifully understated masterpiece. Opener “Untitled Part 2” brings electric piano…
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Introducing… Mark Mallman
Mark Mallman is a singer/songwriter that appears to be of the kitchen sink ilk – something I am really grooving with some of the more…
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Planningtorock – “W” Review
Recommended to me because of my love of Fever Ray (and The Knife) Planningtorock is like a relative of that genre. Electro-distortion. Janine Rostron takes…
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Welcome Back Soundgarden
Yes Soundgarden – you have “Been Away For Too Long” New album out this week!
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Chitose Hajime – “Kotonoha” Review
Sometimes artists from overseas have an EP that they use to tread out into the other sectors of the world and that appears like what…
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Introducing… Circle of Reason
Circle of Reason are an emerging UK alt/Rock band from the Southwest and have their first EP scheduled for release in December. Very similar to…
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Carina Round – “Tigermending” Review
“Tigermending” is the latest album from the criminally overlooked singer/songwriter Carina Round. This album is a bit more of a departure from her more straight…
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Video Vault – Imogen Heap
Imogen Heap’s latest video features time lapse so naturally I’m all over it like a rash. It’s also an exquisite piece full of so many movements and…