Month: November 2012
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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…
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Video Vault – Generator Ohm
Generator Ohm, a great rock band whom try to stay as clear from a normal time signature or structure as possible have released a new music video…
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Video Vault – Derek Bishop
We do love a bit of Bishop worship here at HPM and here’s Derek with his latest video for “Jackpot”. Cute piano on the ceiling…