Year: 2013
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Joanne Hogg – “Personal” Review
Whenever I listen to Joanne Hogg I have to approach her music from a non-religious perspective. As someone whom isn’t religious myself, hearing religious based…
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Video Vault – Indiana
A new artist I’d not heard of before popped up on my recommendations via YouTube – its a great example of when you strip out…
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Stone Temple Pilots – “Alive in the Windy City” Review
Stone Temple Pilots have always been a huge favourite for me although they do go under a fair few people’s radar. I’d never really seen…
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Marya Stark – “The Garden” Review
I came across Marya Stark’s music from her involvement with Lila Rose. Lila was one of my favourite discoveries of 2012 and with Marya’s album “The Garden”,…
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Utada Hikaru – “Utada United 2006” Review
Sometimes live performances just all come together and work perfectly. They aren’t the most technically impressive you’ve seen, the most in tune nor have the…
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Speck Mountain – “Badwater” Review
Speck Mountain are a psychedelic rock band from the USA and have just released their third album Badwater two weeks ago. If I were to give it…
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Faun – “Von den Elben” Review
It’s not often that I comment on a bands fans but I feel that I need to before I dive into the review od Faun’s…
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Game Review: Bollywood Wannabe (PC)
Bollywood Wannabe takes the Rhythm Action genre and gives is a Bangra shake up… and how fantastic the shake up is! My love of Rhythm…
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Game Review: Beem (PC)
Beem is a light and mirror puzzler game that slowly drip feeds its game mechanics to you over its games length. The game draws its…
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Higher Plain MusiCast – Ep #3 – Derek Bishop
Derek Bishop whom released the fantastic “Resistance is Beautiful” back in 2011 kicks this years first Higher Plain MusiCast off in great style. In what…
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Video Vault – Faun
Faun are one of my all time favourite bands that could well hit massive heights this year as their latest album came out Monday and…
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Welcome Back The Knife
The Knife return with new song “Full of Fire” with a bizarre video to the equally unique song. As ever the duo never stop on…
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Introducing… Lines in The Sky
Lines in The Sky are a trio from Nashville all aged 20 and under but rocking like they’ve been a complete band for decades. Their…
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Video Vault – Kim Edwards
We featured Kim Edwards last year with a lovely music video and Kim Edwards returns this week with a beautiful track “Wanderlust”. Kim’s vocals are…
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The Silver Lake Chorus – “Wreckage” Review
The Silver Lake Chorus take indie tracks and give them the whole vocal chorus revibe! The 27(!) strong chorus are angelically beautiful and have a…
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Introducing… Marya Stark
With a penchant for bringing in various quirks from different types of genres and meshing them together, Marya Stark has crafted an excellent album The…
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Introducing… Arc & Stones
From Brooklyn, NY we have Arc & Stones – an anthemic alt-rock duo in their 20’s. The music is well crafted and has that certain…
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Introducing… SPC ECO
SPC ECO are Rose Berlin with crystalline vocals and Dean Garcia whom I know from a certain other awesome duo called Curve! You can hear…
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Yae – “Blue Line” Review
Yae, possibly most famous from Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles has a mighty fine repertoire behind her and this her second album Blue Line is the quietest and…
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Video Vault – Rebekka Karijold
This is absolutely mesmorising.
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Film Review: Babies
Slightly different from our usual audio/visual non narrative films HPM reviews, Babies actually follows four humans during their first few months of birth. We see…
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School of Seven Bells – “Ghostory” Review
A very new duo to fall on my ears are School of Seven Bells. Upon my first listen my first thoughts were harking back to…
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Sitorimon’s Latest Album on “Pay What You Want” For 2 Weeks
A little self promotion if you don’t mind! My latest album “Terms & Conditions to Unconditional Love” will be available on Bandcamp under Pay What…
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Introducing… Aimee Bobruk
With her debut album coming out at the end of the month, this is an eerie opener for Russian Aimee Bobruk and I love the…
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Natayla Phillips Welcomes Us To 2013
A bit late I know, I’ve been enjoying a wonderful week off work and even blogging / tubing but this is the most adorable Auld…
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Introducing… La Catrin
La Catrin is housed firmly in dark wave pop but she has some amazing vocal chops that she happily displays in her dynamic song range.…
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Video Vault – Sam Sallon
Sam Sallon has a wonderfully silky smooth acoustic sound and this wonderfully regal Kathy’s Song is a fine example of his talents. Enjoy! His EP…
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Higher Plain Music: Top 10 Game Soundtracks of 2012
Game music continues to spread its wings and blur into all kinds of mediums. It’s strange but in 2012, in some ways I’ve struggled to…