Higher Plain Music

An understated movement from string and voice.

Twisting on This Mortal Coil

80’s shoegaze styled rock with Marc Almond-esque vocals anyone?

Getting your Cocteau Bush on

A wall of sound that I could be locked behind for days

How a violin can be the whole band if you have the mind to do so

Ethereal trip hop from Romania

It’s time to share Higher Plain Music’s top 25 albums of 2014

Lisa Gerrard returns with her new album “Twilight Kingdom” and her video release for the track “Seven Seas”. The beautiful monochrome vision is well executed and is very dramatic with the downbeat and minimalistic approach to the track itself. Lisa has collaborated again with Patrick Cassidy for this album so I’m expecting a quiet and […]

Ten minutes of ethereal zen in a live performance

Bring on the epic sci-fi adventures of Hudderfield!

Bring on the jello and the atmosphere!

Mother has a surprise…

Ethereal English rock at its beautiful finest

Bounding piano, hellbent drums and psychedelic interludes? We. Love. Megan.

Module until last year was best known to us for the mighty Shatter soundtrack full of pumping beats and synth guitar riffs. With his first solo album that’s not associated with a game, “Imagineering” takes things to a more celestial and wondrous place. “A Glass Star” opens with a simple motif played on twinkling bells […]

Put simply, last night a dream came true. Dead Can Dance until recently was a band I had not dreamed of seeing live but now they are reunited, I jumped at the chance to see them. From the outset almost every single track felt slightly sped up compared to their album counterparts. Opener “Children of […]

I think for once, I’ll let this absolutely beautiful track do the talking. For fans of Faun, Qntal, Omnia, Pagan/Neo-Folk, World Music with a difference and something very Lord of the Rings! She did all the illustrations herself too!

Finally in the Live Vault trio its Dead Can Dance whom I can’t find a ticket for anywhere! Here’s two songs from Brendan that aren’t on an album but are both beautiful. And a few others too:

Whilst it is an unofficial video, it is very well done plus is gives us more anticipation of their new album out next month. The album is available to stream in full already but I’d rather wait until the CD is in my hands before I pass official judgement. From what I’ve heard though, I […]