Piano pop
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Saramai – “Magnetic North” Review
A heavily skewed original lady at the keys enters stage left
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Tori Amos showcases unreleased track
20 years later and it's still a work of painful beauty
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Douglas Dare – “Aforger” Review
2016's album for the dark, damp, and trodden on is here
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Utada Hikaru – “Fantome” Review
Back after 6 years - it was worth the wait...
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Introducing… James Halloran
How to kill everyone in revenge using one bowl of punch and a piano
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Introducing… Sarah Walk
New piano rock songstress to set our worlds alight
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Greg Laswell – “Everyone Thinks I Dodged A Bullet” Review
The breakup album of 2016
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Introducing… Rachael Sage
Dancing her way into your memories
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Introducing… Nicholas Wells
Welcome to the indie pop man you want to take home to mum
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Derek Bishop – “Bicycling In Quicksand” Review
Derek Bishop’s début album was all kinds of funky with disco infused piano vibes and plenty of production really pushing catchy songs into a top…
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Higher Plain Music’s Top 25 Albums of 2014
It's time to share Higher Plain Music's top 25 albums of 2014
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Tori Amos – Unrepentant Geraldines Review
Tori Amos returned back to her more piano based roots for her latest album Unrepentant Geraldines in 2014 after a foray off in the world…
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Imogen Heap – “Sparks” Review
Where technology, music and hedonism collide
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Sarah McLachlan – “Shine On” Review
Surfacing part two
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Live Concert Review – Tori Amos (London 2014)
Lady of the keys
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Tori Amos Discusses Unrepentant Geraldines
Back with a country flavour
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Charlotte Martin – “Water Breaks Stone” Review
Drip feeding awesomeness from ear to ear
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Imogen Heap – Live At the Royal Albert Hall Review
Time to bring out ALL the sample packs - It's Immi live!
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Introducing… Brooke Waggoner
A lady that literally throws everything into her music - hello kitchen sink!
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Vienna Teng – “Aims” Review
Vienna brings in all kinds of technical tricks for an amazingly strong 5th album
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Introducing… Jeffery Straker
Jeff's the guy who plays ALL the instruments!
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Introducing… Megan Bonnell
Bounding piano, hellbent drums and psychedelic interludes? We. Love. Megan.
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Mortar and Pestle – “Mortar And Pestle” Review
Electric synth alt-pop trio Mortar and Pestle released their self entitled EP earlier this year and the six track record is an excellent showcase of…
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Introducing… Mike Tyler
I’m still not entirely sure what to make of this… any suggestions? Bizarrely catchy, going out of his way for comedy value in vocal delivery…
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Video Vault – Benbrick
Benbrick is releasing an EP and this is the final track for it finished and in the can as they say. “They All Say” is…
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Introducing… Nat Osborn Band
I normally cannot stand Jazz and along with rap, they remain the two genres I can happily leave any day of the week – however…
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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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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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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 – 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…
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Introducing… Sóley
Sóley appears to be quite well known from the awesome musical country of Iceland but I’ve only just discovered her via this wonderful live set…
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Sunday Lane – “From Where You Are” Review
Some musicians are blessed with the talent to write simple ditties, others have a distinct voice that can carry them. Sunday Lane has both. Her début album…
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Introducing… Jillette Johnson
Jillette Johnson took me a couple of listens to really sink into. Maybe I wasn’t in the right frame of mind. I came back to…
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A City On A Lake – “A City On A Lake” Review
Alex Wong’s solo monkier A City On A Lake makes his début with his self entitled album and my goodness me – its absolutely stunning. “The Lake,…
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Introducing – Larissa Jaye
Little is known about Larissa Jaye as her main site is currently under construction but I do think this song is beautiful and is currently…
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Video Vault – Sarah Slean
Sarah Slean’s 3rd single from her double album Land & Sea, which is still on for a review here in the near future, is called…
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Video Vault – ryo (supercell) Feat Miku Hatsune
The long awaited release of PS Vita’s “Project Diva F” comes in a few weeks (I cannot wait for the PS3 version next year) and…
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Introducing… Sunday Lane
Sunday Lane is a uniquely voiced singer/songwriter whose been recently credited in a hot 100 unsigned artists column in Music Connection magazine. I would write a huge…
