Piano Rock
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St Vincent – MassEducation Review
NonCommittal I haven’t been so conflicted and frustrated in an album review for a very long time. St Vincent’s surprise release of a complete piano…
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Mitski – Be the Cowboy Review
Mitski rides all genres firmly in the saddle It’s always fantastic when you stumble across an artist whose several albums into their career and has…
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Greg Laswell – Next Time Review
An album of inner conflict turned outwards into torch weilding anthems Following on from the superbly bitter and miserable “Everyone Thinks I Dodged A Bullet”…
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Greg Laswell returns with new album of melancholy anthems for the jaded
Greg Laswell’s last album “Everyone Thinks I Dodged A Bullet” was bitter, angry, pointed and a snake recoiled. I loved it as I was similarly…
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Kathryn Joseph – From When I Wake The Want Is Review
A 1-2 punch to the mind and soul – utterly glorious Kathryn Joseph pretty much burst into my musical world in 2016 with her stunning…
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Gregory Douglass – Live From The Chapel Review
One of the most talented underground singer/songwriters I’ve come across over the last decade is Gregory Douglass. His vocal gymnastics emphasis heartfelt songs along with…
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Mesadorm – Heterogaster Review
Mesadorm’s debut album has a European art-pop flavour about it. Heterogaster is a melting pot of ideas and individual artists each bringing their own artistic…
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Live Vault – Sarah Slean
Epic and beautifully goosebumped
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Abi Wade – “Beautifully Astray” Review
Armed to the cello
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Video Vault – Abi Wade
Dramatic piano pop for the inner artist
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Minute Taker – “Reconstruction” Review
Lusciously marching towards dreamlike madness
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Sarah Walk – “Little Black Book” Review
Enter a new master of the piano rock genre
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Benjamin Clementine – “I Saw A Fly” Review
The craziest genius of 2017?
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Out Lines – “Conflats” Review
Heart breaking tales from the darkest depths of Scotland
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Sarah Walk shares title track from upcoming debut album
She's still angry... and now she has an album! My ears are ready.
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Tori Amos – “Native Invader” Review
It’s not very often that I purposely delay reviewing something, but when I first listened to Native Invader, I initially felt quite underwhelmed. There were…
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Introducing… Sluka
Bowie esque in more ways than one.
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Higher Plain Music’s Top 25 Albums of 2016
My 25 best albums of 2016. Happy New Year!
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Tori Amos – “Boys for Pele” Remastered Deluxe Review
Shaving every audio clip that she'll bring...
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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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Video Vault – Sarah Walk
My new piano based hype
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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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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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Duologue – “Never Get Lost” Review
Genre bending sometimes requires patience for the reward...
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Video Vault – Paper Aeroplanes
English duo return and dust off their powers
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Introducing… Miss Kenichi
Enter a new challenger to the female singer/songwriter clash!
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Sarah McLachlan – “Shine On” Review
Surfacing part two
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Maximum Satan – “Bardbarian OST” Review
Mosh-a-clock?
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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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Megan Bonnell – “Hunt and Chase” Review
Ladies and Gents - I present to you a new star...
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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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Introducing… Gayle Skidmore
Gayle Skidmore is releasing her second album “Sleeping Bear” on 17th September and “Sickle in the Shade” is the lead track from it. It’s a…
