*BC Series* Review: Cloudkicker - Beacons

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Back to the Bandcamp releases. This was the album that made me aware of the site, having been recommended by some site that I found in a random search for free music. Clearly, I was impressed enough to take great interest in the site, so it would seem I owe a lot to this album.

Cloudkicker is a one-man, instrumental progressive rock/metal project out of Columbus, Ohio. While my preferences in prog-rock are typically based on high-quality instrumentation, I generally lean toward acts with talented vocalists and interesting lyrical themes. It's a genre in which instrumental projects are usually very pretentious, and often boring. Cloudkicker doesn't come off that way to me.

*BC series* New Release: Sanxion7 - red01.ruby

For this one, I'm going to start by focusing on the latest release, and get a little bit into the most recent prior ones.

I'm always happy to give an artist a chance when he's a fellow Wisconsinite. The music scene in Madison is often overlooked for reasons I can't understand. For years, I've heard from a diverse assortment of very talented artists that fail to gain the exposure they deserve. Hopefully, the Bandcamp model is giving artists like Sanxion7 an opportunity they might not otherwise have.

New Release: Nine Inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine (remastered)

It's been a while since I posted a review. A long while. I guess new releases just haven't been impressing me a whole lot lately. There are some things that have grabbed my interest and given me some ideas for new directions to go with a blog. Until those are fully-formed, though, I really must wax ecstatic about what I got in the mail today.