Noni The Pony Goes to The Beach

8 years after "Fools Journey" the follow up "Brill" is finally out. And this time The New Grove Project hit the big drums. In best Scandinavian progressive manner we get 7 tracks of good music, ending with the 24 minute title track. The mind goes to The Flower Kings & IQ as well as hints of Änglagård, to mention a few. But what could be expected from a band with the line up of Ingemar Hjertqvist: Vocals, John BoBo Bollenberg (The Bollenberg Experience): Vocals, Fredy Schnyder (Ex-Thonk, Nucleus Torn) on guitars, mandolin, hammered dulcimer, keyboards, & grand piano, Andre Schornoz (Swiss Gamblers) on bass guitar, Hasse Bruniusson (Ex-Samla Mammas Manna & Flying Food Circus) on drums and percussion, Jode Leigh (Ex-England): Drums, piano and synthesizers and spoken words and finally Pär Lindh: On Hammond organ, grand piano and mellotron! Swedish progressive rock in the vein of The Flower Kings or Änglagård.

The Cranberries‘ second album No Need to Argue has been remastered and expanded for a double CD and 2LP vinyl release in November. Originally released in 1994, the album was the band’s commercial peak, with global sales in excess of 17 million. No Need to Argue contains the single ‘Zombie’ which topped charts across Europe (although interestingly, only peaked at 14 in the UK) and was seemingly played endlessly on MTV at the time. The two-CD deluxe features, on the first disc, a 2020 remaster of the album (“from the original tapes”), three B-sides (‘Away’, ‘I Don’t Need’ and ‘So Cold In Ireland’), a previously unreleased song ‘Yesterday’s Gone’ (which was recorded unplugged for MTV in New York in 1995), a cover of the Carpenters’ ‘(They Long To Be) Close to You’ and a remix of ‘Zombie’. The second CD in this package features nine unreleased demos and eight live tracks.