Pixels & Sound "Sentimentalism"

Country: Australia
Genre(s): Progressive Rock
Format: CD, digital 
Release date: February 18, 2021
Tracklist

1. Take Flight (1:29) 

2. Break (2:40) 

3. Good Morning Melody (4:40) 

4. Kinshipwreck (6:03) 

5. Five Months Later (7:27) 

6. The Sleeping Song (6:22) 

7. The Release (3:45) 

8. Cancer (6:41) 

9. Eye Of The Storm (7:03) 

10. Growing Symptoms (21:42) 

11. The Uplift (2:00) 

12. Opportunity (8:45) 

13. Like In The Movies (Bonus Track) (3:15) 

Total Time 81:52

Line-up

Reece Denton - Lead vocals, guitars and drums

Daniel Mckittrick - Guitars, mandolins and backing vocals

Anthony Stewart - Bass, guitars (9) and backing vocals

    With:

Sarah Vella - Lead and backing vocals

David Eaton (Anubis) - Keyboards, guitar solo (10) and backing vocals

Douglas Skene (Hemina/Anubis) - Guitar solo (12) and backing vocals

Dean Bennison (Anubis) - Guitar solo (5)

Robert James Moulding (Anubis) - Backing vocals (2, 8, 10)

‘The Sentimental Voices’ - Backing vocals:

Sopranos: Riley Beech, Rebecca Bennison, Renee Ciappara, Ibrahim Davids, Reece Denton, David Eaton, Michelle Etherington-Nowell, Alex Fabri, Peri Macdonald, Kristina Maggio, Daniel Mckittrick, Stephanie Orellana, Sarah Pineda, Douglas Skene, Jessica Skene, Anthony Stewart, Joshua Szafranski, Aminah Tabbaa, Sarah Vella, David Wallace, Lachlan Winters and Thomas Winters.

Altos: Rebecca Bennison, Phil Birkenhead, Sophie Botta, Nicholas Ciappara, Renee Ciappara, Judd Cosio, Mark Davis, Reece Denton, David Eaton, Ahmed El-Ayoubi, Lucca Etherington-Nowell, Alex Fabri, Jolyon Gray, Lachlan Green, Geoff Hargreaves, Royce Legaspi, Kristina Maggio, Robert James Moulding, Jessica Orellana, Douglas Skene, Jessica Skene, Hannah Smith, Anthony Stewart, Joshua Szafranski, Sarah Vella, David Wallace, Lachlan Winters and Thomas Winters.

Tenors: Riley Beech, Dean Bennison, Phil Birkenhead, Nicholas Ciappara, Ezra Cordova, Tiahna Davis, Diosa Denton, Reece Denton, David Eaton, Alex Fabri, Jack Franklin, Lachlan Green, Geoff Hargreaves, Lance Holland-Keen, Johnry Pineda, Joshua Pineda, Keith Pineda, Lachlan Reed, Douglas Skene, Anthony Stewart, Joshua Szafranski, Layth Tabbaa, Sarah Vella, Ben Waights, David Wallace, Lachlan Winters and Thomas Winters.

Basses: Riley Beech, Ibrahim Davids, Reece Denton, David Eaton, Steven Eaton, Lachlan Green, Geoff Hargreaves, Daniel Mckittrick, Phil Nowell, Joshua Pineda, Douglas Skene, Anthony Stewart, Joshua Szafranski, Federico Trillo, David Wallace, Bradley Ward, Lachlan Winters and Thomas Winters

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Anubis "Homeless"

Country: Australia
Genre(s): Progressive Rock
Format: CD, digital, vinyl
Release date: March 10, 2020
Tracklist: 
1. Reflective
2. Entitled
3. White Ashes
4. Home
5. Homeless
6. The Tables Have Turned
7. Sirens
8. In Shadows
9. Gone

Line-up: 
Robert James Moulding
David Eaton
Douglas Skene (Hemina)
Dean Bennison
Anthony Stewart
Steven Eaton

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Anubis "The Second Hand"

Country: Australia
Genre(s): Progressive Rock
Format: CD, digital
Release date: May 23, 2017
Tracklist: 

1. The Second Hand   
2. Fool's Gold    
3. These Changing Seasons I   
4. The Making of Me    
5. While Rome Burns   
6. Blackout   
7. These Changing Seasons II   
8. Pages of Stone   
9. These Changing Seasons III

Line-up: 
Robert James Moulding - Vocals, Guitars, Percussion
David Eaton - Organs, Mellotron, Piano, Synthesisers, Guitar, Vocals
Douglas Skene - Electric & Acoustic Guitars, Electric Sitar, Vocals
Dean Bennison - Electric & Acoustic Guitars, Slide Guitar, Vocals
Anthony Stewart - Electric & Acoustic Bass, Moog Bass Pedals, Vocals
Steven Eaton - Drums, Percussion, Glockenspiel, Vocals
   With
Tom Winters, Lochie Winters, Reece Denton - Additional Vocals (9)
Brian Dade, Marcus Mulu, Cliff Pearson, Patricia Eaton, Andrew Eaton, Jessica Skene, Andrew Craig, Sasha Ioshpe, Chris Tracey - Additional Speaking Voices

Description/Reviews: 

'The Second Hand' is Anubis' fourth studio record, and marks a return to the narrative driven concept album format. It charts the downfall of an aging media mogul, James Osbourne-Fox, who, after a severe brain injury is left paralysed and imprisoned in his own body and left to contemplate the futility of his life of corporate success.
The album seeks to address the notion of balance, the media's influence on those who consume it, and how the bias and hysteria benefits no-one but those who sign the cheques, dividing people and leading to political turbulence and unrest. The lyrics - written very early in 2016 - had, by the end of the year and recording process, become seemingly even more prescient with the media and moneyed interest's roles in influencing the results of referendums, elections and even conflicts worldwide.

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Anubis "The Second Hand"

Country: Australia
Genre(s): Progressive Rock
Format: CD, digital
Release date: May 23, 2017
Tracklist: 

1. The Second Hand   
2. Fool's Gold    
3. These Changing Seasons I   
4. The Making of Me    
5. While Rome Burns   
6. Blackout   
7. These Changing Seasons II   
8. Pages of Stone   
9. These Changing Seasons III

Line-up: 
Robert James Moulding - Vocals, Guitars, Percussion
David Eaton - Organs, Mellotron, Piano, Synthesisers, Guitar, Vocals
Douglas Skene - Electric & Acoustic Guitars, Electric Sitar, Vocals
Dean Bennison - Electric & Acoustic Guitars, Slide Guitar, Vocals
Anthony Stewart - Electric & Acoustic Bass, Moog Bass Pedals, Vocals
Steven Eaton - Drums, Percussion, Glockenspiel, Vocals
   With
Tom Winters, Lochie Winters, Reece Denton - Additional Vocals (9)
Brian Dade, Marcus Mulu, Cliff Pearson, Patricia Eaton, Andrew Eaton, Jessica Skene, Andrew Craig, Sasha Ioshpe, Chris Tracey - Additional Speaking Voices

Description/Reviews: 

'The Second Hand' is Anubis' fourth studio record, and marks a return to the narrative driven concept album format. It charts the downfall of an aging media mogul, James Osbourne-Fox, who, after a severe brain injury is left paralysed and imprisoned in his own body and left to contemplate the futility of his life of corporate success.
The album seeks to address the notion of balance, the media's influence on those who consume it, and how the bias and hysteria benefits no-one but those who sign the cheques, dividing people and leading to political turbulence and unrest. The lyrics - written very early in 2016 - had, by the end of the year and recording process, become seemingly even more prescient with the media and moneyed interest's roles in influencing the results of referendums, elections and even conflicts worldwide.

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Anubis "Hitchhiking to Byzantium"

Country: Australia
Sub Genre: Progressive Rock
Label: Bird's Robe Records
Release date: May 30, 2014
Tracklist: 

1. Fadeout (2:40)
2. A King with no Crown (4:37)
3. Dead Trees (6:38)
4. Hitchhiking to Byzantium (9:44)
5. Blood is Thicker than Common Sense (9:27)
6. Tightening of the Screws (6:51)
7. Partitionists (7:43)
8. Crimson Stained Romance (6:58)
9. A Room with a View (15:51)
10. Silent Wandering Ghosts (7:13)

Line-up: 
Robert James Moulding - Vocals, Bass Guitar, Guitar, Percussion, Additional keyboards
David Eaton - Keyboards, Guitars, Vocals
Douglas Skene - Guitars and Vocals
Dean Bennison - Guitars, Slide and Vocals
Steven Eaton - Drums and Vocals
Martyn Cook - Saxophone, Flute and Trumpets
Anthony Stewart - Bass and Vocals
   With
Rebecca Bennison - Vocals
Katrina Shaw - Vocals
Sarah Schols - Vocals

Description/Reviews: 

This third album, 'Hitchhiking to Byzantium' is the first Anubis album not to have a plot or narrative. It's more of a thematic work, based on modern life. "It's about growing older and trying to do better at things", says guitarist Dean Bennison, "and about the excuses we make for ourselves, all the crutches and braces that we find for ourselves along the way, and how good and bad they are for us". "It's perhaps a little more esoteric than the last two albums", say guitarist Douglas Skene, "although I think at core they all touch upon the same theme - which is what is and isn't important to people in their lives". "You do still get the sense that it's someone" says drummer Steven Eaton, "Someone who is on a journey. And the hope is that when they get there, they're happy with what they've found".

Whilst it doesn't have the narrative cinematic approach, Hitchhiking to Byzantium does have an emotional punch quite unlike anything before on an Anubis record. "Whilst we hid all our very real emotions behind conceits before - haunted workhouses and lost friends - this record is about the things that happen every day" says David. "I feel that there's more of us in there - the hurdles that life throws at us and the only way to feel true inner peace - by examining the love around you. It's certainly an introspective record - but it's real life. It's about you, it's about me, it's about all of us. Hitchhiking to Byzantium. That journey is life." 

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