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    Album Of The Week Album Of The Week - 20/06/2026 - Track 5 For anyone who knows Anathema there is really only 1 song I can use to close this review and that is One Last Goodbye. This is an achingly beautiful song written in tribute to Helen Cavanagh, the mother of Danny and Vincent who passed away while Judgement was being written. Although the song is very personal to them it has become a classic from the bands output with its universal theme of grief, the song has resonance with anyone who has lost a loved one. Album Of The Week - 20/06/2026 - Track 4 My penultimate selection from Judgement is the title track from the album, a song that showcases the progressive direction the band were heading in during the late 1990's. The song builds from a moody and atmospheric keyboard and acoustic guitar opening and concludes in a distorted frenzy of manic guitars, all topped off with a lyric based around the album themes of loss and regret. Album Of The Week - 20/06/2026 - Track 3 ...

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   Album Of The Week 2026 - Archive Album Of The Week - 03/01/2026 Dark Fields - Show of Hands We kick off 2026 with a band that have made a massive impact on my music listening, the Devon based folk duo, Show of Hands, who comprise of singer/songwriter/musician Steve Knightley and the multi-instrumentalist and folk legend Phil Beer, formerly of the Albion Band. This week’s album, Dark Fields, is the fourth of my 32 Show of Hands albums to be selected as my album of week and its an album that has a special memory, as I bought it at a gig we attended at the Exeter Phoenix soon after Julie & I started following them. Dark Fields, released in 1997, is actually the bands 6 th  album although the first 3 were cassette only and are now long out of print. Therefore, Dark Fields is the third main release album and continued the success and acclaim Show of Hands had garnered from their previous 2 albums. In 1996, Show of Hands surprisingly booked the Royal Albert Hall and even...