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Abandoned Toys
Dark ethereal piano music
Abney Park
Thought I better include them as they seem to be regarded as one of the premiere SP bands. This is reliant on what others have uploaded to Youtube as to date I have not managed to track down a CD this side of the pond and I really try and avoid paying for downloads.
Guitary Industrial metal with appropriate lyrical direction from what I can tell. Don't have the fun factor of the Men Who Will Be Blamed for Nothing. "Steampunk Revolution," is an impressive epic video with very lazy rhyming couplets and a sub Ed violin line.
Anyway I am much more comfortable dimissing people's musical output if I can put it in my CD player so having acquired a CD copy of "from dreams or angels," initially I'm reminded of Wolfsheim without the hooks. Artworks more Inkubus Sukubus than War of the Worlds. I think there's another CD on the slow boat from Boston so expect an update sometime soon.
Absinthe Heroes
"Live at Steampunks World Fair," - Imagine a tone deaf amateur dramatic group trying to put on a home written musical of around the world in 80 days with a folk/Americana theme recorded on a dictaphone in a shoe
A Clockwork Opera
Quite big sounding. Sort of what you would expect but with a metal edge. Mancunian aparently. Owe a debt to Maiden with girly opera vocals
Adams, Alexander, James
Quality John Barleycorn type folk
Aeon Now
Acordian music hall folk. About average.
AeTopus
Creepy music boxy dark ambient
Ah Pook the Destroyer
Ah Pook the Destroyer is a collaboration between Paul Shapera and Matthew Broyles of The Matthew Show. "The Silver Key," is a musical adaption of a HP Lovecraft story which is right up the boys street. Quite concept albumy (as one would expect) with a slice of prog.
Ailsean
Kind of Roxy Music meets sci-fi electro Maiden
Air
France's finest electro pioneers (apart from Jean Michelle Jarre) before Daft Punk came along made their name with the brilliant slacker dance track "Sexy Boy," just don't ask what happened to my single. They became steampunk pioneers with the release of their soundtrack to "Le Voyage Dans Le Lune," the pioneering sci-fi film. The limited edition version came with a DVD of the colourised version of the film that should be shown on continous loop at all and every steampunk event.
Alex the Kid
completely electronic. Imagine Bloodhound Gang playing sci-fi.
Alice's Night Circus
Rather like the mid 90s when you couldn't go to a festival without stumbling across an Ozric Tentacles set Alices... is currently somewhat ubiquitous at Steam Punk gatherings. Her first three EPs very much set the tone and whilst there is a bit of sameness about a lot of the tracks there are also nice haunting female vocals and to be fair every decent song the Stone Roses ever wrote was exactly the same reworking of Sally Cinnamon.
A full length album was released in Autumn 2018 which is a good solid offering it's just a shame there weren't one or two new tracks alongside the fan favourites from the EPs.
5 cogs out of 5.
AliveKill
Possibly my favourite French steampunk band and they do sound quite like Hubert Felixe Thefienne whom I love and think could have a renaissance if he bought some goggles.
Anealio, John
"Steampunk Girl," sounds a bit like REM meet Billy Bragg meet the Oysterband. Ace lyrics here. Imagine a more relevant Voltaire and that is despite the fact that I clearly never finished this sentence
Atlanta Radio Theatre Companby
OK do these are a an actual Radio Thetre Company who have produced a radio drama of the Island of Doctor Moreau amongst others which is quite well done
Atrocity and the Complications
A bit Nick Cave, quite Goth.
Aubourg, Joan
4 out of 5 cogs for authenticity. This could be what steampunk sounds like. Sinister harpsichord lead instrumentals."Midnight Express," captures that peril that the Doctor Who incidental music does so well.
Audio Kings of the Third World
Certainly a more garage take on steam punk if this is what it sounds like.
Auri, Leo
Geiger Counter as percussion? a mixture of dark instrumentals and Magnetic Fields style ballads.
Automaton
"A bold new horizon" is Disney style narration segments albeit of a rather more grown up nature interspercing Maiden style metal. One of my very favourite band camp SP releases
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