Category: DAN REED

DAN REED NETWORK are ready to release their new album entitled “Let’s Hear It For The King” tomorrow. After returning as a unit some years ago and since then releasing a couple of solid releases, Dan Reed Network capitalized the pandemic lockdown to craft what is possibly their best album to date.
”Let’s Hear It For The King” is a terrific piece of work in every way, with the usual lyrical content giving the listener plenty of time to think while they move to the melodies at the same time. The lyrics are always a thing you either take seriously or with a grain of salt, and Dan Reed himself makes his philosophy pretty-well known as it is, so any fan can already relate to that and let the music take over as well.
They practically forged a new sound altogether here, with a modern edge in the foreground, without losing any of their classic heavy-funk / melodic rock leanings. I can’t help hearing everything from pop to prog rock on this magnificent delivery…

At the end of this horrific 2020 for humanity, and also for music, DAN REED’s latest solo album titled “Liftoff” arrives to provide the perfect antidote. Dan’s solo works since the “comeback” – ‘Coming Up For Air’ in 2010 – have always been introspective and spiritually driven, not in a pseudo-religious way but with a personal doctrine hewn over many years and underscored with hiding out in a Buddhist temple back in the 1990s.
The best way to describe his solo music is serene (and soulful), the opening title track for example will just wash over you, as warming and comforting as a tot of mulled wine in the bleak midwinter.
Reed always aims to write a song that…

The DAN REED NETWORK machine is ready to start the engines at the end of this 2018, headlining a UK tour in support of their impending new album “Origins” to be released tomorrow.“Origins” is an interesting concept and is perhaps best viewed as a live album recorded in the studio, of course, captured with a pristine sound quality. Over the...