Mar 14, 2007 | My Majestic Star Reviews, Reviews
Excerpt – “Ideas… is a genre-straddling, guitar-based pleasure…..When Mason is in full-out ambient mode, his manner of combining airy guitar washes with more tangible melodies is superb. The highlight of this CD is “Half Measures,” where a poppy melody begins to...
Feb 13, 2007 | My Majestic Star Reviews, Reviews
Excerpt – “What’s most striking, as those descriptions indicate, is the lack of aggression. My Majestic Star’s songs (as gauzy and atmospheric as Ideas Are the Answer gets these are still definitely songs) reach for the sky like all the best post-rock but you...
Jan 9, 2007 | My Majestic Star Reviews, Reviews
Excerpt – “The lovely melodies and sweeping crescendos found in their latest work Fining will have even the hardest shoegaze rocker swimming in a pool of shimmery landscape-filled emerald tunes. “The Letter F” and “Fining” are wonderfully ambient tracks that...
Jan 3, 2007 | My Majestic Star Reviews, Reviews
Excerpt – “In a year that’s been woefully bereft of decent instrumental guitar music, including the disappointing Mr Beast, it’s Western Australia’s Chris Mason who shines the brightest, with a collection of beautifully melodic and lovingly constructed pieces...
Nov 5, 2006 | My Majestic Star Reviews, Reviews
Excerpt – “One half of the majestic Glassacre and a great solo artist in his own right, Chris Mason also records under the My Majestic Star moniker, producing excellent instrumental guitar music in the style of Papa M’s masterpiece Live From A Shark...