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Album Reviews View More
Nine Stones Close – Adventures In Anhedonia | Diurnal
Nine Stones Close released their last new studio album (Leaves) in 2016 and in 2024 we now have two new NSC studio albums released within the space of 4 months with Adventures in Anhedonia following close on the heels of…
Randy McStine – Mutual Hallucinations
I’ve gone into doing this review with basically knowing very little about the artiste in question, other than I watched him play live with Porcupine Tree, 2 years ago on their Closure/Continuation Tour, and I’ll be seeing him again, this…
The Round Window – Fram
Sometimes the best things come in small packages, and that is the case with the new EP, Fram, from The Round Window. Despite only being three songs long and 23 minutes in duration, the Essex melodic prog rock band have…
Isobar – Isobar IV
Isobar, Californian purveyors of instrumental prog fusion shenanigans are back, continuing their penchant for whacky track titles, and more sober and predictable album titles. Actually, who knows, they may do a Zeppelin and come up with an actual title for…
Lesoir – Push Back The Horizon
After their expansive 2022 Prog epic EP Babel, Lesoir have returned with the impactful Push Back the Horizon release which definitely takes them into new territory. They appear to have swapped their more gentle ‘Prog’ and pastoral tones for punchier…
A Different Aspect (ADA) View More
A Different Aspect #94
Featured artists: Davey Dodds & Friends | Regna | The Twenty Committee | Exowst Scotland Five bite-sized reviews of some of the recent and not so recent albums & singles to land at TPA HQ: • Davey Dodds & Friends…
A Different Aspect #93
Featured artists: Alter Ego | Wombat Supernova | Malwina Zero | Oddtomatic Kicking off the ADA section for 2024 (yes… we know it’s April) we have bite-sized reviews of just some of the recent instrumental albums & EPs to land…
Concert Reviews View More
The Wood Demons / Storm Deva
Camden Club, London Sunday, 17th November 2024 STORM DEVA Words: Roger Trenwith | Photos: Simon Arnold Another Sunday afternoon gig in the familiar surroundings of the Camden Club sees the faithful turn up in droves for this matinée concert. Due…
Julia Fordham
Fire Station, Sunderland Monday, 11th November 2024 For those who are familiar with Julia Fordham’s voice they will know how wonderful it is. Yes, there are more powerful singers in the annals of music history but her style is not…
Dream Theater
Arena Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia Tuesday, 29th October 2024 A year (almost to the day) before this very gig, Dream Theater announced the return of founding drummer Mike Portnoy. This wasn’t news I took happily as I was upset by the…
Deep Purple / Reef
First Direct Arena, Leeds 7th November 2024 REEF It is hard for any band to fill a support slot, especially when the main act happens to be Deep Purple. Most of the audience is there to see the ‘name’ and…
iamthemorning / Gleb Kolyadin / Marjana Semkina
St Matthias Church, Stoke Newington, London Friday, 1st November 2024 Billed as “An Evening With iamthemorning”, the idea of Marjana Semkina and Gleb Kolyadin, and their band playing their songs of death and pain in a church seems like a…
ProgStock 2024
Williams Center, Rutherford, NJ, USA Thursday 17th to Sunday 20th October 2024 Occurring a week later than is customary, Progstock 2024 was welcomed by both a larger than usual crowd and unusually warm and sunny weather for late October. As…
Lazuli
Poppodium Boerderij, Zoetermeer, The Netherlands Saturday, 26th October 2024 By now, the connoisseur audience knows what to expect from Lazuli: approximately two-hours of an intense and above all energetic show by the excellent French quintet. The audience consists of about…
The Emerald Dawn / Fluctus Quadratum
The 1865, Southampton Sunday, 26th October 2024 FLUCTUS QUADRATUM A square wave hit the South Coast as Fluctus Quadratum rolled in to The 1865 in Southampton to open for The Emerald Dawn. This is a band with some story behind…
Interviews View More
Nick Magnus
Nick Magnus is no stranger to the progressive rock scene, his years of collaboration with Steve Hackett, both on record and on stage, are partly responsible for that. The release of his seventh solo album A Strange Inheritance was the…
John Hackett
On behalf of Progressive Aspect to myself, thank you John for giving us your time for this interview. Darren Walker: Growing up a time when Rock was, arguably, at its best, what made you pick up as a flute as…
Nick Fletcher
I have a love hate relationship with the term ‘A musician’s musician’ as, to me, it seems to imply either of two things. Firstly that they make music that is somehow too clever for the general public, making something that…
Alberto Bravin – Big Big Train
I had already purchased my ticket for the Big Big Train show at Whitley Bay, yet through fellow TPA member Chris Simmons and his contacts, I managed to obtain permission to do an interview on the day of the gig.…
The Blackheart Orchestra
Blackheart Orchestra are billed as officially the world’s smallest orchestra, they comprise of just Chrissy Mostyn and Rick Pilkington, who play 13 instruments between them, although not all of them at the same time. With three albums released under the…
Jon Anderson
Not every day you get the chance to talk to one of the all-time greats of the prog world. And certainly not when that person happens to be the singer/founder of your favourite band. So when I had the opportunity…