Some albums surprise and enchant you. Still by Glen Brielle was handed to me at the splendid Abel Ganz curated Prog Before Christmas event, in Glasgow last November, by Hugh Carter with a polite request to review his first solo…
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ID. Entity is Riverside’s first album since 2018’s cathartic Wasteland, and as the title suggests, this release very much focuses on their exploration of identity, including their own. Riverside have been through tough times, most obviously the tragic loss of…
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Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow Saturday, 26th November 2022 ‘Twas the month before Christmas and our intrepid TPA scribe and his faithful companion Bronwen got up before they went to bed and flew to a distant land up North. Many…
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The French progressive rock band Esthesis made quite a splash with their high quality 2020 debut album The Awakening, winning the ‘Best Unsigned Act’ in the Prog Magazine Readers Poll, and they have recently returned with second album Watching Worlds…
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It is the time of Halloween, a time for Ghosts, Ghouls, Wizards and Witches, a perfect time for Magenta to release their rather different and ambitious new album, The White Witch – A Symphonic Trilogy. Magenta unveil a retelling and…
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Galahad are back, and they really have produced the goods on The Last Great Adventurer. It was about halfway through the scintillating Blood, Skin and Bone, as Stuart Nicholson sings passionately about what unites us all as human beings, and…
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Comedy of Errors return with an ambitious new album, Time Machine. Five years is a long time since their fine 2017 album House of the Mind, so it is perhaps apt that Time is an important aspect of this new…
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Red Bazar return with Inverted Reality, their first album since 2019 and their third vocal album with Peter Jones of Camel and Tiger Moth Tales. Inverted Reality takes the Red Bazar sound in an even heavier direction than their previous…
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Back in 2020, Gazpacho inimitably added to the general strangeness of that momentous Covid year with their own particularly peculiar and unmistakably ‘Gazpacho-flavoured’ release, Fireworker, a darkly hypnotic concept album. The pandemic prevented them from presenting it in a live…
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Robin Armstrong’s imminent new Cosmograf album, Heroic Materials, focuses on environmental concerns, which seems particularly timely in a summer in which the UK has seen unprecedented temperatures and drought has been declared. Describing this album in that way may seem…
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