The dissolution of the Beatles in 1970 left a vast chasm in the contemporary music scene that other bands were only too eager to fill. One of the first to arrive, picking up right where the Fab Four left off,…
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Andrew Gold: The Fraternal Order of the All – Greetings from Planet Love
It’s possible that this album, originally released in 1997, was the first true example of the ‘Regressive’ music genre. Instead of borrowing influences and using them as inspiration for creating new sounds, Andrew Gold completed the circle by cloaking his…
View More Andrew Gold: The Fraternal Order of the All – Greetings from Planet LoveGentle Giant – Interview [Steven Wilson Remix]
Every self-respecting progressive rock fan ought to own at least a handful of Gentle Giant albums. After all, they’re the band who stayed truest to the spirit of the genre during its early days with their famous proclamation on the…
View More Gentle Giant – Interview [Steven Wilson Remix]Holocaust – Heavy Metal Mania: Complete Recordings, Vol.1 1980-1984
“I’ve got heavy metal music in my blood,” goes the anthemic chorus in the title track for this six-disc compilation, “and I’d like to get it to you if I could.” The clause is so politely put that I can’t…
View More Holocaust – Heavy Metal Mania: Complete Recordings, Vol.1 1980-1984Tomorrow – Permanent Dream
Tomorrow had a brief career in the mid- to late-’60s that was remarkable for two reasons. They were one-hit wonders with My White Bicycle (taken from their one eponymous LP), but more notably Steve Howe was the guitarist and he,…
View More Tomorrow – Permanent DreamK’mono – Mind Out of Mind
Well, this is rather odd; I feel as though I’ve walked through my wardrobe and emerged in some weird medieval fantasy. I mean I obviously know what I like, and as strange as this is, I do like it very…
View More K’mono – Mind Out of MindKarda Estra – The Age of Science and Enlightenment (Expanded & Remastered 2023 Edition)
Karda Estra supremo Richard Wileman has reissued his 2006 album, The Age of Science and Enlightenment, as a revised and expanded remaster, featuring an additional 15-minutes of music from the original sessions. Reportedly one of his favourite Karda Estra albums,…
View More Karda Estra – The Age of Science and Enlightenment (Expanded & Remastered 2023 Edition)Kōenjihyakkei – Nivraym Revisited [Remastered & Expanded]
Back in 2019, before the world went all mental and live music disappeared, I was lucky enough to see Japanese band Kōenjihyakkei perform a magnificent set at the Lexington in London. Suffice to say, it was one of the most…
View More Kōenjihyakkei – Nivraym Revisited [Remastered & Expanded]Centipede – Septober Energy [Remastered]
There could hardly be a more enticing prospect to a prog rock fan than Centipede, the fifty-piece group that contained a veritable who’s who of distinguished early figures of the prog scene. Led by pianist Keith Tippett, whose previous albums…
View More Centipede – Septober Energy [Remastered]Soft Machine – Bundles [Remastered]
Frequent prog scribbler Sid Smith claims, in the liner notes for this newly released reissue of Bundles, that “it’s been fashionable … to heap praise upon the first four or possibly five Soft Machine albums and pour scorn on [the…
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