Since officially parting ways from Kraftwerk in 1986-ish, Wolfgang Flür has kept himself busy in the music business as a club DJ and also by collaborating with various dance and synthpop bands. A debut solo album wasn’t forthcoming until 2015,…
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IQ return with Dominion six years after 2019’s Resistance… and a lot has changed in between, both in the band and the wider world. A new album from this legendary band is always a special event. From the opening resonant…
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Van Der Graaf Generator’s (VDGG) seventh studio album, released in 1976, is generally seen to be a last hurrah of the classic line up, coming as it did at the end of a fertile creative period, following closely behind two…
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You’re Despicable (best pronounced with a suitable Daffy Duck lisp!) is a refreshingly vibrant, melodic and song-orientated collection of progressive pop songs, from David Knowles and Colin McKay. These seasoned Liverpool-based musicians and songwriters reunited back in 2015 under The…
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Imagination, says Leonard Bernstein, is our ‘greatest treasure.’ With it, we have the ability to bring our dreams to life: we can, every day, dream our lives alive. The continual flow of imagination shapes all that we do and colours…
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It’s been a while since I visited O.R.k.-land, a place where precision heaviness meets crunchy intent, and this multi-national outfit do not disappoint with their latest dispensation from on high, Firehose Of Falsehoods. This highly appropriately titled album arrives at…
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Neo-prog stalwarts Jadis have been ploughing their brand of melodic prog rock since 1982, and whilst they have never been able to consistently match the profile of the likes of Marillion, IQ and Pendragon over the years, they have maintained…
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If, like me, you are interested in how the various strands of rock music, including progressive rock, emerged from the embryonic but frankly unappetising world of the early 60’s pop culture then this compilation does a great job of peeling…
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In 2023 Tribe3 came out of nowhere to give us their remarkable eponymous debut album, which was reviewed very positively by TPA’s now sadly departed Jez Rowden, the first reviewer to champion this band (and for whom they still hold…
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The Painted River of Light is the third album from Gayle Ellett & The Electromags, and something of a departure from the direction of the first two releases. Up until now, the music was very much a celebration of the…
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