It can be somewhat of a cliché when reviewers claim a new album is an artist’s best release to date, especially after the previous ones have been heaped with praise, but I’m going to have to unashamedly trot out that…
View More Kite Parade – Disparity
It’s understandable that one could be sceptical of a release such as this. After all, Mr Wakeman has cashed in on his Yes connection as well as his own back catalogue more times than I can possibly count. Yessonata certainly…
View More Rick Wakeman – Yessonata
It’s been three years since the 35 Tapes album, Home. Back then, when I reviewed that album on these pages, I described their music as “happy memories of the symphonic, melodic, pastoral prog, peppered with 12-string guitars, mellotron, the beat…
View More 35 Tapes – Fabric Of Time
One of the best things about working with TPA is the opportunity to explore new bands. Funhouse Mirrors is a young group out of my home state of New Jersey that I first ran into while they were previewing their…
View More Funhouse Mirrors – Red Bird
I have been an avid follower of Tim’s right from his first solo release, and it is great to see his slowly changing and evolving musical stylings over his seven previous albums, a truly progressive journey for him, one might…
View More Tim Bowness – Powder Dry
Esoteric’s Stackridge collection is finally complete after their string of (mostly 2CD) reissues of the band’s 70s albums last year, as well as the live 2CD+DVD of The Forbidden City released in April this year. It might seem like a…
View More Stackridge – Lost And Found: The Reunion Years 1999-2015 [4CD Box Set]
Feelings of weariness and fatigue invariably descend on us all. The relentless grind of daily life, the struggle to make ends meet, the constant battle with its seeming injustices, inherent unfairness and bitter disappointments leaves us physically drained and emotionally…
View More ESP Project – Silver Waves ~ Astral Dreams
Meditations on death, time and mortality are not exactly unfamiliar territory in the prog universe, but surely few are as hauntingly beautiful as Memento Vivere. This is the second album from Haven of Echoes, following the 2022 release of their…
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French composer and guitarist Gabriel Keller returns with his second album, Hope Despite Everything, showing his poetic and often powerful progressive rock to great effect. As with his 2022 debut album, Clair Obscur, it is a diverse musical statement that…
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The first I heard of Circuline was when they were added to the roster at RoSFest in 2016. Because I was unfamiliar with the band, I dutifully bought their debut album, Return, to see what they were all about. Nothing…
View More Circuline – C.O.R.E.