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Present – This Is NOT The End

Despite this album’s title, it will indeed be the final utterance from the French ‘Rock In Opposition’ band Present, as it’s creator Roger Trigaux passed away during it’s completion in 2021. The band members carried on to complete the recording,…

The Slambovian Circus Of Dreams – A Good Thief Tips His Hat

My introduction to The Slambovian Circus Of Dreams came about five years ago through a friend who lived in New York’s Hudson Valley. He sang the praises of a local band out of Sleepy Hollow that I just had to…

Leprous – Melodies of Atonement

It’s hard to explain what it’s like to struggle with your mental health to someone who hasn’t experienced it themselves. Twice in recent years a musician has managed to express the feelings it is so hard to communicate verbally, through…

Unit8 – The Second Arch

Northumbrian 4-piece progressive rock band, Unit8, have just released their second album – The Second Arch – and a most enjoyable listen it is too. In fact, it might even have topped their impressive eponymous debut release from late 2022,…

Big Big Train – A Flare On The Lens (Live)

This new three-hour package, which includes 3CDs and a Blu-ray disc, really is a game of two halves, since it includes the full setlist from the second night of the pair of September 2023 concerts at London’s Cadogan Hall, followed…

Mile Marker Zero – Coming Of Age

When Connecticut band Mile Marker Zero took the stage at Progstock 2021, I had read a bit about them without actually having heard them. There was a sneaking suspicion that MMZ were just not going to be my cup of…

Sylvan – Back To Live

Following Leaving Backstage, Back To Live is Sylvan’s second full live set to make it onto a two-disc package. What prog fans take from this latest release will largely depend on their expectations, particularly from those of us who have…

Crooked Mouth – Lost:Time

Crooked Mouth return with album number four and the follow up to the very enjoyable One Bright Midnight released in 2015, which in turn followed on from their equally enjoyable albums Hold In The Sun (2007), and a personal favourite,…

Nektar – Mission To Mars

Nektar is one of those bands that have always intrigued me, but not always enthralled me. Having released their first album in 1971 (Journey to the Centre of the Eye), they hit their commercial peak two years later with the…

Jon Anderson & The Band Geeks – True

In a recent interview, by Blake Maddux, Jon Anderson had this response to what we could expect from his upcoming album True. “You’re going to enjoy it. It’s called True. We had a great tour together; then a couple of…

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