Big Big Train English Electric Full Power – 2013 Originally issued as two separate albums and an EP, but clearly intended as one cohesive work, English Electric is simply my favourite album of the last ten years. Quintessentially English both…
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The Decade in Review – Andrew Halley
Getting to choose only ten albums in a ten-year span is, of course, impossible. Convincing yourself that the ten albums you HAVE chosen are indeed the best ten albums you have heard in the ten years from 2010 to 2019…
View More The Decade in Review – Andrew HalleyThe Decade in Review – Rob Fisher
Picking 10 releases from across a decade is no easy task. Injustices will be done! The different criteria you can use and the wide range of emphases on which you pin importance lead to all manner of selections and lists,…
View More The Decade in Review – Rob FisherU.K. – Danger Money
At E.G. Records offices in 1979… Record Executive: So, I hear you have a new prog-rock album for me? Band Manager: Yes sir I do. It’s a follow up to U.K.’s debut album U.K. RE: I don’t understand, isn’t the…
View More U.K. – Danger MoneyBest of 2019 (So Far)….
As we approach the half way point of 2019 and enjoy the delights of many fabulous releases, members of The Progressive Aspect team, in collaboration with Anthony Rowsick’s radio programme Prog-Watch, have collected together their “Best Albums of 2019 (so…
View More Best of 2019 (So Far)….Chris Salewicz – Jimmy Page: The Definitive Biography
The problem with most biographies is that ultimately any insight they give is mere speculation. Unless the biographer is or was particularly close to their subject, that speculation is just another opinion to be taken no more or less seriously…
View More Chris Salewicz – Jimmy Page: The Definitive BiographyStephen Lambe – Yes On Track
As an offshoot of their Sonicbond music label, Summer’s End Festival supremos Huw Lloyd Jones and Stephen Lambe have recently initiated Sonicbond Publishing, their current crop of releases including a variety of film and sound related titles, including this edition…
View More Stephen Lambe – Yes On TrackTPA Best Albums of 2018
We have been spoiled by yet another year of exciting music and hugely enjoyable releases. The Progressive Aspect, in collaboration with Anthony Rowsick’s radio programme Prog-Watch, have collected together our “The Best Albums of 2018”. There may yet be some more delights left…
View More TPA Best Albums of 2018Richard Macphail – My Book Of Genesis
I remember, long, long ago, being curious as to the purpose of the happy looking chap in the top hat on the inside cover of Foxtrot, the very first Genesis album I bought, probably around 1974 or ’75. Named Richard…
View More Richard Macphail – My Book Of GenesisColin Tench (20/12/1954 – 27/12/2017)
I’ve probably been a Facebook friend of Colin Tench for about one and a half years. Never met him. But through the music he produced and the funny, witty, and intelligent rapport I had with him on FB pages and…
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