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Pure Reason Revolution – Coming Up To Consciousness

Grief is the price of Love, and out of love great art and music can be forged in the white heat of intense emotions and inner turmoil. Sometimes the sources of such feelings can be a surprise, even to the…

Kyros / An Endless Sporadic / Kunal Singhal

229 The Venue, London Thursday, 22nd August 2024 KUNAL SINGHAL Kunal Singhal, as well as being an active and important music promoter, promoting new left-field musicians via his Chaos Theory operation, has a neat musical act himself, featuring improvised vocal…

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,…

Vertiginous Musings – Part Three

Part Three reveals an overall musical quality dip, unsurprising given the number of “underground” labels now resorting to hoovering up the average bands by the denim-clad bag load. Our trawl is redeemed by a couple of real gems by unknowns.…

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…