CLEARLIGHT SYMPHONY (1975)
by Simon Slator Having grown up in the eighties and nineties, when Richard Branson’s Virgin Empire was huge and omnipresent, it was hard to imagine a time when Virgin Records […]
Tag Archives: prog-rock
WATERPLEA – Rudimentary Oscillations (2013) Future music from the new Russia
One of the main reasons why I continue to review music so regularly and put so much effort into it is that not only do I get to hear a […]
MATT STEVENS – Lucid (2014) Dazzling displays of avant guitar
Despite being a guitarist myself (and the word on my streets is I’m not actually half bad at it), I’m not the sort who would normally listen to or review […]
10 great post-2000 progressive rock albums
I will not under any circumstances engage in a debate about what progressive rock is. Though I briefly discussed it here. Anyway, around the millennium a new wave of younger […]
GAZPACHO – Demon (2014) An evil tale of old Europe
Gazpacho is, he said in his customary conversational tone, a band I must admit I’m trying out for the second time. Back in the middle of the first decade, I […]
(My) best of RUSH: Canada’s gift to planet Earth
Why the devil, I hear you ask, is this blogger who writes about obscure ambient music and Germans who go bleep in the night writing about Rush, every geek’s favourite […]
ANATHEMA – distant satellites (2014) The kings and queen of emotion return
by Allister Thompson I have to admit I am pretty new to Anathema’s music. A few months ago I idly, having seen the name enough times, decided to check out […]
IQ – The Road of Bones (2014) The return of prog’s British masters
Few things could be as exciting to a prog-rock fan as a new IQ album, especially considering they take their time releasing them. This venerable band is one of the […]
10 lesser-known gems of 1970s British progressive rock
People who like progressive rock tend to like it a lot and hence become collectors. Not all of ’em, but many. Therefore, you, gentle reader, may peruse this list and […]
Classics of 1970s French progressive rock
I rather enjoyed writing my post on Italian prog, so I thought I’d move on to another country. You really can, without generalizing too much, tell a lot about the […]
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