Steve Hackett – The Circus and the Nightwhale
Whatever else can be said about Steve Hackett, being workshy isn’t one of them. On top of prodigious touring across the world, since 2019,...
Patterns On The Window – Various Artists
Patterns On The Window is the latest release in Cherry Red’s overview of particular years in music, focusing this time on 1974. It features...
Gentle Giant Find The Missing Piece
Originally released in 1977, The Missing Piece was Gentle Giant’s ninth studio album and has now been remixed and remastered by prog’s ‘go to’...
PYRA Is For Those Who Dwell in the Fire
The self-titled debut EP by occult Italian outfit Pyra was a brilliantly conceived slab of mind-numbingly oppressive black metal that very much felt like...
Medicine Head Return With Heartwork
Medicine Head, John Fiddler and Peter Hope-Evans can trace its lineage back to 1968 when they were signed to John Peel’s Dandelion label. Peel...
Today Was Yesterday are self-titled and full of Life(son)
It was the name that drew me to this band, as it reminded me of a line from one of the late, great Ken...
Steve Hillage Live at the Bataclan, Paris 79
Stevie ‘Hillside 'Hillage has an awe-inspiring track record. He’s loosely connected to the much vaunted ‘Canterbury Scene,’ given he studied at Kent University for...
Mary Timony goes brave on Untame the Tiger
I consider it a massive oversight on my part that I was unaware of Mary Timony’s work until I read about her achieving a...
Big Big Train show off The Likes Of Us
Alongside bands like Lifesigns and The Tangent, Big Big Train are one of prog rock's more cerebral pleasures, always providing good music, songs with...
Ministry administer a dose of HOPIUMFORTHEMASSES
Ministry has celebrated over 40 years of genre-defining industrial metal (and briefly synth-pop but we don't talk about that) helmed by everyone's favourite demented...