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Latest Album Reviews
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Album review : HARMONY IN MY HEAD – The Music That Inspired The Genius Of Brian Wilson
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Album review : ASIA – Indigo
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Quick play reviews: CHRISTOPHER GORDON, AVRAK
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Album review: THE PINEAPPLE THIEF – Far And Wide
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Album review: PURE REASON REVOLUTION – Terrifying Angels
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Album review : NEAL MORSE & THE RESONANCE – River Of Light
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Tag Archives: prog rock
Quick play reviews: CHRISTOPHER GORDON, AVRAK
CHRISTOPHER GORDON Macbeth Madfish [Release date 30.10.26] An ambitious project by noted English born Australian composer, he was originally commissioned for a full-length ballet score for the Royal New Zealand Ballet and West Australian Ballet, This 8-movement suite has been … Continue reading
Album review: THE PINEAPPLE THIEF – Far And Wide
InsideOut Music [Release date 09.10.26] After 20 years with KScope, prog metal band The Pineapple Thief make their debut with Inside Out. With roots going back to 1999, the band centre around vocalist, guitarist and keyboardist Bruce Soord, and bassist … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Bruce Soord, Far And Wide, Insideout Music, prog metal, prog rock, review, The Pineapple Thief
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Album review : NEAL MORSE & THE RESONANCE – River Of Light
InsideOut Music [Release date 27.11.26] ‘River of Light’ is the second album released by Neal Morse & The Resonance, following on from 2024’s ‘No Hill For A Climber’. Although that initial release raised a few eyebrows, mainly around Morse’s decision … Continue reading
Album review: RAINBURN – thirty-seven
Website [Release date 04.11.26] Formed in Bangalore in 2011, Rainburn have built an international reputation through a series of releases and extensive touring across India. After surviving a near-death experience while stranded at sea, Rainburn frontman Vats Iyengar transformed the … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Depeche Mode, Pain of Salvation, prog rock, progressive, Rainburn, rock, thirty-seven
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Album review: SOFT MACHINE – Slightly All The Time, The Recordings 1970-1974
Sony [Release date 30.10.26] Now here’s a serious box, magnificent, and Canterbury progressive band Soft Machine are as deserving as any, through the quality of their output and their influence too. Formed in the mid 60s (from the ashes of … Continue reading
Album review: RICK WAKEMAN – Return To The Red Planet
Madfish [Release date 16.10.26] Following 2020’s instrumental concept album The Red Planet, the keyboard wizard, for Yes man and raconteur returns to expand on this concept, this time with vocals. Rick Wakeman found fame initially with The Strawbs, and several … Continue reading
Album review: HATS OFF GENTLEMEN IT’S ADEQUATE – Parallel Lives
Website [Release date 04.09.26] Hats Off Gentlemen It’s Adequate (HOGIA), namely Malcolm Galloway (lyrics, lead guitar, synths, mixing, mastering, producer) and Mark Gatland (bass, vocal engineer, additional guitars and synths, co-producer), are back with another album chock full of thoughtful … Continue reading
Album review: WILL PIKE – Elevator
The Elastic Stage Store [Release date 13.10.26] Will Pike’s ‘Elevator’ is an impressive art rock and ambient concept album. It’s glued together by amoeba like soundscapes with a proggy undertow, and interestingly it’s an instrumental album with a sense of … Continue reading
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Tagged album, ambient, art rock, Caravan, David Gilmour, Elevator, Larry Carlton, Lee Ritenour, Pink Floyd, prog rock, review, Rolling Stones, The Beatles, Will Pike
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Interview: Elevenses with…MALCOLM GALLOWAY
First in a new series of interviews with various musicians and those involved in and around the music business. First up, Malcolm Galloway of Hats Off Gentlemen It’s Adequate, solo artist and festival promoter. Before the questions, what is your brew … Continue reading
Album review: CREDO – We The Disconnected
Gargoyle Records [Release date 23.10.26] Credo are back with their fourth studio album and their first new release in 15 years. It is a double-CD album, written by all the band members Tim Birrell (guitar), Mark Colton (vocals), Gerald (Mully) … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Credo, Mark Colton, melodic, Mike Varty, prog rock, progressive, review, We the Disconnected
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Album review: EMERSON, LAKE & PALMER – Works Live
BMG [Release date 24.07.26] Recorded in Montreal, Canada in 1977, this live album was originally released in 1979 as the single LP ‘In Concert’ it was originally intended to be a double album, but that idea was kiboshed by the … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Carl Palmer, classic rock, ELP. Emerson Lake & Palmer, Greg Lake, Keith Emerson, prog, prog rock, review, Works Live
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Album review: OSIRIS – Within A Dream
Escape Music [Release date 14.08.26] Osiris is an all-Bahraini prog rock band founded in 1980 by brothers Mohamed Alsadeqi (guitars, vocals) and Nabil Alsadeqi (drums, percussion). They have been active ever since, bar a hiatus between 1993 and 2000. Osiris … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Bahrain, Camel, Clive Nolan, Escape Music, melodic, OSIRIS, prog, prog rock, progressive, review, Within A Dream
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Album review: ARGOVIA – Primal Repetition
Presagio Records [Release date 10.04.26] One of the enlightening features of our “New to GRTR!” radio show is the range of music from all four corners of the planet. Colombia doesn’t feature that regularly but when it does. Wow! Argovia … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Argovia, Haken, Primal Repetition, prog rock, Progressive Rock, review, Ross Jennings
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Album review: NEAL MORSE BAND – L.I.F.T.
InsideOut Music [Release date: 27.02.26] The announcements that the Neal Morse Band’s fifth album, L.I.F.T.’ would be released in 2026 came as a pleasant surprise to many fans of NMB (as they now style themselves). That was the result of … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Dream Theater, L.I.F.T., Mike Portnoy, Neal Morse, Neal Morse Band, NMB, prog rock, progressive, review, rock, Spock's Beard
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Book review: TONY BANKS: MAN OF SPELLS -THE MAGICIAN OF GENESIS by Mario Giammetti
Kingmaker Publishing Anyone with the slightest knowledge of, or interest in, the history of Genesis will quickly acknowledge the importance of keyboard player, songwriter and founding member Tony Banks within its various line-ups. Like me then, they would probably be … Continue reading
Album review: MICK ROGERS – The Guitarist
Copo Events [Release date: 30.01.26] Interesting stuff here from Mick Rogers on his third solo album. It is not quite what you might expect from the musician who has provided lead guitar and sometimes lead vocals for Manfred Mann’s Earth … Continue reading
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Tagged album, blues rock, guitarist, Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Mick Rogers, prog rock, review
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Book review: WOODCUT – THE MAKING AND THE MEANING by Andy Stuart
Kingmaker Publishing [Publication date 06.02.26] Written to accompany the new album from Big Big Train, ‘Woodcut – The Making And The Meaning’ follows the gestation of what would result in the Progressive Rock band’s first concept album, through to the early … Continue reading
Album review: BIG BIG TRAIN – Woodcut
InsideOut Music [Release date 06.02.26] Woodcut is the sixteenth studio album from Big Big Train, the progressive rock band originally formed back in 1990. It sees a band that has had more than its fair share of line up changes … Continue reading
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Tagged Alberto Bravin, album, Big Big Train, Greg Spawton, melodic, Nick D’Virgilio, prog rock, progressive, review, Rikard Sjoblom, Woodcut
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Album review: HENGE – Journey to Voltus B
Website [Release date 31.01.2025] Thanks to occasional GRTR! live reviewer Matt Curtis my interest was tweaked by the band that is Henge, an intergalactic electronic, electro and space rock musical juggernaut. Henge consists of Zpor (vocals, guitar), Goo (bass, synth … Continue reading
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Tagged album, EDM, electro, electronic music, Henge, Journey to Voltus B, prog rock, review, sci fi, space rock
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Album review: JOHN LEES’ BARCLAY JAMES HARVEST – Relativity
Cherry Red Records [Release date 17.10.25] More than seven years in the making and some twelve years since the release of ‘North’ its 2013 predecessor, John Lees’ Barclay James Harvest’s second studio album, ‘Relativity’ proves that time well spent can … Continue reading
Album review: LITTLE KING – Lente Viviente
Facebook [Release date 26.09.25] Little King was formed in November of 1996 by guitarist/singer/songwriter Ryan Rosoff in El Paso, Texas. Ryan is joined in the current Little King line-up by David Hamilton (bass, cello) and Tony Bojorquez (drums), and this … Continue reading
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Tagged album, alt rock, Lente Viviente, Little King, melodic rock, prog rock, review, rock
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Album review: LIGHTSPEED – Delta
Website [Release date 15.09.25] Back in 2006 Canadian prog rockers Lightspeed released their third album ‘Waves’ and now we have their fourth album, ‘Delta’, which has had a challenging creation which including the passing of the band’s guitarist Gene Murray … Continue reading
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Tagged album, AOR, classic rock, Delta, Gene Murray, Lightspeed, pomp rock, prog rock, review, rock, Rod Chappell
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EP review: HATS OFF GENTLEMEN IT’S ADEQUATE – Between Two Worlds
Bandcamp [Release date 29.01.25] Hats Off Gentlemen It’s Adequate – Malcom Galloway and Mark Gatland – have released this three song EP ‘Between Two Worlds’, ahead of their new album, ‘The Uncertainty Principle’, which is due in a couple of … Continue reading
Album review: PATTERN-SEEKING ANIMALS – Friend Of All Creatures
GEP [Release date 14.02.25] Pattern-Seeking Animals were formed in 2018 with this being their fifth studio album, and first for their new label GEP, having previously been signed to InsideOut Music. Pattern-Seeking Animals line-up remains that of Ted Leonard (vocals, … Continue reading
Feature: PHIL VINCENT’s Baker’s Dozen
A Baker’s Dozen, in which various musicians choose 13 songs – a baker’s dozen – to make a playlist. The following rules apply – Maximum of three songs from any artist Maximum of two songs from any album Maximum of two … Continue reading
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Tagged Bakers Dozen, Beatles, feature, hard rock, heavy metal, Jon Butcher Axis, Judas Priest, melodic rock, metal, Phil Vincent, pop, prog rock, Queen, RAVEN, Thin Lizzy
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