“A cornucopia… Most impressive of all are the alternative monitor mixes”: Frank Zappa’s Apostrophe (’) 50th anniversary edition By Jeremy Allen published 26 September 24 Dazzling deluxe expansion of his best-loved solo album
“Bands that went from beauty to absolute hideousness attracted me – Van der Graaf and King Crimson managed to create fragile music that was then utterly destroyed”: The roots of Tim Bowness’ Powder Dry By Jeremy Allen published 18 September 24 Struggling to express conviction, the serial band member and collaborator went it alone for his most experimental album to date… although he didn’t use the pedalboard Peter Hammill lent him
“They arrested a girl who had a blank piece of paper. She was making the point that even doing that would send someone to jail”: Iamthemorning’s Marjana Semkina hated mixing politics with art – until her native Russia’s war on Ukraine By Jeremy Allen published 11 September 24 Her second solo album, Sirin, finds her in a more confident and assertive place – she’s even reverted to the original spelling of her name
“A mighty and nimble love letter to the world they grew up in”: And So I Watch You From Afar’s Megafauna By Jeremy Allen published 9 August 24 Northern Irish art rockers’ seventh album proves yet again they can deliver emotion without language
“There’s a virtuosic methodology you might associate with King Crimson, even if the results are very different”: Why Portishead’s Dummy qualifies as a prog album By Jeremy Allen published 27 May 24 Many progressive musicians would recognise and admire the attention to detail in the band’s 1994 debut
“Meditative passages that are bravely expansive… Steven Wilson continues to deconstruct sound as much as he makes it”: Bass Communion’s The Itself Of Itself By Jeremy Allen published 24 May 24 Noise and abstract beauty abound in a work that slows the world down to the point of being liminal
“It throws up the confounding realisation that the world’s most famous fusion violinist is au fait with drum’n’ bass”: Jean-Luc Ponty’s Life Enigma reissue By Jeremy Allen published 19 May 24 “Fusion violinist proves he’s au fait with drum’n’ bass”: Jean-Luc Ponty’s Life Enigma
“The band start to sound like the musique concrète pioneers they were, rather than keepers of a farmful of flatulent quadrupeds”: Pink Floyd’s Animals – Dolby Atmos Edition By Jeremy Allen published 19 May 24 Pioneers’ ‘punkest’ record gets the Atmos Blu-ray treatment to impressive effect, claiming the music back for proggers
“Transportative music… a deeply cosmic record that might be out there with their very best”: Hawkwind’s Stories From Time And Space By Jeremy Allen published 13 April 24 The space rock icons’ late-career renaissance continues on their 36th studio album
Peter Gabriel's i/o. "The world has changed since 2002, mostly for the worst, but it’s a better place with i/o in it." By Jeremy Allen published 1 December 23 The ex-Genesis singer returns to the big time with his first album in 21 years to reassert his place as the doyen of cerebral art-pop.
“It’s ostentatious and even maddening at times, but there’s no faulting the ambition”: XTC’s The Big Express By Jeremy Allen published 25 October 23 Neglected 80s progressive pop gem gets the Steven Wilson treatment
Soft Machine: less a band and more an organism which is constantly evolving By Jeremy Allen published 24 August 23 Soft Machine's Other Doors review: The fêted fusionists come knocking again with 12th studio album.
Karl Bartos and Kraftwerk: "The endless cycling didn’t help invent new music!" By Jeremy Allen published 31 May 23 The former Kraftwerk musician and composer looks back over his career and discusses working with 'his former partners'!
Five cool new prog acts you need to hear this March By Jerry Ewing, Jeremy Allen, Gary Mackenzie, Matt Mills, Dom Lawson published 30 March 23 Check out Moundrag, EBB, Cabiria, Wizrd and Shell Beach – five great new up and coming prog artists
5 new prog acts you must hear in January 2023 By Natasha Scharf published 6 January 23 Check out Gaupa, Circles, Grace And Fire, Astrosaur and Onsegen Ensemble – five great new up and coming prog artists
Hawkwind - We Are Looking In On You: "There’s plenty of life in the old bird yet!" By Jeremy Allen published 7 October 22 Not yet rated The space rock juggernaut rolls on with 13th live album.
Introducing Limelight artist Flavien Berger By Jeremy Allen published 29 April 19 Reluctant French maestro traverses trippy landscapes and pop with bite…