Tears For Fears’ Songs For A Nervous Planet blends live tracks with four powerful new songs
As 2022’s The Tipping Point confirmed, they’ve always known how to go big without ever going over the top
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“Joyously entertaining and utterly committed”: Solstice’s Return To Cropredy video edition
Glorious visual celebration of the neo-prog survivors in the present, accompanied by New Light, a fascinating documentary of their past
Neal Morse breaks out more sumptuous melodies on No Hill For A Climber
Transatlantic leader’s latest album sees him working with younger musicians and letting them work their own magic – while adding plenty of his own
Crippled Black Phoenix: The Wolf Changes Its Fur But Not Its Nature / Horrific Honorifics No.2
Dark proggers revisit their past and banish memories of bad blood in a collection of re-recordings that could easily have been so much less, plus a set of impressive covers
Rosalie Cunningam’s To Shoot Another Day is her confident album yet – and full of fun
Former Purson leader’s third solo album is far more self-assured than her first two outings, with a loose concept that lets her imagination run wild
Opeth have made a concept album like no other with The Last Will And Testament
Family drama, a pair of prog legends and even the bloke who sang The Final Countdown… Swedish prog metal kings have made a concept album like no other
"An extra layer of atmosphere and weight”: The Fierce And The Dead Live At Ramsgate
Psych-prog-stoners at their best on seaside rendezvous stage
Sólstafir’s Hin Helga Kvöl shifts from sonic aggression to oddly comforting
Eighth album of challenging and mesmerising atmospherics from Iceland’s gnarliest post-rock band.
"They’ve never sounded as elegant or assured as they do here”: Klone’s The Unseen
Continuing the melodic explorations they began in 2019, French prog metallers’ 10th full-length album is a beautiful and sophisticated piece of work
Hawklords’ Relativity casts them as worriers on the edge of time
Jerry Richards’ band delivers grooves, hooks and vitality on 11th album, amid a concept story of AI and machines
"Two decades after shedding their punk and black metal shackles, Sólstafir still have new ideas to explore." Iceland's coolest metal band explore their own legacy on eighth album Hin Helga Kvöl
Every shade of Sólstafir gets a look in on album number eight
“An impressive overview of his restless curiosity and hunger”: Bill Bruford’s solo box set
Jazz, fusion, and a dash of muzak from the drummer’s electronic and acoustic experiments from 1977 to 2007
Kevin Ayers’ All This Crazy Gift Of Time box set is a delight - especially the live sets
Lavish 10-disc package celebrates the Canterbury legend, with hard work done to deliver contemporary commentary and revitalize his 1970 Hyde Park show
“They turn on the switch marked ‘metal’ and summon the essence of Satan’s own belch… a new career high”: Vola mix additional textures into Friend Of A Phantom
Scandinavians expand their horizons yet again, but remain in sight of their ethereal, stargazing base
Beardfish sound like they’d never been away in Songs For Beating Hearts
First new music in almost nine years picks up where the acclaimed +4626-Comfortzone left off in 2015
“They’ve dialed back abrasiveness in favour of a smoother sound”: Swallow The Sun’s Shining
New producer helps Finnish dark proggers explore their more accessible side on ninth album
"A Frost* double concept album – who could quibble?” Life In The Wires is quite marvellous
Keyboard and guitar solos are back in abundance as Jem Godfrey and his ‘classic’ line-up mixes the best atrributes of their previous four albums into something quite marvellous
Two life stories intertwine in Jakko M Jakszyk’s memoir Who’s The Boy With The Lovely Hair?
His colourful life and remarkable times feature Sir Richard Attenborough, The Nolan Sisters, Ruud Gullit, Michael Jackson (and Morris Minor And The Majors’ Stutter Rap)
“Curiously retro, these tunes are mostly short and to the point”: Steve Howe’s Guitarscape
Inspired by a new synth, the Yes veteran has created something of a taster showreel in his latest outing with son Dylan
