ODDLEAF (FRANCE) Where Ideal and Denial Collide

A debut album with a title like that will definitely get the Rogue’s attention, and as transatlantic telepathic waves often work well, the band contacted this writer for a review of their impending release. Oddleaf has been working on this work for over 4 years, a...

FRANT1C (FRANCE) A Brand New World

Contrary to popular opinion vehiculated by many neophyte listeners discovering prog, our beloved genre does not limit itself to exploring only science-fiction, Tolkienesque tales, historical figures or deep philosophical topics. More often than not, the human...

HAVEN OF ECHOES (UK-GERMANY) Memento Vivere

Andreas Hack of Frequency Drift wasted little time in retooling his musical vision by releasing one of 2022’s finest albums, under the moniker Haven of Echoes, a debut called “the Indifferent Stars”, that left no one ‘indifferent’ to say...

BRENDAN PERKINS (UK) Favourite Places

My prog bestie LAZLAND did a lovely write up recently on this quintessential British multi-instrumentalist’s latest release, so it behooved me to follow up with a second onslaught of well-deserved acclaim. For those rock music lovers who are not from England,...

ARILD BROTER (NORWAY) A Spectre of Sounds

James Bond music reimagined! When dreaming of progressive bucket list wishes, nothing can compare to reliving some of the greatest melodies from one of the supreme composers of our time in John Barry. Outside of “Smoke on the Water”, I cannot think of a more obviously...