The Tangent launch their 11th studio album on August 21. Entitled Auto Reconnaissance, it’s the first time the band have had the same line-up for two successive releases. “That’s pretty good about 15 years in, isn’t it?” laughs de facto leader, keyboardist/vocalist/producer Andy Tillison.
The more things change: Andy Tillison.
“The Tangent started out as a project - we weren’t supposed to be a band,” he continues. “However, slowly but surely, we gradually ended up with people who were becoming more regular.” As such, guitarist and co-producer Luke Machin, bassist Jonas Reingold, saxophonist/flautist Theo Travis and drummer Steve Roberts complete the line-up, as they did for 2018’s Proxy.