Ed’s Letter

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The Camera Eye

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THE PINEAPPLE THIEF EXPLORE A POST-TRUTH WORLD

Thirteen might be unlucky for some, but it seems fortune

GUNGFLY SET FOR LONELY AUTUMN

Swedish multi-instrumentalist Rikard Sjöblom will return with a new Gungfly

FLYING COLORS TO LAUNCH LONDON CONCERT MOVIE

Flying Colours - featuring Neal Morse, Mike Portnoy, Casey McPherson,

TIM BOWNESS TURNS THE UKULELE DARK

Tim Bowness accepts that his upcoming solo album, Late Night

DEREK SHERINIAN RISES WITH NEW ALBUM THE PHOENIX

Acclaimed keyboard player Derek Sherinian will release a new solo

INTRO extras

Matt Berry will release his eighth album, Phantom Birds, on

CONTORTIONIST’S LESSARD STARTS SOLO PROJECT

The Contortionist’s vocalist Michael Lessard has prepared a series of

AUTOMATIC FOR THE TANGENT

The Tangent launch their 11th studio album on August 21

OZRIC TENTACLES OFFER SPACE FOR THE EARTH

Psychedelic proggers Ozric Tentacles release their 16th studio album, Space

FLAMING LIPS GET EMOTIONAL ON AMERICAN HEAD

The Flaming Lips release their new album American Head on

FAD GADGETS

Could a non-human entertainer enchant and enthral a human audience?

EKPHRASIS

With their recently released debut album, Weird Interbreeding, Ekphrasis have

PROG IN BRIEF

Yello will release Point, their first album in four years,

JACK BRUCE

Cream had barely waved the world a fractious farewell before

GO DOWN BELIEVING MANAGEMENT

Attending school in the aptly named German town of Rammstein

AA WILLIAMS

“I HAD TO Google it because I didn’t know what

Official Progressive Albums Chart

LESOIR

IT’S BEEN A slow burn for Lesoir. Formed in Holland

LOUISE PATRICIA CRANE

SINGER AND SONGWRITER Louise Patricia Crane brings her listeners a

CALEB LANDRY JONES

He’s found fame as an actor in productions such as

In Ascendia

As Steven Wilson looks out over the floor of the

Nil Recurring

There were those who failed to comprehend Porcupine Tree’s musical

THE PROG INTERVIEW JOHN GREAVES

John Greaves grew up in Prestatyn in north Wales and

STEVE HOWE

Love Is A River, the keynote track on Steve Howe’s

FROST*

Way back in 2015 or so, Frost* mainman Jem Godfrey

ALIZARIN

Fittingly for a band who hail from Tinsel Town, Los

BARON CRÂNE

Unfettered abandon and micro-dynamic vision charge the psychedelic jazz-liberateid onslaughts

BLURRED VISION

Blurred Vision mainman Sepp Osley escaped war-ravaged Iran as a

LONELY ROBOT

Through all his prog outings, John Mitchell’s always had a

FATAL FUSION

Just when you think you’ve got a handle on what

THE FIERCE & THE DEAD

Rat Kozfest in Devon last year, this official bootleg finds

KRISTOFFER GILDENLÖW

Kristoffer Gildenlöw has spent the best part of the last

GÖSTA BERLINGS SAGA

Gösta Berlings Saga have been going for two decades already,

JON HASSELL

Now 83, Jon Hassell continues to explore nuance and novelty

ALLAN HOLDSWORTH

Allan Holdsworth’s death in 2017 robbed music of a true

MAGENTA

Usually, as soon as ones hears that any band have

KARIBOW

Live and acoustic recordings on the German group’s new double

MAUD THE MOTH

Founded a decade ago by singer and classical pianist Amaya

POST-ROCK

American cult math duo Giraffes? Giraffes! have just released a

MCSTINE & MINNEMANN

The debut album from Randy McStine, the singer-guitarist who’s worked

MOGWAI

Mogwai have several soundtracks under their belt from the last

MORSE PORTNOY GEORGE

Eclectic trio of covers albums from the busiest men in

OUTSIDE IN

It says something about Outside In’s headspace that the starting

PROFESSOR TIP TOP

Bergen, Norway has given the world everything from the trippy

PROTEST THE HERO

Some six years ago, one user of the discussion website

SHORT-HAIRED DOMESTIC

Here’s a novel concept: nine different songs sung in nine

PSYCHEDELIC PROG

Grooves rule when it comes to Bananagun. Debut album The

THAT JOE PAYNE

When Joe Payne left The Enid in 2016, a chunk

SOFT MACHINE

The Soft Machine reunion has been one of the most

TODD SUCHERMAN

The drummer with Styx for the last 25 years, Todd

THEODOR BASTARD

Theodor Bastard may sound like the aristocratic bass player from

UBI MAIOR

Marking their 20th anniversary with only their fourth album, Milanese

WORLD SANGUINE REPORT

The influence of Tom Waits looms large over World Sanguine

ZOMBI

RELAPSE Electronic rock duo get doomy on first album in

AND LAST BUT NOT LEAST

Swiss quartet Marhold hit the Top 10 in their home

LEPROUS

With their stock shooting sky high following the release of

DAVE COUSINS (& THE BLUE ANGEL ORCHESTRA)

Strawbs leader’s second solo album from 2007, remastered with live

FRUUP

During the early 1970s, the UK gig circuit bustled with

OZRIC TENTACLES

By the time of Pungent Effulgent’s release in 1989 -

ANTHONY PHILLIPS

Given that Anthony Phillips left Genesis a full half-century ago,

FRANK ZAPPA

The arrival of another large Frank Zappa box containing 70

GENESIS

I like to think I know a bit about Genesis,

VAN DER GRAAF GENERATOR - PAWN HEARTS: HISTORY IMAGES WORDS MUSIC

In the 49 years since its release, VdGG’s Pawn Hearts

WHERE WE STOOD

Bruce Soord and co, at their best, live in Islington

STEVE HACKETT

As guitarist with Genesis, Steve Hackett helped lay the foundation

Dave Cureton, IO Earth

Derbyshire. I used to live in Birmingham but moved out

Love And A Wondwrous Story

“All my solo albums have given pleasure in particular ways

Out of the SHADOWS

“I always wanted to be a solo artist but those

True Colours

Received wisdom defines Magenta pithily. “Neo-prog, female singer,” Robert Reed

Nowhere MAN?

Cambridge, mid-90s: to paraphrase the words of that bloody song

Mother’s Talk

“It’s not a concept album, no,” says Norwegian guitarist Hedvig

The Sky’s On The Ground

They say if you want to understand the world from

NEVER MIND THE SEX PISTOLS HERE’S THE PROG GERS

In all the interminable books, memoirs, articles and TV documentaries

Wistful Thinking

When everything around you is going horribly wrong, it’s always

Supertramp Breakfast In America

With anywhere between 18 and 20 million copies sold worldwide,

…And Then There Were 3

Airbag know as well as anyone how challenging it can

TIM BOWNESS & PETER CHILVERS

Tim Bowness and Peter Chilvers’ 2002 collaboration, California Norfolk, was

CRYPTEX

German trio Cryptex aren’t an easy band to categorise. Their

DIM GRAY

It’s not hard to imagine the three members of Dim

LAZERTÜTH

Firmly rooted in the DIY ethos of the weird music

LONG DISTANCE CALLING

Stalwarts of the European instrumental scene, German rockers Long Distance