Album review: Dream Theater – Awake
The nuance of earlier Dream Theater had been blasted out by the time they recorded Awake; the mid-’90s were when metal was well on its…
Tag: progressive rock
Album review: Frank Zappa – We’re Only in It for the Money
A technical landmark and a vicious piece of satire, but not an easy listen. Genre: Psychedelic rock/free jazz/doo-wop/avant-garde Country: United States Release date: March 4,…
Album review: Dream Theater – Images and Words
A taxidermy of dead music so well-done you’ll almost forget it’s dead. Genre: Neo-progressive rock/metal Country: United States Release date: July 7, 1992 (reissued 2013)…
Album review: Gryphon – Red Queen to Gryphon Three
Intriguing, beguiling, often beautiful—but is beautiful good enough? Genre: Progressive rock/contemporary classical Country: United Kingdom Release date: December 1974 Label: Bell Records Format: 12” vinyl…
Album review: King Crimson – Red
Despite the usual narratives about “raw” music, it is in fact the very technical proficiency that King Crimson bring to their instruments that gives Red…
Album review: It’s a Beautiful Day – s/t
Producers are parasites. Not electronic music “producers”–for the most part, those are musicians, giving themselves a more authoritative-sounding title (though the lack of self-worth in…
Album review: Eloy – Ocean
A mass of contradictions, this album. A deliberately weird and obtuse style of keyboard-driven prog rock at the moment punk was spearheading a radical simplification…
Album Review: Yes – Tales from Topographic Oceans
A beautiful and visionary album marred by tedious filler sections. Genre: Progressive rock Country: United Kingdom Release date: December 7, 1973 Label: Atlantic Records (reissued…
Album review: Magma – Mëkanïk Dëstruktïẁ Kömmandöh
A jazz fusion ensemble interprets Verdi’s Requiem in the original Klingon.
- Genre: Zeuhl (progressive rock/jazz fusion/contemporary classical/avant-garde)
- Country: France
- Release date: December 1973 (reissued 2013)
- Label: A&M (reissued on vinyl by Jazz Village)
- Format: 12” vinyl
- Catalog number: JV33570070
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Album review: Dream Theater The Astonishing
The band keels over on Broadway. Genre: Progressive metal Country: USA Release Date: January 29, 2016 Label: Roadrunner Records Format: Streamed Catalog number: 1686-174932 Personnel:…