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The Yes Album
Yes
The Yes Album makes complicated playing feel welcoming. Steve Howe's guitar adds folk, country and harder rock details, while Chris Squire's bass and Bill Bruford's drums keep…
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Folklore
Big Big Train
Folklore finds Big Big Train giving their detailed progressive rock a stronger connection to folk music. Strings, brass and flute add colour around the guitars and keyboards, …
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Prologue
The Milk Carton Kids
Prologue creates a complete folk sound from two voices and two acoustic guitars. The Milk Carton Kids make the smaller setting feel generous through close harmonies and carefu…
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Platinum
Miranda Lambert
Platinum gives Miranda Lambert plenty of room to change direction. Across sixteen songs, she moves between polished country-pop, rougher rock performances and traditional arra…
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Royal Tea
Joe Bonamassa
Royal Tea turns Joe Bonamassa's long-standing love of British blues into a clear album idea. Recorded at Abbey Road with producer Kevin Shirley, it uses heavy riffs, soulful s…
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Known/Learned
Arcane
Known/Learned gives Arcane two very different ways to tell the same story. The Australian band divide this double album between heavier progressive music and a much quieter, l…
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Foxtrot
Genesis
Foxtrot brings the theatrical and instrumental sides of Genesis into a stronger relationship. Peter Gabriel's changing voices give the songs character, while the keyboards, gu…
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Who's the Boss in the Factory?
Karmakanic
Who's the Boss in the Factory? gives Karmakanic's progressive rock a warm, melodic character. Jonas Reingold's bass is easy to follow, the keyboards have plenty of colour, and…
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Eidos
Kingcrow
Eidos brings a measured, melodic approach to progressive rock and metal. Kingcrow combine heavy guitar passages with acoustic playing, keyboards and rhythms that can be intric…
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El Dorado
Marcus King
El Dorado gives Marcus King a different kind of space from the heavier playing associated with his band. His solo debut, made with producer and co-writer Dan Auerbach, puts so…
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City of Gold
Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway
City of Gold shows what Molly Tuttle and Golden Highway can do when the songs are shaped around a settled band. The bluegrass playing is quick and precise, but the record rare…
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Omens
Elder
Omens puts Elder's progressive rock side firmly in the foreground. Keyboards play a larger role, the guitars have more space around them, and the band explore a lighter sound …
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The Light
Spock's Beard
The Light introduces Spock's Beard through four ambitious tracks that leave plenty of space for melody. Long arrangements, changing rhythms and busy keyboards place the record…
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Unfold the Future
The Flower Kings
Unfold the Future is a generous and unusually varied statement from The Flower Kings. Across more than two hours, the band move between large progressive rock arrangements, ge…
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Raya
Pothamus
Raya builds its heavy sound from repetition, space and a strong rhythmic foundation. Pothamus leave the bass and drums near the front, allowing guitars and voices to move arou…
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Redemption
Joe Bonamassa
Redemption gives Joe Bonamassa's familiar blues-rock sound an unsettled emotional centre. The songs return to regret, damaged relationships and the possibility of finding a wa…
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The Earth Sings Mi Fa Mi
The Receiving End of Sirens
The Earth Sings Mi Fa Mi moves The Receiving End of Sirens towards a denser, more atmospheric kind of rock. The singing still has strong melodic hooks, but keyboards, electron…
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The Tower
Motorpsycho
The Tower gives Motorpsycho enough space to move between forceful rock, gentler folk and extended psychedelic passages. The scale is large, but the band keep finding different…
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Same Trailer Different Park
Kacey Musgraves
Same Trailer Different Park gives ordinary frustrations and difficult choices room to matter. Kacey Musgraves sings with a calm confidence, using clear melodies and lightly ar…
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Departure Songs
We Lost the Sea
Departure Songs makes a substantial demand on time and attention. We Lost the Sea build five long instrumental pieces around loss, endurance and the possibility of hope, using…
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Mirage
Camel
Mirage makes a strong case for progressive rock built around melody and the interaction between musicians. Andrew Latimer's guitar and flute work closely with Peter Bardens's …
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Fortune Favors the Bold
49 Winchester
Fortune Favors the Bold makes a strong impression through Isaac Gibson's singing. His rough-edged voice brings soul and conviction to 49 Winchester's country-rock songs, while…
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Keep You
Pianos Become the Teeth
Keep You takes much of the shouting out of Pianos Become the Teeth's music, leaving the tension in place. Kyle Durfey sings through the songs with a worn, exposed voice, while…
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Suck Out the Poison
He Is Legend
Suck Out the Poison makes He Is Legend's heavier rock sound rougher and more Southern in character. The guitar riffs have a dry, forceful weight, while Schuylar Croom moves be…
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