Progressive Rock
White Knight Records · 10 November 2026
“Scars” is the third album from Tribe3, the trio from Bridgend in South Wales made up of Chris Jones, Steve Hughes and Jonathan Kinsey. The band say it launched on 10 November, and the CD, which comes with a 16-page booklet, is handled by White Knight Records. It follows their self-titled “Tribe3” from October 2023 and “Life Amongst Strangers” from March 2025.
There are five tracks across roughly 50 minutes. It opens with “Insomniac”, which runs past ten, and closes with “Scars”, at fourteen and a half; in between come “Sown Seeds”, the twelve-minute “Praying to False Gods” and “Over the Garden Wall”. In the label’s notes, Kinsey says the record has “a loose concept covering human emotions”: “Sown Seeds” deals with lust and greed from a bee’s point of view, “Praying to False Gods” with not being able to keep up with technology and social media, and “Scars” with a family breakdown seen through a child’s eyes.
In the same notes, Hughes says the band wanted to build on the first two albums and bring in “darker subject matter”, adding that the aim has always been to “ensure we don’t repeat ourselves”. According to their Bandcamp, the three have been active on the local prog and fusion scene, on and off, for the last 40 years.
Text by Guillem Cardós