Neal Morse – The Restoration – Joseph, Part Two
A warning for die-hard fans only: Morse’s second Joseph instalment recycles every trademark of his 30-year catalogue.
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Santacreu – Cançons d’amor, dol i enyorança
A grief-soaked doom-tinged debut from a local band whose quality has nothing to envy internationally known acts.
Rabea Massaad – Grinding Gears, Vol. 4
A multi-instrumentalist guitar virtuoso proves progressive rock doesn’t need long songs — short, punchy tracks packed with technique.
Marco Minnemann – Their Colors Fade
A drummer’s album loaded with stellar guests, but held back by the same drummer’s constant urge to steal the spotlight.
Wake Arkane – Awakenings
A theatrical concept album blending guttural death metal with classical harmonies and hospital-drama narration.
The Haas Company – Galactic Tide Vol. 1
A jazz-rock debut bankrolled by a Texan ex-executive and stacked with elite session guitarists, Andy Timmons especially.
Small Strides – The Ground Beneath Our Feet
A refined, distinguished German debut with real promise, though two tracks could have been left off entirely.
Art Against Agony – Sound of Inevitability
94 minutes of masked, pseudonymous jazz-metal from Stuttgart — demanding, sprawling, and technically flawless.
Kuervos del Sur – De la luz
A Chilean band fuses rock with Andean roots music — charango, quena and triple metre — into what they call “rock de raíz”.
Moon Safari – Himlabacken Vol. 2
Sweden’s sweetest AOR sextet returns after a decade with a record that is wonderful in its first half and saccharine overkill in its second.
Polkadot Cadaver – Echoes Across The Hellscape
The former members of Dog Fashion Disco deliver a wild, genre-hopping record that is equal parts hilarious and unsettling.
Verneri Pohjola – Monkey Mind
A hard-to-classify, demanding ninth record from the Finnish trumpeter, closing with a genuinely disturbing final track.
Helga – Wrapped in Mist
A Swedish-in-York debut swinging between complex, Indukti-esque prog and softer folk detours — uneven but promising.
TodoMal – A Greater Good
A Spanish duo’s smooth, sophisticated take on epic doom — reviewed without saying the word “epic” too many times.
Saturna – The Reset
The Barcelona band’s cleanest, most impeccably produced record yet, without losing the retro hard-rock edge that defines them.
Peter Gabriel – i/o
21 years on, Gabriel’s dual-mix comeback record has flashes of brilliance but mostly recycles a formula that technology has hollowed out.
Big Bang – Causas naturales
A Badalona rock band’s fifth album deserves more attention than it gets — a solid, varied record with nothing to envy its foreign peers.
Glass Hammer – Arise
A reshuffled line-up sends this concept album into deliberately lo-fi space-rock territory, anchored by the album’s real star: the bass.
Myele Manzanza – Crisis & Opportunity, Vol. 4
The New Zealand drummer closes his four-volume series with a classically instrumented, deeply impressionistic jazz record.
D’Virgilio, Morse & Jennings – Sophomore
Three prog heavyweights team up again for a sugary, onomatopoeia-heavy record that only really clicks on its rockier tracks.
Odd Crew – Dark Matters Part II
The Bulgarian veterans, unchanged since 1998, deliver a consistent, dark, sixth record with an unusually intimate closer.
John Lönnmyr – Aftonland
A Swedish keyboardist’s instrumental love letter to classic seventies prog, from Canterbury textures to Opeth-adjacent moments.
Mike Mangini – Invisible Sings
The legendary drummer’s restrained solo debut is a solid rock-metal record that never overdoes the drumming fireworks.
Temic – Terror Management Theory
A prog-metal supergroup debut with an impressive résumé and an even better ear for gentle vocal melodies over punishing instrumentation.
Mariusz Duda – AFR AI D
The Riverside bassist’s electronic solo project leans hard into vintage synth sounds — charming at first, wearing thin by the end.
Hania Rani – Ghosts
A 66-minute record with real gems, especially in its second half, but stretched well past the point of diminishing returns.
Colin Edwin & Robert Jürjendal – The Weight Of A Shadow
A Fripp-schooled guitarist and the former Porcupine Tree bassist trade ambient textures long-distance — demanding, uneven, occasionally rewarding.
Michael Peter Olsen – Narrative of a Nervous System
The Arcade Fire cellist’s solo record is unpretentious chamber-post-rock, at its best when Chinese percussion takes over.
Viven – Aquí en el infinito
A Barcelona band’s third record is let down by heavy mastering compression — the songwriting and live energy deserved better.
Pattern-Seeking Animals – Spooky Action at a Distance
A record of two halves: an entertaining, melodic first act undone by a saccharine, dated-sounding second one.
Gong – Unending Ascending
53 musicians later, Gong’s current line-up honours Daevid Allen’s legacy with a classicist, meditative record.
Stoned Statues – Guardian
A Finnish trio’s second album is a superb, no-holds-barred statement — one of the bands to watch on the European prog scene.
Lalu – The Fish Who Wanted To Be King
A French keyboardist’s Saga- and Toto-inflected prog record, engaging and richly produced from start to finish.
King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard – The Silver Cord
The endlessly unpredictable Australians swap guitars for synths on a mostly forgettable electronic detour.
Dear Sherlock – Object of Ridicule
A Hull–Porto duo’s Muse-indebted debut album shows what long-distance songwriting by file transfer gains — and loses.
Angelus Apatrida – Aftermath
Spain’s biggest-selling thrash band delivers a punishing, 59-minute record that sticks to every genre standard — and does it very well.
Hiromi – Sonicwonderland
A technically flawless quartet record that never quite shakes off the feeling of already-heard jazz-fusion ideas.
Tauk – Equalizer
A lean 35-minute instrumental record that fuses jazz-rock and prog with impeccable taste — short, good, and twice as good for it.
Roger Waters – The Dark Side of the Moon Redux
A scathing takedown of Roger Waters’s spoken-word reinterpretation of Pink Floyd’s classic — an old man nobody asked to hear from, talking over every track.