The Progressive Aspect
Music appreciation for progressive listeners, explored with context, depth, and reflection.
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The Progressive Aspect
Hypnoma – High And Just Proceedings
Album review: Finnish band Hypnoma’s debut hides Conrad’s Heart of Darkness inside three weaving guitars, and asks why we follow any voice promising greatness.
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Concert Reviews
Marillion – Eventim Apollo, Thursday 1st October 2026
Marillion at the Eventim Apollo: Gaza, a choir, and a hall of strangers carrying the world's unanswerable questions, which weigh a little less by the end.
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The Progressive Aspect
Raphael Weinroth-Browne – Empyrean
Raphael Weinroth-Browne's Empyrean spans 300 years of transcendence, exploring the limits of human creativity through Bach's own reach toward the eternal.
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Concert Reviews
Jon Anderson & The Band Geeks
Jon Anderson & The Band Geeks at Oxford's New Theatre, 10th September 2026: Yes epics and new songs played with such joy that a self-confessed non-Yes fan left elated.
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The Progressive Aspect
RematriNation – ᎠᏌᏃ ᎩᎦᎨ (The Red Dress)
Album review: RematriNation - The Red Dress channels grief and reclamation into a searching, cathartic work of Indigenous musical storytelling
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The Progressive Aspect
Mailman – The Lighthouse & The Rocks
Mailman’s The Lighthouse & The Rocks sets rage, grief and political horror against ravishing orchestral beauty: an album hard to like, and impossible to walk away from.
