"THE ’70S WAS A GREAT ERA, BUT IT WASN’T ABOUT bell-bottoms or moustaches,” Steve Hackett explains to us this month, as part of our suitably epic Genesis cover story. “It was about music not being constrained to a three-minute formula.”
This month’s MOJO comp, Curiouser And Curiouser, proves that prog rock’s finest bands could sometimes restrict themselves to three-minute tracks – a good job, or else we’d never have managed to squeeze 15 of them onto a CD. But even in relatively short bursts, the untrammelled ambition of these groups to push music further is startling. Curiouser And Curiouser encompasses the sheer range and headspinning possibilities of prog: a sampler of how a generation of questing musicians drew on art-rock, psychedelia, classical scores, medieval music, jazz, the avant-garde and even…
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MOJO (Digital) - 1 Issue, April 2025