THE TANGENT’S NEW ‘MEGA PROG’ RECORD

Andy Tillison breaks down Songs From The Hard Shoulder, out on InsideOut in June.

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Prog quintet The Tangent mark their 20th anniversary with their 12th studio album. Out on June 10 via InsideOut, Songs From The Hard Shoulder follows 2020’s Auto Reconnaissance, and the band’s keyboardist/leader Andy Tillison describes it as “a mega prog album with three epics over 17 minutes long and a short, Tamla Motown song. “Every song is entirely different and unrelated to one another,” he adds, “because one of my favourite things about prog rock is how often it breaks the rules. We didn’t feel the need to connect the songs together.” Teasing the album’s epic tracks, Tillison describes one as “very Tangent-like. It’s melodic, uplifting and socially aware – it’s about reconnecting with people after the lockdown. Then there’s our longest ever instrumental, which leans on our Canterbury and Frank Zappa…

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