AND LAST BUT NOT LEAST

Grant Moon has a rummage down the back of the Prog sofa for the ones that nearly got away…

Along with Wire, Pere Ubu were one of the bands who successfully broke free from the shackles of punk and ascended into the more rarefied air of progressive music. Trouble On Big Beat Street (Cherry Red) sees David Thomas and group continue to push the barriers almost 50 years deep into their career. Their first-take approach keeps things spontaneous and edgy, making for thrilling, beguiling and disturbing music, with a demented cover of The Osmonds’ Crazy Horses to boot. Enthusiastic English artist Dreaming David K returns with more pure-blooded, for-the-love-of-it prog on Black Cat Metaphysics (dreamingdavidk.com). His latest may have been made on a shoestring, but on songs such as Dragonhunter, Multiverse Theory and Blue Sky Thinking he once again proves to be a skilled keyboardist and an inventive songwriter,…

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