THIRD QUADRANT

Keyboard-orientated proggers enjoy their second life on fifth album.

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“WE’VE ALWAYS BEEN fiercely independent and that’s one thing we did carry over from the punk scene.” Surprising words from a prog band, perhaps, but Third Quadrant had a different beginning, as drummer Chris Hare explains. The northwest-based band retain the DIY aesthetic that informed a lot of the music that came out of teenage bedrooms in the late 1970s and early 1980s, whether it was punk, metal or indeed progressive rock. They formed more than 40 years ago, releasing three well-received albums between 1981 and 1988 that unfortunately didn’t solicit the same attention as Marillion, IQ, Pallas or Pendragon. However, the band’s influences were somewhat different to those of their contemporaries, as keyboardist and vocalist Chris Dunn explains. “Although I was into Pink Floyd, Yes, and Genesis; Chris Hare…

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