PENDRAGON

A kick up the 90s? Neo-prog torchbearers’ standout album from the genre’s anni horribiles gets a welcome reissue.

Johnny Sharp, Dave Everley

prog.reviews@futurenet.com If there was a year when prog reached its nadir of unfashionability, 1996 was it. Britpop was riding the zeitgeist, while the rock scene was still under the lingering influence of grunge, keeping rock on the straight and rather too narrow for music lovers with a penchant for something more expansive. Not that anybody had told Pendragon. As this reissue of the Gloucestershire proggers’ fifth album The Masquerade Overture – now replete with gatefold vinyl packaging with leather effect finish, plus Simon Williams’s intriguing artwork presented on card sleeve inserts – reminds us, there were some UK acts keeping the home fires burning very effectively. Not that the uninitiated would have realised at the time from the airplay, industry support and media coverage – or lack of it. The…

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