SOLSTICE

Clann PROGROCK.COM ESSENTIALS

DAVE LING

UK folk-prog mainstays’ late-career purple patch continues. On a planet of deepening gloom and dread, new music from folk-proggers Solstice should always be celebrated. And the good news is that there seems to be much more of it: a pair of studio albums and last year’s double-live set Return To Cropredy all arriving during the past half-decade. Preceded by 2020’s Sia (the Scottish Gaelic word for ‘six’), which introduced new vocalist Jess Holland, and the arrival of Light Up three years later, Clann concludes the so-called ‘Sia trilogy’ of studio albums. “Like a welcome ray of morning sunshine after a difficult night.” Solstice are enjoying a 40-plus-year career and are survivors of the first wave of neo-prog that never quite stepped up to make the big time, so no one…

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