Album Rating: 3.0

I can't find an available streaming anywhere... I hope it'll be uploaded on spotify someday

Album Rating: 4.0

Its on Google play, weird that its not on spotify too. Someone posted some link further back with grooveshark links tho

Can't wait for this!

Album Rating: 4.0

anyone who tries this stick with it as the best music is probably on the bonus disc later in

Album Rating: 4.0

Ya know, it's probably a good idea to edit those grooveshark links into your first comment, encourage more people to check this out

Album Rating: 4.0

yeh I'll do that, i checked and it's not on spotify all they got on there is Frequency whereas Google Play has all their albums APART from Frequency, must be a label thing

Great review menawati, this interests me!

Album Rating: 4.0

Gave it a listen, pretty enjoyable stuff, especially the t/t, middle and last track. Problem with neo-prog is that it's usually all fairly similar in terms of sound so I wouldn't call it anything outstanding. Defo 4 level though

Album Rating: 4.0

thanks wizard, I agree Mad theres not really much experimentation going on and they stick to their signature sound pretty much, then again they used to be quite odd long long ago, even did a prog/reggae/dub thing :-



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smTgDwkyNow



(its awful tho)

Great writing mena, haven't heard any IQ yet, but should since I do like Marillion (and love Genesis). Might give both The Wake and this a listen sometime.

Album Rating: 4.0

cheers Nag, The Wake and Lush Attic are close to fish-era Marillion so you'll probably like those, out of the later stuff there's quite a few good ones but this and subterranea are probably the best

Album Rating: 4.0

The drumming is particularly awesome but I do think the vocals are the weakest link

Album Rating: 4.0

some people find his voice a bit whiny, i quite like it but i can see why some people dont

Thanks for the review! I'm a long-time prog aficionado. I agree whole heartedly that the place to start with IQ is it's first two albums, and a great place to get a nice over-view of what is an amazing live band. A great place to start is their live album, 'Forever Live'.

They have recently re-mixed both Tales from the Lush Attic and The Wake, and to amazing effect. I hope people listen to these versions and not the lo-fi original relatively poor CD transfers.

Mike Holmes is really the force major of the band, the guitarist is really outstanding, and is one of those unknown monsters like Andy Latimore, all their formations have excellent rhythm sections. Peter Nichols is an acquired taste, and he has grown as a vocalist through the years. His lyrics are always interesting and a bit gothic sometimes he reminds me of Morrissey and alt-rock acts of the mid-1980s.

This is a band that met waiting in line for a Genesis show and all have "real" jobs, that's more of a statement on the music industry as these guys are always fantastic live and have chops for days.

What this and the last album are missing, for me, is Martin Orford, the original keys player and the "Tony Banks" to Mike's "Hackett/Rutherford". We are on the second keys replacement and they do a fine job live, (See IQ30 or IQ at NEARfest, two again, EXCELLENT live albums), the new keys players, first Westwood, and now Durant, don't have the Je ne c'est quoi that made Tales and Wake landmark records. It comes down to their ear as to what sounds cool from all the tones the modern keys player has at their finger tips. Durant, sometimes, chooses some tiny 80s tones, when he has the rich analog synths and their high quality synthetic replications at his finger tips.

In any even IQ has always been Curious, and Original with odes to Gabriel's Genesis but very much of the time and unique. I think their name is a barrier to listeners, as it is overly pretentious and this band is really not....but that ship has sailed....

I am very much looking forward to hearing the full of "bones", the last few recordings were good, but didn't have those memorable musical hooks that Subterranea, tales, ever, and wake had, (the story is much along the lines of "The Prisoner").

Just as Twelfth Night acquitted themselves the best on "Live and Let Live", IQ is a band that puts out great live records, with the cop the sixth member as in Marillion's "La Gazza Ladra", always recorded extremely well.

Mike Holmes is a fantastic producer, engineer, writer, and guitar player. All their albums (except for Nomzamo) are worth a listen just for him. The original drummer is back for this album, and he and Esau always stay in the cut, and have a grand sense of groove. I like them very much. Their 90s and mid-200s catalog feature one of the finest bass players most people don't know about, John Jowitt, and he is like the poor man's Tony Levin.

Look for their live albums after 1996 if you are new to this band, 'Forever Live', Stage aka IQ30 are really good places to start except for Subterranea Live, which is a note for note rendition of their best modern era album, you're better off listening to the excellent studio mix. After Forever Live, Listen to the new mixes of The Wake, then Tales from the Lush Attic, Subterranea, and the one track that I like from their period without Peter, "Nostalgia/Falling Apart At the Seams", which is a great track, and also on Forever Live. Ever is a good record, "Leap of Faith" the highlight.

Album Rating: 4.0

Thanks for the great info pragpro, will check out that live album.

The hooks are on here for sure and there's quite a few of those shivery moments, its their best since Subterranea in my opinion.



Nomzamo is indeed weak but I always loved that catchy pop-prog song Promises (As the years go by).

I always enjoy reading your comments Menawati, and I also agree there is always something to enjoy on all of IQs studio recordings, because they are such good muscians. I am going to venture to re-listen to Nomzamo, and that track, because it doesn't ring a bell, but you have fine taste, so I know it's worth a re-introduction. -- Todd

Album Rating: 4.0

Well, cheers dude, and stick around, prog aint huge on here among the userbase but there's a bunch of

us that listen to it and try to share, wouldnt hurt to swell the ranks a bit. It can be a nest of

vipers on here at times but there are some decent people around.

When I was young, I kind of self-seggregated myself into my genre of choice, prog, and when I matured, I broke out of that prison, and now embrace all kinds of music, from pitchfork style alt, to metal, jazz, rock, just anything and everything. I think that happens a lot. Quality is quality, and genre is helpful to provide a hint as to what we are about to listen to, but there is too much excellent music to stay boxed in. I have noticed that via Radiohead and Tool that prog has entered virtually all genres of music. It just so happens that at 40 I have listened to and read about prog the most over the last 25 years or whatever, because to me, especially in the 70s, that where the best musicians migrated to. There are a lot of sub-genres like Rock In Opposition, Zeuhl, Avant, Canterbury, and for people who want to dig into that stuff, I highly recommend http://gnosis2000.net and The http://www.cuneiformrecords.com label. Where the really progressions of music continue....