THE TANGENT – Auto Reconnaissance [Limited Digipak +1] (2020)

In the past 15 years or so, the world of contemporary progressive rock music has seemed to solidify on bands who either tow the expected traditional lines of the genre, and those who spend a lot of their time denying that they play “prog” at all. And then there’s THE TANGENT.
Their upcoming album ”Auto Reconnaissance” features a 70 minute menu that includes Prog Rock Foot Stomping, some of the band’s most sublime elaborated arrangements to date, humor, narrative, a modern blues love song (!), straight melodic rock music, funk, and a 28 minute long emotional epic about the band’s home country of England, laden with orchestration, jaw dropping instrumentals, melodies and Andy Tillison’s trademark story-telling at its best.

01. Life On Hold
02. Jinxed In Jersey
03. Under Your Spell
04. The Tower Of Babel
05. Lie Back & Think Of England
06. The Midas Touch
BONUS TRACK:
07. Proxima

Andy Tillison (Parallel or 90 Degrees) – Vocals, Keyboards
Jonas Reingold (The Flower Kings, Karmakanic) – Bass
Theo Travis (Soft Machine, Travis-Fripp) – Sax
Luke Machin (Maschine, Francis Dunnery Band) – Guitars
Steve Roberts (Magenta, Godsticks) – Drums

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