Category: THE TANGENT

In the twentieth year of the band’s existence, THE TANGENT are about to release their 12th studio album, ”Songs From The Hard Shoulder”. This album sees The Tangent focusing almost entirely on their long format songs or “epics” with only one song being less than 16 minutes long.
A very mature sounding record, the band have audibly focused on the compositional structure of this album which in the case of the three long pieces is also highly complex and “thought out”. From a luscious and uplifting song about loneliness in Covid-19 lockdown, to a full on 17-minute long fusion composition, to a darkly electronic story of a homeless woman.
The album’s final track is the 4 minute bouncy track “Wasted Soul”, where the band anticipate a wonderful day in the future when the pandemic is over forever.
‘Songs From The Hard Shoulder’ is just a wonderful piece of work…

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.

* Northern England based combo THE TANGENT are one of those bands that have been around for such long time, you almost take for granted how reliable they are with releasing albums. The group has, in 12 years, created eight studio albums (one of them featured here on the blog), two live DVDs and had tours that have taken them...

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