Let's continue the flow of album reviews with a mid-week issue. Read about the following releases: Aura — Communications, Lars Boutrup's Music For Keyboards — The Overture to Life, Mile Marker Zero — Coming Of Age, Perfect Storm — Stairs.

This is the 14th and final year that we shall do this round-up. There's a summary of each album plus a YouTube sample and a link to the original DPRP review.

Happy new year and welcome to our first album reviews issue of 2025! Catching up with several reviews from last year, we present: Âscent — Gamma, Koyo — Onism, Nine Stones Close — Diurnal, Johan Steensland — Crossfade, John Wetton — Concentus, Wizrd — Elements.
Enjoy! 🤘

London-based duo Hats Off Gentlemen It’s Adequate, whose unique sound has been described as punk-prog, have produced a series of top-notch, intellectually stimulating albums focused on sci-fi, historical and scientific themes. DPRP’s Béla Alabástrom met them on the eve of the annual charity event Prog the Forest, which they co-organise, covering a wide range of subjects, from the forthcoming album “The Uncertainty Principle” to the debate on AI versus human creativity.

To welcome in the new year, sixteen of our writers bring you their favourite prog-releases of the past 12 months.

Frant1c — A Brand New World, Myth Of Logic — Light At The End, Sequentia Legenda — Alcyone, Sequentia Legenda — Galactic Crystals, Sequentia Legenda featuring Tommy Betzler — Live In Eindhoven

Richard James — On Track... Rush 1973 - 1982, Michael Kulikowski — On Track... Roxy Music, Andrew Wild — Remembering Live Aid

Feras Arrabi — The Grind, Beledo — Flotando en el vacio, Leprous — Melodies Of Atonement, Ozul — Man On The Shore, Stranger Vision — Faust - Act I - Prelude To Darkness

Breeze — Echoes From A Distant Past, Castle Mountain Moon — Six Tales Of Perception, Isbjörg — Falter, Endure, Timelock — Atomic Swap, The Windmill — Mindscapes

Following a highly successful solo tour in the UK this autumn, Simon Godfrey (Tinyfish, Tidehouse) spoke to DPRP's Béla Alabástrom about his long and distinguished career spanning over three decades, his plans for the future, the 10th anniversary re-issue of "Motherland" and his favourite Dr. Who.

Beardfish — Songs For Beating Hearts, Fuchs — And Once Again (Welcome Max Paul), Infringement — Black Science And White Lies, Oddleaf — Where Ideal And Denial Collide, Tributes — Songs For Neil Volume V

Anubis — The Unforgivable, Crypto Knight — CK1, Cyan — The Guardian, The Madrigal Project — 11th Hour, Marc Malitz — Off World, Solstice — Return To Cropredy, Vanderwolf — The Great Bewilderment

Aether — Trans-Neptunian Objects, Blue Minded — (No) Strings Attached!, Mahuki — Gratitude, Morgan / Husband / Feraud — A Soul In Time, Rêverie — I giardini di Adone, Sauropoda — The Overstory, Seawind Of Battery & Ragenap — Got Chaos If You Want It!, Violescent — Violescent

The DPRP Podcast Team travelled to Glasshouse Studios near Oxford where they interviewed Forgotten Gods, whose debut album "Memories" was launched at Summer's End Festival. "Memories" is one of Béla Alabástrom's top 10 albums of 2024.

Stephen Mazikewich attended the Beat Plays 80s King Crimson tour in Pennsylvania and reports!

Big Big Train — A Flare On The Lens (Live In London), Nick Fletcher — A Longing For Home, Inner Ear Brigade — Perkunas, Robert Reed — Sanctuary Covered, Svynx — This Is Not Art, Vögel — Kallið, Vola — Friend of A Phantom

Maverick Persona — In The Name Of, Maysnow — A Dream Within A Dream, Moonrise — Live In Przeciszów, Stuckfish — IV — Duo Review

The DPRP Podcast Team interviewed Guy Manning together with two of his All Stars, Ariel Farber and Marek Arnold, at Summer's End in Chepstow, covering a range of subjects, including AI and music. This was followed by an interview with Sweden's finest, Moon Safari, who headlined the festival that evening.

Legacy Pilots — Thru The Lens, Lyra Messier — LP7, Past And Secrets — Another Day, Another Time, Snowdrops — Singing Stones (Volume 1), Solaris — Martian Chronicles III - I Or A.I.

The Boxx Orchestra — The Horn Of Plenty, Jethro Tull — The Jethro Tull Christmas Album – Fresh Snow At Christmas, Kite Parade — Disparity — Duo Review, MVI (Mark Vickness Interconnected) — I Will Find My Way

Your host Béla Alabástrom conducted an interview with art-rock band Under The Surface at the Summer's End Festival 2024. A wrong version was uploaded, sorry about that. We fixed it within 24 hours, the new version should be up now!

Avneya — Road To I, Crooked Mouth — Lost:Time, Feathers And Greed — Feathers And Greed, Feathers And Greed — Pari Shōkōgun, Held By Trees — Held By Trees And Martin Smith

To celebrate the exact 10th anniversary of the Tiger Moth Tales debut's release, we have a combination of two simultaneous publications. First there is the Duo Review of this year's re-issue of the album on the DPRP.net website and here is a podcast with an exclusive interview with Peter Jones!

To celebrate the exact 10th anniversary of the Tiger Moth Tales debut's release date, we have a Duo Review of this year's re-issue of the album and a podcast with a long interview with Peter Jones!

Neal Morse Inter-Review: an interview with Neal Morse about the new band and album plus a review of the album: Neal Morse & the Resonance — No Hill for a Climber!

Bantar — The Heat Is Exhausting, Consider The Source — The Stare, Klone — The Unseen, Lighthouse Sparrows — Dark Matter (alpha) / Dark Matter (beta), Shadow Matter — All This Power

Pure Reason Revolution — Coming Up To Consciousness — Round Table Review

The DPRP Podcast Team traveled to Hungary to attend a rehearsal by Hungarian prog band Yesterdays (report available of course) and conduct an interview for a new podcast episode!

The DPRP Podcast Team traveled to Hungary to attend a rehearsal by Hungarian prog band Yesterdays. This report includes photos and a video of that event. A podcast was recorded a few days later and published at the same time.