All posts by Conor Fynes
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Godspeed You! Black Emperor – Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven
Unlike so many of rock music’s offshoots and derivatives, post-rock history only hit its stride in the new millennium. That Lift Yr. Skinny Fists Like Antennas...
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Swans – To Be Kind
Before even getting into To Be Kind as a musical work itself, it’s an amazement unto itself that people are getting this worked up and divided over a rock...
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Glass Hammer – Ode to Echo
I had the pleasure earlier this year to interview Glass Hammer upon the release of Ode to Echo for Prog Sphere. Among other insights, one thing that really served...
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A Run Through SYZYGY’s Discography
Cosmos and Chaos (as Witsend) – 1993 Perhaps even moreso than their Scandinavian counterparts, it’s the United States that has carried the symphonic prog mantle...
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Oceans of Night – Midnight Rising
Midnight Rising is the best record from Oceans of Night to date. I say this as someone who has followed the band’s saga from their debut The Shadowheart Mirror and...
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Yes – Fly From Here
At the time Fly From Here was first released in 2011, my Yes fandom had been largely restricted to their classics. I enjoyed Yes‘ first (and last) bout with singer...
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Yes – Keystudio
Keystudio is one of the best-intentioned failures in progressive rock history. Is it simply a compilation, or an overlooked Yes studio album? The record should state its the...
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Yes – Yes Remixes
What were Yes thinking when they accepted, and subsequently released these remixes by Steve Howe’s son Virgil? I don’t think it’s simply for nepotism’s sake, trying to...
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Yes – Live at Montreux 2003
Live albums have fallen out of favour in the past generation, and I think it’s for the reason that a recording of a live performance...
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Yes – Symphonic Live
Whatever doubts I may have had about post-90125 Yes were dispelled with 2001′s Magnification. Sure, most of the 90s had been wasted on bad pop and lazy songwriting,...
