Praise be! Prog’s most devout figure, Neal Morse, gets the gang back together, dials back the sermonising and reaches for the stars on his band’s sparkling first album in five years.

NEAL MORSE

The Accidental EARMUSIC

New tribute to their former guitarist Brian James is delivered with real passion.

Martin Barre MCNIDDER & GRACE

‘We’re going to have a tonal centre and tap our feet, and that’s the way it is.’ Steve Reich is in full flow, talking to me from his home in New York. ‘The big break, the knife down the line, was betw