The Accidental EARMUSIC

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

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.

Although formed in 1985 by Dundee native Ricky Ross, a former school teacher who released a solo album So Long Ago in 1984, Deacon Blue quickly established themselves as the definitive Glasgow band. B

Pagan doom, Marmite metalcore, genre-smashing hardcore, razzle-dazzle arena metal… this has been the soundtrack to the decade to date

In “a junkyard of surrealistic mayhem”: Adele Bertei ...