Tag Archives: Gentle Giant

GENTLE GIANT Restore “Playing The Fool” To Powerful Glory

December 25, 2024

There have been quite a few GENTLE GIANT concert recordings released over the last couple of decades, yet none of those packed the same punch as the only live album the British ensemble issued during their existence: “Playing The Fool” … Continue reading

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Steven Wilson Moves GENTLE GIANT’s “Missing Piece”

January 10, 2024

To call “The Missing Piece” one of GENTLE GIANT‘s most experimental statement would be simultaneously true and false because, finding the ensemble embrace – at least, on the first side of the platter – the period’s pop and punk tendencies, … Continue reading

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GENTLE GIANT – Three Piece Suite

October 7, 2017

Alucard 2017 No jacket required: the not-so-humble emergence of gargantuan aural entity – now in glorious technicolor. In conceptual terms, patina has always served this ensemble’s early albums well, but as antiquated as those records are – in a good … Continue reading

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GENTLE GIANT Mount A New Concept

July 28, 2017

A richly rewarding experience, it takes an acquired taste to love GENTLE GIANT. That’s why, perhaps, the band’s reissue programme has been progressing slowly but turns out impeccable. There won’t be a regular album, though, to see the light of … Continue reading

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GENTLE GIANT – Octopus

January 29, 2016

Vertigo 1972 / Alucard 2015 Concept album that never was: a resurgence of multi-tentacled prog monster – still menacingly beautiful after all these years. Among the towering achievements of British art-rock from the ’70s, “Octopus” stands out as a meeting point … Continue reading

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