It’s not a bona fide concept LP à la 2017’s The Mission, which imagined a recce to Mars in 2033, but Styx’s 18th album Circling From Above continues the long-running US band’s recent prog-orientated renaissance, as last heard on 2021’s Crash Of The Crown.
Amid a seven-piece line-up with talent to burn, old-hand guitarists James ‘JY’ Young and Tommy Shaw plus founding (and these days part-time) bassist Chuck Panozzo sound galvanised and vital.
