Prog often shines a light on artists who are positioned outside the genre, but whose works occasionally overlap sufficiently to reward exploration. But what of those musicians whose origins were once firmly entrenched in prog, only for those roots to be obscured by the passing of time?
Step forward New Zealanders Split Enz, whose 1975 debut album Mental Notes is so unabashedly prog that it’s astonishing it doesn’t wear a cape or shave the middle of its hair.
