“They use notes out of sequence – they’re more experimental than bands like Dream Theater, who are very respectful of tonalities”: Novelists’ Florestan Durand is passionate about Periphery (or at least their early albums)

Periphery.

In 2016 Novelists guitarist Florestan Durand told Prog how the discovery of Periphery changed his musical life – and explained why he preferred their earlier albums to their later ones.

“It was my brother [Novelists drummer Amael] who first played me Periphery’s Letter Experiment, maybe four or five years ago. I immediately fell in love with it because it was so fresh.