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Yes to release Super Deluxe Edition of Fragile in June

The new Super Deluxe version of Yes's Fragile album is remastered and features rarities and previously unreleased live recordings

Louder · May 15, 2024

PMC's 21-speaker Dolby Atmos system is the ultimate argument for spatial audio

High End Munich and PMC have delivered a stunning Dolby Atmos system worth €300,000 – and it might just change your mind on music in spatial audio.

What Hi-Fi? · May 10, 2024

12 of the best Dolby Atmos tracks on Tidal, Amazon and Apple Music (and 5 to avoid)

A collection of our favourites that we believe are great adverts for the execution and potential of Dolby Atmos in music, plus a few examples of those that, to our ears, are unlistenable.

What Hi-Fi? · May 9, 2024

“Robert Fripp played the solo and we didn’t like it. He said, ‘You’re wrong.’ Steven Wilson said, ‘This is how wrong we are,’ and deleted it”: How No-Man prospered by refusing to ever fit in

Housekeeping box set illustrates that when Tim Bowness and Wilson refused to compromise, it was a strength rather than a weakness – even if one of them couldn’t listen to their early work for 20 years

Louder · Apr 8, 2024

"Things were gloriously easy back in 1969 because we only had two albums. Things are now much more tortuous": Ian Anderson on touring, bedbugs and Martin Barre

Jethro Tull are about to play 10 UK shows, and band leader Ian Anderson is hitting the rails rather than the road

Louder · Apr 3, 2024

“Others’ expectations kept me from taking it seriously for a long time… Some will say, ‘What is this old prat on about?’ but I don’t give a damn”: Why Ian Anderson took the risk of making Thick As A Brick 2

In exploring what could have happened to Gerald Bostock – the child prodigy of the 1972 Jethro Tull album – he explored where else his own life might have taken him

Louder · Apr 2, 2024

“Half streamlined, half baroque, it wasn’t for everybody – but it hits the spot now”: Gentle Giant’s The Missing Piece gets the Steven Wilson varnish

Side one gravitates to the new era of 1977, but side two reverts to prog. It’s a reminder of how unique the band always were

Louder · Mar 31, 2024

“You see people in music magazines who call themselves rebels. I’m more of a rebel because I really put my life at risk”: Aviv Geffen and Steven Wilson’s contrasting worlds make Blackfield’s work so powerful

Israeli musician and campaigner’s third album with Porcupine Tree leader was named Welcome To My DNA as an illustration of the pair’s powerful connection

Louder · Mar 28, 2024

“I was a wreck, physically and mentally. I wanted to cancel shows, split up the band, all these kind of things”: Aiming to make a “super-heavy record,” Opeth embraced the Mellotron and made Damnation instead

Mikael Åkerfeldt – who’d become band leader because no one else would do it – recalls the misery of making the landmark 2003 album which made him feel he could hold his own with the likes of Porcupine Tree

Louder · Mar 20, 2024

Steven Wilson to release first new Bass Communion album for 12 years

Bass Communion will release their latest album, The Itself Of Itself, in late May

Louder · Mar 18, 2024