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IQ official website In this album, "Darkest hour" happened a balance between good neo prog and a song for hear in a car. The next song " Further away" follow the line line of "Fading scenes" swings in moments of a calm balad and vigorous prog song, featured of Martin Orford. IQ is one os most important neo prog bands, and this album contributed for this social review comments Review Permalink Posted Sunday, October 23, Review this album Report Review Review by siLLy puPPy Collaborator PSIKE Team As with such tragedy and unfortunate events that change our realities, the members of IQ expressed their grief through their music. In addition to going back to their demo goals of creating captivating neo-prog music, Peter Nicholls was back on vocals and John Jowitt would replace Tim Esau on bass. All this change and lament resulted in a therapy session via musical expression and while the universe may have taken away, it also rewarded with a refreshed and inspired direction for the band to take and one that they have not strayed from ever since. Faced with all this melancholy the band channeled their energies into their renaissance album that displays all their early confidence and deftly crafted a beautiful album that deals with the loss of friends and family and of the insecurities we all face with the fleeting impermanence of life. With brilliantly delivered lyrical content that is strongly poetic and an excellent production to boot, each band member shines like a ray of sun through a darkened catacomb offering a glimmer of hope in the cold and brutal world. While there are no weak tracks on EVER, some are stronger than others. The 14 and a half minute prog workout "Further Away" takes the listener to another world with strong melodies and developments that run the gamut of the neo-prog universe with perfect execution. While few bands recover from the major tumble IQ undertook with two unpopular albums and a series of personal cataclysms, not only did Orford and company pull themselves together with dignity but in the process not only revived their own musical career but also contributed to awakening the entire sleeping prog universe in the early 90s when a new wave of progressive rock was slowly crawling from its sleeping chambers and proving that it still had not just a pulse left but enough vitality to make a full blown comeback after lurking in the darkness for the previous decade. Yes, the nightmare had ended and EVER would become one of the most successful comeback albums in the prog universe and would turn the page and start a new chapter in its history social review comments Review Permalink Posted Friday, August 19, Review this album Report Review Review by siLLy puPPy Collaborator PSIKE Team This is the second album to feature Paul Menel on vocals after Peter Nicholls departed following "The Wake. IQ were also tempted by the pop side of the musical force and tried to emulate their influences by going in that direction. This album just reeks of wannabeism and ultimately falls short in every manner. Although he tries, he just lacks the zingy passion that Nicholls dished out. Add the limp songwriting, lackadaisical keyboards, lazy percussion, flaccid guitar performances and woefully insipid overall production and we get a big fat turkey here but not the kind you wanna eat for Thanksgiving. It does however sound like a rather weak version of an 80s Peter Gabriel solo offering. It really is just so very baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaad and i do mean bad meaning bad, not bad meaning good. The next track "Nostalgia" tries to pull off some instrumental stratagem into gaining a foothold into a more progified universe, but ends up just sounding cheap because other than the attempt to create some atmospheric sounds comes across like a weak timed attempt to sound new wave eight years too late and then the cheesy drums and lyrics come in all gussied up with synthesized dressing and ends up sounding totally lame. Good pop music is a talent all itself and while many a prog band had successful navigated their talents into that musical realm, IQ were clearly out of their element. No disrespect for any fish that wish to do so, of course, i only am pointing out a pointless musical meandering into an almost parody zone. This one is just so bad that it truly is the worst of the worst. I found life in "Nonzamo" to the point that i could give it 3 stars, but ARE YOU SITTING COMFORABLY? A classic example of WTF were you thinking, guys? The musicians real entered the new millennium this time. Maybe a little less adventurous than previously, the songs are however more coherent, incorporates elements of other progressive styles such as heavy prog or prog metal, and the quality is present. The heavy title track contains all what you can expect from IQ at the beginning of the 21st century: a dark opening, rocky passages, enchanting trademark keyboards, pretty melodies and powerful soli. Simply one the best compositions from the band! The melancholic first half is dominated by piano-driven, whereas the second half displays unreal eerie music typical if IQ. The progressive "Stronger Than Friction" is also good, alternating dark, smooth and epic atmospheres. Ironically, the romantic ballad "One Fatal Mistake" is rather soapy and out of place. Fortunately, this song is also the shortest. Therefore, this little mistake is far from being fatal for the disc. Serious business comes back with the GENESIS-influenced "Ryker Skies", however darker and more modern. Another nice composition in the style of the band, with a good progression, futuristic beat and a spacey passage. It first starts with beautiful delicate guitars to then surprising become more ferocious and heavy. I bet you were not expecting that. The contrast is striking, and the dream is turning into a nightmare! Unfortunately, this nearly flawless hour of music concludes with the insipid and repetitive "Closer". The dark side of neo-prog. Containing only two weak tracks, more convincing and personal than its predecessor, "Dark Matter", "Frequency" finally shows the musicians modernizing their style while preserving their soul and composition quality. Melancholic and somber, smooth and oppressive, nonetheless recommended to IQ fans, this opus is one of the best neo-progressive albums of the 21st century! Half-studio, half-live, the set-list is quite heterogeneous, featuring singer Paul Menel, except for one song with Peter Nicholls. The studio part contains 2 previously unreleased tracks and 2 reworked compositions from the debut cassette "Seven Stories Into Eight". Its powerful RUSH-esque intro unveils multiple changing rhythms and as well as nervous, spacey and melancholic atmospheres. A great neo-progressive composition! This is one of the best released version of this song, with the one from "Nine in a Pond is Here", rock-ier than the original from their debut and faster than the later reworked version of "Seven Stories Into 98". In contrast, "Sera Sera", is an enjoyable soft guitar ballad recorded in "Intelligence Quotient" is the other song from the debut cassette. It also features different atmospheres, but contains cheesy moments, lacks coherency and is uneven. Only track featuring Peter Nicholls, "Dans Le Parc Du Chateau Noir" is however the other true highlight of the disc. Composed inas its title suggests, the ambiance is dark and haunting, with a beautifully touching keyboard passage and an epic finale. Quite original for IQ and neo-prog, and one their best creations! This track can now be found as a bonus on the remastered version of "The Wake". Concerning the live part, only "Medley" is worth the listen, as it mixes extracts of material from the first half of the eighties the good one : "The Last Human Gateway", "Outer Limits", "It All Stops Here" and "The Demo Smacks". Not much to say about the insipid "Common Ground" and the awful "Promises", as they both come from "Nomzamo", the weakest IQ record. This unfortunately just means just an average song. This compilation is more for connoisseurs of the band than for newcomers. Without surprises, only tracks composed in are really interesting, especially "It All Stops Here" and "Dans Le Parc Du Chateau Noir". In conclusion, this disc is a bit uneven and unbalanced, only intended for IQ lovers. Musically, the style is roughly the same as on its predecessor "Tales From The Lush Attic". The compositions demo "The Wake" are shorter and rather keyboards-driven, but also more coherent and with better sound quality. Each song narrates a step of reincarnation, from death to the beginning of a new life. The best track is the catchy opener "Outer Limits". It contains a depressive synthesizer overture, powerful and melancholic moments and various soli. A classic from the band. Typical of neo-prog, the enjoyable title track alternates somber, oppressive and bright moments. Then comes "The Magic Roundabout" with its spacey introduction, heroic rocking and calm passages and great finale. This piece is however uneven as it can unfortunately get a bit soapy at times. The first half shows strong early-GENESIS influences, but with eighties sonorities and spacey keyboards. A magical fairytale song. The soft melancholic "Headlong" also features changing atmospheres but the result is average this time. An enchanting and haunting piece, essential for IQ fans. Less adventurous but more mature than "Tales From The Lush Attic", less rock and more synthesized than its predecessor, "The Wake" is also unequal but overall pleasant. As in the album, the band will have to die to revive again. After the departure of Peter Nicholls, the members will recruit singer Paul Menel for the next two albums, much more commercial oriented. The fans will have to wait 8 years for another IQ studio opus with Nicholls, and also with this quality. However, this next reincarnation will result in one of their best records. Greatly influenced by symphonic early GENESIS, the music lacks a bit of creativity and identity. Still nowadays, IQ remains the "classic" neo-prog band the most resembling GENESIS. Recorded in only in five days, the composition is also not always mastered. The synthesizer solos are not always convincing, the result is uneven and sometimes sounds unbalanced. However, this song is overall varied and nice. After all, at this time, progressive music was not very popular, and not many tracks were this adventurous. The short "Through The Corridors" is a punchy pleasant hard prog piece. Nonetheless, the best track of side 2 and of the record is "The Enemy Smacks". The bonus track "Just Changing Hands" is optional. Although a bit immature, not always mastered and marked by the influences of Peter Gabriel and co. The musical identity still needs refining. Anyway, this second opus was welcomed in the desert progressive landscape of A good entry point to discover IQ and the neo-progressive sub genre. Also recommended to early-GENESIS fans social review comments Review Permalink Posted Sunday, May 15, Review this album Report Review From the Outside In starts creating a dreary atmosphere which is then cut short by a hammering rhythm guitar bit and basic drum beat. But where Frequency goes places from there, this song pretty much maintains this throughout its entirety besides a decent atmospheric synth section. One of the weaker tracks on the album, feels a bit one note stars The Road of Bones actually has some buildup. It starts with a slow vocal and synth bit, leads into a simple groove interspersed with a great little xylophone riff, builds up to a decent breakdown, and finally revert back to the initial jam. It is worth noting here there is some great synth work going along with this jam elevating it a bit above From the Outside In. The chorus section, which is repeated quite a bit, is probably the weakest part of the song. This is perhaps my biggest draw into prog music. The music is enjoyable, but not exactly original or ground-breaking in anyway. There is also my normal bug-bear with a lot of prog bands - too many lyrics! There are definitely a couple of real stand-out tracks on the album. A rating for this one is somewhere between 3 and 4 stars. But does it really deserve the vitriol heaped upon it? The title NOMZAMO comes from the name of a small township in the Western Cape of South Africa and the the title track is even about apartheid. While the musicianship is still as good as it always was the weak part of this album lies in the simple songwriting itself. While i find many of these tracks are excellent if taken as a pop rock album of the era, it is obvious that the sound is just a tad too esoteric to please the pop prog Asia fans and way too tame for progheads. There is also time where the album has too much of an AOR sound especially with the Kenny G sax solos! After all is said and done, i find NOMZAMO to have many very good tracks such as the catchy Zeppelin-esque opener "No Love Lost," the excellent title track and well crafted neo-pop-prog canzonets like "Human Nature. There are still plenty of lush keyboard sweeps, melodic guitar hooks and good neo-prog energy lurking about with only a few duds. This very well could have undergone a more rigorous progification process and become a more decent album. Certainly not the album to begin with IQ but i could hardly own their complete collection with this missing on the shelf! And to top it off there are actually decent tracks on here! And yes, Menel does the neo-prog vocal thang quite well social review comments Review Permalink Posted Monday, March 7, Review this album Report Review Copyright Prog Archives, All rights reserved. A charismatic frontman, able to seduce the audience with a single look? A mastermind, conducting his fellow geniuses to sheer excellence? A dedicated and addicted following lasting three decades? An outstanding live concept combining stage charisma, true emotions and self-ironic humor? Rising from the ashes of THE LENS inthe original line up of Peter NICHOLLS, Michael HOLMES, Martin ORFORD, Paul COOK and Tim ESAU formed a band achieving the impossible - the combination of such diverse styles as prog, punk, jazz and even reggae. NICHOLLS rejoined and was welcomed back enthusiastically at concerts in London and Paris. With new bassist John JOWITT ex-ARK the band embarked on a storming tour of the UK and mainland Europe, and played acclaimed festival appearances in the USA and South America. Brought to the stage with a stunning visual show, featuring moving lights, moving screens, films and theatrical action, it set standards not only for IQ but for all of their contemporaries in the prog world. Another change of personnel in meant that 4 out of 5 original members were once again in IQ when Tim ESAU and Paul COOK came back to the fold, joined on keyboards by Neil DURANT SPHERE. The band marked the occasion by re-staging the original show in full, updated with improved technology and production values. Metal CD Metal Blade New! Are You Sitting Comfortably? Studio Album, ratings BUY Ever IQ Neo-Prog Review by nandprogger IQ is one of my favorite neo prog prog bands "Ever". This album shows a evolution of mixing and continous evolution of creativity and accessible music for all public. IQ have a proper style in neo prog scene that a differential in prog rock music. In general the most neo prog bands looks the same, in my point of view. In this album, "Darkest hour" happened a balance between good neo prog and a song for hear in a car. 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