IQ - The Road Of Bones on triple vinyl!

 IQ The Road Of Bones on triple vinyl, the new (2014) record from the UK prog bang whose roots trace back to the 80's, and it is a great one, one of my favorite recods of the year.

 The technical part is - a nice, clean, quiet triple vinyl pressing in a triple gatefold sleeve, and it sounds very, very good.

The music is wonderful, easily IQ's best since the underground classic Subterranea. Beautiful, intricate expansive songs that are very much in a tradition following from early Genesis through to Marillion. Peter Nicholls is an excellent songwriter and a great lead singer. Paul Cook returns on drums bringing IQ back closer to their roots. The Hackett era Genesis influence is clear, but this is a band that still gets better even after 30 years.

The tone is overall dark and baroque, this is not neo-prog or Dream Theater like heavy prog, it is very much classic progressive rock, very British prog. Symphonic in places, very epic.

There is almost two hour of amazing modern prog here, and even dropping the 'prog' part - to hours of fabulous songs, wonderful stories, and not a minute of it wasted. A record that you will listen to end to end and still find new layers.

A great record, one of the best of 2014, from a band that never got the dues it deserves or would have in an earlier era. Find it while you can, this is the real deal.

I wish they would put out  a hi-res digital file of this one, which must surely exist. That would be stunning.