Progressive Rock Albums - Page 2

Garden of the Moon centers Lana Lane’s clear vocal tone within symphonic keyboards, melodic guitar and a sense of cosmic space.

Falling into Infinity finds Dream Theater tightening its long-form construction and trying to place technique and melody inside more compact songs.

Arena keeps Asia’s keyboard-led drama while widening the palette with acoustic guitar and percussion.

Rotator uses the agility of Dizzy Mizz Lizzy’s three-piece format to balance shifting rhythm with broad melody.

Curious Goods builds fantasy-tinged progressive rock around dense keyboard layers and Lana Lane’s clear voice.

Test for Echo brings Rush’s three-piece feel to the front, building songs from hard guitar, defined bass and precise drumming.

Love Is an Illusion centers Lana Lane’s clear vocal within thick keyboard layers and progressive song development.

Aria finds ASIA in a phase that rebuilds Asia's dramatic scale around John Payne's voice and Geoff Downes's keyboards in a clearly 1990s sound frame.

Dizzy Mizz Lizzy captures DIZZY MIZZ LIZZY at a point where the later image is not yet fully fixed.

Awake finds DREAM THEATER in a phase that steps away from the openness of its predecessor and turns inward through heavier guitars, dense keyboards and more tense constru

Counterparts finds RUSH in a phase that keeps Rush’s advanced musicianship while shifting emphasis toward drier guitar, thicker rhythm and more direct song delivery.

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Images and Words joins complex rhythm, precise ensemble work and broad, singable melody at a very high level.

Roll the Bones steps slightly away from Rush’s synth-centered 1980s design and brings Alex Lifeson’s guitar and the trio’s interplay back into sharper view.

When Dream and Day Unite presents Dream Theater’s long forms, changing meters, and technical playing with the urgency of a young debut.

Presto finds Rush turning away from display for its own sake and toward lighter arrangements and clear melodic lines.

Hold Your Fire brings together the synthesizer color Rush refined in the 1980s and the dense precision of its three players.

Astra centers John Wetton’s soaring voice and Geoff Downes’s layered keyboards as Asia moves toward a harder, more edged sound.

Power Windows keeps Rush’s guitar-rock foundation while expanding its use of keyboards and electronic texture.

Grace Under Pressure increases Rush’s use of synthesizers while sharpening the precision of its three-player ensemble.

Alpha centers on grand keyboards, smooth guitar and John Wetton’s emotional voice while moving toward more compact songwriting.

Asia is a debut in which highly skilled players turn toward concise, arena-sized melodies.

Signals brings more synthesizer color and electronic texture into Rush’s precise rock foundation.

Moving Pictures compresses Rush’s intricate musicianship into shorter, clearer songs.

Permanent Waves channels the technical confidence Rush built through its 1970s epics into shorter, more open songs.

Hemispheres is a 1978 RUSH album that ventures deeply into progressive rock without losing the memorable riffs and forward motion that keep its large-scale designs alive.

A Farewell to Kings keeps Rush’s hard-rock momentum while opening the music to a larger sense of story and space.

2112 joins Rush’s large-scale storytelling to the focused power of three musicians.

Caress of Steel takes Rush further away from blues-based hard rock and puts long structures and fantasy-driven storytelling at the front.

Fly by Night finds Rush gaining a new language through the arrival of Neil Peart.

Rush is the debut on which the group that would later build elaborate suites and conceptual worlds first appears as a direct, hard-rocking three-piece.