I’m definitely not one for prog rock, especially not at album length. But I couldn’t help but be intrigued by a new concept prog rock album in that style, and seemingly with a tilt toward the Peter Gabriel end of the spectrum. The concept here being the friendship between Tolkien and C.S. Lewis, with a track at the end which evokes their legacies.

The album The Bardic Depths has been getting great reviews including (apparently) a glowing one from the main prog rock magazine, so don’t be put off by the strange choice of cover art.

A lecturer at Hillsdale College in America, I see Brizer also has a new 17-lecture series online, Mythology and Western Civilization. The first part surveys “the ancient to the medieval” and the second part focuses on J.R.R. Tolkien.