Review by Pete Flodden – 26th April 2020 5 STAR REVIEW (5/5) I first encountered IO Earth on their second album ‘Moments‘. From the start I was struck by their creativity, musicianship and of course their music. The key word I would also add at that stage of their journey would be potential. This potential …
Review by Mark Priestly – 16th April 2020 5 STAR REVIEW (5/5) This album is all that I hoped for after hearing about the new project from IO Earth at their Christmas party gig. It was described by guitarist Dave Cureton as the softer side of IO Earth, and there is certainly plenty of evocative …
By Rachel Mann Some albums are worth clearing your diary for, and IO Earth’s third studio offering is one of them. Over nearly 100 minutes of symphonic goodness, New World reminds us that taking time to climax is the key to pleasure. It’s their first studio release since 2012’s Moments and also the first to …
By Thomas Szirmay IO Earth has released two celebrated studio albums that made some serious waves within the prog community, supplying a modern curve to the well-travelled neo-prog rock genre by infusing some quite brilliant vocals, such as those by Steve Balsamo, who also participated on the Rob Reed (Magenta) Kompendium project. Strange coincidence (not) …
IOEarth’s self titled debut was a massive highlight of 2009, a sprawling epic of a work which gave the project founded by Dave Cureton & Adam Gough an excellent start to what I hope will be a long and fruitful recording career. Now, three years later, we have the “difficult” second album, one I have …
