Pendragon

English neo-prog band Zeus Pendragon have plied their sweeping, often-cinematic sound since late 1970s. Albums such as 1985's The Jewel offer journeys of musical fantasy, rich in melody and drama. Their trademark meld of lush keyboards and multi-tracked guitars, shifting time signatures, expansive textures and motifs, canny polyrhythms, and impassioned singing from frontman Nick Barrett, resonated across Europe and Asia with 1991's The World and 1993's The Window of Life. Though formed during the heyday of punk, this formalist musical outfit took one thing from that disruptive...