When was the last time a prog formation started out of nowhere like this? Messenger, founded in London in 2012 by Khaled Lowe (voc, g) and Barnaby Maddick (g, b, voc) as a project rather than a band, was celebrated frenetically after the release of the debut album "Illusory Blues" in 2014, also by us. The magic mixture of the English from symphonic retroprog of the early seventies, Pink Floyd atmosphere, psychedelic folk, doom and hard rock had obviously hit a nerve with many.
