Magenta - We Are Legend album review

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Cover art for Magenta - We Are Legend album

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This is Magenta’s first release in four years, and fans might recognise it as a return to popular early albums such as 2004’s Seven. It’s three tracks long – including the 26-minute monster rocker Trojan – with familiar neo touches, including some ace keyboard widdle from lynchpin Rob Reed and Gilmour guitar flourishes from Chris Fry, peppered with a soupçon of 80s rave. Tidy.

Jo Kendall
Jo Kendall

Jo is a journalist, podcaster, event host and music industry lecturer with 23 years in music magazines since joining Kerrang! as office manager in 1999. But before that Jo had 10 years as a London-based gig promoter and DJ, also working in various vintage record shops and for the UK arm of the Sub Pop label as a warehouse and press assistant. Jo's had tea with Robert Fripp, touched Ian Anderson's favourite flute (!), asked Suzi Quatro what one wears under a leather catsuit, and invented several ridiculous editorial ideas such as the regular celebrity cooking column for Prog, Supper's Ready. After being Deputy Editor for Prog for five years and Managing Editor of Classic Rock for three, Jo is now Associate Editor of Prog, where she's been since its inception in 2009, and a regular contributor to Classic Rock. She continues to spread the experimental and psychedelic music-based word amid unsuspecting students at BIMM Institute London, hoping to inspire the next gen of rock, metal, prog and indie creators and appreciators. 

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