Promo for Shineback’s Rise Up Forgotten, Return Destroyed, the new project from Tinyfish’s Simon Godfrey, a concept album with lyrics by Rob Ramsay. It takes a very different approach from Tinyfish’s guitar-based sound.
“For reasons I’ve never understood, electronica seems to be shunned by a lot of prog bands. They’ll play seven-string guitars and think they’re right on the cutting edge of music, which is nonsense. I decided to put away my guitar and not use it at all on the Shineback album. Instead, I play keyboards, computers and some synth. There are moments of guitar work, but not from me. I thought I’d get in people who could really play.”
The album features contributions from Matt Stevens and Henry Rogers, along with plenty of other names from the prog scene.