Despite being friends for many years, The Roaring Waves by prog guitarists Steve Hackett and Marillion’s Steve Rothery is a surprise. Eight years in the conceiving, the pair began it in joint writing sessions at Marillion’s Racket Club studio. For his part, Rothery drew on his band experience. Hackett had a bigger learning curve. They developed the album jointly and separately at their individual studios as well.
With the sea as a unifying theme, the duo conjure an arresting blend of progressive rock, psychedelia, ambient, classical, and electronic music, peppered with cinematic soundscapes and atmospheres appended by lyrical hooks and startling crescendoes. It is not a competetive shredding session. The only vocals are…

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