Hats Off Gentlemen It’s Adequate - The Confidence Trick (CD)
Prog Magazine Limelight featured artists Hats Off Gentlemen It's Adequate's 6th album, The Confidence Trick.
This album is a collection of songs around an overall theme of cognitive errors, particularly overconfidence, and our repeated failure to learn from history. One of the longest tracks on the album is an instrumental inspired by Malcolm’s great-grandmother's experiences of being hunted by the Nazis, and protected by some of the kindest people that our species is capable of producing. The language that was used to dehumanise populations before the Second World War is still used to dehumanise people today. We keep saying never again, and we keep making the same mistakes.
The album is broadly within the genre of progressive rock, but includes elements of alt-rock, contemporary classical music, minimalism, and electronic music.
"... an album of perfection... This is an amazing album. It is not fair to compare this to music of the past, but I have to compare this to a Genesis, Lamb Lies Down on Broadway moment, for this band. Between their last album, Nostalgia for Infinity and now, The Confidence Trick; this band is setting themselves apart from their peers in the UK. This music really is full of intelligent stories and songs that challenge you to think and hopefully change your ways. Like Genesis, which made my generation consider many deep concepts while we were at the same time fully entertained.
Please get this next chapter in the history of Hats Off Gentlemen. It is quite an adventure for the mind and ears" - Progressive Rock Central
"Absolutely superb - they’ve done it again. Absolutely phenomenal." The Lost Art - MMH Radio
Check it out here:
https://youtu.be/zGnMgWYmXQw?list=OLAK5uy_lueVO4yqqOeGXmirTmYBIZKPhCIcvQdiM
https://youtu.be/iYpc7CKTlVI?list=OLAK5uy_lueVO4yqqOeGXmirTmYBIZKPhCIcvQdiM
https://youtu.be/3z5ytUzqJrE?list=OLAK5uy_lueVO4yqqOeGXmirTmYBIZKPhCIcvQdiM
Tracks:
- 1. Silence Is A Statement
- 2. Back Where I Started
- 3. End Of The Line
- 4. Perky Pat
- 5. World War Terminus
- 6. Pretending To Breathe
- 7. Another Plague
- 8. Refuge
- 9. Interlude
- 10. The Confidence Trick
- 11. Lava Lamprey
- 12. All Empires Fall
- 13. Cygnus
Format: CD
Artist: Hats Off Gentlemen It’s Adequate
Release Date: July 15, 2022