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Hats Off Gentlemen It’s Adequate @itsadequate.bsky.social · 8h

“We’re all flawed, all broken. I’m sorry if you don’t approve, but I did what I thought I had to do, I let you thaw and spread, don’t now withdraw. Nostalgia For Infinity, look at you”. open.spotify.com/track/2oUqFD... #prog #rock #scifi

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Hats Off Gentlemen It’s Adequate @itsadequate.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Thanks to Musikreviews.de for their review of Hats Off Gentlemen It’s Adequate - Parallel Lives (13/15 stars) www.musikreviews.de/reviews/2026/Hats-Off-Gentlemen-Its-Adequate/Parallel-Lives/

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Hats Off Gentlemen It’s Adequate @itsadequate.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Hats Off Gentlemen It’s Adequate tracks with Kathryn Thomas flute solos playlist - ‪https://open.spotify.com/user/1120959481/playlist/2CscoHTYOvtXMbV5j28CES #prog #rock #flute

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Hats Off Gentlemen It’s Adequate @itsadequate.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

spotify.link/wnAKwYYYwyb “Just keep walking till I find out if I’ll cross my path again”. Melancholic allegorical science fiction #prog #rock by Hats Off Gentlemen It’s Adequate

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End of the Line

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Hats Off Gentlemen It’s Adequate @itsadequate.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Ark by Hats Off Gentlemen It’s Adequate - inspired by Malcolm Galloway’s grandfather’s WW2 experiences on the Ark Royal. “Nothing short of a masterpiece...some of the best music I have ever heard” Bandwagon Radio Network #prog #rock #instrumental open.spotify.com/album/3R9eUr...

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Ark - Single by Hats Off Gentlemen It's Adequate | Spotify

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Hats Off Gentlemen It’s Adequate @itsadequate.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

‘I’m the electric ant, I remember everything’. Hats Off Gentlemen It’s Adequate song inspired by a Philip K Dick short story. open.spotify.com/track/03Mzjm... #prog #rock

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The Electric Ant

Hats Off Gentlemen It's Adequate · Out of Mind · Song · 2018

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Hats Off Gentlemen It’s Adequate @itsadequate.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Time traveller gets frustrated that despite their best intentions they keep making the future worse. #scifi #rock #prog by Hats Off Gentlemen It’s Adequate spotify.link/67jLIcLYwyb

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Back Where I Started

Hats Off Gentlemen It's Adequate · The Confidence Trick · Song · 2022

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Hats Off Gentlemen It’s Adequate @itsadequate.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

“I’m a head in a jar, I’m not going anywhere, so why don’t you stay, why are you running away?” open.spotify.com/track/2jh4ni...

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Head in a Jar

Hats Off Gentlemen It's Adequate · When the Kill Code Fails · Song · 2015

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Hats Off Gentlemen It’s Adequate @itsadequate.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

“We could have cared. Just enough to give ourselves a chance. But we threw it all away. What have we left for you?” Burn The World by Hats Off Gentlemen It’s Adequate open.spotify.com/track/7bFSPj... #guitar #rock

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Burn the World

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Loud Enough Magazine @loudenoughzine.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

LONDON SHOW NEWS - SUNDAY 25 OCTOBER Matinee show - doors 1pm, Camden Club, London. IT - thoughtful and thought provoking prog. Freedom To Glide - on the boundaries of prog and AOR. Forgotten Gods - big, bold and dramatic sound Info and tickets: wegottickets.com/f/21108

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Hats Off Gentlemen It’s Adequate @itsadequate.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

From the archives - Six Album Sunday review Hats Off Gentlemen It’s Adequate “Their complex prog rock sound is remarkable. They are either a couple of amazing multi-instrumentalists or computer geniuses or both.” 6albumsunday.blogspot.com/2019/03/soft...

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Log #127 - Things Just Got A Lot Weirder

A blog about music including reviews of albums and concerts and a log of weekly listening.

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Thomathy Entertainment @thomathyentertainment.com · 18/11/2024

Want to get your music featured? 🎶 Submit via our free or paid options and get your tracks showcased on our site, social media, and Spotify playlist! 🎤✨ www.thomathyentertainment.com/p/submit-you... #SubmitYourMusic #NewMusic #IndieMusic #DiscoverNewMusic

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Hats Off Gentlemen It’s Adequate @itsadequate.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

If you like long classical minimalist chamber pieces, you might like my this track of mine - Spiral - Malcolm Galloway open.spotify.com/track/0fXuX6... If you like it any sharing is greatly appreciated

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Spiral

Malcolm Galloway · Dancing About Architecture · Song · 2015

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pg-lastoutpost @pg-tyke.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The Last Outpost, Harborough FM, tonight 9-11pm featuring #Hackett/Rothery @itsadequate.bsky.social #Splink + @bigbigtrain.bsky.social #Gu-Ru #BrokenSprings #ProcolHarum #DifferentLight @radiohead.wastehq.social #JonAndersonAndTheBandGeeks #RogerWaters and more. harboroughfm.co.uk #progrock

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Hats Off Gentlemen It’s Adequate @itsadequate.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

“This must come as a wonderful surprise. You’ve won the mandatory prize, so if you come with me now, we’ll take you into protective custody.” open.spotify.com/track/7z5TcA... #prog #rock #pkd

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The Mandatory Prize

Hats Off Gentlemen It's Adequate · Parallel Lives · Song · 2026

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Hats Off Gentlemen It’s Adequate @itsadequate.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

“A very powerful music statement… stunning… a mandatory purchase” - Lazland Hats Off Gentlemen It’s Adequate - Parallel Lives open.spotify.com/album/4WanpF...

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Parallel Lives - Album by Hats Off Gentlemen It's Adequate | Spotify

Hats Off Gentlemen It's Adequate · album · 2026 · 13 songs

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Hats Off Gentlemen It’s Adequate @itsadequate.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Hats Off Gentlemen It’s Adequate - Parallel Lives (prog/alt/art-rock with electronic and classical elements) The Progressive Aspect - “Parallel Lives is a beautiful, harrowing, dark and rewarding listen, beginning to end.” open.spotify.com/album/4WanpF...

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Parallel Lives

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Hats Off Gentlemen It’s Adequate @itsadequate.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Thanks to Lazland for this kind review of our new Hats Off Gentlemen It’s Adequate album ‘Parallel Lives’. lazland.org/album-review... “A mandatory purchase”

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Hats Off Gentlemen, It's Adequate - Parallel Lives — Lazland

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Hats Off Gentlemen It’s Adequate @itsadequate.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Thanks to Progarchives / Thomas Szirmay for this 5/5 review of our new Hats Off Gentlemen It’s Adequate album ‘Parallel Lives’. www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id...

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Thomathy Entertainment @thomathyentertainment.com · 10/09/2026

Malcolm Galloway Encourages Listeners to Pause and Look with 'Stare' www.thomathyentertainment.com/2026/09/malc... #MusicDiscovery

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Hats Off Gentlemen It’s Adequate @itsadequate.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Thanks to Progressive Rock Central - “One of my favourite UK bands is back” progressiverockcentral.com/2026/06/18/h...

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Hats Off Gentlemen It’s Adequate – Parallel Lives | Progressive Rock Central.com

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Hats Off Gentlemen It’s Adequate @itsadequate.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Here’s a playlist of everything I’ve released - a mix of rock, electronic, classical, minimalist. Hope there’s something here that might appeal. I’m always very grateful for anyone taking the time to try my music - open.spotify.com/playlist/0vY...

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Glass Castle Recordings - Prog Rock, Electronica and Minimalist

Releases from the specialist progressive rock and classical minimalist label Glass Castle Recordings. Includes music by Hats Off Gentlemen It's Adequate. For people who like Steve Reich, Pink Floyd, S...

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Hats Off Gentlemen It’s Adequate @itsadequate.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

“Jitter. jitter, can’t sit still, can’t hold one thought at a time, can’t start, can’t stop, one chain, uncorked and it won’t stop, and it won’t stop, and it won’t stop… too many thoughts try to fit into my head. Stop.” open.spotify.com/track/3HsJX0...

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My Blistering Mind

Hats Off Gentlemen It's Adequate · Parallel Lives · Song · 2026

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Hats Off Gentlemen It’s Adequate @itsadequate.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Glass Castle post-minimalist playlist - Ft. @nicomuhly.com, Bang On A Can, Icebreaker open.spotify.com/playlist/ 7Frqir63HWxkQSn5dAvo2y

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Hats Off Gentlemen It’s Adequate @itsadequate.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

The final track on our new Hats Off Gentlemen It’s Adequate album is ‘Just Hold On’. The song is about keeping trying despite mental difficulties. Sometimes just holding on is an achievement worth celebrating. open.spotify.com/track/3LREQm...

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Just Hold On, Pts. 1 & 2

Hats Off Gentlemen It's Adequate · Parallel Lives · Song · 2026

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Hats Off Gentlemen It’s Adequate @itsadequate.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Track 10 on our new album is the instrumental ‘Dropping The Mask’. It starts somewhat anxiously, but eventually blooms into something more joyful. open.spotify.com/track/1AKCGV...

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Dropping The Mask

Hats Off Gentlemen It's Adequate · Parallel Lives · Song · 2026

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Hats Off Gentlemen It’s Adequate @itsadequate.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Track 9 on our new album is ‘Just Another Thing’. It was inspired by the bleak humour of a conversation with my wife on the way back from Moorfields Eye Hospital after getting an unwelcome diagnosis. open.spotify.com/track/1x5qkL... #defiant #rock #bleaktastic

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Just Another Thing

Hats Off Gentlemen It's Adequate · Parallel Lives · Song · 2026

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Hats Off Gentlemen It’s Adequate @itsadequate.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Track 8 in our new album is the instrumental ‘Pretty Blue Fox’. The name is a Philip K Dick reference. This track started life as draft of a classical minimalist piece, and gradually evolved into a HOGIA instrumental. open.spotify.com/track/3LYGoP...

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Pretty Blue Fox

Hats Off Gentlemen It's Adequate · Parallel Lives · Song · 2026

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Hats Off Gentlemen It’s Adequate @itsadequate.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Track 6 on our new Hats Off Gentlemen It’s Adequate album is Parallel Lives (the title track). It is a restrained, melancholic song about our tendency to drift apart from each other. open.spotify.com/track/5kU8TJ...

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Parallel Lives

Hats Off Gentlemen It's Adequate · Parallel Lives · Song · 2026

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Hats Off Gentlemen It’s Adequate @itsadequate.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Track 5 of our new Hats Off Gentlemen It's Adequate album is ‘Intermission’. A brief, quirky, jazzy instrumental open.spotify.com/track/6vq5gi...

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Intermission

Hats Off Gentlemen It's Adequate · Parallel Lives · Song · 2026

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Hats Off Gentlemen It’s Adequate @itsadequate.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Track 4 on our new Hats Off Gentlemen It’s Adequate album is ‘Smile, Smile, Smile’, inspired by Philip K Dick’s ‘Flow My Tears The Policeman Said’. open.spotify.com/track/3mtNUd... #pkd #scifi #music

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Smile, Smile, Smile

Hats Off Gentlemen It's Adequate · Parallel Lives · Song · 2026

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Hats Off Gentlemen It’s Adequate @itsadequate.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Track 3 on our new Hats Off Gentlemen It’s Adequate album is ‘Never Really Like Home’, a melancholic instrumental featuring Kathryn Thomas on bass flute. open.spotify.com/track/2bFnLD... #flute #progrock

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Never Really Felt Like Home

Hats Off Gentlemen It's Adequate · Parallel Lives · Song · 2026

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Hats Off Gentlemen It’s Adequate @itsadequate.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Track 2 of our new album - The Mandatory Prize. Loosely inspired by a Philip K Dick short story. You’ve won first prize in a competition you didn’t enter. The prize is deeply sinister and compulsory. open.spotify.com/track/7z5TcA... #progsky #progrock

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The Mandatory Prize

Hats Off Gentlemen It's Adequate · Parallel Lives · Song · 2026

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Loud Enough Magazine @loudenoughzine.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

LONDON SHOW - 5 SEPTEMBER BUSH HALL, SHEPHARDS BUSH Punks For Charity show raising funds for Upper Room featuring (In no particular order): The Custard Screams Hats Off Gentlemen It's Adequate The Scuts Foxpalmer Class of 79 Info and tickets: bushhall.seetickets.com/event/punks-...

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Hats Off Gentlemen It’s Adequate @itsadequate.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

The first track on our new Hats Off Gentlemen It’s Adequate is ‘My Blistering Mind’. #adhd open.spotify.com/track/3HsJX0...

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My Blistering Mind

Hats Off Gentlemen It's Adequate · Parallel Lives · Song · 2026

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Hats Off Gentlemen It’s Adequate @itsadequate.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Our new Hats Off Gentlemen It’s Adequate album ‘Parallel Lives’ is now on general release. “Powerful and thought-provoking… an impressive and skillfull piece of work” Prog Magazine. open.spotify.com/album/4WanpF... If you like it, any help raising awareness is greatly appreciated. #prog #progsky

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Parallel Lives - Album by Hats Off Gentlemen It's Adequate | Spotify

Hats Off Gentlemen It's Adequate · album · 2026 · 13 songs

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Hats Off Gentlemen It’s Adequate @itsadequate.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

The last track on my new solo instrumental album is a very short playful bonus track - Flugle Doodle. open.spotify.com/track/4bnq7P...

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Flugle Doodle (Bonus Track)

Malcolm Galloway · Stare · Song · 2026

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Burning Shed @burningshed.com · 02/09/2026

Hats Off Gentlemen It's Adequate - Parallel Lives CD in digisleeve with 24-page booklet (Signed) CD pre-orders shipped, now in stock burningshed.com/tag/Hats_Off_Gentle… #Music #MusicSky #VinylSky

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Hats Off Gentlemen It’s Adequate @itsadequate.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Track 6 on my new solo classical/minimalist album is ‘Ostinato for Electric Guitar and Laptop’. I play the guitar part. There is also a ‘guitareoke’ version without the solo part -guide sheet music for the solo part comes as a free bonus with the Bandcamp download open.spotify.com/track/76X2Ba...

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Ostinato for Electric Guitar and Laptop

Malcolm Galloway · Stare · Song · 2026

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Ian Paul Sharp @ianpaulsharp.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

This week in the Long Play Project is the remarkable new album by @itsadequate.bsky.social, 'Parallel Lives'. If you don't know their music yet, here's an opportunity to discover them. ianpaulsharp.substack.com/p/hogia-parallel-lives #prog #newalbums #musicwriting #hogia

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Hats Off Gentlemen It’s Adequate - Parallel Lives

The remarkable album with a challenging back story

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Hats Off Gentlemen It’s Adequate @itsadequate.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Track 5 on my new solo/classical/instrumental album is ‘A Lacquered Ceramic Owl’. The name is a Philip K Dick reference. Although this one is quite minimalist in construction, the actual sound is jazzier than the other tracks on the album. open.spotify.com/track/10iii9...

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A Lacquered Ceramic Owl

Malcolm Galloway · Stare · Song · 2026

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