Pure Reason Revolution - Eupnea

Eupnea is the fourth studio album by British progressive rock band Pure Reason Revolution, released in March 2020 via Inside Out Music.

Pure Reason Revolution are a British progressive rock group formed at the University of Westminster in 2003. Their music incorporates elements of progressive rock and electro. Rick Wakeman has given the band a favourable review, and members have a shared appreciation for the work of bands such as Pink Floyd, Porcupine Tree, Nirvana, Justice, Kraftwerk and Fleetwood Mac.

In their decade as a band, Pure Reason Revolution relentlessly innovated on every release. Their debut was a modern spin on classic prog, as accessible to fans of Tool and Muse as it was to Pink Floyd fans. Amor Vincit Omnia (2009) and Hammer And Anvil (2010) took them into electronic territory, all while maintaining a common progressive rock thread.

It's fitting then that Eupnea, the long-awaited return from the band (after disbanding in 2011), sees them harking back to their earliest days, while rolling in all of the musical experiments and experience they've gathered in the intervening years.

For some bands, this would simply be re-treading old ground. For Pure Reason Revolution this relaunch is a rebirth, producing their most confident record yet, which takes them in a new direction while weaving in the elements that endeared them to fans in the first place.

The new album sees only two original band members return to record this new album, Jon Courtney (vocals, guitars, keyboards) and Chloë Alper (vocals, bass guitars, keyboards).

This double album is on 2LP 180 gram black vinyl with an etching on Side D housed in a gatefold sleeve with a CD album copy, pressed in Europe via Inside Out Music.