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FLUCTUS QUADRATUM

Symphonic Prog • United Kingdom


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FLUCTUS QUADRATUM is an English keyboard-driven progressive rock band started by a father-son duo, both being ardent followers of progressive music, in 2019 during the Covid pandemic. Jopheus BURTONSHAW (son), a 14-year-old self-taught keyboardist, composer, and producer - doing just about everything but drums and vocals - produced the music for their first FQ track, Convergence. His father, Rick BURTONSHAW, drummer, has his own history in the industry, having drummed for bands such as CRY WOLF, TRICKS UPON TRAVELLERS (T.U.T.), and PRE-MED. Curtis ADAMCZYK joined the two on vocals.

The three-piece, with a string of guitarists, have performed at numerous fantastic festivals to date.

The band launched their initial offering, an EP titled "The First Wave", in November 2022, and subsequently their debut album "Laplacian", which is released in February 2025. The music is symphonic melodic prog rock with influences from PINK FLOYD, MARILLION, STEVEN WILSON, and ELP.

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4.14 | 25 ratings
Laplacian
2025

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The First Wave
2022

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Laplacian
Fluctus Quadratum Symphonic Prog

Review by BrufordFreak
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4 stars Melodic and proficient synth-oriented NeoProg from England. The music on Laplacian is pretty good, it's just that it's a little too obvious that Jopheus' studio album music is predominantly controlled, programmed, and issued from a computer keyboard. This can be done well but not while using the kind of "dated" (1990s) sounds that Jopheus chooses (including/especially "bass", "piano", and "guitars"). The second "problem" I have with the music on this album is that it's very run-of-the-mill, stereotypic NeoProg, which, as I've been stating repeatedly over the past couple of years, feels as if it has been mined to death: it's as if we're now working on anything we can extract through the intensive extractive processes of shale oil mining, fracking, or even capturing fumes. Can music progress no more? Are we done? Condemned to work only from the combinations and permutations of existing sounds, instruments, and styles? Curtis Adamczyk's vocals are weak and poorly rendered in the engineering department (sounding just like they do in their live concert performance videos). Qualitatively this is really a three to 3.5 star album but the Burtonshaw brothers manage to eek out some exceptionally-engaging (and well-constructed) music (including the excellent epic "Where the Lack of Logic Lies") despite the equipment insufficiencies.
Thanks to rdtprog for the artist addition. and to NotAProghead for the last updates

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