MARTIN GRECH

Best known for the haunting Open Heart Zoo, a song he wrote when he was 15 and which was later used to flog expensive cars, alt-prog icon Martin Grech has re-emerged with a new studio album. His fourth full-length, Hush Mortal Core, has appeared from nowhere, after 13 years of relative silence, and confirms that the inscrutable singer-songwriter has lost none of his idiosyncratic verve or knack for writing wildly emotional and adventurous music. Prog spoke with the elusive ingenue about the new record, his status as a modern prog artist and what it’s like to be a certified enigma.

Thirteen years