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“The album didn’t have to tell a story! It’s not based on anything, so you can say whatever you want. I felt freer in my creativity, which was awesome.”
Six months after the release of The Absolute Universe, the fifth studio album by Neal Morse and Mike Portnoy’s supergroup Transatlantic, a fourth Neal Morse Band studio album, Innocence & Danger, has landed. Even by the key protagonists’ prolific standards, it’s a rapid turnaround, particularly as it’s another double album running to 100 minutes, continuing the sequence set by 2016’s The Similitude Of A Dream and 2019’s The Great Adventure.
More surprising is that – by design rather than accident – Morse entered the album sessions in January 2021 with little material written. “That was intentional because I brought a lot for the last two Neal Morse Band albums,” he explains via Zoom from his studio in Tennessee.
“But I should let everyone know I’m not slacking!” he adds hastily, revealing that once the album sessions were underway he wrote
