PURE REASON REVOLUTION

Art-rockers set their sights high on second post-comeback album.

takes its title from a random conversation between Pure Reason Revolution singer/guitarist/keyboardist and linchpin Jon Courtney and guitarist Greg Jong, who has now returned to the fold for the first time as a full-time EP. Observing the clouds above them during a session break for the album, Jong remarked that the highest of those in the sky were called ‘cirrus’ and that nothing was beyond them. But surely there is more? What of the Latin phrase ‘per aspera ad astra’, which translates as ‘through hardships to the stars’? Now, that’s an apt concept, surely? And not least because the feeling that Pure Reason Revolution are stretching beyond Earthbound concerns is hard to deny.