There’s sluggish, there’s long winded, there’s slow, there’s languid and unhurried. Then there’s the speed at which Pallas seem to operate, which can best be described as glacial.
Prog’s correspondent has just taken his life into his hands by voicing this theory to the veteran Scottish neo-proggers. Fortunately, they erupt with laughter before addressing the truth behind our statement.
“We take a long time to do anything,” says a smiling Ronnie Brown, “and then quite often we’ll go back and do them all over again. I don’t think we will ever do anything quickly. We’ve turned messing around and going down alleys into an art form.”
“No, we’re not the fastest-moving group of individuals,” Alan Reed says, nodding in agreement. “But having said that, cutting the tracks was done quite quickly. Once I rejoined, that kick-started things a little.”
“By our standards this album has been quite quick,” Graeme Murray continues. “Five years. For us that’s lightning speed.”
“The bottom line is that with Pallas, things take as long as they take,” says Brown. “If we’d
