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Prog Magazine Limelight featured artists Hats Off Gentlemen It's Adequate's 6th album, The Confidence Trick.

This album is a collection of songs around an overall theme of cognitive errors, particularly overconfidence, and our repeated failure to learn from history. One of the longest tracks on the album is an instrumental inspired by Malcolm’s great-grandmother's experiences of being hunted by the Nazis, and protected by some of the kindest people that our species is capable of producing. The language that was used to dehumanise populations before the Second World War is still used to dehumanise people today. We keep saying never again, and we keep making the same mistakes.

The album is broadly within the genre of progressive rock, but includes elements of alt-rock, contemporary classical music, minimalism, and electronic music.

Cover art copyright Malcolm Galloway. Booklet art copyright Malcolm Galloway and Mark Gatland.
Music copyright Glass Castle Recordings / Malcolm Galloway / Hats Off Gentlemen It's Adequate 2022.

Featured in the 2022 albums of the year selections of -
A Saucer-full of Prog
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Live From Progzilla Towers
Prog Explorations Plus
The Prog Mill
The Prog Doctor
Progressive Rock Central
Steve Beastie's Heavenly Homes
Velvet Thunder
Progradar
Progwereld
Program.COM top 20
ProgFreak
Prog Magazine (Russell Fairbrother)


"... an album of perfection... This is an amazing album. It is not fair to compare this to music of the past, but I have to compare this to a Genesis, Lamb Lies Down on Broadway moment, for this band. Between their last album, Nostalgia for Infinity and now, The Confidence Trick; this band is setting themselves apart from their peers in the UK. This music really is full of intelligent stories and songs that challenge you to think and hopefully change your ways. Like Genesis, which made my generation consider many deep concepts while we were at the same time fully entertained.

Please get this next chapter in the history of Hats Off Gentlemen. It is quite an adventure for the mind and ears" - Progressive Rock Central

"Absolutely superb - they’ve done it again. Absolutely phenomenal." The Lost Art - MMH Radio

London based Hats Off Gentlemen It's Adequate are Malcolm Galloway and Mark Gatland on their own or with Kathryn Thomas.

They combine prog/alt-rock, classical, minimalist, and electronic elements. They often explore scientific, sci-fi, and historical themes.

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