Music critics have often poured scorn on progressive rock for being boring, pompous and pretentious.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
This is progressive rock at its most puritanical.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
Are we in the thick of a progressive rock revival without realising it?
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
There was garage band rawness and progressive rock complexity, but without the brutality of the former or the self-indulgence of the latter.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)