ALBUM REVIEW: The Utopia Strong – Doperider

Rocket Recordings
Released: 10.10.25

The third and definitely most far-out out there long player from The Utopia Strong, the experimental, psychedelic, prog, ambient, electronica threepiece featuring a former snooker world champion, champion bagpipes maker and a living, thriving musical Gong. Named after a comic book skeleton bike rider. Close your eyes and this album races you across the endless deserts on an epic quest bestriding a Harley Davison bike without even leaving your comfortable sitting room chair.

There is intensity, there is building towards epic crescendos. We are almost blinded by the sensory overload of Unity of Light. There is a Prophecy and foreboding. There are mystical horns that might as easily be sounding from somewhere across Dune as the sand dunes of an eastern oasis. Two modular synths and an analogue synth set the sonic scenes, with over painting from celestial guitars and an occasional stunning highlighter penned female vocal.

Settle back and drop out with Doperider.