Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Unless humanity finds a way to take the Sun apart, to destroy it on the basis that they can, there will always be a New Day Rising somewhere in the Solar System; it’s almost as inevitable as the Von Hertzen Brothers producing yet another album of tremendous quality.
Rapidly rising progressive hard rock five piece Touchstone was formed in 2003 by keyboard player Rob Cottingham and guitarist Adam J Hodgson. However it was the band’s second album Wintercoast that really put Touchstone on the map in 2009, with Oscar-winning actor Jeremy Irons featuring as a very special guest performing the prelude narration. The album was voted 4th best album of 2009 by PROG Magazine readers and by Classic Rock Magazine’s Geoff Barton in the Critics’ Choice.