Tomasz Bieroń and his son Filip are working together as Transgalactica. Their 2023 debut album, “Better Angels”, takes the hard rock and progressive rock sounds they love and uses them as a vehicle for ideas that matter to them. By stripping away the rhythm section, they’ve made room for deeper harmonic exploration and more complex arrangements.
“Between father and son and between thought and sound, a manifesto takes shape.”
“Liberal Anthem” doesn’t mess around with subtlety. The song moves through different sections, and some listeners have picked up on similarities to Marillion’s theatrical style before landing on a shift from darker minor keys to brighter major ones. The arrangement borrows loosely from The Velvet Underground’s “All Tomorrow’s Parties,” but takes it somewhere completely different.
Bieroń is directly invoking thinkers like John Stuart Mill, Steven Pinker, and Adam Smith, arguing for a worldview built on rationality and human rights. The second half pivots from criticism to hope, imagining what society could look like if these principles actually guided us. Transgalactica is betting that listeners are hungry for rock music with intellectual weight, and they might be right.
This is music with conviction, made by a father and son who believe rock can still be a platform for serious ideas. Give “Liberal Anthem” a listen. It might challenge you, it might inspire you, but it definitely won’t bore you.
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