Welcome to Prog‘s model new Tracks Of The Week. Six model new and numerous slices of progressively inclined music so that you can get pleasure from.
Props to Icelandic quintet Múr, whose intriguing ten-minute plus of Holskefla received a detailed run contest final week, pipping Chilean prog steel band Crisálida on the final and with Australian prog rockers Teramaze coming in third.
The premise for Tracks Of The Week is easy – we have collated a batch of recent releases by bands falling underneath the progressive umbrella, and collated them collectively in a single put up for you – makes it a lot simpler than having to dip out and in of varied particular person posts, does not it?
The thought is to look at the movies (or pay attention if it is a stream), get pleasure from (or not) and likewise to vote to your favorite within the voting kind on the backside of this put up. Could not be simpler may it?
We’ll be bringing you Tracks Of The Week, because the title implies, every week. Subsequent week we’ll replace you with this week’s winner, and current a bunch of recent prog music so that you can get pleasure from.
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KLONE – AFTER THE SUN
French prog rock quintet Klone get all introspective with their newest single, After The Solar, taken from the quintet’s acclaimed The Unseen album, which they’ve simply launched for brand new label Pelagic Data, and on which vocalist Yan Ligner’s impressively mournful vocals actually shine. The video, Directed by Julien Metternich and starring actor and mannequin Tifaine Boudinot, the video is a cinematic retelling of the monitor’s central themes of affection, loss and reminiscence.
“After The Solar dares to be minimal, and that’s its energy,” explains guitarist Guillaume Bernard. All the pieces comes collectively at simply the precise second to talk of our fleeting place on the earth and our relationship with the passing of time.”
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DIM GRAY – PERIL
Peril is the primary style of Shards, the upcoming album from Norwegian prog rockers Dim Grey, and their first since keyboard participant and vocalist Oskar Holldorff joined Massive Massive Prepare. He is again right here in nice kind on Peril, a daring and uplifting slice of prog-infused pop rock, which bodes properly for the brand new album, which will likely be launched via Grim Day Data on February 28.
“This track has an extended, lengthy historical past of rewrites and sketches,” explains guitraist and vocalist Håkon Høiberg. “We’re very blissful that it has lastly reached the end line, and we’re excited to point out a extra direct and upbeat facet from Dim Grey! The guitar half has all the time been a key aspect, however I have to admit that it began as a mandolin track and even a piano track earlier than slowly retreating again to the guitar once more. ‘Peril’ is about breaking norms, and generally a little bit of naivety is a vital recipe for succeeding in that journey.”
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WHIMSICAL CREATURE – THE STARGAZER
The Stargazer is a pleasant introduction to Whimsical Creature, a brand new acoustic-led dup that includes I Am The Manic Whale’s Michael Whiteman and Ella Lloyd, who has offered flute on each Manic Whale launch up to now. Lloyd lends her voice, flute and autoharp abilities to The Stargazer, whereas Whiteman additionally sings and performs drums, bass, piano, 12-string acoustic guitars, and classical guitar. Count on an album from the pair in 2025!
“I wished to jot down some items with a extra acoustic sound,” explains Whiteman. “This band will likely be based across the acoustic guitar and piano, with a extra stripped-back really feel than a lot of the opposite music I’ve been concerned with. You received’t hear any mellotrons, Hammond organs or electrical guitars in Whimsical Creature!”
“I’ve been delighted to play my flute on each I Am The Manic Whale launch, so I used to be very eager to be concerned in Whimsical Creature,” provides Lloyd. “The autoharp has been in my household for generations and once I talked about it to Michael he was very excited to make use of it in our music.”
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THE HYPOTHESIS – WHERE THE DREAMS COME TO DIE
Finnish prog steel quartet The Speculation who at one time featured present Opeth drummer Waltteri Väyrynen inside their ranks. The band launched their newest album, Evolve, via Nobe Demon Data earlier this yr. The place The Desires Come To Die, while having a metallic crunch, reveals that The Speculation have extra to supply listeners than the prog steel tag suggests.
“The track depicts an individual trapped in a cycle of wasted time and unfulfilled desires, watching life move by whereas claiming to be nice,” the band state. “They categorical a longing to interrupt free from this stagnation, to actually stay and seize the current second, but they continue to be in a spot the place desires die, ready for one thing or somebody to awaken them”
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SOMEWHERE – GOMORRAH NEVER KNOWS
Swedish prog outfit Someplace had been shaped by singer John Thelin and guitarist Fredrik Cerha who each bonded over a love of 70s prog, particularly Sure and Genesis. They’re joined by Paul Näsström (drums, backup vocals), Johan Nyberg (bass) and Fredrik Lundberg (keyboards). Their new single, the 11-minute and 24-second Gomorrah By no means Is aware of, from their upcoming album, is loosely based mostly on the legendary author Jack Kerouac’s experiences with the beatnik and hippy counterculture actions.
“What occurs when an artist lets go of their creation and releases it to the skin world,” the band ask. “A author delivers his story of a journey via a world in disarray for launch after which goes into an extended interval of isolation from the world. Years later, upon his return to civilization, he finds himself a hero, admired and adored as an writer not solely by his friends but in addition by his protagonists – the “unwashed and gray”.”
GERD WEYHING – INFERNO DEL SERVIZIO
Gerd Weyhing is a German guitarist and part-time vocalist who lives and works in a small quiet village within the Palatinate Forest, and who final options in Tracks Of The Week final July. Gerd is again with this ten-minute slice of what he refers to as “Seventies Italian prog from Germany.”
“I’ve created this monitor, together with 10 different songs, with the assistance of Synthetic Intelligence,” he admits, though he has made albums with standard devices too. “I attempted it (I strive all the things), and the standard was simply mindblowing. So I made an album. Sadly, AI is a controversial matter in the mean time, perhaps it’s a very powerful music matter. The difficult half is to let individuals hear this music with out prejudice, in any other case lots of people simply say “oh no, robotic music, I do not need to hear that”. I hope you aren’t against this thrilling new manner of making music.”
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