Welcome to Prog‘s model new Tracks Of The Week. Six model new and various slices of progressively inclined music so that you can take pleasure in.
An enormous ‘effectively accomplished’ to French progressive rock quintet Oddleaf whose Ethereal Melodies stormed to victory final week. Much more spectacular when you think about the band have simply launched their debut studio album The place Preferrred And Denial Collide. Chicago instrumental proggers Outrun The Daylight had been in second place with UK darkish proggers Crippled Black Phoneix in third place.
The premise for Tracks Of The Week is straightforward – we have collated a batch of recent releases by bands falling below 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 assorted particular person posts, would not it?
The concept is to observe the movies (or pay attention if it is a stream), take pleasure in (or not) and likewise to vote to your favorite within the voting kind on the backside of this put up. Could not be simpler might 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 take pleasure in.
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TIBERIUS – TIP OF THE SPEAR
Younger Scottish prog steel quintet Tiberius are again with an actual rip-snorter of a single in Tip Of The Spear. The band’s brand-new single comes forward of their second album, Singing For Firm, which the band will launch on March 21. With its roots in prog steel, Tip Of The Spear reveals a mature style fluidity too – is that echoes of Steven Wilson we hear within the breakdown? – with some actual powerhouse vocals from Grant Barclay and fizzing guitar work from Jahan Tabrizi and Chris Foster. Count on massive issues!
“We’re so desirous to share with you the evolution of our sound, which comes with the identical snarky lyrical content material and genre-bending motifs followers have come to anticipate,” the band enthuse.
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NINE STONES CLOSE – HOLE
Worldwide progressive rock band 9 Stones Shut, with members from the UK, Eire, Switzerland, and the Netherlands, have simply launched their newest album, Adventures In Anhedoni, from which comes the reflective Gap. Amazingly it is the band’s second album launch of the 12 months – they dropped Diurnal again in June. Adventures In Anhedonia is a deeply private album, lyrically reflecting on the psychological well being and well-being of people, based mostly on the non-public experiences and traumas of guitarist Adrian Jones.
“It actually displays what’s been taking place to me over the previous years, the impact it’s had on me, and the way I’ve tried to cope with a few of it,” explains Jones.
COULD SEED – VENTS SOLAIRES
French progressive rock quartet Might Seed present their adeptness, shifting right into a post-rock vibe for his or her new single Vents Solaires, which is taken from their not too long ago launched album The Drop Disaster, out now by means of Klonosphere Information/Season Of Mist. The band draw inspiration from US proggers Elder and US post-rockers Caspian, whereas there are additionally shades of Icelandic heroes Sigur Rós of their shifting sound too.
“Amongst all of the cathartic burns and unhappy, tragic albums of post-rock, Might Seed takes the aspect of bringing a glimmer of hope and happiness into the storms of life,” they are saying. “Vent Solaires is simply such a picture, the clip retracing the sum of lovely recollections of a fulfilled and worthwhile life at demise’s door. A couple of minutes to disclaim, to concern, and at last to know that it’s time to serenely transfer on to a different stage of the journey.”
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KROKOFANT – HARRY DAVIDSON
The jaunty and upbeat Harry Davidson is the primary new music to be taken from Norwegian Jazz Rockers Krokofant’s upcoming album 6. And sure, as you guessed it, it’s the trio’s sixth album and shall be launched by means of Is It Jazz? Information on the January 10. The affect of each Comfortable Machine and King Crimson continues to be sturdy within the band’s music, and in the event you had been questioning concerning the selection of title, sure, it is taken from a legendary creature featured in a preferred Norwegian youngsters’s music – a cross between an elephant and a crocodile, “a lumbering trumpeting beast with a fearsome array of enamel in its snapping jaws…”
“Harry was composed some years in the past, and has been sneaking into our repertoire each time we carried out stay as a trio, which was through the interval once we largely carried out as a quintet with Ståle Storløkken on keys and Ingebrigt Håker Flaten on bass,” explains the band’s Tom Hasslan. “With its heavy riffs and a catchy sax melody on prime “Harry” comes off like a basic Krokofant tune with all of the traits from our earlier releases as a trio. It drives right into a shreddy/quasi skronki guitar solo, complemented by a deep synth bass and inventive groove-based drums.”
DANEFAE – FUGLEKONGEN
Danish prog steel quartet Danefae sound at their most beguiling on new single Fuglekongen, constructed, as it’s, on the haunting melody from Saint-Säens Danse Macabre. The brand new single is taken from the band’s upcoming second album Trøst (Danish for ‘Solace’), which shall be launched on January 31.
Trøst doesn’t convey a common thematic thread however comprises numerous tales about being human, particularly from vocalist and lyricist Anne Olesen’s private perspective.
“Fuglekongen is a theft,” laughs Olesen. “I stole one of many themes from the classical piece Danse Macabre by Saint-Säens. The magical interweave of demise and life gave me the inspiration to write down like a conspiracy theorist: Concerning the little Goldcrest as an emblem for our actions being ruled by the rest than our free will.”
LAWRENCE ENGLISH – EVEN THE HORIZON KNOWS ITS BOUNDS
Artist, composer and curator Lawrence English is perhaps an unknown amount to some, however we’re fairly certain quite a lot of of you may be taken with the light atmospheric sound of Even The Horizon Is aware of Its Bounds with its echoes of Tangerine Dream or Klaus Schulze at their most minimalist and pastoral. “I prefer to suppose that sound haunts structure,” says the Australian-based English, who releases his new album of the identical title on January 31, through his personal label Room 40 – celebrating 25 years in 2025.
“Place is an evolving, subjective expertise of house,” provides English. “Areas maintain the chance for place, which we create second to second, formed by our methods of sense-making. While the architectural and materials options of house would possibly stay considerably fixed, the folks, objects, atmospheres, and encounters that fill them are without end collapsing into reminiscence.”
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