Welcome to Prog‘s emblem new Tracks Of The Week. Six emblem new and various slices of modern song so that you can experience.
Congratulations to former Delain vocalist Charlotte Wessels, whose Chasing Sunsets, the second one unmarried to be taken from the impending 3rd solo album The Obsession, gained ultimate week’s Tracks Of The Week! Norwegian pop proggers Rendezvous Level had been 2nd with Presence and the new unmarried from Oceans Of Shut eye, Poem Of Ecstacy, used to be 3rd.
The idea for Tracks Of The Week is unassuming – we have now collated a batch of recent releases by means of bands falling beneath the modern umbrella, and collated them in combination in a single put up for you – makes it such a lot more straightforward than having to dip out and in of more than a few person posts, does not it?
The idea for Tracks Of The Week is unassuming – we have now collated a batch of recent releases by means of bands falling beneath the modern umbrella, and collated them in combination in a single put up for you – makes it such a lot more straightforward than having to dip out and in of more than a few person posts, does not it?
The theory is to look at the movies (or pay attention if it is a circulate), experience (or no longer) and in addition to vote to your favorite within the vote casting shape on the backside of this put up. Could not be more straightforward may it?
We’re going to be bringing you Tracks Of The Week, because the identify implies, each and every week. Subsequent week we will replace you with this week’s winner, and provide a number of recent prog song so that you can experience.
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ALCEST – AMTHEYSTE
French atmospheric darkgaze duo Alcest have simply launched their emblem new album Les Chants De L’Aurore thru Nuclear Blast Information. It is the pair’s 7th report and their first for 4 years, and to rejoice, Neige and drummer Winterhalter have shared a novel ‘artwork observe’ video for Améthyste, a chimingly colourful melodic track in line with the melodious really feel of the entire album.
“Nowadays marks the discharge of our 7th album, Les Chants de l’Aurore,” the pair exclaim. “We’re so satisfied to percentage with you the songs we’ve been running on all over the previous 4 years. It used to be a difficult album to make however we’re in reality happy with the end result and we are hoping you are going to adore it up to we do. Thanks such a lot to your permanent toughen, it way the whole lot to us. A lot love.”
KALANDRA – ARE YOU READY
On the proggier finish of the Nordic people spectrum, as one would possibly be expecting of a band signed to the superb ByNorse label, Kalandra are 4 Norwegian/Swedish musicians; Jogeir Daae Mæland, Katrine Stenbekk, Florian Döderlein Iciness and Oskar Johnsen Rydh who launched their debut album The Line in 2020. Their newest album, A Body Of Thoughts, will probably be launched during the label on September 13, from which comes the band’s new unmarried Are You Able.
“We frustratingly thrive on pushing our ingenious limitations, and midway thru crafting this track, we came upon its narrative high quality, virtually like a script, with its association additionally being playfully severe in some way, including layers of intensity to the composition,” the band give an explanation for. “Growing this piece used to be a releasing enjoy, providing us a much-needed free up after spending lengthy iciness months locked away in our studio. We are excited to percentage it with you, anyplace and on the other hand you come upon it.”
HATS OFF GENTLEMEN IT’S ADEQUATE – COPENHAGEN
UK prog duo Hats Off Gents It is Ok have now shared a video for his or her fresh unmarried, Copenhagen, which can function at the band’s upcoming 8th studio album The Uncertainty Idea due for free up later this yr, and has been impressed by means of the assembly between quantum physicist Niels Bohr and his buddy and previous scholar Werner Heisenberg in September 1941 in Copenhagen.
“The content material of this dialog used to be disputed,” explains Malcolm Galloway of the guidelines at the back of the brand new track. “Heisenberg used to be a German scientist main the Nazi state’s atomic analysis programme. Bohr used to be a Danish scientist of Jewish heritage in an occupied nation. There’s no surviving documentation from the time in regards to the content material of the assembly. In 1956 Heisenberg wrote a letter to a journalist claiming that he meant to speak about ethical considerations about nuclear guns. Bohr denied this and claimed that Heisenberg used to be satisfied to paintings at the atomic bomb for Germany.
“Was once Heisenberg seeking to get Bohr’s help make an atomic weapon? Or used to be he in quest of ethical recommendation? Or absolution? Or seeking to get data to the Allies? Did he even know himself what he used to be making an attempt to reach? Complicating that is the possibility that both or each males can have been beneath surveillance, and can have been conscious about this.”
NICK MAGNUS – BLOOD MONEY
Former Steve Hackett keyboard participant Nick Magnus will free up his newest prog album, A Bizarre Inheritance, thru Magick Nuns on September 16. Blood Cash is the primary unmarried taken from the brand new report, which options contributions from Hackett, famous prog multi-instrumentalist Tony Patterson, Unitopia guitarist John Greenwood, musician Andy Neve and singers Louise Younger and Ginger Bennett.
A Bizarre Inheritance “takes us on a cinematic voyage,” Magnus finds. “A swashbuckling story of affection, loss and revenge. An surprising bequest finds the tale of a tender lady whose out of place love condemns her to the awful streets of 18th-century London. She is deported, travelling around the prime seas to the New Global the place imperialism and injustice rule, and an island paradise that’s not what it sort of feels.”
LESOIR – WHAT DO YOUN WANT FROM ME?
Dutch prog quintet Lesoir will free up their upcoming 6th studio album Push Again The Horizon thru V2 Information, to whom the band just lately signed, on September 20. The claustrophobic What Do You Need From Me? is the band’s 3rd unmarried from the impending report, and with its similarly disquieting video, courtesy of Crystal Highlight, identified for his or her paintings with Steven Wilson, showcases a darker aspect to the band’s output.
“In an increasingly more hardened political and social local weather, a central authority is increasingly more diametrically adversarial to its voters,” the band state of the brand new unmarried. “From that point of view, discontent predominates, and that feeling is strengthened when poverty grows and social securities decline. ‘What do you need from me?’ is ready emotions of powerlessness and injustice, which sadly an increasing number of other folks relate to.”
NINE STONES CLOSE – GHOSTED
Durch prog rockers 9 Stones Shut do not do issues by means of halves. Diurnal, the album from which comes the band’s new unmarried Ghosted, is one in every of two albums the sextet are freeing this yr, the opposite being the deeply non-public Adventures In Anhedonia. Diurnal is launched on July 24, with Adventures… following later within the yr.
“The album displays the arc of an afternoon and the interior dilemmas confronted by means of people,” the band say of Diurnal. “It takes listeners from the hopeful daybreak of a brand new day during the highs and lows of day-to-day occasions, culminating in moments of mirrored image because the solar units. With tracks like the gorgeous lead unmarried Ghosted, the robust Angel Of Flies and the epic Frustration/Sedation, Diurnal guarantees an emotional adventure during the band’s wealthy musical panorama.”
