Welcome to Prog‘s logo new Tracks Of The Week. Seven logo new and numerous slices of innovative song so that you can experience.
Congratulations to Chicago instrumental prog quartet Outrun The Daylight, whose first new song for 3 years, Animal, received remaining week’s Tracks Of The Week. Fellow US proggers The Twenty Committee got here a good 2d and London-based Lowen got here 3rd.
The idea for Tracks Of The Week is unassuming – we have now collated a batch of latest releases through bands falling beneath the innovative umbrella, and collated them in combination in a single publish for you – makes it such a lot more uncomplicated than having to dip out and in of quite a lot of person posts, does not it?
The idea for Tracks Of The Week is unassuming – we have now collated a batch of latest releases through bands falling beneath the innovative umbrella, and collated them in combination in a single publish for you – makes it such a lot more uncomplicated than having to dip out and in of quite a lot of person posts, does not it?
The speculation is to look at the movies (or concentrate if it is a circulation), experience (or now not) and likewise to vote on your favorite within the balloting shape on the backside of this publish. Could not be more uncomplicated may it?
We will be bringing you Tracks Of The Week, because the identify implies, every week. Subsequent week we’re going to replace you with this week’s winner, and provide a number of latest prog song so that you can experience.
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RICHARD HENSHALL – YANG
Haken guitarist Richard Henshall releases his logo new EP, Mu Vol.1, on June 7 from which comes new song Yang. The four-track EP is the primary in a trilogy of deliberate EPs from the guitarist which explores his love for jazz-infused, intricate instrumental song. Hensall is joined at the new EP through drummer Lang Zhao and saxophonist Adam Carillio, whilst Henshall himself plays guitar, bass and keyboards.
“I road-tested an early iteration of Yang at a Strandberg health center I did with Plini a few years in the past. For me, it’s the rhythm that drives this song alongside, which is a theme that reoccurs all through all 3 EPs. I determined to call this song after my cat Yang as he kicked the bucket when I used to be writing it. He would frequently perch himself on my shoulder throughout writing classes and nod his approval once I hit a just right chord so it appeared becoming!”
RELIQA – DYING LIGHT
Dynamic Australian prog metallers Reliqa lately introduced they would signed with the Nuclear Blast label for whom they’re going to free up their upcoming debut album, Secrets Of The Long run on Might 31. Like many younger bands who toy with innovative song there is different influences that may be heard of their sound, together with slabs of metalcore and prog-adjacent djent too, in addition to, so far as new unmarried Demise Mild is going, a effective ear for a melody.
“Demise Mild is your remaining style of the album earlier than we move complete ship on Might 31,” explains singer Monique Pym. “This one is all concerning the angle – it has got a degree of sass and femininity that we’ve not explored earlier than, with a filthy, riffy groove to stay it grounded. I believe this music truly completes the image along Terminal and Killstar for what number of various types of sounds we have now controlled to pack into the file.”
RENDEZVOUS POINT – UTOPIA
Earlier Tracks Of The Week winners Norway’s Rendezvous Level will free up their 3rd album Dream Chaser thru Lengthy Department Data on June 21, from which comes new unmarried Dystopia. Led through Leprous drummer Baard Kolstad the band additionally function keyboardist Nicolay Tangen Svennæs (Ihsahn, Bernhoft, Emilie Nicolas), singer Geirmund Hansen, guitarist Petter Hallaråker and bass participant Gunn-Hilde Erstad, launched their 2d album, Common Chaos again in 2019,
“As a kid you frequently seek for beliefs and any person to appear as much as,” explains singer Hansen. “Very frequently, you’ll be able to to find the ones beliefs in shut circle of relatives family members, they usually turn out to be your information. Later in lifestyles there’s a snapping point the place you should to find your individual trail and that every so often may end up in a missing feeling of belonging and you find yourself in the midst of two other spheres, Dystopia.”
GRICE – KARL
Artwork rocker Grice can pay homage to the past due International Birthday celebration frontman, Karl Wallinger, in his new unmarried, merely titled Karl. The gorgeous piece of song echoes Wallinger’s personal International Birthday celebration sound whilst ultimate respectful and touching. It is taken from Grice’s upcoming new album, Mordant Lake, which he’s going to free up thru hungersleep information on June 28.
“This music used to be born in Swanston Area throughout Typhoon Karl within the inner most darkest center of The Shire and is devoted to the all-inspiring enigma this is Karl Wallinger,” Grice says. “Karl Wallinger has been and is a real inspiration to me, now not just for his glorious poetry and song-writing excellence but in addition for his skill to write down, produce, file the songs and free up the albums himself … he used to be the band, when the band weren’t to be had. Anyplace you will be …‘out measuring the celebrities’… I salute you.”
SHUMAUN – SOME MEMORIES
US prog trio Shumaun mix innovative musical tendencies with arena-sized choruses on tough new music Some Recollections. It is taken from the band’s fourth album, Opposing Mirrors, which the band will free up on the finish of June Core line-up of Farhad Hossain (vocals, guitars, keyboards), Jose Mora (bass) and Tyler Kim (guitars) are joined at the new file through such drumming ability as Marco Minneman and Thomas Lang.
“The guitars seamlessly transition between high and low tones, heavy and light-weight textures, gradual and rapid tempos, and chords and notes, including intensity to the composition,” says guitarist Tyler Kim. “There may be fantastic drumming all through the music through Marco Minnemann. The bass serves as an embellishment, improving the full musical panorama. The vocals and synths are intricately layered atop the instrumentation to provide the music its quite a lot of shapes and colours.”
EVERGREY – SAY
Prolific Swedish prog steel heavyweights Evergrey will free up their newest album, Theories Of Vacancy, thru Napalm Data on June 7. The brand new album includes a visitor look from Katatonia singer Jonas Renkse, used to be produced through Tom S. Englund and Jonas Ekdahl, and used to be blended through former Outer edge bassist and prog manufacturer du jour, Adam “Nolly” Getgood with mastering helmed through Thomas “Plec” Johansson (Soilwork, The Evening Flight Orchestra).
“Say is a kind of songs that in an instant after we wrote the refrain we knew that it could be an important unmarried,” the band exclaim. “It is going to merely kill are living and is an excessively worthy follow-up to the good fortune of Falling From The Solar. In regards to the finish of the video there’ll after all be questions, numerous questions, we’ve the solutions.”
CIRCULINE – ALL
Having made over their line-up, which now options British musicians Dave Bainbrdge on guitar (Lifesigns and Iona) and Kyros keyboard participant and singer Shelby Logan Warne on bass, US prog rockers Circuline are embroiled in a year-long a Digital Excursion that is composed of 57 occasions in 48 weeks, with unmarried releases, lyric movies, legit movies, ‘In the back of the Scenes’ movies and Livestream Q&A occasions the place the band is in a position to connect to their lovers world wide. They free up new album C.O.R.E. thru Internal Nova Tune on September 20.
“This is likely one of the extra “innovative” songs at the file, so it used to be truly great to have the workforce doing close-ups throughout the prolonged instrumental segment of the music,” says keyboard participant and vocalist Andrew Colyer. “After we shot this video, we have been taking part in to the tough mixture of the music, and Dave used to be in truth improvising a few of his guitar portions, that have been now not totally flushed out for the file.”
