Welcome to Prog‘s logo new Tracks Of The Week. 8 logo new and various slices of innovative tune so that you can revel in.
However first, a hearty smartly completed to US prog trio Shumaun, whose mixture of vintage prog and melodic rock on Some Reminiscences romped house final week, adopted by means of Norwegian prog rockers Rendezvous Level and with fellow US proggers Circuline in 3rd position.
The basis for Tracks Of The Week is modest – we’ve got collated a batch of recent releases by means of bands falling underneath 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 more than a few person posts, does not it?
The basis for Tracks Of The Week is modest – we’ve got collated a batch of recent releases by means of bands falling underneath 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 more than a few person posts, does not it?
The theory is to observe the movies (or concentrate if it is a circulate), revel in (or now not) and likewise to vote on your favorite within the vote casting shape on the backside of this publish. Could not be more uncomplicated may just it?
We will be bringing you Tracks Of The Week, because the name implies, every week. Subsequent week we’re going to replace you with this week’s winner, and provide a number of recent prog tune so that you can revel in.
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IZZ – THERE’S HOPE
US prog rockers IZZ, fronted by means of US vocalist Laura Meade, go back with their first new tune for 4 years after they free up their logo new album Cave in The Wave on June 11. It is preceded by means of quirky new unmarried There is Hope, which boasts a thought-provoking new animated video, which ties in with the album’s subject matters: a deep exploration of existential subject matters, such because the “dying of the ego,” the relinquishing of “self,” and the speculation of parallel realities.
IZZ co-founder and bassist John Galgano described Cave in The Wave as “a sonic exploration of the self and the universe. We attempted to weave in combination every of our musical influences with philosophical, non secular, and medical concepts to create an album that explores each private and common subject matters.”
THE DECEMBERISTS – OH NO!
US quintet The Decemberists have lengthy appealed to prog lovers with albums equivalent to 2006’s The Crane Spouse and 2009’s surprising The Hazards Of Love blending baroque pop, Americana and people with simple proggier characteristics. New album As It Ever Used to be, So It Will Be Once more used to be heralded with the none-more-prog 19-minute lengthy Joan In The Lawn, however for his or her new track Oh No! the band remind us of simply how rattling catchy they are able to be. It is actual impossible to resist earworm! This reside efficiency used to be recorded on the Hallowed Halls in Portland, Oregon.
“Oh No! is such a track that simply tumbles out of you,” explains lead singer Colin Meloy. “It began with the primary line — “It used to be on a marriage night time / How they danced by means of the firelight” — and flowed from there. In my thoughts, the narrator of the track is channelling the 2 brothers from Emir Kusturica’s immortal movie, Underground. This track is ready inflicting havoc, inflicting chaos, its narrator perpetually adopted by means of a fair higher type of chaos, a really perfect darkness. But it surely’s a darkness you’ll be able to dance to!”
MONO – RUN ON
Eastern post-rockers MONO’s epic new unmarried, the nine-minute lengthy Run On will have to function an excellent creation to prog lovers who have now not afflicted to test the band’s richly atmospheric tune out prior to. The observe is taken from the band’s upcoming album Oath which is launched thru Brief Place of dwelling Ltd., Pelagic Data and New Noise on June 14. The accompanying video options 6,000 meticulously painted frames from Dalian-based artist, Jiang Kun, combining Japanese ink and Western oil portray ways.
“Humanity’s want for evolution won’t ever forestall, even supposing the will to make society extra handy and wealthy is excellent. The arena is turning into worse and worse as a result of it is constructed on individuals who desperately need to earn more money thru industry and concessions, and wish to acquire an higher hand. Extra humanly, merely put, there may be not anything in point of fact extra essential than respecting, serving to and loving every different.
“As a substitute of that specialize in a aggressive society the place other folks examine themselves to others, I believe it is good enough for everybody to stick true to themselves and reside their very own lives as a result of everyone seems to be born with a singular character. Someday, when our souls go away our our bodies and pass to heaven, what we can take with us isn’t cash, vehicles, properties or possessions however somewhat, what shall we give to others and pleasure in how shall we reside our lives.
“Simply final week, we misplaced one among our dearest buddies, Steve Albini, with whom we had the excitement of creating albums with for 22 years. We do not even know the rest about the next day. We realised once more how essential it’s to proceed pursuing our goals in our personal approach on a daily basis, with out being distracted by means of the ones round us.”
WORRIEDABOUTSATAN – MORE MEAT FOR THE GRINDER
Gavin Miller, hitherto referred to as UK electronica/post-rocker worriedaboutsatan, returns with a brand spanking new ten-minute slice of kosmiche, Krautrocky electronica within the hypnotically catchy Extra Meat For The Grinder. It is from but every other new album from the prolific artist, this time a double affair entitled If No longer Now, When, which is to be had lately from worriedaboutsatan’s Bandcamp web page. And lately is his birthday too, so Satisfied Birthday Gavin!!
“When I had some amusing experimenting with krautrock stuff on my final album, I assumed I may as smartly stay that thread going, says Miller. “So while I used to be running on one thing that used to be moderately digital, I assumed ‘yeah, pass on then’ and gave it an enormous krautrock 2d part, which I assumed got here out in reality properly. Used to be channelling a bit of of Neu! and possibly a bit of of Can too, so this edit is actually simply the second one part of the observe!”
RETURNED TO THE EARTH – DARK MORALITY
UK prog rockers Returned From Earth returned themselves this week with logo new sing, the epic Darkish Morality, which is taken from the band’s 2d album Stalagmite Steeple which can be launched thru Massive Electic Pea on June 14. It is going to be the band’s (multi-instrumentalist Robin Peachey) 5th full-length album, a follow-up to final 12 months’s Fall Of The Watcher, and reveals Returned From Earth taking place a proggier and epic path.
“I noticed a tale about an aged couple who had been separated right through the primary Covid lockdown and sadly the woman kicked the bucket from herbal reasons,” explains Peachey. “I discovered it extremely unhappy that we couldn’t have the opportunity to convey family members in combination of their ultimate moments right through this hard duration of our historical past. It appeared empathy and compassion had been misplaced however the cash spent for the privilege of being within the care house facility nonetheless rolled in. I didn’t need this tournament to be marked by means of only a unmarried track so it shaped the backdrop for the entire album.”
PIJN – ON THE FAR SIDE OF MORNING
There is a lot to get your enamel into with Manchester sextet Pijn, particularly with regards to new unmarried, the epic nine-minutes plus of On The Some distance Facet Of Morning, which comes from the band’s upcoming From Low Beams Of Hope album which is launched on June 21 thru Floodlit Recordings. The band enlarge at the quiet/loud post-rock dynamic including experimental twists and turns alongside the best way.
“On The Some distance Facet Of Morning encapsulates such a lot of what I sought after to reach with this report, a huge emotional vary from solitude and fragility to triumph and objective, disposing of obstacles on instrumentation and group of workers in pursuit of what, for us, used to be an uncompromising crescendo,” explains guitarist/manufacturer Joe Clayton.
“From Low Beams Of Hope is an album with extra of an summary really feel than our earlier data. The place Floodlit and Loss had been an overly centered response to grief, From Low Beams Of Hope got here from an try to get point of view at the passage of lifestyles, thematically and sonically embracing our personal stories in an try to create one thing that may really feel immediately uplifting and thrilling, prone and reflective, but used to be made in fragmented and hard setting.”
COMA ROSSI – WAVES OF TIME
UK and Germany-based (by the use of Bangalore in India) prog duo Coma Rossi go back with the band’s 2d album Void, on July 18. Now stripped again to a duo of founding member Gaurav Govilkar and drummer Diane Galen (the band’s authentic line-up dissolved mid-2022), Waves Of Time presentations the band blending extra conventional prog sounds with components of post-rock. UK audiences can catch Coma Rossi at this 12 months’s Summer time’s Finish Competition in October
“This track is ready coping with grief,” explains Govilkar. “I imagine you by no means if truth be told recover from shedding any person and the grief assists in keeping hitting you in waves, time and time once more. It’s one thing that you simply ultimately hope to deal with and stay up for in lifestyles, nonetheless wearing that burden.”
FERNANDO PERDOMO – WHO I REALLY AM
You can almost definitely recognise US musician Fernando Perdomo from his ubiquitous social media posts, however he is additionally been laborious at paintings crafting a brand spanking new solo album SELF, which can be launched thru Spirit Of Unicorn Song on June 14. First unmarried, Who I In reality Am options an fun video for which Perdomo progressively shaved off his beard and enjoying a number of roles within the video with various levels of beard and moustache. That is in point of fact struggling on your artwork!
“Who I In reality Am is an overly amusing exploration into blending genres that I in point of fact love,” explains Perdomo. “It’s a mixture of yacht rock and prog rock. The track used to be impressed by means of my obsession with 60’s and early 70’s vocal staff, The Loose Design. This impressed the tightly packed harmonies and repetitive, mantra-like motifs. Who I In reality Am is in point of fact one among my maximum favorite recordings I’ve ever created.”
