Welcome to Prog‘s logo new Tracks Of The Week. Seven logo new and numerous slices of modern track so that you can experience.
The basis for Tracks Of The Week is inconspicuous – we have now collated a batch of recent releases by way of bands falling below the modern umbrella, and collated them in combination in a single submit for you – makes it such a lot more uncomplicated than having to dip out and in of more than a few particular person posts, does not it?
The basis for Tracks Of The Week is inconspicuous – we have now collated a batch of recent releases by way of bands falling below the modern umbrella, and collated them in combination in a single submit for you – makes it such a lot more uncomplicated than having to dip out and in of more than a few particular person posts, does not it?
The speculation is to look at the movies (or pay attention if it is a circulation), experience (or no longer) and in addition to vote in your favorite within the vote casting shape on the backside of this submit. Could not be more uncomplicated may it?
We will be bringing you Tracks Of The Week, because the name implies, every week. Subsequent week we will replace you with this week’s winner, and provide a bunch of recent prog track so that you can experience.
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MAYBESHEWILL – OCTOBER
Leicester post-rockers Maybeshewill have a good time the 10th anniversary in their fourth studio album Truthful Early life with a distinct restricted version opaque scorching crimson & black marbled vimyl reissue of the album thru Superball Data on Might 4. However they have got additionally launched a brand spanking new stand-alone unmarried, October, which shimmers with the airy post-rock good looks we have now come to be expecting from the quintet.
“Some of the first songs written when the band tentatively started exploring the theory of constructing in combination once more, October has its roots in a voice memo jotted down in useless hope all over the band’s rehearsals for his or her ultimate excursion earlier than they disbanded in 2016,” explains bassist Jamie Ward.
“October is a track in regards to the inventive spark, about rekindling friendships and an ode to stay looking to discover your inventive passions even if that may appear futile. An extraordinary piece of Maybeshewill historical past that has its importance in spite of in the long run no longer finishing up being incorporated as a part of a bigger frame of labor.”
MONO – OATH
For a band able to such fragile good looks, Eastern post-rock quartet make an enormous noise within the reside area. This being their logo new unmarried, the name monitor of upcoming new studio album Oath, we will be able to pay attention the readability and nuance the band carry to their track, construction slowly thru layers of sound to succeed in its crescendo. Oath is out on June 14 thru Transient Place of dwelling Ltd., Pelagic Data and New Noise. MONO have an eight-day excursion in October to have a good time the band’s twenty fifth anniversary together with a date at Hackney Church on October 26.
“The album Oath is ready “time and lifestyles”. We needed to precise the “restricted time in lifestyles” and the “that means of lifestyles”,” explains guitarist and composer Takaakira ‘Taka’ Goto. “Our time is going by way of day-to-day. What’s my purpose? What’s my objective? What’s the reason why I reside on a daily basis? What are we able to do? What will have to we do? We needed to be informed what we had been feeling about time and lifestyles, what we now have misplaced and located, and the questions and the solutions we found out all over each our excellent and hard occasions. We are living with a vow that hasn’t modified since we had been kids.”
EYE – THE OTHER SEES
Eye is the brand new side-project from Mammoth Weed Wizard Bastard/MWWB singer and guitarist Jessica Ball which sees the Welsh singer-songwriter/musician moving into extra atmospheric musical territory no longer dissimilar to Chelsea Wolfe and even Portishead, however with a few of MWWB trademark riffing thrown in for excellent measure. The Different Sees is the second one unmarried from the task’s upcoming debut album Darkish Gentle, which is launched thru New Heavy Sounds on April 26.
“[The Other Sees is] craving, love and frustration,” explains Ball. “Even though you’ve gotten what you wish to have, the realisation that it is going to in the future finish fills you with anguish. Sarcastically, I used to be in a in reality excellent position when writing it. As I am not one that is creatively motivated by way of sure emotions, I attempted to discover the “darkish aspect” of happiness and love… As all excellent issues should finish, so will this. Are we content material, or are we repeatedly in search of extra? This additionally suits in with the Darkish Gentle. If there’s one, there should be the opposite. Musically, we performed round so much with this one because it sounds so other from our first demo which was once a large number of a laugh.”
JULIE CHRISTMAS – SUPERNATURAL
Brooklyn musician Julie Christmas can perform on the heavier finish of the musical spectrum, being the previous lead singer of each Made Out Of Young children and Combat Of Mice. She is most likely best-known within the prog global for showing on Swedish prog metallers Cult Of Luna’s 2016 thought album Mariner. Unsurprisingly, her long-awaited 2d solo album, Ridiculous And Complete Of Blood, from which comes Superntural, will likely be launched thru the band’s Pink Crk label on June 14. The follow-up to her Unhealthy Spouse debut has best taken 14 years!
“I’m no longer advanced sufficient as a human to cover the way in which I think. It’s all in there,” Christmas explains. “Song is where to position all of it so that you don’t explode. In case you are throwing your self into lifestyles it will possibly and will have to get wild!
“I would like other people to listen to the sorrowful heroine, vile villains, dreamy characters at play, squalor, insanity, longing, problem, triumph, good looks, and love. This tale is just a little other, it is not all fairytale. It speaks to how human nature defies categorisation. The kindest individual commits immeasurable acts of cruelty, the monster loves their buddy. We’re all like that.”
SOFTCULT – SPIRALLING OUT
Toronto dual duo Softcult are a brand new one on us who, in keeping with their PR, “heavy, airy, crushing shoegaze. They’re tremendous sensible and feature a lot to mention – numerous evaluations on social problems and so on… Surely at the fringes for Prog…”. Given the PR in query steadily comes up with some proper little gemstones that we do write about, we listened, we favored and we made up our minds to throw them into the combo this week. Spiralling Out is taken from their new EP entitled Heaven, out thru Simple Existence on Might 24.
“We wrote this track about the ones occasions after we ruminate over a scenario over and over to no finish,” the band say. “On occasion it looks like there’s no quantity of self-talk that may get us out of that spiral. It looks like the whole lot is out of regulate and the sector is sort of a carnival journey spinning throughout us, however we’re paralyzed and not able to step on or off.”
EXSOMNIS – INERTIA
Revolutionary gothic steel is how Montreal quintet Exsomnis are described, and Inertia, the band’s logo new unmarried no doubt suits the invoice. Gloomy soundscapes, haunting riffs, and orchestral grandeur abound. The band shaped again in 2020 and are lately operating on their debut album, slated for free up finish of 2024/early 2025. Interia has were given them off to a suitably epic get started.
“Inertia is likely one of the earliest songs we wrote and one of the crucial songs I spent essentially the most time writing and re-writing,” explains singer and. founding member Viky Boyer. “With each and every scrap of lyrics and melody, I felt like I used to be getting nearer to the message I in truth sought after to position out. I’m additionally very happy that the band was once on board with me together with some French spoken phrases within the track, kind of like a mini poem, as I think adore it in reality completes the imaginative and prescient I had for it. I in reality hope my enjoy with the theme of the track will resonate with the listeners, in part for my inventive ego, but additionally as an indication that I’m really not on my own suffering with the ones specific emotions of dread on the subject of lifestyles possible choices.”
