Welcome to Prog‘s emblem new Tracks Of The Week. Six emblem new and numerous slices of innovative track so that you can experience.
Smartly executed to US non secular prog band EchoVerse, whose monitor No longer Like The Different gained remaining week’s Tracks Of The Week, with a powerful appearing from Ebony Buckle in 2d position and French prog trio Lizzard in 3rd position.
The idea for Tracks Of The Week is discreet – we now have collated a batch of recent releases by way of bands falling below the innovative umbrella, and collated them in combination in a single submit for you – makes it such a lot more straightforward than having to dip out and in of more than a few particular person posts, does not it?
The speculation is to observe the movies (or concentrate if it is a circulate), experience (or now not) and in addition to vote to your favorite within the balloting shape on the backside of this submit. Could not be more straightforward may just it?
We’re going to be bringing you Tracks Of The Week, because the identify implies, each and every week. Subsequent week we’re going to replace you with this week’s winner, and provide a number of recent prog track so that you can experience.
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ULVER – HOLLYWOOD BABYLON
Norwegian avant-garde progers Ulver are liberating their newest album, Ghost Access, monitor by way of monitor and the lately launched Hollywood Babylon is the 5th unmarried they have launched this a long way, a pulsating slice of electronic-driven proggy goodness with sun shades of Depeche Mode. Darkish, however richly melodic too.
“This time we’re gonna stay losing tracks until it turns into an album,” Ulver have stated of the process of unencumber. “It’s a backwards approach, and not using a pre-order, promo other people or the rest, however that’s how we wanna roll. Rather releasing in those twilight years. We’ve made sufficient albums the normal approach, and the youngsters don’t care about that anyway. So be at liberty to unfold it at the Tik Tok or what have you ever.”
SIMONE SIMONS – R.E.D.
Taking note of R.E.D., the brand new unmarried from Epica singer Simone SImons and collaborator Arjen Lucassen, it is more or less what chances are you’ll be expecting, and however, it’s not. There is no disguising Simons’ superb vocals and a Lucassen contact of bombast, however there is underlying electronica and commercial components on show. It is taken from Simons’ debut solo album, Vermillion, that is set for unencumber on twenty third August thru Nuclear Blast, simply the proggiest factor the singer has created.
“R.E.D. offers with the upward thrust of synthetic intelligence, imagining a long run the place the advent starts to outpace the writer,” says Simons. “It displays at the AI’s rising self-awareness and its unfulfilled need to enjoy feelings, one thing that its artificial nature makes inconceivable to ever understand. The tune additionally appears on the double-edged nature of technological developments and the profound existential questions which might be turning into ever extra essential to deal with.”
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DARK SKY BURIAL – THE JEWEL INSIDE THE TOAD’S HEAD
If we discussed Shane Embury of Napalm Demise the sound for your head would probably now not be Darkish Sky Burial. The experimental side-project “began out as one thing influenced by way of Italian horror film soundtracks however has moved approach past that,” Embury explains. He is simply launched his fourth album below the Darkish Sky Burial banner, Resolve Et Coagula, from which comes The Jewel In The Toad’s Head, and let’s accept it, tune titles do not come extra proggy than that!
“4 is the choice of wholeness,” Embury continues. “So possibly I’m symbolizing my need for private wholeness in the course of the album’s adventure? From prehistoric instances, the quantity 4 was once hired to suggest what was once forged, what may well be touched and felt. Its dating to the go (4 issues) made it an impressive image of wholeness and universality, a logo which drew all to itself.”
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THROAT – THROAT
Throat were described as a “surreal, ceaselessly disconcerting sound”, and paying attention to their new self-titled monitor, it is not tricky to listen to why. Throat are actually Mark Mckowski of The Misplaced Brothers and Nick Energy of proggy psych band The Coral, and Throat is their first actual unencumber. Similarly unsettling is the video, created by way of filmmakers Devin Morgan and Eddie Levine!
“Throat is seven mins of surreal, ceaselessly disconcerting sound,” the pai say. “Like finding a cassette buried within the filth, decayed by way of time, crammed up with box recordings of plucked strings, footsteps, theremin and cardboard field percussion, thriller track that unfurls with the addition of a walkie-talkie vocal and an ominous, descending analogue bass sound.”
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GIANT WALKER – SILHOUETTES
Newcastle’s prog rock quartet Massive Walker proceed to make a reputation for themselves as they tools as much as unencumber their 2d album, Silhouettes, thru Church Highway Data on September 20. The band can be enjoying Radar Competition on the finish of this month and can head out on excursion round the United Kingdom with Australian alt.proggers Long term Static in August.
“Thematically, the tune explores emotions of being repeatedly crushed right down to the purpose the place you wish to have to deliver everybody down with you – nearly like lifestyles is out to shuttle you up at each and every nook after which smiling while you fall,” says vocalist Steff Fish of the mild identify monitor from the impending album. “Epitomised by way of the lyric – “I may just dig a pleasant hollow within the floor, however then I assume I will be able to’t watch the sector drown”…”
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JOHAN STEENSLAND – THAT MAN ISN’T ME
Swedish unbiased artist, multi-instrumentalist and YouTuber Johan Steensland has been running on Crossfade, his prog rock thought album again in 1985 when he constructed his first personal eight-channel studio! A just right factor’s value looking ahead to and That Guy Is not Me is the 5th unmarried that he is taken from the album. The idea that pertains to characters Joseph and Linda and what occurs within the aftermath in their turbulent break-up.
“It’s a 52-minute intense tale in regards to the aftermath of a pair’s chaotic breakup,” Steensland explains. “The track is innovative and extremely complicated with time signature adjustments, subject matters habitual in several shapes, and different vintage prog components.”
