Prog V3.0 Discussion Thread

some relative newbies working the masters

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPdoWp-PHFU

Hardcore Crayons are pretty good. I bought their CD.

I think these dudes from Louisville are pretty cool.

https://ohlm.bandcamp.com/

I don't know if this is the right thread, but the latest Three Trapped Tigers album is fantastic. It's on Superball so might be appropriate. They're an IDM-influenced mathrock three piece but it's basically prog.

The title track:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMr5ZWPBEhM&ab_channel=superballmusictv

when i saw them live with liturgy they were a bit dull but it might work much better on record

jerry!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkVyzD-IBPs

Okay, that cover of Terrapin Station is excellent. Hoping this might inspire Daniel Rossen to further explore his prog tendencies.

it at least coincides with progressive tendencies, rallying for bernie the other day

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZQP4xG6Txc

rufus is bringing it ~

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccP6mI1GMS4

might hit too close to home for too many ~

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNBfo4IIoG0

it is too bad that no new good prog rock has been recorded since punk made it obsolete (cost ineffective) ~

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g05yCAF-qgc

I don't know if this is really prog v.3.0 since it's a follow on to their last album from 1978 but Argentinian legends Bubu released an EP not long ago from out of nowhere:

https://bubuprog.bandcamp.com/releases

saying that it's a completely different lineup of musicians with the same composer. In any case it's really good.

Anyone listen to German band Dark Suns? Their upcoming album Everchild (June 3) seems very promising, continuing their turn from prog metal to psych prog with some jazzy bits along the lines of perhaps Motorpsycho.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLWbQHa4UZ4

Listening to Haken - this is unexpectedly nice and weird. I really like their whole early computers aesthetic too.

Aaah the massive track in the middle is amazing!

I had thought the romantic cover art to Deluge Grander - August In The Urals was ill fitting but actually there is a lot of lushness coming through on further listens. Love the watery flowing piano.

― Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, 27 December 2015 13:22 (5 months ago)

Love the first two tracks of this. The first is a monster and the second has these really lovely idyllic ethereal parts. I actually think just these first two would have made a better album than the 5 that stand. The remaining three all have good stuff in them but they get decreasingly interesting. The third is really quite good most of the time though.

How about their other albums?

I think it's kind of set up that way - I don't have an issue with the last two tracks ("The Solitude of Miranda" is especially good) but they do feel like bonus tracks in a way.

The Form of the Good is pretty great though it's maybe tougher to get into. It's entirely instrumental (outside of some faint backing vocals) and really dense at times. "The Tree Factory" is pretty cool, kinda Zeuhl-ish, though it goes through a number of cool movements (one definitely sounds Zappa-inspired). The key track is the 20-minute "Aggrandizement" which is totally insane - not like any prog epic I've ever heard, it's just one steadily rising instrumental part that keeps piling on and on and on. It's the sort of thing you have to listen to at ear-bleeding volume.

The last two tracks really dampened my enthusiasm for the album.

The Mercury Tree are pretty good - new album is kind of lovely. They're like a weirded-out occasionally-microtonal Yank take on Thumpermonkey. Discovered by snooping on ultros' RYM profile, which I'm sure is acceptable behaviour

Hey stay out of my stuff, you

Glad you liked it anyway, I probably should have brought it up here but I forget these things. Here it is if anyone else is interested:

https://themercurytree.bandcamp.com/album/permutations

The Quietus and ultros' rym page are p much the only two music sites I read in 2016 (apart from the obvious, of course)

new Deluge Grander is up and running. headfirst I go!

Cool.

I'm going to listen to this only cuz one of them pm'd me and I said I would... the samples seemed decent enough.

Also this may be of interest, it's modern chamber music that's barely prog but it kind of sounds like Univers Zero and it's on AltRock Productions. And it's really quite good.

https://altrockproductions.bandcamp.com/album/night-en-face

it's...........ok. like, there are good moments. i'll definitely listen to it again. really though (and i know frogbs will come in and yell at me for thinking this) the whole Deluge Grander project existed to make the first track on their first album, and everything since hasn't quite matched that half-hour slab of brilliance

will listen to this though thanks!

me and my 50 socks all FP'd you for this, see you in a month asshole

i guess 'aggrandizement' is quite good as well. they should just release albums with two 20+ minute tracks on them

seriously though I can understand that. I think DG's music has gotten more difficult on each album, like it's kind of steered from a fairly recognizable Zeuhl-prog hybrid to something more resembling classical music. that 20-minute track on Form of the Good still sounds like nothing I've heard, it's like he took the massive instrumental finale of a traditional suite and made that the epic. pretty cool. Heliotains completely passed me by the first couple times I listened to it - could not remember a single thing about it until I really sat down and concentrated, after which I realized it's as brilliant as the others, just harder to grasp. I've only heard some samples from the new one (it's not on Bandcamp yet) but it feels like it's kind of the same.

Been listening to the Birds And Buildings debut, it's good but it really does just sound like Deluge Grander, I know it only has two members from DG but I think maybe they'd be better off just keeping the DG name and changing the members when they want to be the "other band".

Cheer-Accident/Polvo vibes + Bob Drake cameo

https://starperiodstar.bandcamp.com/album/daylight-spending-time

cool!

cheer-accident themselves have a new one soon, featuring a couple of former gorilla museum employees (among others)

this sounds p cool though!

whoa the Star Period Star is really good

:D

And I didn't know Cheer-Accident had a new one, that's really exciting! I never liked SGM unfortunately but the bandcamp blurb has got me seriously hyped

Actually you knwo what

I actually like the Birds And Buildings debut better overall than the Deluge Grander debut. There seems to be a couple of parts from the first track repeated in later tracks but I wasn't sure.

i need to listen to B&B again but my impression was that it was interesting and varied

The last track has clip of Kenneth Clark's Civilization documentary series! I get a feeling that this guy's music is a lot about upheavals throughout history but sometimes the lyrics are hard to grasp.

"Chakra Khan" sounds like a username here.

glad star period star have a new one, good to know bob drake's involved. liked them a lot but it was hard to find any info about them on the internet for a very long time.

ni combined with another band i haven't heard of called poil and they put out this record. it's pretty proggy.

https://piniol.bandcamp.com/album/bran-coucou

SPS are obscure even by avant-prog standards, I was surprised to learn that they'd been going since the mid-90s.

Piniol looks interesting, added that to my to do list

yea that first B&B album is an all-timer. the second album is a bit less accessible but it's just as good. lotta curveballs in that one.

still digesting Oceanarium, it's just so damn thick and difficult to parse if you aren't giving full attention. but it's sounding better every time I hear it.

Piniol album very nice.

koenjihyakkei has a new one coming out next month, i know they've been working on it for a while - i have an earlier digest video from jan 2016

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9L358RmKgN0

oh fuck yeah

New The Mercury Program someone just alerted me to:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9ScTcdo1CA

Microtonal tunings!

The Mercury Tree I mean, oops

White Willow anyone? Online store samples of the albums don't sound that interesting.

This track is great but it's more akin to Tim Bowness solo than White Willow:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHohhvLLb8o