yea its pretty good, took a lot of spins to really get into it though
Oceanarium is still kind of impenetrable to me, there's just...so much of it
wonder what they're up to now. that 7-album pyramid thing gonna be finished in 2035 at this rate
― frogbs, Friday, 18 September 2020 18:06 (three years ago) link
What is that?
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 18 September 2020 18:08 (three years ago) link
i know frogbs disagrees by 1 track and i do keep saying this but they are the best example in all of music of a band who will never, ever, ever beat album 1 track 1. i mean king crimson were heading that way and then they knocked out 'starless'. do DG have a 'starless'?
― imago, Friday, 18 September 2020 18:17 (three years ago) link
apparently they were gonna do a series of 7 albums, 4 "base" albums (in which Heliotians was one) which would be reworked into two albums which were combinations of two of them (Oceanarium uses some music from Heliotians plus one yet to be released), then one "mega" album that combines elements of all them
he used to have an explainer on the Emkog site but it's gone now. I wonder if it's still in the works or if he got bored of the idea
― frogbs, Friday, 18 September 2020 18:18 (three years ago) link
their sorta shot at a Magma-/Gong-like multi-album epic theme
The first thing was to come up with 7 album names that would each sound good on their own, and for which the titles could be combined in ways that also sound good and reflect the design of the seven album pyramid. I thought about this on and off for about a year before finally coming up with “Heliotians”, “Lunarians”, “Creek”, “Din”, the combination titles “Oceanarium” and “Cretin” (though maybe I should use “Creaked In”), and the title for the top of the pyramid “Creationarium.” The concept for “Heliotians” is the theory that the Earth is a hollow shell, with a small sun floating in the middle, and lands, oceans, and people living on the other side of the crust. This is actually a real theory, but it’s almost certainly not true. “Ulterior” is sort of about people digging their way to the other side, “Reverse Solarity” is about people flying in through holes in the north Pole, and “Saruned” is more about the concept in general. The seven albums aren’t intended to have any lyrical themes in common. Actually I haven’t put much thought into singing on the next two albums to be released, even though musically, they’re well underway.
http://www.arlequins.it/pagine/articoli/corpointerviste.asp?chi=317
― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 18 September 2020 18:24 (three years ago) link
review of the upcoming Wobbler!
https://www.velvetthunder.co.uk/wobbler-dwellers-of-the-deep-karisma/
― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 18 September 2020 18:25 (three years ago) link
very much looking forward to that one, From Silence to Somewhere really does feel like a great lost prog LP that would've slotted right in with the best of Yes
― frogbs, Friday, 18 September 2020 18:31 (three years ago) link
Thanks for all that about the concept and Heliotians explanation.
I never much liked "21st Century Schizoid Man" to be honest.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 18 September 2020 18:35 (three years ago) link
In a track for track sense, Falling Satellites is definitely Frost's best album. "Tower Block" is just so amazing. Fantastic album, deserved a much bigger audience.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Wednesday, 7 October 2020 19:39 (three years ago) link
was fun to read discussion of that on the Proggressive Ears forum which is primarily made up of old men..."wait is this what dubstep is?"
the final suite is pretty nuts, really love the gnarly metal riffs they come up with
― frogbs, Wednesday, 7 October 2020 20:01 (three years ago) link
Just found out that tracks 12 and 13 are bonus tracks, makes sense. The vinyl has an extra instrumental.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Wednesday, 7 October 2020 21:01 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05AFHeSk5N0
― reggie (qualmsley), Saturday, 17 October 2020 20:50 (three years ago) link
Frost have a new album out!
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Thursday, 27 May 2021 01:20 (two years ago) link
Just listened to it yesterday, it’s very good but like their others it’s kind of an endurance test.
The Police clearly seem to be an influence here, particularly Stewart Copeland. It picks up where “Synchronicity 2” left off. Definitely gonna cop the vinyl if I can
― frogbs, Thursday, 27 May 2021 01:36 (two years ago) link
Been trying to sample some Frost on Spotify, it's just not clicking for me at all. I love Wobbler though, def one of my favorite more recent prog discoveries.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 27 May 2021 13:57 (two years ago) link
The drumming on the track about the invisible boy is really fantastic. Is this the first time they've used so many different drummers? 3 different people.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Tuesday, 10 August 2021 17:47 (two years ago) link
Recent (old) discovery, kinda what 90s Porcupine Tree would have sounded like if SW was a better singer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAHP1Ivb4fY
― Maresn3st, Tuesday, 25 January 2022 18:22 (two years ago) link
Don't know if anyone around here still listens to Haken, they've moved pretty far from pure prog by this point, but the new one is... interesting. Some of the best songs they've written since The Mountain, imho, but others that are just flat out embarrassing.
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 16 March 2023 17:44 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBz9V0ZTfrE
Have I posted this elsewhere? I have no idea how many of the bands mentioned are actually prog, I only know who a few of them are but the channel is mostly about that kind of music.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 6 April 2024 19:17 (two weeks ago) link
Thank god, I thought this was going to be the "jazz isn't black music actually" prog youtuber guy
― if i just keep writing a plot will emerge by itself (Matt #2), Saturday, 6 April 2024 19:36 (two weeks ago) link