Coming out on the nineteenth, Perfect Beings‘ third album, Vier, excels at making new symphonic progressive rock. As soon as the four-part opening track “Guedra” starts, you know what you’re getting into. If the polyphonic vocal introduction didn’t sell it, maybe the next, odd-metred riff with accompanying woodwinds solo will. Still not convinced? Just let the polymetric backing track to the next solo sink in! My point is that the album is filled to the brim with fascinating moments, if you take the slightest moment to analyze them. Indeed, they are so well crafted that they aren’t jarring … Read more
Weekly Release Dump #5
- Sunday, 31 December
Dove Lady – F (experimental pop/noise jazz)
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard – Gumboot Soup (experimental rock)
- Monday, 1 January
Brojob – Talk Shit Get Kissed (deathcore)
Déraciné – Déraciné (grindcore/skramz)
Estuarine – Sic erat scriptum (blackened technical death metal)
Inquinamentum – 8342 (progressive black metal)
Process – Process (tap rock)
Vantana Row – Vagina (experimental pop/cybergrind)
Омега Клустер – ϴе Нижт (chiptune progressive metal)
- Tuesday, 2 January
Crown Magnetar – The Prophet of Disgust (technical deathcore)
Lauri Kadalipp Social Jazz – Feels Just Right (jazz)
- Friday, 5 January
Omnea – Omnea (progressive rock)
ŌOTØ (formerly … Read more
Camembert, Process, Karmacipher, Dove Lady, Troldhaugen, Suffering Hour, Vessel of Iniquity, Vantana Row, and Adhara
Camembert – Negative Toe (progressive rock)
France’s Camembert recently released their latest opus, and it’s pretty darn good! Negative Toe is somewhere between the symphonic prog and Canterbury scenes. Thus, you won’t be surprised to learn that the album is about an hour of progressive rock music that is mostly symphonic and that uses quite uncommon song structures and atmospheric qualities. You can get the album via AltrOck Productions!
Process – Process
Someone on bandcamp refered to this band as “Floral with a bass player”, and, well, I can’t say I disagree, but it’s a woefully simplistic way of putting … Read more
Crno dete – Neponovljivo
The experimental surf rock duo Crno dete, from Serbia, just released their latest opus: the massive Neponovljivo album. This set is an improvised performance that goes on for about forty minutes; uncut, unedited, and unrepeatable. It has been divided into eight tracks, but the truly uncut version is available as a forty-three-minute single track. The music resembles experimental math rock and post-rock, but the utter flood of reverb on the guitars make me think of surf rock more than anything else, really. From the moment you press play, the guitars and the drums catawompously barge in and don’t stop … Read more
Monthly Recommendations: 2017
Yup, that’s a year, another one! I’ve changed my writing routine a couple times, but I think it’s the year in which I’ve been the most active as a music writer. As a musician, I’ve only released one single track with my current band; one of my least productive years as a musician. In 2017, I’ve also started the Not Music label, which will be the tool with which I’m going to put my money where my mouth is and help promote and distribute the same kind of music that you find on this website: experimental, progressive, bewildering, innovative, and … Read more