We know you love post-metal, so if I were to say that this is the greatest piece of this genre of music to come out this year, would you believe me? Probably not because you all probably know of that band from where you’re from that’s so much greater than any other, but Dumbsaint is a band I actually have heard about.
Panorama, in ten pieces is a soundtrack to a story told in a movie, which was also entirely made by the band. Globally, I’d say it’s post-metal, but there are post-rock moments too. The songs clearly reflect the … Read more
After their last year’s debut EP “Prologue”, Toronto-based instrumental prog once-trio now-quintet Earth’s Yellow Sun has released The Infernal Machine, a 5-part, 23 minute long prog rock song of epic proportions. After that overly complicated and long introduction sentence, let’s dig into the music.
Sanguine Hum is a known name in the indie prog/neo-prog community, and with reason. They’ve released consistently good, mellow prog with an ambient vibe to it, but Now We Have Light is on another level. A just over 80 minutes conceptual double album of, arguably, their best material to date.
Troyka is a jazz band leaning on the experimental side of things, reaching outwards instead of trying to stick to the norm. Their first self-titled album was very light and smooth, but still had many musical intricacies, most of them coming from the guitar. On their sophomore “Moxxy”, they’ve quickly evolved into a more whole-band sound, where the very concept of each song is interesting and well conveyed by every instrument, more reminiscent of math rock than of jazz in its execution.