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Flying under the radar a bit, but Burning Shed have opened pre-orders on a deluxe edition of Fear of a Blank Planet. Features full remasters and 5.1 surround versions of the album and Nil Recurring, a disc of demos including two songs that didn't make the album, a live performance of the WIP, a making of documentary and a 112-page book.
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just picked up the new Jon Anderson album with the Band Geeks. I suppose it goes without saying but it really does sound like Yes in a way that is very deliberate. it's quite good too, I reckon if Yes proper made an album like this in 2024 people would be heralding it as a very unexpected return to form. Jon still sounds great. I could be grading on a curve here but I was very impressed. there's even a 16-minute epic on it which sounds very much like Awaken.
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Sep 3, 2024 14:09
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DoubleCakes posted:The new Bent Knee is really good. Maybe more Art Rock than prog rock but they landed on their feet after two of their members left. Very good album. Probably Art Rock but I'm still diggin' it. Their last album or two never really clicked for me so this feels like a nice return to form, at least what I've heard so far. Felt like a waste to put such a powerful vocalist behind a vocoder or whatever all album.
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Sep 3, 2024 16:11
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Jedit posted:Flying under the radar a bit, but Burning Shed have opened pre-orders on a deluxe edition of Fear of a Blank Planet. Features full remasters and 5.1 surround versions of the album and Nil Recurring, a disc of demos including two songs that didn't make the album, a live performance of the WIP, a making of documentary and a 112-page book. FOABP is already a pristine recording with plenty of dynamics. I'll pass.
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I guess this song goes here, I don't know how else to categorize it. At any rate, I was on my way back home from work this evening, and tuned in to my local NPR station which on Wednesdays has an art/alt/ fringe music show on in the evenings. They were playing this loud, droning, heavy-metal song, with the singer growling/shouting the lyrics in a droning monotone. And the song was long--my work project was in Michigan, and I live in Fort Wayne, Indiana, about 45 minutes from the border. The song lasted the Whole. drat. Way. I had tuned in just as I crossed the border, and sat in the work truck in my driveway just waiting for it to end so I could find out just what the hell it was. Anyways, TIL that there is a band called Sleep, and it produced a very long song called Dopesmoker. Evidently they've played this in its entirety once before.
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Sep 5, 2024 04:16
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Meaty Ore posted:I guess this song goes here, I don't know how else to categorize it. At any rate, I was on my way back home from work this evening, and tuned in to my local NPR station which on Wednesdays has an art/alt/ fringe music show on in the evenings. They were playing this loud, droning, heavy-metal song, with the singer growling/shouting the lyrics in a droning monotone. And the song was long--my work project was in Michigan, and I live in Fort Wayne, Indiana, about 45 minutes from the border. The song lasted the Whole. drat. Way. I had tuned in just as I crossed the border, and sat in the work truck in my driveway just waiting for it to end so I could find out just what the hell it was. congratulations on discovering stoner metal! (genuinely, not being sarcastic) And in the best way too, Sleep are one of the progenitors of the entire genre and several associated subgenres the thread you want is right here: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3395609 Snow Cone Capone fucked around with this message at 04:28 on Sep 5, 2024 |
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Meaty Ore posted:I guess this song goes here, I don't know how else to categorize it. At any rate, I was on my way back home from work this evening, and tuned in to my local NPR station which on Wednesdays has an art/alt/ fringe music show on in the evenings. They were playing this loud, droning, heavy-metal song, with the singer growling/shouting the lyrics in a droning monotone. And the song was long--my work project was in Michigan, and I live in Fort Wayne, Indiana, about 45 minutes from the border. The song lasted the Whole. drat. Way. I had tuned in just as I crossed the border, and sat in the work truck in my driveway just waiting for it to end so I could find out just what the hell it was. If you like that I recommend dropping out of life with bong in hand, perhaps following the smoke toward the riff-filled land.
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Sep 5, 2024 04:27
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Eh, it was okay for a little while, but it got to be a bit much. I realize that's probably very much the whole point. I mainly kept listening out of curiosity to see if I would run out of song or road first (answer: road). Just didn't know where to take it since prog is the first genre I think of when I hear a very long song, and it encompasses a fairly wide variety of styles. But point taken.
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Sep 5, 2024 05:08
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if it feels like "too much" then you're probably not stoned enough my favorite on the more proggy side of stoner is weedpecker https://weedpecker.bandcamp.com/album/iii
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Sep 5, 2024 07:21
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Vesi posted:if it feels like "too much" then you're probably not stoned enough What a terrible band name... good stuff though!
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Sep 5, 2024 09:05
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the genre has approximately as many good riffs as it does terrible band names
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Sep 5, 2024 09:07
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i'm getting a bit worn out on most newer prog-adjacent music. it's like someone turned on a vac and sucked the dorky cheeseball vibes out. i listen to these genres for the cheese. there are tons of kinda middle-of-the-road Prog releases that sound kinda like a Nickelback if they were proggier, or maybe Porcupine Tree if they didn't have the taste/recording quality. i know that King Gizz & co can be silly but their albums almost never stick for me. they kinda feel Slapdash in a way when I want something more meticulous. maybe there's stuff out there but every time I give an album a chance I end up wishing I just spent that time listening to more old seventies stuff.
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Sep 5, 2024 12:33
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Sort of the same. I own a Psychedelic Porn Crumpets album and I enjoy it from time to time, but I don't feel any urge to buy more.
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Sep 5, 2024 12:54
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I've been in a prog slump for the last two years. I haven't felt the pull from the genre as much. Nowadays the prog stuff that really gets me comes from non-prog bands taking on some prog influence. Individual songs.
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Sep 5, 2024 13:15
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Gaspy Conana posted:i'm getting a bit worn out on most newer prog-adjacent music. it's like someone turned on a vac and sucked the dorky cheeseball vibes out. i listen to these genres for the cheese. there are tons of kinda middle-of-the-road Prog releases that sound kinda like a Nickelback if they were proggier, or maybe Porcupine Tree if they didn't have the taste/recording quality. Not sure if this is the kind of cheese you crave, but the whole album is great and they're definitely dorks so... https://karmicjuggernaut.bandcamp.com/track/frunobulax
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Sep 6, 2024 12:50
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DoubleCakes posted:I've been in a prog slump for the last two years. I haven't felt the pull from the genre as much. Nowadays the prog stuff that really gets me comes from non-prog bands taking on some prog influence. Individual songs.  A band that could fit in at least 5 other genre-specific discussion threads. My discovery of the year.
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Sep 6, 2024 22:29
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New album from Pure Reason Revolution dropped today. I think they only updated their official site that it was coming out less than a week ago. The whole thing is written about the frontman's dog dying, which I get maybe not resonating with a lot of people, but I lost my dog almost a year ago exactly so it's hitting pretty hard   E: Chloe Alper couldn't be on this, but they have Annicke Shireen filling in from Shireen and she tours with Heilung Myrmidongs fucked around with this message at 23:41 on Sep 6, 2024 |
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Sep 6, 2024 23:37
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Nightmare Cinema posted:
poo poo's good, I'm getting some Cardiacs vibes and it's not just the occasional sax.
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Sep 9, 2024 08:16
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loose-fish posted:Not sure if this is the kind of cheese you crave, but the whole album is great and they're definitely dorks so... https://karmicjuggernaut.bandcamp.com/track/frunobulax Just listened to this and it's really good and p much what I look for! Thanks!
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Sep 11, 2024 16:15
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I'm at the Beat show. (It's intermission right now, I'm not posting while they're playing.) Absolutely incredible! How the gently caress do they make their guitars sound like that?? I'm somehow not the youngest person here. Edit: and they're playing Tubular Bells as the intermission music. Solumin fucked around with this message at 04:51 on Sep 13, 2024 |
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Sep 13, 2024 04:47
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I’m seeing them in two weeks and I fully expect to be the youngest person there (I’m 34) by a good margin.
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Sep 13, 2024 05:13
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You may be surprised! I saw a few teenagers who seemed to be there on their own. But yeah 80% of the audience was greybeards with Tool and King Crimson shirts on. I suppose that's what you'd expect when the youngest person in the band is in his 60s.
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Myrmidongs posted:New album from Pure Reason Revolution dropped today. I think they only updated their official site that it was coming out less than a week ago. The whole thing is written about the frontman's dog dying, which I get maybe not resonating with a lot of people, but I lost my dog almost a year ago exactly so it's hitting pretty hard I'm seeing these guys on Cruise to the Edge next year; really liked what I've heard of them so far on Youtube, but not really explored them on an album basis, which is the next step. Should I just go with release order, do you think? Man, that last one looks tough for me too, though. My dog is still around but he's very old and I don't think will be for a fell of a lot longer.
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For Pure Reason Revolution, I started them in chronological order, and I don’t see a problem with that order. They were solid from their first album, The Dark Third. There’s an EP related to that album in some way, but I never checked it out.
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Sep 13, 2024 12:19
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Their sound changes a lot, but I agree chronological is fine. Dark Third is by far the most proggy, AVO and Hammer and anvil have a lot of electronica influence, and the modern trio of albums become much more guitar driven again.
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https://mamaleek.bandcamp.com/album/vida-blue gently caress me this is some dark poo poo.
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IUG posted:For Pure Reason Revolution, I started them in chronological order, and I don’t see a problem with that order. They were solid from their first album, The Dark Third. There’s an EP related to that album in some way, but I never checked it out. Myrmidongs posted:Their sound changes a lot, but I agree chronological is fine. Dark Third is by far the most proggy, AVO and Hammer and anvil have a lot of electronica influence, and the modern trio of albums become much more guitar driven again. Thanks - I've ordered the first one. Has The Bright Ambassadors of Morning on it, which I've heard a few times on Youtube and is a bit of a banger. Looking forward to listening to the album in full.
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I'm moving to Italy just in time to catch Peter Hammill touring in November. Never thought I'd see him live before he died. Here's hoping they decide to do another tour of the trio VdGG lineup as well after the 2022 one was interrupted by his hospitalization. I guess if there are Italy/Greece/nearby countries goons, consider this your notification that there are five Peter Hammill gigs in Italy Nov 14-21 and two in Greece Jan 24+25.
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Sep 21, 2024 05:11
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Trip report: Beat show was loving awesome. Belew still sounds great, playing by everyone was insane.
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Gong is currently touring the US with a new lineup led by Kavus Torabi, who Daevid Allen handpicked as his successor. If you get the chance go see them, amazing to see music that technical performed live, and since it was in a small venue we got right up front. I believe nearly everything was from their last 3 albums, which was fine with me, those albums rule. But the best part was when they did this long spacey thing which gradually morphed into an insane version of "Master Builder", man they knocked it out of the park. This drummer they've got with them is absolutely nuts.
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fartknocker posted:Trip report: Beat show was loving awesome. Belew still sounds great, playing by everyone was insane. I appreciate Belew so much more after getting to see him play live He is an absolute master of the instrument, always loving playing something, not even necessarily his lead work but he can so expertly find the empty spaces and put sounds in there that feel so essential for how simple they can sometimes be
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Got two prog gigs this weekend! Big Big Train on Saturday, then Moon Safari on Sunday. Meeting up with some friends I made on CTTE, including an American who's coming over just for the gigs. Big Big Train fans are dedicated. Some other UK friends who are also attending have already seen them twice in the last week, including heading over to the Belgium. Should be a lot of fun - been getting really into Moon Safari lately and BBT are always great.
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