Here's a digest of this week's #OPM writeups! 5 tracks from indie Fediverse #music artists to expand your musical horizons. Unusual ambient, wild ADHDcore, and more this week!
If you want the full, undigested versions (i.e. where I have more to say about each one than will fit in a single post) of these writeups, they are here:
Lush, organic and cinematic, this is the sound of #jazz crashing into post rock while the ghost of #prog looks on with approval. Twisty, unusual rhythms and interesting harmonic movement realized by an array of impressive musicians, including both traditional rock/jazz players but also strings and more. Sounds like someone made a movie out of the weirdest dream you ever had and this is the score.
#NowPlaying - a ground zero for so much, but why so many cowrites for kevin ayers & so few lead vocals? is it like the neil-young's-voice-was-too-weird-for-the-springfield thing or just cuz ayers was the new guy? and how many steps between "we did it again" & oneida's "sheets of easter"? @Corry342@vinylrecords#canterbury#prog
Right, so in a surprise inversion of my recent #Prog posts about double albums that should have been single albums, here’s one that’s long enough for a double but somehow managed to fit on a single CD.
Clocking in at just over four minutes, “Clairvoyant” is a tight little slice of metal-leaning progressive rock. A powerful, rolling bassline, some solid drumming and just a touch of swirling atmospherics anchor the track, but it’s the guitar work that really shines here.
“You pick five interesting guys, lock them in a room together… and if they make an album without actually killing each other first, it will at least be an interesting album”: How King Crimson made Larks’ Tongues in Aspic | Louder https://www.loudersound.com/features/king-crimson-larks-tongues-in-aspic
Terror Management Theory from TEMIC https://temic.bandcamp.com/album/terror-management-theory
Progressive Metal from Norway
With Eric Gilette and Diego Tejeida, who are not that much Norwegian, but well known in the prog scene..
#ProgTuesday time! Thanks to @DXMacGuffin
Today I'm thinking back to last year when Molybaron was opening act for Soen ... here comes Something Ominous:
https://55ytmqrt.bandcamp.com/album/55yt-mqrt I don't really post about music on here very much. But some of my old friends just released this album and it's really great. They've been working on it for years! These dudes are some of the most talented musicians anywhere. Consider checking it out. For fans of psychedelic prog rock, the Mars Volta, Pink Floyd, King Crimson etc.