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This is terrible. He's too young. I'd been hoping for a long time he'd put out a second solo album. What a unique voice and soul : (

As Stephen Malkmus's solo albums are better than Pavement, a surprise upon first hearing his self-titled debut, Insurgentes kicks off a streak of SW music that builds off of and surpasses what he...

Excellent thread ~

http://www.progressiveears.org/forum/showthread.php/8711-Motorpsycho?highlight=motorpsycho

These guys rank high among the all-time greats imho ~
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CAST rules ~

https://rateyourmusic.com/artist/cast_f1

Thanks for posting that! A nice early "bonus track" to the new remix. The great vocalist of Mystery deserves some love still :beer

Inviting entry point from a prog angle is their covers collection ~

http://www.shadowcabinet.net/archive/albums/boxofbirds.htm

They are one of the best bands ever imho :horns

This is SO GOOD. Much love to Benoit but thank you Trevor for fully rejoining the band for a second album. :horns

The sound is beautiful. The bum file download sucks but it makes the anticipation all that much sweeter! I just hope they email us new files once they're fixed :horns

First impression: this is GREAT. Trevor's production is much more sympathetic to his (and Chris's (RIP!)!) vocals than the "original" is towards Benoit's singing. "Don't Take No for an Answer" is way...

Has anyone heard the new DBA album?

http://rockatnight.com/2017/10/review-downes-braide-associations-skyscraper-souls-reach-new-heights/

This album REALLY REALLY rules!

Surprised no one has mentioned Clouds yet.

http://dangerousminds.net/comments/meet_the_father_of_prog_rock

A-list celebrity (and A+ Trump impersonator) Alec Baldwin likes him some YES

http://www.wnyc.org/story/jon-anderson-musical-adventure-isnt-over/

Take Roxy Music, Queen, and Television, and voila!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZhfFXEMMI4

The Cars, "Moving in Stereo / All Mixed Up"

The most recent album is starting to grow on me a little more. "Miss You" is classic; it sounds like Ween jamming with The Syn.

The Decemberists' Crane Wife has a seriously "Roundabout" indented jam. Seriously -- give that song a deep listen. This article is about the follow-up album but is apropos to this thread.

My pick...

This is a long-lost Todd Rundgren album, no?

"Makes no sense to me" either, Neal. President Trump! I feel like I need to re-read Pilgrim's Progress right about now. Thanks for the reminder. Cheers!

Big Boat isn't as good as Fuego, unfortunately, at least in my early impressions.

"Petrichor", the thirteen and a half minute orchestral suite that closes the new album, Big Boat, is something I bet lots of people here would love.

That song totally slays. Thanks for posting! Psyched for a new album.

And count me in as someone who wishes there'd be more from Diagonal, too -- though definitely, that Baron debut is really...

A history of post-neo (love that) would benefit from paying attention to prog's re-acquaintance with the larger rock audience. There's a line from Jane's Addiction's "Three Days", through Helium,...

Thanks for posting that song. LOVE the ending!

The vinyl is my listen of choice with this one, too. Nigel Godrich really outdid himself with the production. And the band brought the jams! It's one of those rarefied Who's Next-type albums that...

I couldn't begin to understand someone hearing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnl6CLNHdN8 without thinking it totally rules.

"The birds are the keepers of our secrets . . . "

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTcrX17joIE

Listening to "Some Memorial" from the second self-titled album (2012) and questioning the traditional narrative that prog peaked in the 1970s. These are really fresh pastoral symphonic vibes that...

If there isn't a causal connection there sure is a mighty coincidence at work. The industry (the record companies) convinced everyone that vinyl was obsolete just like earlier the industry (the...

"You'd have to ask Nador why he bumped it."

Bumped because I couldn't find a thread on Suffocating the Bloom and didn't want to start one. I like to read these conversations as they develop over...

"Right now I'm getting heavily into Suffocating the Bloom; they seem to do all the little things right and as a result I find myself wanting to listen to them all the damn time."

For sure -- "In...

I have no idea why they do it either. My guesses are 1) it's some weird form of competitive self-aggrandizement, like, 'hey, look what i got!' and/or 2) people feel they're participating in a...

Henry,

I have no interest in arguing with you. Though I don't know you, I always look forward to your posts when I visit this site. I'm not saying that artists have no right to be upset by illicit...

All albums leak online, and have for years, even those people here enjoy listening to. The internet has long since become what radio once was.

That's just how it is. The current artist-to-listener...

"Don't you have a CD player?"

Not for years. Vinyl at home, digital on the go.

I'd guess they're still trying to gauge interest in the US market, uncertain how many CDs / LPs to press. Here's hoping advance praise swells interest : )

Really looking forward to hearing this...

An early highlight is "Knowledge". Absolutely love this song. I know (no pun intended!) people here are a bit fed up with early impressions but hey, I'm reminded a tiny bit of Todd Rundgren's recent...

Anna Meredith has been floating my boat lately ~

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNBfo4IIoG0

along with King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard ~

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfydPXFYy_M

Nope, sorry, just me. I only post under this name.

I hope Steven Wilson remixes Wake of the Flood some day. "Weather Report Suite" (along with "Terrapin Station") is among the Dead's Yessiest jams and could use some sonic boom.

Classic Yes is the best compilation I've ever heard period, forget just prog. Relics rules though, sure. Still don't get why they left "Embryo", "Candy and a Currant Bun", "Apples and Oranges" and...

Jon Anderson conducting the electric beat band symphony! And a hippy Fish rocking like it's Golden Gate Park, 1967. "Yesterday's endings will tomorrow life give you!" Thanks for posting that :horns

This is fantastic! Enjoy :horns


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SB2vqwNARo

This is really exciting. I'm way more stoked for new music than the tour. "Hearts" is one of Yes's best songs, and I would love to hear these three go more in that direction without the albatross of...

I'm surprised there isn't more interest in Elbow here, particularly given people's enduring love of Genesis. Songs like "Newborn" sound to me like what Genesis might have done in the recent past had...

I've always thought people were too hard on this album. I'd rate it above the debut, Time and a Word, Going for the One, Tormato, Big Generator, Anderson Bruford Wakeman & Howe, Keys to Ascension,...

Hemispheres is my favorite, too, Chalkpie. The otherworldly vibe with which "La Villa Strangiato" closes out the album reminds me of "Siberian Khatru". "Circumstances" is one of their greatest short...

Has anyone else heard the new Rangda album? For those unfamiliar -- Rangda is an underground psych 'supergroup', featuring Six Organs of Admittance's Ben Chasny, and former Sun City Girl, Sir Richard...

Scrolling through the archives, I was surprised to see the Toronto band Do Make Say Think doesn't have their own discussion (unless I missed something?). I think a lot of people who frequent this...

"Dogs" is maybe my favorite song by them. The lyrics are as bleak as a Eugene O'Neill play, the spacey passages are really transporting, and Gilmour delivers some all-time exquisite, majestic guitar...

Another great post-punk band for people into prog is CAMBERWELL NOW, Charles Hayward's post-THIS HEAT project. Sonic pleasures galore ~
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Joe -- excellent, enlightening article. Thanks!

I wonder sometimes what the commercial success of '90125' and 'Invisible Touch' might have had on 12th Night, Marillion, IQ, and Pallas.

"Our Song" is fantastic. "Cinema"/"Leave It" is an exhilarating beginning to side two (particularly after the phenomenal but melancholic "Changes" closes off side one), and "Our Song" takes up where...

Play it cool, take comfort that some of the most acclaimed musicians today perform proggy music and love prog?
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Ed Force One.

http://www.ironmaiden.com/iron-maiden-and-the-book-of-souls-go-jumbo-on-massive-2016-world-tour.html

DANCE OF DEATH was a huge disappointment to me after BRAVE NEW WORLD, and neither MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH nor FINAL FRONTIER captivated me enough to make up for the letdown. To continue with the...

Consider giving BRAVE NEW WORLD a chance. I like it as much as 7th SON. Every song is killer and for stretches the time signatures become complex enough to vie with Rush for peak metallic prog.

That's too bad. I think this album is awesome. This is a pretty interesting review ~

http://thequietus.com/articles/18715-iron-maiden-book-of-souls-review

The "Remembered" / "Night on the Town" one-two is EPIC.

Iron Maiden's new 'Book of Souls' is my new number one. It's been a great year for music!

'Fuego' is really good! It finally got me over my anti-Phish bias, ingrained by four years of college in the American midwest, surrounded by frat boys / sorority girls who would only consider seeing...