I'm looking at you Progarchives.
Before anyone says it, yes, we've spent a long time trying to define "Prog" and are still arguing about it. That said, the term "Crossover Prog" is nothing but a milquetoast catchall term. It is being used for one of two main reasons:
- The reviewer is too lazy to delve deeper into the sound by making connections and associations with other artists or musical movements.
- The site needs content so anything that remotely has a sound that might be considered Prog when looked at sideways is called "Crossover Prog" to satisfy the quota of daily posts.
As I do every Saturday morning while drinking coffee and rage-tweeting at Trump, I look through the Progarchives New Releases and see what's available on Spotify (quite a bit, actually). I've just listened to my fourth "Crossover Prog" artist. I hear post-rock, something that sounds like folk-rock, some keyboards, some songs that are vaguely in sections, lots of random lyrics, a female singer who is terrible, one guy who wants to be Jeff Buckley in the next life, and a guitar solo.
I admit that my tastes are all over the place although they usually land on very melodic Symphonic Prog (I like to cry at melodies a lot), but the term "Crossover Prog" is meaningless garbage.
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