Welcome to this week’s Tracks Of The Week. Seven brand-new and various slices of progressively inclined music so that you can get pleasure from.
A giant effectively accomplished to Thumpermonkey’s Michael Woodman, whose new solo single Lychgate romped house in final week’s TOTW, forward of Magic Pie’s model new single Everday Hero and worriedaboutsatan’s Tangerine Dream-like La Mouche in a good third place.
The premise for Tracks Of The Week is straightforward – we have collated a batch of recent releases by bands falling beneath the progressive umbrella and collated them collectively in a single submit for you – makes it a lot simpler than having to dip out and in of assorted particular person posts, does not it?
The thought is to look at the movies (or hear if it is a stream), get pleasure from (or not) and in addition to vote on your favorite within the voting kind on the backside of this submit. Could not be simpler, may it?
We’ll be bringing you Tracks Of The Week, because the title implies, every week. Subsequent week we’ll replace you with this week’s winner, and current a bunch of recent prog music so that you can get pleasure from.
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SWALLOW THE SUN – MELANCHOLY (HOLY EDIT)
Understandably, some sections of the prog neighborhood nonetheless refuse steadfastly to have interaction with any type of growled vocals, which is, after all, their prerogative. Doomy Finnish prog metallers Swallow The Solar have determined to counter that by releasing a growl-free model of MelancHoly (Holy Edit). The unique was on the band’s Shining album, quickly to be launched as a digital deluxe version album, Shining Darkish Deluxe, out by way of Century Media on April 11.
The band are understandably, in celebratory temper. “We’re additionally extremely grateful to all of you who’ve supported us and listened to our music alongside the best way, this implies the world to us,” they enthuse.
TÖRZS – OTTHON
TÖRZS are Hungary’s greatest instrumental post-rock band, and new album Menedék, is their first new music in six years. It is launched by way of the Pelagic label on Might 16, and the title loosely interprets as ‘refuge’ in Hungarian. It is the trio’s fourth studio album.
First single, the hauntingly mesmeric Otthon, which implies ‘at house’, serves as an ideal introduction to the band’s sound. That is dynamic and detailed music, with a intelligent contact of simplicity. Music the place each observe issues and each house has equal significance.
MATT BERRY – SILVER RINGS
Matt Berry’s current album, Heard Noises, entered the UK album charts at No. 22, his highest ever chart putting. The basic 60s pop of Silver Rings is to be launched as a standalone seven-inch single whih is available in a model new sleeve designed by Matt and is restricted to 500 copies.
Berry describes creating the music as wanting it to sound prefer it was “being recorded dwell on The Ed Sullivan Present, with a band that somebody like Simon And Garfunkel would use, like a bloke who had been a session musician for the reason that early Fifties being instructed to play Byrds fashion pop 12-string as a result of The Byrds and The Beatles had been doing it – Proper, that’s what we’ve received to play as of late, let’s do it. That was what was going by way of my head.”
CONSTELLATIONS OF ATLAS – PETRICHOR
Constellations Of Atlas are a brand new and upcoming prog band based mostly within the Netherlands. They’ve not too long ago launched their debut single, Petrichor, which mixes their influences right into a sound that is been described as a mixture of Sungazer, Plini, and Snarky Pet. A full EP is to be launched within the close to future.
Jazz musician and music critic Sonny Floyd de Jong described the one thus: “Their first single begin with symphonic keys and guitar arpeggios that all of a sudden transition into exhausting rock. This shock is not any accident; their album is bursting with timbre adjustments that maintain the listener engaged. Hyperspeed drum fills with complicated time signatures alternate with virtually psychedelic passages of intertwined drum and guitar rhythms.
“It’s clear that the musicians skillfully use their mathematical background from TU Delft. Spectacular, generally singing, generally raging guitar components will make any Plini-loving shred fanatic completely satisfied. The unique samples chosen by the keyboardist play a key position within the a number of shocking shifts in atmosphere. The rock involves a dreamy halt with a fairytale-like interlude, the place even strings, celeste, and a choir might be heard.”
ALEX HENRY FOSTER – I’M AFRAID
The prolific Canadian post-rocker Alex Henry Foster and his band The Lengthy Shadows will launch a brand new dwell album, A Dusk Ritual, by way of Hopeful Tragedy Data later this yr. The album was recorded on the band’s present in Cologne, Germany, on July 27, 2024, and options 4 prolonged songs, two of which have by no means been launched earlier than. The ten-minute I am Afraid is the primary single, launched at present.
“A Dusk Ritual refers to each second with which we outline the character of our religion and hopelessness within the colors of mornings to come back,” declares Foster.
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AVAWAVES – EARTH
Earth is the brand new single from artwork rock duo AVAWAVES, who’re composer, producer and artist Aisling Brouwer and former Jethro Tull and Roxy Music collaborator Anna Phoebe, who will launch their third studio album, Heartbeat, by way of One Little Unbiased Data on Might 9.
“Earth is about digging your palms into the filth to choose your self up and put one foot in entrance of the opposite and letting nothing get in your means,” the pair say. “The album is about peeling again all of the layers we cloak ourselves in till there’s nothing left however the supply, and discovering the energy that resides there. We needed this album to really feel uncooked, sincere, and intuitive. There are themes of resilience, willpower, grit, and optimism in without end chasing the daybreak after darkish. It’s the bursting of bubbles and realising how a lot lighter every thing feels with out them.”
TRANSCENDENCE – TAKE CONTROL
A fast scout across the Web exhibits there’s been a number of bands referred to as Transcendence, all inside the prog sphere too! However the one we’re coping with listed below are the Dallas quartet who launched Meridian Undertaking in 2002, toured so much however then type of pale away. Effectively, they’re again, with their first new single for 22 years.
“Take Management was the primary music we recorded after becoming a member of Transcendence,” says vocalist Brian Dixon. “Already being an enormous fan of their beforehand launched supplies, I had a very good thought of what they needed vocally, despite the fact that Greg (authentic vocalist) and I sound nothing alike. Kirk and I spent about 3 hours with Bart at Fort Value Sound hammering out the small print”.
