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Posted: May 20 2016 at 10:21

Anyone else digging the new Niechęć album?

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Posted: May 19 2016 at 16:29

Bubu - Resplandor is one of the best modern releases I've heard.

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Posted: May 19 2016 at 12:03

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BTW Tony, the OP, actually introduced me to a new psych discovery: King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard.

Damn these guys are infectious! Old school psych rock done right with a warm and heartfelt garage vibe to it. Their two latest albums are currently on their way to Denmark.

Nonagon Infinity was one of the first garage rock records I've legitimately enjoyed in a while. Many of them tend to fall into a similar slog, for me. That KEXP performance was the first I heard of them. I was determined to not like them at the time, because I grouped them in with Ty Segall and Thee Oh Sees, whom I had tried to get into to no avail, but they were too engaging and infectious.

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Posted: May 19 2016 at 11:09

A few 2016 releases that I've purchased since my last post...

Black Mountain - IV

Causa Sui - Return To Sky

Duel - Fears Of The Dead

Elevators To The Grateful Sky - Cape Yawn

Heron Oblivion - Heron Oblivion

Native Daughters - Master Manipulator

Sendelica - I'll Walk With The Stars For You

Swedenborg Raum - In Between

Young Hunter - Young Hunter

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Posted: May 19 2016 at 09:54

Mahoney - You Are The Big Bang

Frost* - Falling Satellites

The Jelly Jam - Prophet/Profit

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Posted: May 19 2016 at 06:17

Also looking massively forward to Say So. Shiny Eyed Babies were and is a shining beacon in today's music scene.

Samuel: I saw that name but didn't know anything about her other than she sounded Portuguese Big smile

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Posted: May 19 2016 at 06:11

^^ That makes sense: since I started with "Enter", "Exit" seems a bit underdeveloped in comparison Tongue

I saw that Susana Santos Silva, a very talented Portuguese trumpeter, plays on the new album Thumbs Up

I didn't even find the instrumental interesting, it just seemed like complexity for the sake of it, not a single memorable melody in 60 minutes of music. Saying that it left me cold would be an understatement Thumbs Down

Edited by Meltdowner - May 19 2016 at 06:29

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Posted: May 19 2016 at 05:59

Agree on Haken. I was completely underwhelmed by what I heard. With so much genuinely great music around, I don't understand all the rave reviews that band is getting. Oh well... Talking about great stuff, I think Bent Knee's Say So will be released tomorrow, and we will finally get to see them live on Saturday at the Orion. Based on what I've heard, the album is a cracker!

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Posted: May 19 2016 at 05:57

Meltdowner wrote:

Guldbamsen wrote:

The new Fire! Orchestra is delicious!!! Rrrrrrrrraaauw! Like a club sandwich with extra rich curry dressing.

Oh and the fact that they've kept the production side of things analogue and 'live in the studio' makes this Dane a happy bunny.

On a not so inspired note: I streamed Haken's newest Sleepy

DT merges with any number of Kscope artists and decides to cut a "Nu-Prog album". Yawn.

That sounds awesome! Big smile

I'll probably order it next month Smile

Yawn, indeed Ouch

I see you span their debut yesterday Cool

I sorta see their discography as one "sound/album" that just continues to develop. The feel and groove is unmistakeably Fire! Orchestra but the bumps and rides change with every new release. I'm not sure if I'm making any sense - or maybe I just described a thousand bands - but it is nevertheless how I feel LOL

Now that I think of it, it almost sounds as if I'm describing a band that always makes the same album *cough* IQ *cough*, but that is not the case either LOL

Regarding Haken's Affinity: I rather enjoyed some of the instrumental passages, but just like the majority of modern prog metal acts, they then veer into flat, cheesy Americanised vocal harmonising that quite simply makes my skin crawl. Images of Nickelback, Creed and anything Neil Morse has ever sung on suddenly start zipping about my cabeza...and then I'm out.

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Posted: May 19 2016 at 05:43

Guldbamsen wrote:

The new Fire! Orchestra is delicious!!! Rrrrrrrrraaauw! Like a club sandwich with extra rich curry dressing.

Oh and the fact that they've kept the production side of things analogue and 'live in the studio' makes this Dane a happy bunny.

On a not so inspired note: I streamed Haken's newest Sleepy

DT merges with any number of Kscope artists and decides to cut a "Nu-Prog album". Yawn.

That sounds awesome! Big smile

I'll probably order it next month Smile

Yawn, indeed Ouch

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Posted: May 19 2016 at 05:34

BTW Tony, the OP, actually introduced me to a new psych discovery: King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard.

Damn these guys are infectious! Old school psych rock done right with a warm and heartfelt garage vibe to it. Their two latest albums are currently on their way to Denmark.

Edited by Guldbamsen - May 19 2016 at 06:19

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Posted: May 19 2016 at 05:27

The new Fire! Orchestra is delicious!!! Rrrrrrrrraaauw! Like a club sandwich with extra rich curry dressing.

Oh and the fact that they've kept the production side of things analogue and 'live in the studio' makes this Dane a happy bunny.

On a not so inspired note: I streamed Haken's newest Sleepy

DT merges with any number of Kscope artists and decides to cut a "Nu-Prog album". Yawn.

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Posted: April 07 2016 at 09:52

^ Fire! Orchestra have a new track on Soundcloud, they played this one live last year: https://soundcloud.com/rune-grammofon/fire-orchestra-ritual-part-1

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Posted: April 07 2016 at 09:37

^ Blues Pills and Fire! Orchestra have new stuff coming out? Oh lawd... Hope they don't disappoint.

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Posted: April 07 2016 at 06:41

Black Mountain - IV

Esfera - All The Colours of Madness (Very nice debut, I'd say this is Crossover Prog? I'll see this band this weekend)

Syndone - Eros & Thanatos (Seemed really good at first listen, except for a remake track that seems out of the place

Upcoming albums: Black Bombaim with Peter Brötzmann, Blues Pills, Fire! Orchestra, Miss Lava, Souq, Taproban, Il Tempio Delle Clessidre.

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Posted: April 07 2016 at 06:05

I can only think of the last David Bowie.

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Posted: April 07 2016 at 05:27

New discoveries include:

Heron Oblivion - s/t (psych rock)
Black Mountain - IV (ditto + icy synths)
Cavern of Anti-Matter - Void Beats / Invocation Trex (Stereolab member goes back in time for a little whiff of the ol Krautrock spirit....then mixes it with contemporary electronics)
Kosmicher Läufer - The Secret Cosmic Music....

Looking forward to Nicklas Sørensen's solo album as well as the new Swans and Panzerpappa (and all those I'm forgetting atm).

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Posted: April 07 2016 at 05:20

Prog-jester wrote:

Guldbamsen wrote:

One of the best tunes of 2016 thus far

...sounds like a "Heavy Metal Fruit" outtake, three riffs thrown together and stretched to a 17-min mark, only because the rest of the record is even less interesting, so they needed The Epic to hide that fact. Dunno what exactly happened to this once great band, but this is their fourth LP in a row that is exactly like any other post-2008 one from them (sans DDU) to my ears. "Finding your niche" for a band as eclectic as Motorpsycho are (were?) sounds like a creative suicide

I respect your opinion but I heartily disagree. I think they've continued to expand on their sound throughout the last couple of years.

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