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Points: 21320 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 07 2015 at 20:54
Originally posted by Horizons Horizons wrote:

I just to remind people to listen to the new Jaga Jazzist. Somehow these guys made another essential contemporary album. Starfire (the track) is just a top notch opener. 



It is a fantastic album, quite an interesting change of direction & the opener is stunning.
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Points: 8856 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 07 2015 at 21:01
Originally posted by Nogbad_The_Bad Nogbad_The_Bad wrote:

Originally posted by Horizons Horizons wrote:

I just to remind people to listen to the new Jaga Jazzist. Somehow these guys made another essential contemporary album. Starfire (the track) is just a top notch opener. 



It is a fantastic album, quite an interesting change of direction & the opener is stunning.


Still haven't listened to it, but I plan to at some point. I probably should have nabbed (and I mean buy, of course) it at the record store when I had the chance.

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Points: 16952 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 07 2015 at 22:36
Originally posted by Nogbad_The_Bad Nogbad_The_Bad wrote:

Originally posted by Horizons Horizons wrote:

I just to remind people to listen to the new Jaga Jazzist. Somehow these guys made another essential contemporary album. Starfire (the track) is just a top notch opener. 



It is a fantastic album, quite an interesting change of direction & the opener is stunning.



Yea the title perfectly and succinctly describes the album. Real energetic explosions with some really awesome starship vibes. All with the signature Jaga grooves and sound. 
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Points: 12859 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 08 2015 at 04:49
Listened to Starfire again yesterday, and I have to agree with you guys, it really is great. As you said, Ian, an interesting change of direction. The added use of electronics makes it sound more futuristic and spacey, but it's still easily recognisably Jaga.
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Points: 23104 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 24 2015 at 15:51
Yep agreeing with you guys big time. I have really fallen for the new Jaga Jazzist album too! Then again I live for added electronics to almost any kind of music

Another one which, I admittedly only have spent a couple of weeks with, but genuinely have gone completely berserk for is the new Vespero album Fitful Slumbers. Man I'm digging the add-on of acoustic and slightly eastern sounding instruments. Still sounds like Vespero though with a brand new feel to the music.

For the guys and gals who'd like to hear what a more technically gifted Tame Impala would sound like; please check out Swedish band The Amazing (yikes what a name!) and their newest Picture You. The vocals are far removed from the aforementioned Aussies and there's a folky note to the music as well, but especially the rhythm section and those 60s sounding touches remind me of them. I do think The Amazing were first (Make that Dungen!).

Btw loving the new Moonbuilding 2703 AD from The Orb as well as another new electronic release in Four Tet's two epic journey Morning / Evening. Damn tasty both of them....and I've only had them for 48 hours! Rrrrrrauw


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Originally posted by Guldbamsen Guldbamsen wrote:

Yep agreeing with you guys big time. I have really fallen for the new Jaga Jazzist album too! Then again I live for added electronics to almost any kind of music

Another one which, I admittedly only have spent a couple of weeks with, but genuinely have gone completely berserk for is the new Vespero album Fitful Slumbers. Man I'm digging the add-on of acoustic and slightly eastern sounding instruments. Still sounds like Vespero though with a brand new feel to the music.

For the guys and gals who'd like to hear what a more technically gifted Tame Impala would sound like; please check out Swedish band The Amazing (yikes what a name!) and their newest Picture You. The vocals are far removed from the aforementioned Aussies and there's a folky note to the music as well, but especially the rhythm section and those 60s sounding touches remind me of them. I do think The Amazing were first (Make that Dungen!).

Btw loving the new Moonbuilding 2703 AD from The Orb as well as another new electronic release in Four Tet's two epic journey Morning / Evening. Damn tasty both of them....and I've only had them for 48 hours! Rrrrrrauw




We found Starfire last Saturday at our favourite independent music store (one of the few left standing), and of course grabbed it immediately. Truly outstanding stuff! It's a pity we missed them when they played here in June, but that was not a very good time for us.

The Amazing are... amazing indeed! I didn't know they had a new album out. We'll have to look for it!
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I would imagine Micky loving The Amazing. Lots to love from a Dungen fan pov. S'got that early summer morning feel to it that the Swedes really do beautifully.
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Btw loving the new Moonbuilding 2703 AD from The Orb



No idea how I missed this Shocked.

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Points: 3126 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 25 2015 at 03:03
Honestly so many recommendations here I really want to try out.  And I thought I was doing well for 2015 releases LOL.....think again.  So much new music, so little time.
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It's really great to see people putting away their conservative habits and namedropping anything from Kendrick Lamar to Bjork Open-minded = progressing! At least in my book

...and the 2015th page of my book says this (so far):

Anekdoten - Until All The Ghosts Are Gone
Elder - Lore
Tribulation - The Children of the Night
Pobeda - Atlas Stands
Citizen - Everybody Is Going To Heaven
My Morning Jacket – The Waterfall
A Forest of Stars - Beware The Sword You Cannot See
Paradise Lost - The Plague Within
Shores - Precedents
5R6 - Islands - it'll be out only in September, but it's already on my Top-10 for 2015, and that's NOT gonna change!

FKA twigs - M3LL155X EP
Arenna - Given to Emptiness
Sacri Monti - s/t
Dr. Dre - Compton
Suis La Lune - Distance/Closure
Disappears - Irreal
nearr - Pale Youth
Mutiod Man - Bleeder
Turbowolf - Two Hands
Colin Stetson & Sarah Neufeld - Never Were the Way She Was
Make Do and Mend - Don't Be Long
Swervedriver - I Wasn't Born to Lose You
The Amazing - Picture You
Black Space Riders - Refugeeum
The Grand Astoria - The Mighty Few
Meek Mill - Dreams Worth More Than Money
Ought - Sun Coming Down
Hammerhead - New Directionz
Heralds - s/t EP
Cold Comfort - Issue De Secours EP
Ghostface Killah / BadBadNotGood - Sour Soul
Vespero - Fitful Slumber until 5 A.M.
Twa Corbies - The Clamouring
Bosse-de-Nage - All Fours
Cloakroom - Further Out
NY In 64 - NY 64
City of Me - Fall EP
Vennart - The Demon Joke
Agusa - Agusa 2
Tangled Thoughts of Leaving - Yield to Despair
Hope Drone - Cloak of Ash
Anopheli - The Ache Of Want
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Points: 23104 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 25 2015 at 09:26
I've seen a lot of praise for the new Anekdoten, yet I am finding it exeedingly hard to get into. To me it sounds like autopilot or, if you will, their last couple of albums thrown in the blender. Maybe it'll come to me though.
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Points: 23104 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 25 2015 at 09:30
A little shout-out to the folks who're into F*ck Buttons. The sideproject Blanck Mass' newest one Dumb Flesh is a most wonderful record. Beautiful melodic sways of electronics stuffed into nice little packages that ooze of this twisted and almost danceable take on 80s dark romanticism and glacial whispers.
Get it while it's hot!
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Originally posted by Prog-jester Prog-jester wrote:

It's really great to see people putting away their conservative habits and namedropping anything from Kendrick Lamar to Bjork Open-minded = progressing! At least in my book

...and the 2015th page of my book says this (so far):

Anekdoten - Until All The Ghosts Are Gone
Elder - Lore
Tribulation - The Children of the Night
Pobeda - Atlas Stands
Citizen - Everybody Is Going To Heaven
My Morning Jacket – The Waterfall
A Forest of Stars - Beware The Sword You Cannot See
Paradise Lost - The Plague Within
Shores - Precedents
5R6 - Islands - it'll be out only in September, but it's already on my Top-10 for 2015, and that's NOT gonna change!

FKA twigs - M3LL155X EP
Arenna - Given to Emptiness
Sacri Monti - s/t
Dr. Dre - Compton
Suis La Lune - Distance/Closure
Disappears - Irreal
nearr - Pale Youth
Mutiod Man - Bleeder
Turbowolf - Two Hands
Colin Stetson & Sarah Neufeld - Never Were the Way She Was
Make Do and Mend - Don't Be Long
Swervedriver - I Wasn't Born to Lose You
The Amazing - Picture You
Black Space Riders - Refugeeum
The Grand Astoria - The Mighty Few
Meek Mill - Dreams Worth More Than Money
Ought - Sun Coming Down
Hammerhead - New Directionz
Heralds - s/t EP
Cold Comfort - Issue De Secours EP
Ghostface Killah / BadBadNotGood - Sour Soul
Vespero - Fitful Slumber until 5 A.M.
Twa Corbies - The Clamouring
Bosse-de-Nage - All Fours
Cloakroom - Further Out
NY In 64 - NY 64
City of Me - Fall EP
Vennart - The Demon Joke
Agusa - Agusa 2
Tangled Thoughts of Leaving - Yield to Despair
Hope Drone - Cloak of Ash
Anopheli - The Ache Of Want

Where do you find your music?!! I've never heard of any of these bands! (Well, almost any . . . )
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IO Earth - New World
Box Of Shamans - Belief And Illusion
Osanna - Palepolitana
Grand Tour - Heavy On the Beach
Exovex - Radio Silence
Roz Vitalis - Lavoro D'Amore
Section IV - Superhuman
Theo - The Game of Ouroboros
Zip tang - Private Shangri-La
Yak - Quest For The Stones
Fjieri - Words Are All We Have
Davy O'List - Second Thoughts
Echolyn - I Heard You Listening
Gekko Projekt - Reya Of Titan
Magic Pie - King For A Day
Cherry Five - Il Pozzo dei Giganti
Circuline - Return
Barock Project - Skyline
Drifting Sun - Trip the Life Fantastic
Glacier - Ashes For The Monarch
Sunchild - Synesthesia
The Psychedelic Ensemble - The Sunstone
Ubi Maior - Incanti Bio Meccanic
Ciccada - The Finest of Miracles
Hasse Froberg & Musical Companion - HFMC
Arnioe - Doesn't It End Here
Advent - Silent Sentinel
Hands - Caviar Bobsled
Big Big Train - Wassail
Breaking Orbit - Transcension
Project Patchwork -Tales From A Hidden Dream
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra - Plays Prog Rock Classics
Sanguine Hum - Now We Have Light
Franck Carducci - Torn Apart
PTF - What Is Constant
The Arc Light Sessions - Perchance To Dream
The Vintage Caravan - Arrival
Neodyme - La Signature du Temps
T - Fragmentropy
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Meliora, the new Ghost album... Wow, just wow. Shocked
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Originally posted by BrufordFreak BrufordFreak wrote:

Where do you find your music?!! I've never heard of any of these bands! (Well, almost any . . . )

theobelisk.net, allstreaming, progstreaming, pitchfork(), rateyourmusic's current - which very proggy, btw
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Points: 16952 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 25 2015 at 21:01
I wanna talk about how much i love the Algiers album - holy cow. So fresh sounding - just the energy, passion, and pulse put into it all, it's infectious. Pretty much a perfect blend of gospel, hip hop, and post-punk. LOVE itttt. 




(Warning: briefly loud at the beginning)

So far my AOTY.



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^ I can confirm that Algiers is pretty damn good.
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Originally posted by LearsFool LearsFool wrote:

^ I can confirm that Algiers is pretty damn good.

Wooo!

Side note kinda:
Your review of the new Toe was awesome to read, man. Giving it a 5* pretty much made me have to get it now. 
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Originally posted by Horizons Horizons wrote:

Originally posted by LearsFool LearsFool wrote:

^ I can confirm that Algiers is pretty damn good.

Wooo!

Side note kinda:
Your review of the new Toe was awesome to read, man. Giving it a 5* pretty much made me have to get it now. 



Thanks man, hope you enjoy Hear You.
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