Looking for very mellow prog albums

I've heard GYBE. Personally I think Sigur Ros would be a better recommendation for mellow based on what I've heard.

http://thevorticists.com/ My fav one by many of new bands who released thier debut albums in this decade, and exactly what Prog_Traveller is looking for.

Edited by Svetonio - September 02 2013 at 04:28

cstack3 wrote: mister nobody wrote: progbethyname wrote: Godspeed you! Black Emperor! Hauntingly mellow and Beautiful. Can't ask for much more. ;) That made me laugh. Me too!  I find that most prog albums have one or two mellow songs mixed in with more aggressive/bombastic material.  It might be easier to assemble a playlist from a number of bands, as I can't think of many prog albums that are 100% mellow.   Bands with some nice mellow material include Wishbone Ash, The Strawbs, and, as pointed out, numerous solo albums by folks like Wakeman, Hackett and others.   Have fun, it will be a fun project!  Don't forget Godspeed you! Black Emperor now!

Oh well I won't.

Edited by smartpatrol - September 01 2013 at 18:25

I really can't see them as being mellow. I understand what you're saying and I know the feeling, but I wouldn't define that as mellow. 

Yeah. And while you're at it, why don't you try Kayo Dot, Deafheaven, The Mars Volta and Mastodon? All great mellow bands!

progbethyname wrote: Godspeed you! Black Emperor! Hauntingly mellow and Beautiful. Can't ask for much more. ;)

I just read this thread a little bit rushed, so I might have gone through some things unnoticed. From what I read, I agree with Anthony Phillips "The Geese and the Ghost", and Opeth's "Damnation". Still, I don't recall seeing the "Storm Corrosion" album listed here, and I guess you could hardly go more mellow than that... though in an obscure kind of way. And perhaps even Alcest's "Ecailles de Lune" wold do... perhaps the only metal album (and with some sort of grunting at that) I know which could be called mellow and relaxing... but this one is both things (metal and mellow) at the same time, which would seem to be to mutually excluding qualities in music (and it's not like Damnation, which is a mellow album with no metal from a metal band, nor like other bands that have metal elements and mellow elements in different parts of their songs/albums).

Some Rick Wakeman albums should do well too, like perhaps "The 7 Wonders of the World" (or the "Middle Earth" one, which is just about the same album), or "Stella Bianca a la corte di re Ferdinand", or several of his New Age or Piano albums (most of which I don't know). Or the John Petrucci and Jordan Rudess album.

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