Mostly Autumn: The New Pink Floyd?

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Psychedelic Paul wrote: AFlowerKingCrimson wrote: I don't know a whole lot about them but I don't think they are the new Pink Floyd. If anyone is it's probably this band called airbag.   Mostly Autumn sounded mostly like Pink Floyd on their Pink Floyd Revisited DVD.

MA leader Bryan Josh never made a secret of his admiration to Pink Floyd and Gilmour's guitar playing. Bryan says "It's in the blood" and you can hear gilmouresque guitar in many MA songs. I would say it's one of the band's trademarks, though MA have the sound of their own.

SteveG wrote: This thread title seems to change and evolve as Psychedelic Paul becomes more familiar with older albums by MA, where the band, and guitarist Josh, were heavily indebted to Floyd and Gilmour. They moved more into their own neo prog sound on more current albums, but were never in the hunt to dethrone Floyd or anyone else.

I’m on my iPad and page two won’t even open, gets stalled in loading. I think it’s probably too many video embeds, I can overdo that myself in topics and have received complaints. One thing, avoid posting lots of tracks from albums or full albums. That has been a policy. Just post ones you particularly like or that make a certain case. If people want to check out more, they can always look up YouTube, or one could in cases just provide a link to playlists and individual videos on YouTube. As for that last video, I hear a latter day Pink Floyd sound. It sounds fairly generic to me.

This off that same album, the debut, sounds very Pink Floyd to me.



It s not reminiscent of my favourite Pink Floyd periods, the more out there 60s through early 70s Pink Floyd psych and more experimental or underground period.   It’s more like the most commercial and slick sounding, to my ears, of Pink Floyd.

Given that I have a spare 5 minutes, as a huge fan of the band, and, unlike Paul, very familiar with them, I will answer the main question in the thread.

SteveG wrote: I agree that MA have morphed their music into an original sound, but neo prog still fits them.

Nogbad_The_Bad wrote: ... So I just gave The Last Bright Light album a listen and I'm not hearing many Floyd references, it's mainly Folk prog with a heavier / rockier feel. Anything I'm missing? Any other albums I should try?  ...

moshkito wrote: Nogbad_The_Bad wrote: ... So I just gave The Last Bright Light album a listen and I'm not hearing many Floyd references, it's mainly Folk prog with a heavier / rockier feel. Anything I'm missing? Any other albums I should try?  ... Hi, A lot of times it is easy to say that it sounds like and such, but as was the case in the old days, the same instrument in Germany or Italy, still sounded the same ... but not sure if it was MA or not, that the guitarist seemed like he was a DG fan ... and it made it sound like it was PF in that it seemed like the "solo's" and parts that are emphasized by the guitar were defined just like it might have been PF ... but, honestly, for me comparisons like that are bad ... people still say that Le Orme sounds like ELP and PF and what not ... and that, for me, is just really bad listening, and more than likely not to the whole album, either ... just bits and pieces of one song! It's hard to not say that it sounds like ... when there is one sound that is so familiar to all of us ... and that really makes it hard for new musicians with the same instruments ... they won't get the chance because they were always compared first ... but like a few other bands, didn't MA also do some PF covers?  It's almost like saying that every concerto or symphony has to sound like Mozart or Beethoven ... and you know that folks saying that, just like that ... are ... yeah, right!

 

SteveG wrote: ... I agree mosh. Neo prog is more of an indicator of an era than of a requisite set of sound characteristics. But as I stated many, many times before, assigning a genre or sub genre (any genre or sub genre) is done more in the interests of convenience than accuracy.