Top 5 of 2023 So Far - Progressive Rock Music Forum

Prog-jester wrote:

Since you'd enjoyed these two may I recommend you this:

~Stoned Jesus, Season of the Witch~

I listened to your album when it first came out and liked it but actually enjoyed some of your earlier stuff better.

After your post, I went back again. I realized that I'm not as into straight doom like at the beginning of SotW, but that's just my taste, it's well done. But then listening with somewhat fresh ears to the whole album, I'm digging it a lot more. More psych and prog. Odd time in Porcelain is really good, and just the variation of so many textures. The middle section of SotW is my kind of music, and I dig the guitar sound which has more of a single coil feel in a lot of places even thought it's really heavy.

So - Bravo good sir.

You are quite a fine person, and I am very fond of you. But you are only quite a little fellow, in a wide world, after all.

Negoba, thank you! "Porcelain" is actually my favourite track there hehe

Nogbad_The_Bad wrote:

Cristi wrote:

Saperlipopette! wrote:

I've not listened to enough new music of relevance for PA yet. 2023 favorite so far is The Necks - Travel. Also not on PA, but I guess I think they belong here. My favorite actually in PA is the always wonderful Kosmischer Läufer's new album Volume Five

suggest the band/artist if it's not on PA yet.

They were rejected by Jazz Rock Fusion a couple of years ago. I always considered them borderline but primarily jazz. Great album, great band.

Yes, they do have a little bit of "everything I like". Modern jazz, Motorik/Kraut etc... but Post-Rock is where I'd place them here at PA. Maybe purely accidental, the building blocks are certainly different. But there's a lot of similarities experiencing their music for me as a listener.

The Mars Volta latest album is an 'unplugged' affair. It doesn't suck which is something I suppose.

So that's 5 is it?

Ian

Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on Progrock.com

https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-avant-jazzcore-happy-hour/

Aksak Maboul - Une aventure de VV (Songspiel)

Squid - O Monolith

Kong - Traders of Truth

Battlestations - Memories of once

Kavus Torabi & Richard Wileman - Heaven's Sun

I don't list the Swans album yet, only heard it once, but chances are it'll be top 5.

Just didn't make it: Zopp - Dominion, Poil Ueda

Not on PA: Mammal Hands - Gift from the Trees; Jeremias Keller - Alloy. The Necks album isn't bad either.

Edited by Lewian - June 27 2023 at 16:08

Poil Ueda - s/t
Squid - O Monolith
Ultraphauna - No No No No
Natural Information Society - Since Time Is Gravity
SRWM - Salamander

Ian

Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on Progrock.com

https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-avant-jazzcore-happy-hour/

A lot of my current favorites aren't on PA, so I'll incorporate both PA and non-PA artists into my current top 10:

1. Jeromes Dream - The Gray in Between (hardcore/screamo)

2. Fires in the Distance - Air Not Meant for Us (death/doom metal)

3. Kostnateni - Upal (avant-garde death/black metal) (I'm planning on forwarding this project to the PM team pretty soon Smile

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4. Leith Ross - To Learn (indie pop/folk)

5. Avenged Sevenfold - Life Is but a Dream (progressive/avant-garde metal)

6. Katatonia - Sky Void of Stars (progressive rock/metal)

7. Paramore - This Is Why (post-punk/new wave/alternative rock)

8. Vintersea - Woven Into Ashes (progressive/melodic death metal)

9. Damien Jurado - Sometimes You Hurt the Ones You Hate (indie folk)

10. Pupil Slicer - Blossom (metalcore/mathcore)

Honorable mentions:

Meg Baird - Furling (indie folk)

Cattle Decapitation - Terrasite (death metal/deathgrind)

Immortal - War Against All (black metal)

Omnerod - The Amensal Rise (progressive death metal)

Jethro Tull - RokFlote (progressive/folk rock)

Dave Lombardo - Rites of Percussion (avant-garde/experimental)

Edited by Necrotica - June 28 2023 at 13:43

Take me down, to the underground
Won't you take me down, to the underground
Why oh why, there is no light
And if I can't sleep, can you hold my life

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Anchor and Burden - Kosmonautik Pilgrimage

Alex Ward - Furthered

PoiL Ueda - PoiL Ueda

Zopp - Dominion

Amoeba Split - Quiet Euphoria

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Nogbad_The_Bad wrote:

Poil Ueda - s/t
Squid - O Monolith
Ultraphauna - No No No No
Natural Information Society - Since Time Is Gravity
SRWM - Salamander

I don't think I have a top 5 yet but that Ultraphauna album would surely be there. I think you had posted a Bandcamp link in another thread and that's how I came to hear it. So, thank you. It's great.