IQ new album 'Dominion' announced.
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Topic: IQ new album 'Dominion' announced.
Posted By: yam yam
Subject: IQ new album 'Dominion' announced.
Date Posted: January 28 2025 at 08:47
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Well, we've known that they've been working on this for a while now, but today it's been officially announced. Just two more months to wait!  https://www.loudersound.com/news/iq-announce-brand-new-studio-album-dominion-their-first-for-six-years" rel="nofollow -  IQ: Dominion: 1. The Unknown Door 2. One Of Us 3. No Dominion 4. Far From Here 5. Never Land Looking forward to hearing this very much!  |
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Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: January 28 2025 at 08:56
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One of the most eagerly anticipated albums for 2025, I would think? ------------- Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson |
Posted By: yam yam
Date Posted: January 28 2025 at 08:59
| ^ Certainly by me! |
Posted By: Hrychu
Date Posted: January 28 2025 at 09:05
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IMHO Road of Bones had significantly less memorable "hooks" let's say than Frequency. It was still a delicious album though. But Resistance, for my tastes, is a clear step down. Songwriting-wise, it shows clear symptoms of the band running out of ideas. I hope IQ will bring back some of the "hummable" qualities of their older works on their upcoming album. ------------- “On the day of my creation, I fell in love with education. And overcoming all frustration, a teacher I became.” — Ernest Vong |
Posted By: yam yam
Date Posted: January 28 2025 at 09:10
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First studio mix of track 3 "No Dominion": And track 4 "Far From Here" performed live at Paris Café de la Danse on 21.09.2024: That second video only has the usual quite tinny smartphone sound quality, but at least it gives us an idea of what to expect. |
Posted By: Hrychu
Date Posted: January 28 2025 at 09:11
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It's always a pleasure to see more "newspaper comic strip" style doodles from Peter Nicholls. ❤ ------------- “On the day of my creation, I fell in love with education. And overcoming all frustration, a teacher I became.” — Ernest Vong |
Posted By: Octopus II
Date Posted: January 28 2025 at 09:38
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Looking forward to the album. I'm not sure about that album cover though?
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Posted By: mellotronwave
Date Posted: January 28 2025 at 12:54
| ^Thanks Yam yam |
Posted By: Catcher10
Date Posted: January 28 2025 at 13:37
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Looking forward to new IQ........ -------------   
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Posted By: omphaloskepsis
Date Posted: January 28 2025 at 13:39
It took longer for Resistance to kick in, but once it did...I fell in love. This girl adores Resistance and ROBs.
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Hrychu wrote:Posted By: mbzr48
Date Posted: January 28 2025 at 14:32
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https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=89755 Added today
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Posted By: PaulG
Date Posted: January 28 2025 at 16:29
| Definitely looking forward to this! Hope they change their touring schedule and fit Nee York in with Canada. |
Posted By: Lights Faces
Date Posted: January 28 2025 at 18:23
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Omg omg. 2 months to wait. The artwork is super good. Kinda different from previous albums too. The number of tracks is very limited too. I hope they're gonna be long.
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Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: January 28 2025 at 22:53
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yep looking forward to this! I kind of agree about Frequency being above TROB but the latter is the one that is generally much more popular. It's not so beholden to the 'neo prog' as well which something that plays in its favour.
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Posted By: A Crimson Mellotron
Date Posted: January 29 2025 at 00:28
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Great news! Always excited for new IQ! |
Posted By: BrufordFreak
Date Posted: January 29 2025 at 15:44
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The wizard-looking dude on the album cover looks like he might be John Jowitt or Mike Holmes' son! ------------- Drew Fisher https://progisaliveandwell.blogspot.com/ |
Posted By: Alard Charlton
Date Posted: January 29 2025 at 18:49
| I still think that they miss Widge's songwriting. IQ to me seem a bit directionless these days. |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: January 29 2025 at 19:30
| ^ apparently Orford went off to work as a truck driver he was so disillusioned with music! |
Posted By: Alard Charlton
Date Posted: January 30 2025 at 06:30
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I was in contact with Martin at the time and he didn't become a truck driver. It was a a very delicate and not very nice situation between himself and Mike Holmes. Orford was also becoming disillusioned about the ( then relatively new ) download culture. He left and decided to give up music and concentrate on his love of steam trains. I believe he is back in a part time capacity with Jadis. |
Posted By: yam yam
Date Posted: January 30 2025 at 10:28
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Martin wasn't completely out of the music scene for very long at all. He performed at Mellofest 2009 (the second international Mellotron festival, held on May 2nd that year at the Luminaire in Kilburn, North London), did some gigs with former IQ lead singer Paul Menel in 2012, and has been doing occasional acoustic gigs in front of small audiences (mostly house gigs) with Jadis's Gary Chandler since the https://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=96897" rel="nofollow - summer of 2014 . More info about that first gig he did with Gary https://giggingforever.blogspot.com/2014/07/7th-june-2014-gary-chandler-and-martin.html" rel="nofollow - here . Here is a short clip of him performing at Mellofest 2009: And performing the IQ song 'Nomzamo' with Paul Menel at Leamington Spa, 5th May 2012: He then contributed to the Jadis album 'No Fear of Looking Down' in https://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=106718" rel="nofollow - 2016 and their 'More Questions than Answers' album from the summer of last year. He still plays live gigs with the band to 'keep his hand' in, as he says. Regarding his decision to quit the music scene after he released 'The Old Road' in 2008, he said in an interview with Prog Magazine in the https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=2024332577616339&set=a.402062316510048" rel="nofollow - autumn of 2018 that all the companies that the album was shipped out to went bankrupt one after the other, and the album never paid its bills. He went on to say: "It takes four or five years to do this - every waking hour - and you never break even. The last track on 'The Old Road' is about the end of my time in music. All you can hear at the end of that album is the blackbirds singing in the garden, & that's all the songs you're going to get". Two more interviews with Martin can be found at: https://johnwettonlegacy.co.uk/f/meet-martin-widge-orford" rel="nofollow - https://johnwettonlegacy.co.uk/f/meet-martin-widge-orford (November 2023) and https://dmme.net/interviews/orford" rel="nofollow - https://dmme.net/interviews/orford (April 2003), though the first of those is about his experiences with John Wetton, and contains nothing of any relevance to IQ. When asked in that interview what he does for a living he replied: "I work for the Watercress Line steam railway one day a week and for the holiday park next door for the rest of the time. I basically look after the place, cutting hedges, mowing lawns and repairing and cleaning things. I also get to play with steam engines". Sounds like an idyllic life to me!
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Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: January 31 2025 at 00:00
I got this from Andy Edwards yt channel. I did wonder at the time if it was just Andy's attempt at a 'joke'. Appears so!
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Posted By: essexboyinwales
Date Posted: February 04 2025 at 15:25
For me Resistance was a huge step down from ALL their previous albums, including those with Paul Menel on lead vocals. If I score IQ albums out of 100, every album would score over 90 except Resistance, which would score more like 60-65. So many dull tracks on that album🤦🏼♂️ ------------- Heaven is waiting but waiting is Hell |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: February 04 2025 at 22:00
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^ It may be the curse of the double album perhaps. The Road Of Bones was not originally envisaged as a double but became one after fans overwelmingly purchased the 2 disc version. Frequency was a much tighter affair and also featured one of the best English prog drummers Andy Edwards (now more famous for his yt channel it seems). However Neil Durants keyboard programming is exquisite on Resistance and creates a wonderful soundscape for the music. I feel it's a much more interesting album than TROB which pretty much repeats the track Further Away and shows virtually no musical progression in ideas. Prog is not always about 'the songs'. IQ top 5 for me 1. Ever 2. The Wake 3. Frequency 4. Tales From The Lush Attic 5. The Seventh House Most overrated IQ album - Dark Matter. If ever an album showed a band running on fumes that was it IMO. Never rated it better than a 3 star album in PA terms. However for me the Paul Menel albums have to be at the bottom. He was never a good fit although I admire him as an artist in his right. His attempt at a prog epic with Human Nature was quite good fun actually and I love the song Nothing At All. Also No Love Lost was decent. Imagine Duran Duran had become a prog band and you have IQ in the Menel years.. |