Elleven (Germany) for Neo Prog

Really excellent band, already on Proggnosis: http://proggnosis.com/ARTIST_DETAIL.aspx?AID=8583, added to progfreak two months ago: http://progfreak.com/Elleven-164813.html, and all set for an evaluation. 

Bump. 

yam yam wrote: I'm probably gonna get into trouble for doing this....but this band STILL hasn't found its way into the Neo Prog team's evaluation charts on progfreak.  Five other bands and artists are just stagnating there in the 'New' chart - with no activity from any of the team members (not even a log in on the site) for around three months. Roads to Damascus still haven't been added to their evaluation chart either - and that suggestion is now nine months old.  Raff commented in that particular thread that "we are all volunteers, and we happen to have lives outside PA - sometimes having to deal with serious issues", which is a very valid point indeed, but I do feel that when you are unable to carry out your volunteer duties for this length of time (and this applies to all three members of the team...not just one or two of them) then you should let the admins know, so that other volunteers can be recruited to get things moving again. Let's just get this into perspective here - no additions whatsoever have been made to the Neo Prog category on PA in 2016, no team member has logged into the site they use to track their evaluations for three months, and two of the three team members have never logged into the progfreak site at all since they were recruited to the team as new members four months or so ago. I have stopped logging in to PA on a regular basis myself (I visit the site at least half a dozen times a day though) because of frustration at not being able to contribute to the site as much as I'd like to - or even to access the collab zone to check up on the status of old evaluations that appear to have stalled (I was at one time a member of the Crossover team, but felt the need to step down after receiving criticism for being too lenient with my voting - effectively my knowledge of prog as it is perceived on PA isn't really good enough to be considered as a 'collaborator' here). I am not a key member of the site with a dedicated role to play any more though, so it doesn't matter at all that I sometimes 'disappear' for a few weeks or months, but I think it does matter when the whole of an evaluation team goes awol for several months like this, and the sub genre they are supposed to be looking after receives absolutely zero input for this length of time.  Even the 'current Neo-Prog Team members' list on the main Neo Prog page hasn't been updated for over a year.  As I said at the start, I'm probably gonna get into trouble over this, and may end up down in the dungeon with Svetonio, Komandant Shamal and dear old Walter, but I really think someone in authority needs to step in here and get things back on an even keel again.

Thanks. Best wishes for Neo Prog team. 

Yam Yam, if you had been able to access the Collab Zone, you'd see the difficulties this team has had individually (and collectively at times) over the last few months.  Extremely frustrating and dispiriting would be words I'd use from my personal perspective.  Even now 2 members of the team are even able to access progfreak.

I am listening to Elleven as I type this, and my initial reaction is that they seem right for Neo.  However I wish to listen to as much of their material as I can and will then vote.

Elleven certainly have my vote, they now have two "YES" votes from the Team.  We will need a third vote to clear them and that's where the problems start (yes PF problems persist for the other members).  Elleven really are an excellent band, the new album in particular really impressed me.  I like the way the vocals are a little different for a band of this genre whilst the music veers towards indie at times, a refreshing change.  They really do deserve much greater exposure, hopefully an appearance on PA will help.



Let's hope we don't have quite as long a wait for another album from them!

Added. Thanks for your patience.