Wintergatan for Crossover Prog

Kingsnake wrote: Glad they're added. I immediately typed a review. This year the new album will be released (double album)

Nice! I'd like to hear them stretch some of their tunes out a bit more and experiment, plenty of space on a double album for that...

Edited by Mascodagama - January 22 2017 at 11:21

Kingsnake wrote: Glad they're added. I immediately typed a review. This year the new album will be released (double album)

Glad they're added. I immediately typed a review.

This year the new album will be released (double album)

^Agreed. I bought the debut on a whim and have been pleasantly surprised by the unique and quite happy expression found therein. Bubbly percussive prog pop thang....who cares anyhoo - it sounds great.

Wintergatan have been cleared by the Crossover team, and have been added here

I have the album, very nice stuff indeed, and I think the guy is an utter genius for the marble machine alone.  It had not occurred to me as prog rock - more prog pop, really - but why not?  Then again, I'm one of those who'd prefer to take a fairly expansive view of what fits on the site.  Not that anyone asked me 

Meltdowner wrote: ^ They were added to the chart with a "yes" vote yesterday: http://progfreak.com/Wintergatan-167669.html?path=pa/recent

Any progress??

Crossover doesn't need reminding as the Wintergaten suggestion is one of the more recent posts in their team thread. They have a backlog and I think that several of their team members may be on hiatus for the moment (so-called real-life can get in the way, and team work can really burn people out as it can be very demanding). I do know that one of their team was having problems adding to progfreak (when I had problems ages ago Mike helped me solve the problems immediately).

What has worked well for me in the past was friendly PMs to the team members if many months have passed with no sign of any activity (can help to solidify a relationship with the people too). The team members are listed on the subgenre pages (say here -- http://www.progarchives.com/subgenre.asp?style=3

Progfreak is a site made and run by Mike who was an important collab at this site, but it is not part of progarchives. He made the PA team charts to help Prog Archives team members to keep track of the suggestions and their status, but not all teams use them as different teams have different methods to keep organized. It's an excellent site and worth checking out -- been too long since I used it regularly, but anyone can join and contribute. I like his tagging and rating system for albums.

Edited by Logan - December 01 2016 at 12:05

There was still no entry for this artist on progfreak, despite the Crossover team being notified more than a month ago. I have now made the basic entry: http://progfreak.com/Wintergatan-167669.html, but the Crossover team needs reminding, it seems. Several other suggestions for that sub genre over recent months have also received no response, unfortunately. Don't quite know what the situation presently is with the team, but any activity there certainly seems pretty limited to say the least.