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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 31 2017 at 02:40
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Big Big Train - As the Crow Flies

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 31 2017 at 12:18
New Steve Hackett on the way. I am skeptical, but somehow it ended up in the cart anyway.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 31 2017 at 14:24
New Big Hogg out today. I'm digging it.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 31 2017 at 17:13
Mastodon - Emperor of Sand (their best since Crack the Skye)
Dutch Uncles - Big Balloon (they call it "indie", but it's got 80s Crimson/Talking Heads written all over it!)
Fen - Winter (really good prog/atmoblack metal
Soen - Lykaia (A Perfect Circle covering Katatonia; more 2003' Opeth than Tool, btw)
Elbow - Little Fictions (another "indie", but very Talk Talk(ish)/2002' Peter Gabriel to me)
King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard – Flying Microtonal Banana (math-surf microtonal insanity!)
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 31 2017 at 17:15
Also good to see this forum ignoring new Pallbearer - all the mainstream reviews are like THIS IS SO PROG, but all I hear is Type O Negative covering Nickelback. No idea what "prog" the music media been listening to if THAT is considered prog by them, bleh
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 02 2017 at 06:16
2017 has been interesting so far. It has seen both King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard and Blanck Mass produce their finest work to date. The former sound more adventurous yet still clinging onto that charming psychy garage style of theirs, whilst Blanck Mass' World Eater retains a black 80s dystopian power comparable to that of a few Joy Divisions yet all of this is handed over to the listener in brightly coloured electronics and swooping melody lines. Modern electronic at it's very best.

I also rather dig the new Richard Pinhas album Dronne. Perhaps not all that surprisingly the music takes on these droning qualities - eliptical reverberating guitar experiments yet somehow the music doesn't come off particularly one-sided. There's all kinds of colours, shimmers and twinkles oozing up from various usage of pedals and erfects and the surrounding hypno drums and see sawing electronics transform Pinhas guitar lines into something verging on melody and additionally wraps the whole experience in a psychedelic veil that suits pretty damn good imho.

One of my fave discoveries this year has been Thundercats' Drunk. Damn what a saucy throwback to those bouncy Funkadelic years during the 70s...but on this particular record they seem spliced together with the neopsychedelic antics of a black Ariel Pink. Sound weird? It isn't. It's like slipping into a hot bath.

New Temples album Volcano is still too new for me to have formed an opinion. It does however sound like they've followed in the footsteps of Tame Impala and Pond incorporating synth hooks and a good whiff of the 80s into the mix.

Grails are still at the top with Chalice Hymnal. That album is just gorgeous. Like micing up a river in the mountains.

To be continued..
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 02 2017 at 08:51
^Been meaning to check out that King Gizzard album.

Thundercat's great. My favorite thing of his is an EP actually, The Beyond / Where the Giants Roam. 

Otherwise, I've been listening to Seiko Oomori's kitixxxgaia. Definitely pop, but she has an arty bent. Kind of a deconstruction of Japanese idol pop, while also being a celebration of it. She's a great melodicist, too, and there are many earworms on this album. Overall not as solid as her previous, but it's still pretty enjoyable (to me).

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 02 2017 at 09:02
Been enjoying the latest Junius album "Eternal Rituals For The Accretion Of Light". Nicely done post-metal with some of that Alcest heavy shoegaze style mixed in (albeit with a little more "manliness" to the vocals). 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 02 2017 at 09:26
Digir Gidim debut it's a very impressive avant-black metal album
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 02 2017 at 09:56
Originally posted by Guldbamsen Guldbamsen wrote:

2017 has been interesting so far.

Only two new albums so far this year for me, Thinking Plague - Hoping Against Hope, and Mike Oldfield - Return To Ommadawn. The TP is outstanding & will probably be challenging for top spot by year end, MO is very good, while not quite up to the original or Hergest Ridge level it is back to the style of his I love the most and a worthy addition.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 02 2017 at 14:31
My favourite so far this year, rather to my own suprise, is the new Pryapisme album.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 04 2017 at 11:56
^that one is somewhere in the untrackable mail ether but should arrive this week. Definitely looking forward to it.

Also looking forward to new Cheer/Accident - Putting off Death. Shows as preorder on Amazon for May release, but no label or band press release....weird

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 04 2017 at 12:07
Electric Octopus - Chaotic Wavemaker  (Belfast, Northern Ireland  2017)
Instrumental, psych, funk, jazz, jam trio 

Bernelius - Space Drifter  (Norway  2017)
Hard rock, blues rock, stoner rock 

REZN - Let It Burn  (Chicago, IL  2017)
Cosmic doom, heavy psych, fuzz 

Risin Sabotage - Planet Dies  (Kyiv, Ukraine  2017)
Heavy rock, doom, stoner, desert rock 

Deep Space Destructors - Psychedelogy  (Oulu, Finland  2017)
Psychedelic space rock trio 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 04 2017 at 12:09
New Pond album on the way. The Weather releases early in May Can't wait for that!
Another one to look forward to is Homunculus Res. These guys are working on their third album and if they continue down the Canterbury road, I'll be a happy bunny.

I would like to hear some new stuff from:
Scott Walker
Todd Terje (Come on Todd!!! It's Album Time is already 3 years old)
Setna
Boards Of Canada
FSOL
Date Course Pentagon Royal Garden
Burial (a full album thank you!!! So tired of dishing out dough for tiny eps)
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Dead Can Dance

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 04 2017 at 12:16
Originally posted by Polymorphia Polymorphia wrote:

^Been meaning to check out that King Gizzard album.

Thundercat's great. My favorite thing of his is an EP actually, The Beyond / Where the Giants Roam. 

Otherwise, I've been listening to Seiko Oomori's kitixxxgaia. Definitely pop, but she has an arty bent. Kind of a deconstruction of Japanese idol pop, while also being a celebration of it. She's a great melodicist, too, and there are many earworms on this album. Overall not as solid as her previous, but it's still pretty enjoyable (to me).


The more I listen to Thundercat the more I hear Ariel Pink that is a huge compliment btw.
Definitely looking into his back catalogue at some point.

Thanks for the vid - I really enjoyed that. How's your electronic muscles developed? Can they take a little rockless tunes or are they still in their infancy? If not I heartedly recommend that Blanck Mass album. It's got this wild urban industrial feel to it that genuinely suits every street view you ever care to find.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 04 2017 at 13:01
Second album from Prescott dropping in May:

Thing Or Two

Autobuy for me. One of those rare bands that really does have a unique approach.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 05 2017 at 15:27
And a new live album from The Fierce And The Dead:

https://tfatd.bandcamp.com/album/field-recordings-live

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 08 2017 at 12:33
Aborym - Shifting.negative is an TERRIFIC album from this year, these guys freed themselves from extreme metal conventions and made an awesome album that is on par of the Pryapisme - Diabolicus Felinae Pandemonium in terms of quality and inovation, recommend to everyone really!!
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