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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 22 2014 at 10:42
I've actually gotten and seen TBK at many record shops, was really excited. Hope you enjoy it soon - but then again i should stop talking it up to prevent that letdown feeling when you finally listen. Ouch



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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 22 2014 at 10:46
Ahh don't worry. I don't think it's possible to talk it more up than it already isTongue

I have actually spotted it in shops, but the price tag was a little too disturbing for my tastes. LPs are made of vinyl yes? Not sapphires. 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 22 2014 at 12:33
1. IQ - Road of Bones
2. Magnum - Escape from the shadow garden
3. Anathema - Distant Satellites
4. Perfect Beings - Perfect beings
5. Transatlantic - Kaleidoscope
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 22 2014 at 12:58
I was going to buy TBK the other day (at the only record place in town). I couldn't find it, unfortunately, so I may end up ordering it online. 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 23 2014 at 17:57
Originally posted by richardh richardh wrote:

Originally posted by progbethyname progbethyname wrote:

Originally posted by richardh richardh wrote:


Originally posted by progbethyname progbethyname wrote:

Q-- The Road Of Bones
Eloy--Reincarnation Live ON Stage
Vanden Plas--Chronicles Of The Immortals
Hibernal--Replacements
Agalloch--The Serpent And The Sphere
Jethro Tull--Steven Wilson remix (2014) boxset for A Passion Play
Anubis    Hitchiking To Byzantium
Anathema - Distant SatellitesDevin Townsend--Casualties Of CoolLacuna Coil--Broken Crown Halo



didn't realise the Eloy album was this year so that could be added to my list
Lacuna Coil - that name has suddenly become known to me via Ayreon's The Theory Of Everything (the very attractive lead singer is one of the guest vocalists). Is it prog metal? I note the band are not included on PA as yet.


Hey Richard. Yeah The Coil have some progressive tendencies but its minor. They infuse a gothic pop metal that really had seemed to work for me many years now. And yes...That Miss Scabbia is a bloody knockout with great stage presence. So many bands like Amaranth try to follow in Coils footsteps, but Lacuna reign supreme. If you think C.S is good looking now you should see what she looked liked 10 years ago. Lets just say it was hard to concentrate on The music. ;)
I put their album in a number 10. To be honest I haven't quite filled a cohesive 10 yet.
I shall though. It's not a bad year at all for music and for Prog.
The latest Flaming Row album might sneak in. :)


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 28 2014 at 21:54
Originally posted by Nogbad_The_Bad Nogbad_The_Bad wrote:

Knifeworld - The Unravelling
Accordo Dei Contrari - AdC
Bob Drake - Lawn Ornament
 
 
Ok having given these three sufficient serious listening I can confidently state that all three may be in my year end top 10 and Knifeworld is a candidate for top spot.

Thanks for this key recommendation. KNIFEWORLD would never have crossed my radar screen but I am LOVING it! Awesomely fresh!

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 29 2014 at 03:08
The great albums of 2014 for me :

Clearlight - Impressionist Symphony
Karfagen - Magician's Theater
Druckfarben - Second Sound
Univers Zero - Phosphorescent Dreams
Transatlantic - Kaleidoscope
Anton Roolaart - The Plight Of Lady Oona
Opeth - Pale Communion
Glass Hammer - Ode To Echo
Mostly Autumn - Dressed In Voices
Mastodon - Once More Round The Sun

And the worst :
Major Parkinson - Twilight Cinema
IQ - The Road Of Bones
Ange - Emile Jacotey Ressurection
ACT - Circus Pandemonium

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 02 2014 at 21:13
Found out that Devin Townsend is releasing ZILTOID 2 on OCT/31st.
This guy has been so busy the last 7 years, but anyway I bet I'm gonna love this album a great deal and it should crack my ten easy. 2 album releases in 1 year!
Gimmie my headphones now!!! 🎧🤣
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 03 2014 at 20:19
Sampling some albums in this thread. I've found much of it hard to connect with, but Swans, Boris, Agalloch, and Wovenhand sound promising. Going to purchase TBK tonight I think.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 04 2014 at 04:15
^Nice to see Wovenhand getting a mention. That last album of theirs is really great. Maybe it's the psychedelic and more rocking edge of it, but it really works for them. An act I'd sort of forgotten about for a couple of releases that sounded much too similar. 

On another note: There's a new Siinai album out called SupermarketBig smile 
Hot damn!!!! I had no idea until Matti just added the album to our database, so yeah THANK YOU Matti! 
Wow...I really dig these guys. Their debut album received quite a number of reviews worldwide - mostly due to it being called Olympic Games and being released around the same time as the Games visited London. Their sophomore release was a collab with Moonface, and took their punchy and swirling post-rock meets Krautrock and mixed it with the dark romanticism of the 80s - Bowie vocals and all. Fantastic album really. 
Really looking forward to hear where these guys are going next....although I have a sneaking suspicion that they've moved a wee bit back towards their initial sound.
Anyways, here's a tune off it called Shopping Trance, if you're intrigued.   
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 04 2014 at 06:04
Polymorphia, I like yr taste!

Mine ones are so far:

Truckfighters - Universe
Greenleaf - Trails & Passes
Sun Kil Moon - Benji
Swans - To Be Kind
Post War Glamour Girls - Pink Fur
Peter Murphy - Lion
IQ - The Road of Bones
Young Widows - Easy Pain
Owen Pallett - In Conflict
Die Nerven - Fun
Anubis - Hitchhiking To Byzantium
Umor - Held Us Silent For A Moment
Morrissey - World Peace Is None of Your Business
Mastodon - Once More 'round the Sun

some more picks:

The Chant - New Haven
Get Your Gun - The Worrying Kind
Lucifer In The Sky With Diamonds - The Shining One
Pallbearer - Foundations Of Burden
Drones of North America - s/t
Wild Beasts - Present Tense
Topple - A House that Jack Built
Landskap - I
Sivert Hoyem - Endless Love
The Hotelier - Home, Like No Place Is There
Agalloch - The Serpent & the Sphere
Atmosphere - Southsiders
Agusa - Hogtid
Psalm Zero - The Drain
Bird - My Fear and Me
Saor — Aura
Nasheim - Solens Vemod
Oubliette - Apparitions
Skogen - I Doden
Elbow - The Take Off And Landing Of Everything
Burrow - Mother
Dream The Electric Sleep - Heretics
Creepoid - s/t
Linda Perhacs - The Soul Of All Natural Things
The Skull Defekts - Dances In Dreams Of The Known Unknown
Aleph Null - Nocturnal
The Kindred - Life In Lucidity
Zaum - Oracles
Me Versus I – Following Feathers
Motorpsycho - Behind The Sun
Nothing – Guilty of Everything
A Silver Mt Zion - f**k Off Get Free We Pour Light on Everything
Deluge Grander- Heliotians
We All Die (Laughing) - Thoughtscan
Behemoth - The Satanist
Impure Wilhelmina - Black Honey
Child - s/t
Nicole Saboune - Must Exist
Kamchatka - The Search Goes On
Royksopp & Robyn - Do It Again EP
The Roots - …And Then You Shoot Your Cousin
Sleepy Sun - Maui Tears
The Graviators - Motherload
Univers Zero - Phosphorescent Dreams
Nicole Dollanganger - Observatory Mansions
Katatonia - Kocytean EP
Sharon Van Etten - Are We There
Birth Of Joy - Prisoner
Druckfarben - Second Sound
Apart From This - Spinning EP
Antemasque - s/t
DeWolff - Grand Southern Electric
The Antlers - Familiars
Nick Mulvey - First Mind
Stone Cold Boys - One Minute Made Man EP
Manchester Orchestra - Cope
LogoS - L`Enigma Della Vita
Fuchs - The Unity Of Two Papir - IIII
Barzin - To Live Alone In That Long Summer
Los Random - Pidanoma
Need - Orvam: A Song of Home
D'accord - III
Nux Vomica - s/t Pree Tone - Brights EP Kriegsmaschine - Enemy Of Man
Ethereal Riffian - Aeonian
Dirge - Hyperion
Synaesthesia - s/t
Gem Club - In Roses
Planet Of Zeus - Vigilante
1000mods - Vultures
Strand of Oaks - Heal
Sunn O))) Ulver - Terrestrials
United Nations - The Next Four Years
The Afghan Whigs - Do The Beast
Knifeworld - The Unravelling
Cormorant - Earth Diver
The Astronauts - Hollow Ponds
Pree Tone - Wild Highs EP
Cymbals Eat Guitars - Lose
Prawn - Kingfisher
Russian Red - Agent Cooper
Thomas Doncourt - The Mortal Coil
Yob - Clearing The Path To Ascend
FKA twigs - LP1
We Insist! - s/t
FreddeGredde - Brighter Skies
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 04 2014 at 06:21
Damn that's quite a list! 
If I had that kind of dough to spend on new releases, I'd be a happy bunnyBig smile

On an unrelated note; it seems as if this one
is dividing people even more that their first couple of albums did. Metal heads eh?LOL 
It used to be "You can't put dreamy floating thangs in metal!!!!!"
Now it's more "Where's the freakin' metal in the dreamy floating thangs?!?!?!!"


Edited by Guldbamsen - September 04 2014 at 06:21
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 04 2014 at 07:41
It's been a decent year for prog but nothing has really blown me away so far (though I'll concede I am a little behind.  I really like the new Opeth album and the releases by IQ, Mostly Autumn and Transatlantic warrant a mention.

However the best new album I've heard this year is not on PA, it's Reachy Prints by UK electronic band Plaid. The track Hawkmoth is simply one of the best pieces of music I've ever heard.  If anybody out there likes their progressive electronic music from the IDM school but with a very proggy influence you could do a lot worse than to check this out.  Dave, knowing your taste, this might be right up your street if you're not already familiar with it.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 04 2014 at 07:46
Nah it's news to me, so thanks for thatBig smile Sounds like it's right up my alley.

Btw Have you checked out Siinai yet? I posted a track by them in here earlier today called Shopping Trance. I think you'd like it. Very nice electronics indeed.


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 04 2014 at 07:48
I can't listen from the pc I'm on at the moment unfortunately but I will definitely check that out.  Thanks for the recomm Thumbs Up
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 04 2014 at 07:49
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 05 2014 at 04:46
^Yeah, I like that Dave, nice, repetitive and quite hypnotic - had me head nodding most of the way through.  I will look into them properly.  The video is pretty hilarious too. Cheers Cool.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 05 2014 at 05:49
Cool! Now we're three people on PA who've heard of SiinaiLOL
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 08 2014 at 07:17
new Tim Bowness anyone? Currently available at progstreaming
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 09 2014 at 21:26
Swans. That is all.
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