Just took the job of checking the whole album The Quicksilver Meat Dream (Suposedly their closest to Prog album) and found nothing more than another Alternative band trying to use the same boring depressive structure that so good financial results has brought to hundred of bands.
Don’t know why this guys try to call themselves Prog (A few days ago a thread about this issue was started) but it’s obvious that the Wikipedia information have been ´provided by a fan who talks only as a fan without support, to the point that the article about them has in the header:
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So the information and alleged Prog relation is not reliable at all, to the point that a site as Wikipedia that admits almost everything without a careful verification, adds a disclaimer.
This is what I found about the supposed Prog Related album:
- 0157:H7: Just hard alternative, trying to sound like a heavy version of Nirvana meets Radiohead., even the vocals are mixture of Cobain and Yorke, but without the bright of neither.
- Choke: Boring Alternative meets early hard U2 tracks, now the voice has a Bono touch.
- I is Us: More alternative whining, totally predictable, lack of variations.
- God Rocket (Into the Heart of Las Vegas): More Hard alternative, noisy, loud but nothing I haven’t heard a million times, no Prog connection until now.
- Like the Sun: Noisy Metal ballad combo but then again more whining as Tom Yorke but again without the originality.
- Hell & Malfunction: Repetitive alternative, harder than usual but nothing that hasn’t been done 100 times before.
- Soft Bomb Salad: Oh please man!!!! More of the same, one of the most predictable Alternative albums I ever heard, has some good guitar passages but not enough to even relate them as a far cousin of Prog.
- No Coma: Seems as stolen from OK Computer or Nevermind, please, can’t this guys make something original?
- Meat Dreams: They should pay royalties for the Android Paranoid rip off.
- Passenger: Has some nice orchestral passages, but orchestra doesn’t mean Prog, you may add all the violins you want to an Alternative song and will still be the same alternative.
Nothing remotely worthy of addition, I’m not an expert on Alternative Rock so I won’t talk about their attributes as an Alternative band, they may be good or even great in what they do, but I do know a bit about Prog, and this is no Prog, Related or even remotely close to PR
Please, read the new definition of Prog Related, the additions are EXCEPTIONAL and “I Mother Earth” is hardly a band so exceptionally related to Prog that has to be included to our database, their contribution, influence or relation is virtually equal to zero, except for the references to Radiohead, but to a non Prog album as OK Computer.
Again this doesn’t mean they are bad, they may be a great Alternative band, I leave this to the Alternative experts, but Prog it isn’t.
Iván
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