2014 Picks

IQ - The Road of Bones

Edited by Unitron - September 09 2014 at 23:06

Just heard some of the new Opeth and man it's good, a step up from heritage and Watershed in my opinion but i'll need to spend some time with it before I get too carried away.

Prog Sothoth wrote: Mellotron Storm wrote: Just heard some of the new Opeth and man it's good, a step up from heritage and Watershed in my opinion but i'll need to spend some time with it before I get too carried away. Yeah, I'd say it's a big step up from Heritage (which I thought was just passable...too patchy). The last couple of songs are killer.  I've also heard the new The Tea Party album and I'm digging it. They brought back the Zep influence of their earlier stuff without sounding like a retro band. Nice soloing by Martin during the title epic.

I stick mostly to new releases, but not always -

Perfect Beings    Perfect Beings    2014                3/4/14
King Crimson    Discipline (Remaster)    1981            543    3/18/14
Wakeman, Rick    No Earthly Connection    1976                4/11/14
Genesis     1970-1975 (boxset)    1975                4/27/14
Dream The Electric Sleep    Heretics    2014                5/9/14
Amos, Tori    Unrepentant Geraldines    2014                5/12/14
Eno - Hyde    Someday World    2014                5/12/14
Djam Karet    Regenerator 3017    2014                5/29/14
Ian Anderson    Homo Erraticus    2014                5/29/14
Tibbetts, Steve    Natural Causes    2010                6/3/14
Curved Air    North Star    2014                6/11/14
Way, Darryl    Children Of The Cosmos    2014                6/23/14
Anubis    Hitchiking To Byzantium    2014                6/30/14
Umphrey's McGee    Similar Skin    2014                7/12/14
Who, The    Tommy    1969                6/22/14
Swans    To Be Kind    2014                7/26/14
Eno - Hyde    High Life    2014                7/26/14
Knifeworld    Unravelling, The    2014                7/28/14
Roches, The    Roches, The    1978                7/29/14
Roches, The    Nurds    1980                7/29/14
McLachlan, Sarah    Shine On    2014                8/23/14

Swans really need to do longer and darker songs



Edited by Slartibartfast - September 14 2014 at 17:13

Darious wrote: Did you hear Luminescence by Monarch Trail yet? It's been featured on the latest Prog magazine CD. I just cannot to get rid of it out of my head, such an ear worm it is! I think this 11 minutes long piece is fabulous, it's very much designed for particularly symphonic loving audience, I guess. I will have a closer look at Monarch Trail very soon

Hi Darious,

Thanks very much for your comments on "Luminescence", if you go to the start of this thread, you'll see we (Monarch Trail) made a couple of lists for this year which we're really happy about :)

It's thanks to comments like yours that we can continue to spread word about the band, thank you!

For my own list, I'll update it  here soon--still have a few more albums to buy.

Ken

www.monarchtrail.com

Prog-jester wrote: 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

Omg this was me last year circa 2013! I got everything that even slightly interested me. Lol.

Great haul. You have my adulation. :)

New Threshold! That snuck past me.  

2014 will be a little exciting, when it comes to making the collab list. There's been no SWilson release, so it's anybody's guess really.

Horizons wrote: ^ That album is hilarious.

Also becoming more and more excited about the new Floyd, but I'm trying to contain myself. I know how I feel about Division Bell.