Great new progressive bands
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Topic: Great new progressive bands
Posted By: GrafHaarschnitt
Subject: Great new progressive bands
Date Posted: October 28 2018 at 07:52
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I mean bands being progressive in the literal sense. I think its time for a thread like this again. Cause I am searching and hoping for a find. Also I wanna know what you think were the important albums of this decade (just one year left) |
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Posted By: Raff
Date Posted: October 28 2018 at 08:05
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I'll very gladly contribute a list after I've finished the bit of housework I am currently engaged in. Love the idea! |
Posted By: micky
Date Posted: October 28 2018 at 08:12
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yeah... nothing stops her and that infernal feather duster when she gets rolling and rocking with Ozzy playing full blast... especially when you don the French maid outfit... wooo hoooo... ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: Raff
Date Posted: October 28 2018 at 08:49
I had been writing a nice list of albums I warmly recommend, and what did I do? I hit the "Home" button (heaven knows why) and lost everything. I'll get back to it in the afternoon. Sorry about that  ! |
Posted By: micky
Date Posted: October 28 2018 at 08:53
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hahaha.. happens to me all the time. I just have to step back and later try it again. ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: Lewian
Date Posted: October 28 2018 at 09:04
Apparently there are not enough captchas anymore for your taste these days, you have to do it yourself...
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Raff wrote:Posted By: micky
Date Posted: October 28 2018 at 09:08
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hahaha.. truth brother. I've lost more posts without the threat of captcha.. not thinking I needed to save. .than I ever did knowing I needed to save or risk getting captha'd ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: Raff
Date Posted: October 28 2018 at 09:41
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OK, try this again... In order to avoid any further problems, I'll
just group my recommendations thematically. Let's start with the
wonderful modern British scene, spawned by Cardiacs. In no particular order... Guapo - History of the Visitation (2013) Knifeworld - The Unraveling (2014)/ Bottled Out of Eden (2016) William D. Drake - The Rising of the Lights (2011)/ Revere Reach (2015) North Sea Radio Orchestra - I a Moon (2011)/ Dronne (2016) Chrome Hoof - Chrome Black Gold (2013) Charlie Cawood - The Divine Abstract (2017) Since
a lot of excellent albums have been released during the past nine
years, I'll stick to those I consider essential, rather than mentioning
everything - which would take me ages.
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Posted By: micky
Date Posted: October 28 2018 at 09:43
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hahah.. rough day huh darlin'. Anyhow.. great list. But I'd add Elixirs to the Guapo list.... man that album is frickin' amazing... ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: micky
Date Posted: October 28 2018 at 09:44
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and yeah.. let me add Miriodor - Avanti.. the genesis of my conversion... perhaps my #2 ranked modern prog album ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: micky
Date Posted: October 28 2018 at 09:45
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oh.. didn't catch the this decade part.. nevermind... ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: micky
Date Posted: October 28 2018 at 09:45
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damn right... Sister Death... make sure that is on the list. ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: beebs
Date Posted: October 28 2018 at 09:46
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For me - and I haven't really searched too high or low - I have found 2 bands that really interest me: 1. Lifesigns (pretty good) 2. Perfect Beings ( REALLY good!) I would hope to add to this list later, as I'm hungry for new talent as well. - beebs ------------- "Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of one's own mind" * Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Posted By: micky
Date Posted: October 28 2018 at 09:55
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I know Raff will mention it.. but I'll steal her thunder. The single best prog album of the decade by far... UT Gret -Ancestor's Tale the bassoon rules.. but not as much as Cheyenne did on that album.. she was enough to blow my 20 year abstinence away when she handed me a joint and ... well... was I going to refuse.. HELL NO!!!!! ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: Nogbad_The_Bad
Date Posted: October 28 2018 at 10:03
Superb list Raff, I'm going to have to think a bit harder to add to that. ------------- Ian Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on Progrock.com https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-avant-jazzcore-happy-hour/ |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: October 28 2018 at 10:27
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I'll give a shout out to Bent Knee, The Winstons and Zwoyld as modern bands. In terms of albums of the decade, either by classic bands or more modern ones: Rational Diet - On Phenomena and Existences Electric Orange - Volume 10 Bent Knee - Shiny Eyed Babies Cosmic Ground - Cosmic Ground 2 Aranis - Roqueforte Univers Zero - Clivages Ut Gret - Radical Symmetry Zwoyld - 200 000 Kayo Dot - Coyote Chrome Hoof - Chrome Black Gold Guapo - History of the Visitation Setna - Guérison Yolk - Solar The Winstons - The Winstons Alamaailman Vasarat - Valta Yugen - Iridule Magma - Félicité Thösz Matt Berry - Kill the Wolf (not in PA, but Prog enough to me) EDIT: I think that David Bowie's Blackstar deserved a mention. |
Posted By: Nogbad_The_Bad
Date Posted: October 28 2018 at 11:09
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Vezhlivy Otkaz - Gusi-Lebedi Thinking Plague - Decline & Fall Jack O The Clock - All My Friends PoiL - Brossaklitt Gutbucket - Flock Jaga Jazzist - One Armed Bandit Reve General - Howl elephant9 - Walk The Nile The Nerve Institute - Architects Of Flesh Density Pikapika Teart - Moonberry ------------- Ian Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on Progrock.com https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-avant-jazzcore-happy-hour/ |
Posted By: Lewian
Date Posted: October 28 2018 at 12:38
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Hmmm let's see. Favourite new bands. I'm a big fan of William D. Drake and the North Sea Radio Orchestra - already listed. Also these don't count because they're around for longer than a decade. OK, so starting from 2010 or later... My no. 1 band listed here is probably Sonar (actually recommended by Nogbad the bad, one more he himself can't list first ). Not listed on PA as far as I know: I just discovered Stuff. https://stuffmusic.bandcamp.com/ Floating Points https://floatingpointsluakabop.bandcamp.com/ Lucy (Luca Mortellaro) is pretty cool, and I also like the new incarnation of the Radiophonic Workshop as a band (which in its origins is actually much older than prog). As best album of the 2010s I'd probably nominate Swans' The Seer; their two following albums To Be Kind and Glowing Man are not far behind. "I a moon" of the North Sea Radio Orchestra is just wonderful. "Fun with Music" of a.P.A.t.t. is a delight, and don't forget the good old Art Zoyd who in 2011 delivered a very strong album with "Eyecatcher". |
Posted By: Nogbad_The_Bad
Date Posted: October 28 2018 at 13:38
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Great reco's Lewian, I should really have listed Sonar and a.P.a.T.t. I'll throw in In Love With and Make A Rising. ------------- Ian Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on Progrock.com https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-avant-jazzcore-happy-hour/ |
Posted By: Lewian
Date Posted: October 28 2018 at 13:50
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If we extend to people who made their start a bit before 2010, ex-Battles Tyondai Braxton (son of free jazz giant Anthony Braxton) is very adventurous and also tasteful enough to make most of his work both progressive and good to listen to. |
Posted By: AFlowerKingCrimson
Date Posted: October 28 2018 at 14:28
| So the OP was lookingfor just RIO and Avant bands? Jeez, just do a search on this site for that category(and maybe add eclectic prog)for the past ten years or so. |
Posted By: Raff
Date Posted: October 28 2018 at 14:33
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I think the OP asked for recommendations of great albums released from 2010 to this day, not just for bands/artists that started out in this (not yet complete) decade - hence my own recommendations. Now, as promised, I'd like to add a few more - this time concentrating on the US scene. Alec K Redfearn and the Eyesores - Sister Death (2012) - already mentioned by my better half Ut Gret - Ancestor's Tale (2014) Frogg Cafe - Bateless Edge (2010) MoeTar - From These Small Seeds (2010) miRthkon - Snacks (2013) Moraine - Groundswell (2013) A shout out for some excellent albums of a more "mainstream" persuasion, which should appeal to those who prefer not to stray too far from classic prog modes: Phideaux - Snowtorch (2011) Shadow Circus - On a Dark and Stormy Night (2013) 3rd Degree - The Long Division (2012) The Tea Club - Grappling (2015) Hands - Caviar Bobsled (2015) More to come later...
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Posted By: Raff
Date Posted: October 28 2018 at 14:34
See the post I just made before this one - most of the bands are NOT RIO/Avant.
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Posted By: Manuel
Date Posted: October 28 2018 at 14:59
| Though an old timer, Martin Barre's band is new, and really making great music. Not prog indeed, but really progressive, specially his new album "Roads Less Travelled." |
Posted By: micky
Date Posted: October 28 2018 at 15:16
most excellent selection darlin' let me add a couple more that were highlights of the decade. One from a previously mentioned band, a huge one in terms of modern prog. Who earlier did have IMO the single greatest modern prog album.. one correctly identified by some as the ITCotKC of modern progdressive music and while not reinventing wheel... did much to define it. The incredible Mirroed Battles la di da di and a group and album that sort of went nowhere.... little love here and they never did another album but what a gem they did do. Sweet Fingers from Mexico who did an album in 2011 then fell off the face of the earth as far as I know.. ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: AFlowerKingCrimson
Date Posted: October 28 2018 at 15:30
It depends on who is making the recommendations. A good chunk of Logan's and Nogbad's are most certainly RIO/Avant(not that there's anything wrong with that). Edit: I admit I responded too hastily. Yes, many of yours are not RIO/Avant and represent a good cross section of newer prog that is not neo or symph by numbers(I'm guessing). Nice list.
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Posted By: Nogbad_The_Bad
Date Posted: October 28 2018 at 16:05
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Yeah most of my reco's are RIO, in my defense Raff and Logan recoed a bunch of non-RIO bands I would have picked and 4 of mine are jazz or folk. ------------- Ian Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on Progrock.com https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-avant-jazzcore-happy-hour/ |
Posted By: BrufordFreak
Date Posted: October 28 2018 at 16:34
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Great lists and suggestions all around! I'll add: AXON-NEURON SEVEN IMPALE HOMUNCULUS RES UNAKA PRONG FIVE-STOREY ENSEMBLE CICADA BATTLESTATIONS ALIO DIE SEQUENTIA LEGENDA ANNA VON HAUSSWOLFF IAMTHEMORNING FAUN KOTEBEL ANTOINE FAFARD VANETA METHEXIS GHOST MEDICINE LA COSCIENZA DI ZENO ------------- Drew Fisher https://progisaliveandwell.blogspot.com/ |
Posted By: Lewian
Date Posted: October 28 2018 at 17:32
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Doesn't perhaps really belong in this thread but as micky mentioned the spectacular Mirrored album of Battles, I can't stop myself from posting an incredibly dynamic version of "Atlas" (no. 1 song of the century up to now) still with Tyondai, nominated by me earlier as a solo artist. |
Posted By: Nogbad_The_Bad
Date Posted: October 28 2018 at 18:55
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Oh that Battles is excellent. ------------- Ian Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on Progrock.com https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-avant-jazzcore-happy-hour/ |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: October 28 2018 at 19:34
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Most of the modern Prog albums in my collection are so-called avant-prog or avant prog-related music, so that's a reason why it will be heavily represented. If this were 2000-2009, there would more PA categories represented and more progressive music outside of Prog Archives. Still, had I put more thought into my post, I would have put various others in there and there would be a wider range of progressive music on display. At first I was just planning to mention Bent Knee as a band, but then decided to list some of my fave album from this decade. Where I think I went most wrong wasn't in being diverse enough, with more thought and time I would have been, but that some of the music I included isn't that progressive (as an adjective and some is downright retro). I certainly wish I'd included jazz fusion, art pop, electronica, jazz, and some modern academic or experimental music that is progressive while not being rock, and I think that a lot of bands that have explored alternative/experimental rock would work (in a similar vein to Radiohead, which has been a very progressive band in terms of its evolution). Another that now springs to mind is the post pop of Julia Holter with the album Tragedy. And I'd like to mention Anna von Hausswolff's The Miraculous and Ishraqiyun's Perichoresis. |
Posted By: BaldJean
Date Posted: October 29 2018 at 00:05
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I would like to mention 2 albums by The Red Masque: "Mythalogue" (2013) and "Fathomless" (just published Oct 26th this year) -------------  A shot of me as High Priestess of Gaia during our fall festival. Ceterum censeo principiis obsta |
Posted By: micky
Date Posted: October 29 2018 at 15:35
now that is boss... awesome! Thanks for the off topic detour.... I had never seen that clip before.  ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: Nogbad_The_Bad
Date Posted: October 29 2018 at 17:06
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Good band, you need to investigate micky, take it from your Uncle Ian ------------- Ian Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on Progrock.com https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-avant-jazzcore-happy-hour/ |
Posted By: micky
Date Posted: October 29 2018 at 19:07
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oh well digested Ian. Have and love all their albums and do consider Mirrored to be the 21st century version of ITCOTCK.. but as David noted in his stellar review of La Di Da TI it will just take some time.. for Hip Hip's hold on popular music to fade.. and 'prog fan' to die off along with supporting boring generic retro genre(unprogressive )acts and a younger more open minded generation to take over I just hadn't seen that Jools Holland performance... ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: AFlowerKingCrimson
Date Posted: October 29 2018 at 19:15
| The first two Battles albums are really good stuff(borrowed them both from the library years ago) especially the first one. The first one had some sections that sounded like it could have been made by robots but other than that I think it's a pretty top notch post rock/ math rock album(from what I remember). I guess even saying some of it sounded like robot music isn't necessarily a bad thing. That's how technical they were(or are). |
Posted By: micky
Date Posted: October 29 2018 at 19:27
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it was very much a product of merging a rock band with computer technology.. some say the first... most all say the most fullly realized of what will likely come to dominate later 21st century rock music. Again.. just how revolutionary it was... will really only be seen in the years to come when the finger is pointed back to that album as the genesis where it all began. ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: AFlowerKingCrimson
Date Posted: October 29 2018 at 19:33
| Ok, I see now why you compared it to ITCOTCK. I have heard people say similar things about OK Computer by Radiohead. A lot of people say it was really revolutionary and the modern equivalent of DSOTM. The only problem is OK computer is already over 20 years old. |
Posted By: micky
Date Posted: October 29 2018 at 19:40
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I think OK Computer and that particular sentiment had less to do with it musically.. great album as it was...but in the context of it... with the beginning of the prog revival of the 90's but as it is now sadly very evident... that has sort of died. The divorce I have posted about over the last years is very much in play and the Battles is a perfect example of the truly progressive that has no.. zero basis in the genre of prog rock. Which of course it what doomed Prog Rock.. it became a set of axioms and conditions one had to check off to meet approval of 'prog fan'.. which when you reach that point.. you are creatively dead as a genre which where prog rock has arrived at. Today's progressive music is doing just what the greats back in the day did at the start.. putting all the different influences and running with it.. trick is those influences today are nothing compilable to prog rock as it is known by all.
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Posted By: miamiscot
Date Posted: October 30 2018 at 07:55
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Three (kinda) new bands I've been really into: Bomber Goggles PinioL Yuka & Chronoship
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Posted By: Catcher10
Date Posted: October 30 2018 at 10:25
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A lot of nice suggestions I'll check out, but most RIO/Avant type music does not hit me in the sweet spot usually, I have too many genres that influence my habits. Nothing wrong with any choices.......I'll try and pick my fav from each year 2010-2018 (so far). 2010 - Pineapple Thief~Someone Here Is Missing 2011- Agents of Mercy~The Black Forest 2012- Marillion~Sounds That Cant Be Made 2013- Steven Wilson~The Raven That Refused To Sing 2014- IQ~Road Of Bones 2015- Echolyn~I Heard You Listening 2016- iamthemorning~Lighthouse 2017- Anathema~The Optimist 2018 (so far)- Riverside~Wasteland -------------   
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Posted By: GrafHaarschnitt
Date Posted: November 01 2018 at 06:00
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Those are some of my favourites: http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=116309" rel="nofollow - http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=116309 I especially fell in Love, with Bubblemath, I think their basic sound is exactly where prog should go. But where should prog go? I mean that not in a sense of "I want stagnancy". I think prog should stay free but it could inspire itself a little more by the likes of Bubblemath, cause these guys are great. Igorrr is mind bending sound editing. Yowie Math Rock from hell. Very ill and alien. Guerilla Toss, industrial torture in a modern view. PoiL is... PoiL. Major Parkinson is cabaret like contrasts. And old music in a very modern sound. And finally Chenille is voices with melodies that could been removed from pop songs and put over black metal. |
Posted By: TheGazzardian
Date Posted: November 01 2018 at 07:41
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Some bands that haven't been mentioned yet that definitely sounded 'new' to me the first time I heard them, not all are on this website: Ricinn - Great folksy/metal/opera-y music: Oxxo Xoox - Progressive/Avant doom metal: Merkabah - aggressive jazz: Francis Lickerish - Lush Folksy/Symphonic from an ex-Enid member (sample only): Kaizers Orchestra - three album concept, norwegian alternative Sorne - tribal / folksy / non traditional instruments: Mary Ocher - paranoid art-pop Colin Stetson - Sorrow - reimagining a classical symphony as post-rock with operatic vocals: Diablo Swing Orchestra - Metal inspired by Swing Classical and Electronic ... done really well Richard Dawson - great off-kilter story-telling folk Major Parkinson - the best - off-kilter prog/pop Volcano the Bear - Avant/Prog with droney/industrial/folky inspiration, surprised none of the other avant heads mentioned this: Zeal and Ardor - Black metal with slave chant
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Posted By: GrafHaarschnitt
Date Posted: November 01 2018 at 08:02
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Merkabah has a heavy doze of klezmer too reminds me of slivovitz If you like that polka and klezmer stuff you have to listen to Affengin. Simply brilliant. For Major Parkinson, look at my list. I have added their blackbox. But I also like the album you linked. It would be my second choice. The debut is also very catchy. |
Posted By: Lewian
Date Posted: November 01 2018 at 12:52
The problem with this question is that it's tied to the "genre prog" idea. I think that in the first place exciting new music is done by people who don't care about what genre they belong to, not like "we're prog and we're going XYZ". Musicians who have their own personal musical "message", who come up with something fresh or surprising, as Battles do. Such stuff will always be better than what I think in advance where people should go...
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Posted By: InfinityMan
Date Posted: November 27 2018 at 12:03
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I would like to suggest Karma Rassa from Saint-Petersburg. The New album "Vesna...Snova Vesna" (spring...Spring Again) is with russian lyrycs and with atmoshear of 4 seasons, so it sounds pretty interesting for progressive rock|art rock. I recomend)  |