Welcome to this week’s Tracks Of The Week. Six brand-new and numerous slices of progressively inclined music so that you can get pleasure from.
The return of Karmakanic gained out final week with the band’s ebullient new observe Cosmic Love strolling off qith the honours, though thry had been pushed all the way in which by US prog quartet Earthside, and with Toronto prog quintet Derev on a good third palce
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COSMOGRAF – KINGS AND LORDS
UK prog rockers Cosmograf return with a model new album, The Orphan Epoch, which they launch by means of their Gravity Dream label on Might 23, from which comes first single Kings And Lords with it is nice accompanying video. The album appears mainman Robin Armstrong providing up a set of songs that talk of a refusal to adapt, align, or coalesce.
“It is a new period of disconnection, disillusion and disinformation,” says Armstrong. “Your notion will outline your actuality… The video was created from an previous Italian Western movie Se incontri Sartana Prega Per La Tua Morte which is now within the public area. My son Sam is a media research scholar and large fan of movie and we discovered it mirrored the tune’s themes of greed, energy and nefarious intent, so he re-edited it to suit the music.”
OAK – SHIMMER
Norwegian prog trio Oak return with their fourth studio album, The Third Sleep, launched by means of Karisma Information on April 25. The dramatic new launch sees the band contrasting gentle with the darkness as they mix candy melodic folky passages with some crushing prog steel bleakness. The brooding Shimmer is the primary single from the upcoming album.
“Those that have listened to Oak’s earlier releases will in all probability discover the clear nods, each harmonically and lyrically, to Stars Beneath The Water from the album Lighthouse,” the band state. “The themes of conformity and condemnation are handled in a dark soundscape that may ship the thoughts to darkish movie music. Each harmonically and lyrically, Shimmer builds a bridge from the band’s first launch to the newest, earlier than in the direction of the top you might be led right into a suggestive, ostinato-like coda that offers room to course of and to maneuver on each concretely and metaphorically.”
JENNY HVAL – TO BE A ROSE
Norwegian artwork rocker, artist and novelist Jenny Hval will launch her newest album, Iris Silver Mist, by means of 4AD on Might 2, from which comes To Be A Rose, with its timewarp video that includes footage of Hval shot on varied excursions from 2015 to 2024. The brand new album is known as after a perfume made by the nostril Maurice Roucel for the French fragrance home Serge Lutens. It’s described as smelling extra like metal than silver. That reignited Hval’s curiosity in fragrances, which in flip has impressed Hval’s new album.
“To Be A Rose was written as a stressed pop construction,” Hval explains. “It has a refrain, with chords and a melody, however every refrain sounds barely totally different, like we’re experiencing the melody from totally different seasons, many years and even totally different our bodies. The clichéd rose metaphor within the tune is equally stressed. It might probably change form right into a cigarette after which evaporate to smoke. My mom and I (two stressed people) are each current within the tune: “I used to be singing in my room, she smoked on the balcony/Lengthy inhales and lengthy exhales carried out in choreography”. If about something, To Be A Rose is about how one factor turns into one other factor, how all of us come from someplace and somebody, and the way that is stranger and extra highly effective than we expect.”
PANZERBALLETT – PICK UP THE PIECES
You will in all probability keep in mind the melody from German prog/jazz metallers Panzerballett’s model new single, as a result of it is a cowl of Scottish R’n’B band Common White Band’s large 1974 hit Decide Up The Items. The duvet is the primary observe taken from the band’s upcoming album, Übercode Œuvre, which they launch on April 25. The album options contributions from drummers Marco Minnemann and Virgil Donati, and on Decide Up The Items, fellow German drummer Annika Nilles.
“Decide Up The Items takes the traditional funk groove and makes it our personal by shifting between fours, fives, and sevens as subdivisions,” explains guitarist and composer Jan Zehrfeld. “I needed to protect the unique spirit of the tune, however with a novel Panzerballett twist. The observe is intricate, funky, and positively headbanging materials! It’s received that groove, however it’s additionally complicated sufficient to maintain each the jazz and steel listeners engaged.”
LUMENS – PRIMROSE
Australian quartet Lumens combine prog and metalcore on their self-titled debut EP, which is launched on the Aussie prog label Wild Factor Information on April 11. Primrose is the second single to be taken from the EP, which explores inside battle, self-awareness, and the burden of private expectations. Melodic and anthemic, and hard-hitting in equal measures, whereas they could be a bit heavy for some ears, prog steel followers will in all probability lap this up.
“Primrose is deeply private to me,” says vocalist Rhys Jackson Stars. “It’s in regards to the battle to keep up a stability between satisfaction and the pursuit of true fulfilment. The primrose path could appear inviting, however generally, there are flowers you shouldn’t scent alongside the way in which”
O.R.okay. – 16000 DAYS
Prog supergroup O.R.okay., who characteristic Colin Edwin (Porcupine Tree), vocalist LEF, Pat Mastelotto (King Crimson), and Carmelo Pipitone, have been drip-feeding singles from their upcoming Firehose Of Falsehoods album, which they launch by means of Kscope Music on March 21. Like lots of these, 16000 Days packs an anthemic metallic punch, but additionally affords extra within the atmospheric stakes too.
“16000 Days is a tune for anybody who has reached a big life milestone and nonetheless feels as filled with unanswered questions as they did as a small little one,” explains abassist Edwin. “It is the closest O.R.okay. have ever come to a self-help tune and I’m pretty certain the sentiment is common.”