8.5
Progressive rock’s emergence represented the moment that rock n’ roll grew up and decided it wasn’t going to merely rely on making people dance any longer. This wasn’t cool music anymore, but it sure was clever. It was book-smart and technically…
Human Regolith and Cole Anyway Reviewed
November 11, 2024
Human Regolith – Asclepias
Music can lead you down some dangerous roads if you’re not careful if you take it too seriously. Some Greek philosophers thought that music and theatre should be banned. Leo Tolstoy, a big music fan, warned others like him that they risk…
Space Corolla and Angry Saints Reviewed
October 28, 2024
Space Corolla – Burbuja De Cemento
Beware of the talented, imaginative kids you leave alone in a city! They have the potential to either destroy it or enable it with the greatest of stories. Sure, not everyone will do something this dramatic. The powers that be have…
CrowsVsRavens and Justin Webb & The Noise Reviewed
October 9, 2024
CrowsVsRavens – Revised Reality
Progressive rockers are a breed apart. Part hopeless romantics and part monks with endless supplies of patience and discipline, they are the equivalent of the novelists who write 1000-page tomes dedicated to imagined worlds when they…
From Prog-Rock to Pop, Counting Down The 22 Best Songs by Genesis
September 29, 2024
Genesis’ story is one of incredible artistic and commercial ambition, usually not simultaneously. The band began as a highly innovative and risk-taking progressive rock group before fashioning itself into a pop juggernaut. They made great songs along the way, from the…
Vosotros and Aderyn Reviewed
September 17, 2024
Vosotros – Mala Vida
There are few countries that are more excited about exotic sounds and places than the U.S. It tends to move cyclically, so expect a brand-new obsession for all things Australian, Japanese or South Korean in the next few years. It happened…
neu and Mason van Kraayenburg Reviewed
August 26, 2024
neu – わらって(waratte)
The Enlightenment figures, I’m sure, will be happy to know that some of their dreams have come true. Chief among them is the fact that the world is now connected, and people, for the most part, have a greater understanding of each other…
Electric Mainline x Artifex Lux and Fight Cloud Reviewed
August 15, 2024
Electric Mainline x Artifex Lux – Rope
It’s hard for people who start out by trusting their lives to people who they only know through the records that they’ve collected to later substitute that trust for politicians, generals, and other symbols of…
Balder Gernot and La Chuka Reviewed
August 14, 2024
Balder Gernot – He Is The Time
People need stories, myths, and legends. And all of these can’t be about regular activities, can’t put the protagonist in a bad light, and, certainly, can’t exactly be all true.
A lot of modern folks, bored with the comfort…