¡Feliz Cinco De Mayo! You know, a lot of people relate this day to Mexico’s independence day, but that is on the 16th of September. This day is celebrated, though, as it marks Mexico beating France in the battle of Puebla in 1862. I thought, with such a celebratory day, I’d give a little something to celebrate, and what better way than listening to one of my all time favorite bands of The Mars Volta, specifically my personal all-time favorite from them, Frances The Mute.

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I find Anthony Kalugin’s work, especially in Karfagen, to be really good retro prog. While I may not be the biggest Karfagen fan, when they release a new album, I’ll indulge in what they have to offer. This went for last year’s Land Of Green And Gold, and it goes for this year’s releases of Birds, which is a instrumental re-interpretation of Birds Of Passage, and the band’s big release of Passage To The Forest Of Mysterious. Now it may be recency bias, but, I find ... read more

Well it wouldn’t be a new year without another album by this prolific band from Ukraine, that being Karfagen. However, since the 2023 albums are a continuation (or so I have heard) of their 2020 release of Birds of Passage, I thought to, instead of listening and reviewing the most recent endeavors of Antony Kalugin’s passion project, I would instead review something that happened a little earlier.

Whilst many might consider this work to be somewhat of a prog by numbers ordeal, ... read more

In the sphere of influence classical music has on basically the whole of all that is, you do not get anything weirder than the droning minimalism. This strange, repetitive genre is one that I find to be most interesting in the grand scheme, with classic minimalism being more focused on drones and looping, while new/post minimalism deploys different genres and technicalities into the mix, which would later be expanded upon with totalism. The output of this strange continuation of modern ... read more

While I do not listen to his works often, I have a soft spot for Alio Die’s music, mostly as this nice, pretty, and calming output of ambient music. Whilst I know ambient music isn’t quite unique, especially since most of it spins around the same wheel that works from Brian Eno, Steve Roach, and Harold Budd spin around, I think Alio Die does have a bit more unique sensibilities going for him, creating music that is a lot more meditative and natural sounding.

I find Incantamento, ... read more

If you dig a little deeper in what we have so far for 2023, you might find something truly unique, rather than what the top votes say. You may find a new album to truly love and adore for its beauty, technical power, and more importantly, its message. I believe I found my first masterpiece of the year with A New Tomorrow by Zulu.

Zulu is a band I have had some vague knowledge of, ever since I heard their single of Fakin’ Tha Funk (You Get Did) back in 2022, but never bothered to really ... read more

At the point in 2022 of this album’s release, the year had some very great albums so far, like Ashenspire’s Hostile Architecture, and Klaus Schulze’s Deus Arrakis. So, in the middle three months of the year, specifically August, it was high time for our enigmatic and highly profound friends over in Norway to release a new album, and what they put on the table that month was quite interesting.

Unlike the more hard rock focused Kingdom Of Oblivion, Ancient Astronauts finds ... read more

This Will Destroy You is one of those bands that I feel you either love or hate. To a blind ear they may just seem like your stereotypical post rock group trying to be like Explosions In The Sky or Mogwai, but when looked at closely they are actually quite unique. Sure, they may not reinvent the wheel, and they may not be as experimental or groundbreaking as Swans or 65daysofstatic, but This Will Destroy You is a band that can ultimately put out some incredible tunes when they get the ball ... read more

Even for a band like Motorpsycho, I bet it’d be hard to make another album that could live up with an amazing trilogy as good as the Gullvåg trilogy. So, for their 2021 follow up record, the band would release Kingdom Of Oblivion, an album that would be a lot denser than its predecessors, while still trying something new.

What is found on Kingdom Of Oblivion is a lot more rooted in hard rock and heavy psychedelic rock sounds, like Heavy Metal Fruit and The Crucible, though the ... read more

To me, in the grand scheme of post rock, away from the crescendos and textures of This Will Destroy You, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, and Mogwai, 65daysofstatic is a truly unique and beautiful band. To me, they are the best post rock band around, at least second to GY!BE in terms of enjoyment I have for them. It is honestly surprising how underrated, and furthermore, under-appreciated they are in the post rock scene. They contain some amazing music that combines electronic genres like drill and ... read more

Tangerine Dream is a band you kinda have to know to understand the legacy of electronic music, and the impact it has had in the modern day culture. I think if groups like Kraftwerk segmented the legacy of electronic dance music to the public, Tangerine Dream segmented the legacy of ambient electronic music. Tangerine Dream’s legacy cannot go understated, with them popularizing ambient music, and the German ‘kosmische musik’ scene to a wider public, much thanks to their signing ... read more

After George released Wonderwall Music in 1968, technically being the first Beatles solo record (if you do not count Paul’s The Family Way in 1967), he’d do another release in 1969. The Beatles, particularly John, have been keen on avant-garde and experimental music, as shown with Revolution 9 on The White Album, and also John and Yoko’s first three albums together (Unfinished Music 1 and 2, and Wedding Album). It is a bit surprising, though, to see another, much more polar ... read more

Well, the last of Motorpsycho’s Gullvåg trilogy comes about in 2020’s string of excellent prog rock releases, from Wobbler’s Dwellers Of The Deep, to Haken’s (badly timed) Virus. I gotta say, even in the wake of some amazing releases from that year, Motorpsycho managed to excel greatly with this album, to the point where it ended off their trilogy with a bang, and dare I say set a standard for future releases the band goes about.

I heard a reviewer by the name of ... read more

Wow, 200 reviews for this little project. It's honestly incredible to me that I managed to write so many reviews in little over a year. That is honestly impressive to me. Anyways, since I am writing this, I might as well review my 2nd favorite album of all time, like how I reviewed my number one album for my 100th review. So, yeah, I freaking adore Foxtrot by Genesis.

Now unlike Close To The Edge where I had a lot to tell about in my relation to that album, Foxtrot here is a bit smaller ... read more

While I may not have been all that fond of Long Seasons, it did introduce me to Fishmans and I am grateful for it as they definitely do have a great dream pop and dub sound. I think after I listened to their live album of 98.12.28, I became a bit more interested in Fishmans as a whole, and with my recent endeavors of their 1997, and last album of Uchu Nippon Setagaya, they really cemented themselves within my brain.

Unlike making a repeat of Long Seasons and releasing a big song, Fishmans went ... read more

2023, so far, hasn’t given quite a lot of interesting releases, unlike 2022, but the year is still young, the night is fresh, and so this collaborated piece between New York rapper JPEGMAFIA and Detroit rapper Danny Brown expresses this fresh, and fun night with their experimental release of Scaring The Hoes.

Both artists are quite known within the experimental hip hop scene, next to Death Grips, billy woods, and Earl Sweatshirt. Both have quite different histories, with JPEGMAFIA ... read more

When you get a genre as broad as avant garde metal, you are certain to encounter some interesting and weird stuff. From the more doom and chamber elements within Maudlin Of The Well, to the 80s thrash adjacent sounds of Voivod, avant garde metal is as diverse as it can possibly get. So a release such as this from the Canadian metal group Unexpect ain’t quite so far away from the crumb, but what they have going for in their sound is a joyous and ever changing dark cabaret opera.

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The second part of Motorpsycho’s Gullvåg trilogy came about 2 years after The Tower, and in that time the band went on to release 3 live albums in between, and toured quite a bit. That aside, their next album of The Crucible is quite an amazing, though interesting black sheep in the Gullvåg trilogy.

I consider this to be the black sheep of Motorpsycho’s Gullvåg trilogy due to some factors, such as it being only a mere 40 minutes in length, and the fact it feels a ... read more

I find it funny how the 60s birthed prog rock, but not until ‘69 did we practically get the genre we know and love today, through the releases of many albums such as In The Court of The Crimson King, Uncle Meat, For My Children’s Children’s Children, and A Salty Dog. Another of these early prog rock releases has to be East Of Eden’s Mercator Projected.

East Of Eden’s debut is considerably less proggy than their follow up records, and definitely a bit more bluesy, ... read more

Recently I have been kinda getting into more darker–folksy and classical music, with bands like early Ulver and Univers Zero, you know, stuff that is a bit intense and cryptic in a more folk and avant-garde direction, however in this wake of new found love of this more darker sound, I have discovered my love for Current 93. They first formed in the 80s as an industrial and noise group, which you can see from their earliest releases of Dogs Blood Rising, Nature Unveiled, and their many ... read more