You know that one meme that’s like ‘Daniel’ and on the right hand side there is the same picture of the guy but he has glasses and it's like ‘the cooler Daniel’? Well this is the cooler Daniel equivalent to Sacrilegium.

Every Devil Doll record usually changes things up a lot in the grand scheme of things. The Girl Who Was...Death set the scene for what Devil Doll does with their music, Eliogabalus showcased two sides of what Devil Doll can do, and Sacrilegium ... read more

Everything has a beginning, and for Phil Elverum’s indie folk project of The Microphones, that beginning was in 1999 with the debut album of Don’t Wake Me Up.

Now, despite being the debut of a pretty renowned musical endeavor, I never really see people talk about it. It is probably the second least popular Microphones release, behind Little Bird Flies Into a Big Black Cloud of course. And honestly, I kind of get why.

The reason I get that is mostly because this is probably one of ... read more

I suppose if I had reviewed The Chronic and 2001, I might as well finish up Dr. Dre’s discography.

The year is 2015. Hip hop has practically ruled the world at this point, with many names like MF DOOM, Kendrick Lamar, and Travis Scott gaining much popularity. As well as this, 90s hip hop had become a source of massive inspiration to both new and old rappers. Not only all of that, but there was also a biographical movie coming out about the legendary gangsta rap group N.W.A, named after ... read more

Despite Devil Doll having no bad releases, at least for me, there will definitely be a ‘least favorite’ amongst the masterful discography that Mr. Doctor has accumulated. For me, this least favorite comes in the form of Sacrilegium, their 1992 record.

This is easily the weirdest that Devil Doll has ever gotten. While I consider them to have always been an avant-prog band, Sacrilegium is certainly where they pushed the limits through the gothic prog medium that they mastered.

This ... read more

First review of 2025 baby! Cannot believe we’ve made it to the halfway point in this decade. It felt like it took way too long to get here honestly. Anyways, why not start this year with something a little different. Since I am getting more into house music, I might as well review something of a similar vein, which is where Sabresonic by The Sabres of Paradise comes into play.

Honestly with an album cover like that, you’d expect this to be something of an equivalent to a hardcore ... read more

Wowie zowie my last review for 2024! What a wild year, huh? I mean it's a year in the 2020s, right, it's gonna be a rollercoaster. Anyways, luckily for me, I think we’ll be ending this year off with a bit of a bang. I mean last year we did as well with Earthside’s Let the Truth Speak. However, this year we’ll be doing something a tad different. It’ll still be a prog record, but it’s something more in vain to Ugly’s Twice Around the Sun, being an ... read more

I have probably reviewed every prog genre under the sun. Prog rock, obviously, but also prog metal, prog folk, prog pop, prog electronic, hell even progressive soul! However, there is still one more to give my takes in, one that I have only heard recently as a matter of fact. Progressive house. In fact, house music is a genre I haven’t really explored fully yet, with the real closest examples I can think of being Björk’s Debut, and Daft Punk’s Random Access Memories, and ... read more

Man it's been a hot minute since I reviewed a Beardfish album. How long has it been, 2 years? Quite a bit, huh? Anyhow, since they decided to miraculously come back after what we all thought was their finale of +4626-Comfortzone, They managed to wriggle back up 9 years later with the very orange, but very great Song for Beating Hearts.

After a 9 year exile, you’d think the band would lose its touch from its golden days of Sleeping in Traffic, or Destined Solitaire, but I find Songs ... read more

Earlier this year I reviewed the debut album of a new hit Japanese group dubbed Kessoku Band, starring Hitori Gotoh, Nijika Ijichi, Ryo Yamada, and Ikuyo Kita. Likewise, also earlier this very same year, they released a pretty amazing live album, dubbed 結束バンドLive-恒星- at Zepp Haneda, or Kessoku Band Live-Star- at Zepp Haneda.

For clarification on what Zepp Haneda is, it’s a music hall located in Tokyo, and quite a popular one that attracts plenty of touring groups like ... read more

The 2020s has been slowly showcasing what seems to be a completely new and brimming sub-genre of progressive rock music, one which I dub as ‘indie prog’. 2024 has been a year that was brimming with the genre in many cases, namely Monarch of Monsters by Vylet Pony, Plastic Death by Glass Beach, 867 by This Is The Glasshouse, and most notably, Twice Around the Sun, an EP crafted by the indie rock band, Ugly.

Ugly has been around for quite a bit, since 2016 when they released their ... read more

The 1960s was a golden age of sorts for jazz and rock music. Obviously, for rock we got bands like The Beatles, The Beach Boys, The Doors, King Crimson, etc and etc. But jazz, though, was kind of going in a direction that was quite stark from the smooth laden chords and be-bops of the 50s, and into directions of experimentation, freedom, and diversity that not many expected, which gave way to some rather notable classics such as A Love Supreme, In a Silent Way, Karma, The Black Saint and the ... read more

The funny thing is this is my most listened to album of all time. I don’t even know how it happened. I have listened to this album more than Frances the Mute and Self-ish. An album with nothing but frog sounds.

On that note, this is a pretty interesting record to experience, especially for a first time. Usually I do music reviews, but this isn’t music, at least not in a traditional sense. This is a lecture that showcases the sounds of various frogs, with the late Charles M. Bogert, ... read more

Two years ago I reviewed an album by a relatively new noise rock outfit called Chat Pile. The album, God’s Country, was what I considered to just be purely ok, with some things I quite liked, but also a good amount of stuff I felt didn’t lend to the band’s benefits. Two years later, the band would release their second (or third if you count Tenkiller as their second album) studio release, titled Cool World.

I wasn’t too sure on how I would like this record. While I did ... read more

While The Chronic would be considered the much better album from west coast legend Dr. Dre, it cannot be denied that his second studio record of 2001 is by far his most iconic musical output yet.

It came about a time that was perfectly in between when hip hop was actually starting to make the rounds in pop culture, and when it became the powerhouse of a genre that it is today. The late 90s and early 2000s was when hip hop really went big, with records like The College Dropout, Aquemini, Liquid ... read more

Rough first week, huh? Well, hey, in these negative circumstances, how about I channel said negativity for a benefit, rather than a curse.

So, in terms of rock in opposition music, there are plenty of bands out there that are quite the enjoyable treat. From the jazzy Henry Cow, to the chamber infused Univers Zero, RIO has given us a lot of interesting bands and ideas to shape the avant-prog scene. One such band is Art Zoyd. They have a similar chamber style to that of Univers Zero, but ... read more

Y’all already know what time it is! Halloween! Since it is my favorite holiday ever, I always elect to do a Halloween review for an album that’s quite the spooky treat. Last year I decided to review Tubular Bells by Mike Oldfield, which I wouldn’t call a scary album, but its reputation as the music of The Exorcist did give it some spooky flavor. This year, though, I really did want to review an album that was quite the haunting experience. I am more of a fan of the sillier ... read more

Prog rock this year has been really good. I probably say that every year now that I think about it. But either way, it is pretty true, especially when plenty of modern artists like Kyros, Eunuchs, and Papangu get the recognition that they rightfully deserve on sites like RYM, AOTY, and Progarchives. Not only that, but with the advent of Geordie Greep’s debut solo effort, dubbed The New Sound, it seems like the hype for new prog music isn’t stopping anytime soon.

Geordie Greep is a ... read more

A few years back I reviewed an album from a new act within the zeuhl space of progressive rock, or more accurately, progressive metal. That album was Holoceno by Papangu, and it is still shaped to be one of my favorite albums within the zeuhl music scene by how they effortlessly melded sludgy, heavy metal with the weirdness of zeuhl music. Now, three years after their stunning debut, Papangu seem to have changed directions with their sophomore effort of Lampião Rei.

Lampião Rei ... read more

At the beginning of this year I reviewed The Girl Who Was…Death by Devil Doll, which I believed to be a masterpiece. I made it a point for myself to also review all of his other works too, and as such I am finally doing so, at least somewhat spontaneously.

October is a pretty great month to listen to more spookier albums, and Devil Doll evidently brings in that spooky atmosphere in a very macabre manner with their albums. None of their albums are all happy, sunshine and rainbows, which ... read more

I figured I should continue doing Microphones reviews for a bit, especially since mid to late fall is usually a perfect time for some good folk music.

This is Phil’s second album under The Microphones name, and unlike his debut of Don’t Wake Me Up, this is where he begins his more folk oriented brand of music, which to some makes this his ‘true’ first album. Personally I am content with this being his sophomore round up, but it does a good job at establishing a sound ... read more