It is Prog‘s model new Tracks Of The Week! Six model new and various slices of progressively inclined music so that you can get pleasure from.
Congratulations to US quartet Kill The Robotic, whose tribute to their late good friend Taylor Hawkins, Western Shores, received final week’s TOTW. It was a detailed run factor, with the atmospheric folks prog of Shannon Pearl in second place with Frant1c in third.
The premise for Tracks Of The Week is straightforward – we have collated a batch of latest releases by bands falling beneath the progressive umbrella, and collated them collectively in a single publish for you – makes it a lot simpler than having to dip out and in of assorted particular person posts, does not it?
The concept is to observe the movies (or pay attention if it is a stream), get pleasure from (or not) and likewise to vote in your favorite within the voting type on the backside of this publish. Could not be simpler may it?
We’ll be bringing you Tracks Of The Week, because the title implies, every week. Subsequent week we’ll replace you with this week’s winner, and current a number of latest prog music so that you can get pleasure from.
For those who’re a band and also you need to be featured in Prog‘s Tracks Of The Week, ship your video (as a YouTube hyperlink) or monitor embed, band picture and biog to us right here.
JONATHAN HULTÉN – SONG OF TRANSIENCE
Enigmatic prog artist Jonathan Hultén launched his second studio album, Eyes Of The Residing Evening, by means of Kscope again in January which someway appeared to slide beneath the radar. That is an actual pity as the brand new single from the previous Tribulation guitarist, the mesmerising waltz vibe of Music Of Transcience is an actual earworm of a monitor.
“Within the type of a melancholic but whimsical waltz, Music Of Transience playfully explores one elementary query: “In your deathbed, will you be smiling or in tears?”,” says Hultén, “The video, filmed by Anastasia Lihnka in France in November 2024, displays the paranormal and relentless elements of time, which may be each uplifting and disheartening. Edited and filmed with particular lenses to seize a dreamlike, vibrant environment, the video additionally emphasises how lovely the world actually is — particularly when seen from the attitude that our presence right here is so fleeting, and due to this fact so very treasured.”
IHLO – EMPIRE
Younger Scottish prog metallers Ihlo had been picked up by the Kscope label, who let’s face it, know a factor or two about fashionable prog music, and so they reissued the band’s debut album, Union, final yr. Now the band are again with their second full-length launch, Legacy, which, having been lucky sufficient to have heard it, guarantees to catapult the band ahead, fulfilling the immense promise they proven to date. First single from the album is the intricate and highly effective Empire.
“Empire was the music that basically kickstarted the album writing course of and helped information us in the direction of the completed product,” the band reveal. “Beneath the deceptively bouncy rhythms and uplifting harmonies, there hides a darkish and brooding environment that turned integral to the texture of your complete file. This monitor showcases the shift right into a extra pure sound for the band, whereas retaining the eye to element in each single factor, and the fashionable manufacturing high quality we love. Our first studio output in 6 years, this monitor accommodates somewhat little bit of the whole lot you need in an Ihlo music, and we’re so excited to lastly be capable to present it off to the world!”
HIROE – COLLIDER
US post-rock quintet Hiroe are again with one other spectacular monitor from their upcoming debut album, Wield, which they’ll launch by means of the Pelagic label on June 20. Collider is a ten-minute epic of a monitor which blends moments of gritty depth with broad progressive thrives which can be certain to enchantment to followers of post-rock bands unafraid to veer nearer to the prog lane. The band’s identify is pronounced ‘hero-way’, in case you had been questioning.
“Collider is a music that after we play dwell appears to be a crowd favorite,” explains guitarist Eric Kusanagi. “It is the longest music in our catalogue, at about 10 minutes lengthy, and we needed to take the listener on a journey that goes by means of a variety of peaks and valleys.”
GRACE HAYHURST – TAKE OFF
Younger UK prog rocker Grace Hayhurst needs to be acquainted to some Prog readers as she is an occasional contributor to the journal. Grace will launch her new album, The World Is Dying, by means of her Bandcamp web page on June 27. Because the title implies, the conceptual piece is a no-holds-barred assault on world warming, with contributions from her mates in Kyros, Robin Johnson (drums) and Shelby Logan-Warne (mixing). It is a message that additionally comes by means of on her new single, Take Off.
“This monitor tells the core message of the file – all of our frustrations with tossers like Elon Musk making an attempt to empty the planet’s sources and run away on spaceships, leaving the remainder of us commoners behind to fend for ourselves.” She does not maintain again, our Grace!
HEMELBESTORMER – TURMS
Belgian quartet Hemelbestromer have been described as “post-doom instrumentalists”. No, we have not obtained a clue what their PR is on about both! What we do know is that they mark some fairly intriguing, darkish and thought-provoking music. The band will launch their new album, The Radiant Veil, by means of Pelagic Information on July 25 and new single, the eight-minute plusTurms, options Caspian’s Philip Jamieson, and may enchantment to those that get pleasure from one thing darker of their music.
“Turms is definitely the main monitor and beating coronary heart of the album,” the band clarify. “Hemelbestormer is called a pure instrumental band, however this monitor will shock you, as Phil from Caspian did some phenomenal and hauntingly lovely sounding vocals for this monitor, lifting it to a different stage.”
NAD SYLVAN – MONUMENTATA
Steve Hackett vocalist Nad Sylvan will launch his newest solo album, Monumentata, by means of InsideOut Music on June 20. It is maybe his most various assortment up to now, a mirrored image of Sylvan the person, reasonably than enjoying a personality. The light, generally Beatles-y title monitor is the third single he is launched from the album up to now.
“Monumentata is about being orphaned and serves as a homage to the daddy I by no means actually had or obtained to know correctly. It displays the lack of what may have been,” Sylvan explains. “I misplaced my dad and mom, and figuring out that they are gone—and that someday, I am in all probability subsequent in line—that felt “monumental” to me. That’s the place the phrase ‘Monumentata’ got here from. “Tata” means “Father” in Hungarian, and my dad was half Hungarian. So, I mixed these two phrases to create one thing new. It is about dropping somebody and the frustration.”
EDEN CIRCUS – AGNOSTIC APOLOGY
German quartet Eden Circus launched their debut album, Marula, again in 2014, and are solely now on the brink of launch the follow-up, Irrlicht, which interprets as will-o-the-wisp, by means of Lifeforce Information on August 22. The band’s sound, as typified by new monitor, Agnostic Apology, sees them mixing prog, post-rock and touches of atmospheric steel.
“The musicians from northern Germany concentrate on crafting intense atmospheres and moods by means of deliberate association,” say the band’s label. “Accordingly, “Irrlicht” unfolds with delicate intricacy and emotional weight, its songwriting brimming with dynamic contrasts — far multiple initially perceives.”
