It is Prog‘s model new Tracks Of The Week! Six model new and various slices of progressively inclined music so that you can take pleasure in.
Congratulations to younger Leoni Jane Kennedy, whose ode to friendship, Jesse, gained out in the long run final week after fairly the tussle with Chimpan A’s cowl of Wichita Lineman, and with younger UK prog rocker Reubes in a really credible third.
The premise for Tracks Of The Week is easy – 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 varied particular person posts, would not it?
The thought is to look at the movies (or hear if it is a stream), take pleasure in (or not) and in addition to vote on 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 bunch of latest prog music so that you can take pleasure in.
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SAM VALLEN – VAST AND LUMINOUS
Caligula’s Horse guitarist and musical director Sam Vallen wants little introduction to most Prog readers. Huge And Illuminous, nevertheless, is a model new Vallen solo enterprise as he explores the guitar, the instrument with which he made his identify. The explosive new instrumental observe comes with a video which additionally options his Caligula’s Horse peer Josh Griffin on drums.
“Huge And Luminous is a deeply maximalist piece”, says Vallen. “Though my profession has been pockmarked with moments of such technical indulgence, I’ve all the time stored them reined in, within the curiosity of subtlety and suggestion – ‘go away them wanting extra’. Conversely, Huge And Luminous holds nothing again, and it was genuinely liberating to permit myself the area to put all of it out for the world. I’m overjoyed to lastly share Huge And Luminous with you!”
HEATHER FINDLAY – MAY IT BE
One other identify that wants little introduction to prog followers, Heather Findlay was the lead singer for Largely Autumn for fourteen years. Since then, she’s carved out a formidable solo profession, and performs together with her folks duos Odin Dragonfly and The Bee Tellers, in addition to having labored with Mantra Vega and ZIO, to call however a number of. Could It Be is a fantastically crafted, heartfelt ballad, “a tune of hope and love for a troubled world, imagining brighter instances of peace and unity on our stunning planet,” from Findlay’s latest Wildflowers solo album, out now by means of Black Sand Information.
“Feeling referred to as to assist amplify a vibration of peace and love at this deeply turbulent time on our planet, I obtained the nudge make a music video for Could It Be, that includes stunning, calm evoking nature imagery and an animation I made a while in the past of a lotus respiratory into bloom and again in to bud, initially impressed by a easy meditation follow by SatGuruNath,” Heatlher explains. “The ‘Om’ image represents the phrase itself, and when deliberately intoned, serves as an invocation of peace. It’s not a flashy video, simply my manner of loving extra loudly.”
ESTHESIS – THE FRAME
French post-progressive quintet Esthesis have returned with a suitably moody and atmospheric new single, The Body. It is the band’s first new music for 3 years, following on from the band’s second album, 2022’s Watching Worlds Collide. The band, who’ve appeared at Night time Of The Prog and supported the likes of Opeth and Crippled Black Phoenix, wil relesase their third album, Out Of Step, by means of Misty Tones on October 3.
New single The Body, say the band, invitations the listener to discover “themes reminiscent of alienation, the sensation of being trapped in a single’s personal life and routine, and the invitation to step exterior the body”. Lyrically, each the tune and the album level to the truth that an increasing number of folks really feel out of step with society. Within the vein of albums reminiscent of David Bowie’s Exterior or 9 Inch Nails’ The Fragile, the model new observe and its music video reveal a smoky environment, carried by a strong rhythm part blended with lengthy, ethereal keyboard pads and an industrial contact.”
ESOTERICA – INTO THE ETHER
Surrey prog sextet Esoterica are again with one other new single, this time the darkly brooding Into The Ether, which follows final 12 months’s equally pleasurable Firefly. The band have simply signed to Yr Of The Rat Information, so we’re hoping we’ll be seeing a follow-up to 2020’s In Goals album someday quickly. Esoterica may also be touring all through the UK in September and October.
“Into The Ether is a haunting and cinematic journey by means of grief, resilience, and transcendence,” the band state. “With ethereal textures colliding into the heaviest second of our profession, this observe pushes our sound to new extremes. That includes each the London Oriana Choir and Choir Noir, it’s a robust ode to the chums we’ve misplaced—and the echoes they go away behind.”
TRIBE3 – FALLS LIKE RAIN
South Wales prog trio Tribe3 featured in our Limelight part of the journal earlier this 12 months, on the again of their very spectacular second album, 2024’s Life With out Strangers, from which comes the uplifting Falls Like Rain. Vocalist, keyboardist and drummer Steve Hughes tells Prog the band have simply signed to progrock.com’s Necessities label, additionally residence to Solstice and Ghost Of The Machine, which augurs nicely for the longer term.
“Falls Like Rain is concerning the energy folks can exert on these under them and the query of whether or not we will and even ought to change that,” explains guitarist Jon Ginley, who wrote the tune.
FIELDS OF NÆCLUDA – INNER DEMONS
Hailing from Grenoble, the capital of the French Alps, and drawing upon inspiration from pop, rock, and atmospheric metallic, Fields Of Næcluda launched their third album, UBUNTU, again in October, from which comes the advanced and catchy Interior Demons. The band’s identify actually interprets to ‘Fields of the Cloud Tree’, which echoes the band’s extra ambient and introspective moments, though these are sometimes countered with crashing moments of heaviness.
“Moments of calm give strategy to highly effective guitars and the lyrical flights of an emotional voice,” the band say of UBUNTU. “This album is a journey by means of the sensation of belonging to one thing higher than ourselves, and the notion of interdependence that binds us all collectively, making us humanity.”
