#prog punk

[ladycharles]

My new single Child of the Night is out now! (streaming embed below video)

It's a wild bit of proggy indie disco for fans of Of Montreal, MGMT, David Bowie, Franz Ferdinand, Late of the Pier and more

Hope you enjoy 💖💖💖

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[scavengedluxury]

Punishment of Luxury "Puppet Life" live on "Alright Now", 1979.

[spilladabalia]

Cardiacs - Is This The Life

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[weepylucifer]

it's beautiful to picture the anodic dance club as like, the new hot spot for the young people of martinaise to hang out and all bond with each other and have all their different worldviews mingle and create new things... but lbr chances are half of those people are going to end up just not really liking anodic music. like, thanks for keeping the pale hole contained or whatever but this music blows

[cxsmicvega]

i lied i hate sex put your clothes back on we're listening to the entire TOOL discography and I'm explaining the in depth meanings of each song

Stop trying to escape the bedframe is metal and the handcuffs are real we'll start with Ænima-

[balleralbumcovers]

EPIC ALBUM COVER #62

black midi - Schlagenheim

Released: 2019 (Rough Trade)

Experimental rock, noise rock, math rock

Suggested by @/obsessivemusicfr3ak

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Tracklist:

953 • Speedway • Reggae • Near DT, MI • Western • Of Schlagenheim • bmbmbm • Years Ago • Ducter

Spotify ♪ Bandcamp ♪ YouTube

[aeolianblues]

🎵 SONG-TO-GO 🎵

Friday is here, so I've got another Song-To-Go poll hot n' ready to go for you!

If you're new, hello and welcome! Song-To-Go is a weekly song poll released every Friday where I present you with new, lesser-known songs to listen to while you scroll.

As always, choose songs based on the 30-second Spotify snippets if you don’t know them (and I try to make sure there’s always something you won’t know). If you like what you hear, go listen to the full songs, they’re yours to carry along on your scroll!

[last week’s poll, playlist of everything so far (in order) and other/future picks]

This week, I’ve picked some Cure-inspired new wave from India that I’ve been digging all year, a Montreal synthpop trio that actually came out of cult favourite band Caveboy, a young but incredible new jazzy Canadian alt rock band (broken up already sadly), American goth rock that iirc I found through tumblr so you might already know her. We’ve also got a punk rock band whose sense of justice is shaped by the fact that their singer is still and was an NHS doctor during the pandemic, and the hip hop musician Hyphen, who is opening for Bob Vylan (another recommendation!) on their UK tour so go catch him live.

Happy listening! Pass it on and let me know in the tags what you liked this week :) I’ll be back with another next Friday!

[thehumandevil666]

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[ladycharles]

Apocalypse Girls - track 9 on Manic Pixie Dream World bts

This song is at its core a vision of the post-apocalypse. We are automating things such that it's conceivable that the internet could continue existing past the die-out of humanity. So what then becomes of our memories and experiences as they live on without us in cyberspace? The song is a lone survivor browsing through the Internet as their last connection to humanity, and it's an exploration of the digital world as its own ecosystem. I didn't realise at the time but it's very obviously influenced by living through the isolation of the pandemic.

I have always loved disco and especially the era of indie that took influence from it (Franz Ferdinand, The Killers for example). Its insistent, danceable pulse really lends itself to 4/4 time, so I thought it would be fun to try to make a disco beat in a really odd time signature, in this case 17/8.

I used to play in a band with Megan Miller who was similarly pretty fond of odd timing (you can hear it too in her work with And the Kids, I recommend Turn to Each Other). Since a big conceit of this record was doing things bigger and wilder, I set about trying to make it work so that it wasn't immediately obvious that the timing is so unusual.

When I contacted Greg Alsop, about drumming, he mentioned to me that he was working on a song in 17/8 which was an odd serendipity (I can only think of like two songs that use that signature). His drumming in Tokyo Police Club always really impressed me, it feels distinct - powerful like punk but more rich and complex with a lot of cool patterns that wouldn't necessarily come to the average player. I think he took the song and kicked it up a big notch - this song is so close to chaos it needed a perfect yet lively drum performance and that's what he brought.

Sorry for the long long writeup this time, this one had a lot of moving parts. I have to shout out that Erin Tonkon and Sarah Register made this mix/master so good for the album version - it was a bit silly of me to insist on mixing the single version myself because this is an extremely difficult song to balance and I really did a pretty okay but not amazing job on the original mix. Also have to shout out the amazing video by Areeb Tariq which I might post separately.

[rollerska8er]

Cannot fucking get over how good The New Sound is.

The opening track "Blues" sounds like a fusion of Discipline-era King Crimson with Hellfire-era black midi, while "Terra" and "Holy Holy" sound like they could have been on Steely Dan's Aja.

The age of yacht prog is upon us, folks

[spilladabalia]

Cardiacs - A Little Man And A House

[pretentious-art-love]

Album Reviews #10 - Sing to God by Cardiacs (or Puckish and the Joy of Pure Folly)

Call this album proggish, call it punkish, call it pronkish, call it whatever you want, it might be any of those things if you are so pleased, but above it all, this album is puckish.

Are you a friend of reason? Or do you just make a truce with it? I don't think there is anything in the entire world as beautiful as this record at all, and everything that is played on this album outmatches the most colorful butterfly, the biggest canyon, the most technically advanced skyscraper, if there is an album that lets you feel how maddening it is to be capable, as almost as if being a deity and in a constant state of eruption, is this album. Understand one thing, there are just things that logic cannot give to you, there are things that intellect cannot grasp, and if there is one thing that this album tells me, is that reason is nothing more than illusion caused by the human brain, reason as a whole is a fallacy. Tell me one thing. What would you do with power? What would you do with the ability to do whatever you wanted to do? Would you do evil? Would you do good? Would you reach towards the end of things until all things shall be well and peaceful? Will you reign over the hearts of men and show them the pain necessary to grow as beings? It is not just empowering and honest to choose evil over good, but it is also hilariously facetious to use evil not to harm but to get a good chuckle. Sing to God in a way is the feeling of having absolute and complete might, of having vigor, but use all this power and strength for the absurd, imbecilic, incongruous and the ridiculous.

I legitimately haven't found music that has ever been as intense and as beautifully provoking and infuriating as the songs found in here, and all of them as a whole are dangerously close to be maddening. Sing to God obliterates all semblance of rational thought with its sheer, unadulterated obdurate beauty. This isn't just music; it's a transcendental odyssey, a siren's call that lures you into the depths of your soul and destroy it in seconds. When you feel this happy, you stop acting as human being, you forget who you are, what you are, where you are, how you are and what you are doing, what you ever did, and what you are going to do, you end on a state of supreme bliss. Why would you be logical when you are in control of the universe? Why would you follow the chains of reason when you are almighty and supreme? You stop following reason and do the most absurd and stupid thing to exist, because you can, and let me tell you something, if you can do something not because of reason but because emotion, even when you didn't gain anything from it, when you didn't get happiness or pain, advantage or disadvantage, good or wrong, you just did it because you wanted to do it and without connecting any sort of events that happened in your life before to do them, that makes you feel free, omnipotent, if you are able to laugh at reason and take all that immense power you have to be puckish, it is the most delightfully exhilarating thing you could ever experience. It is hard to even being to understand how something as good as this exists, I could try explaining it in detail, but I haven't managed to explain it to myself yet.

In Sing to God, each note in this album is a tear in the fabric of reality, each chord a bridge to the divine. If Cosmic Horror is an exploration of the fear of the unknown, Sing to God, is a dance around the elation that exists on what we don't understand. I have said before in other reviews that all humans hide the evil, and we are all, in a way, evil, but imagine that you didn't use evil to destroy or create, but to fool around like a maniac, like an absolute idiot and laugh at purpose and intention, just to laugh along with the absurd. To listen to this album is to experience the shedding of the mundane to embrace the extraordinary and use power not for more euphoria or an extreme bliss, but to use it for folly, it almost feel as if gaining the most infinite energy to end it or create it all and use that same energy for a single chortle! That is what I want! That is what I love about life! This is it! Because that's the thing! You don not even need to be a god to be puckish! To laugh at reason! To find in the absolute supreme joy of innocent impishness! The only thing you need, is to feel that you are able to do it. This album contains the music that expresses everything that I have loved about awareness and existence and comes to me as an inspiration to live further than anyone has ever before, to live as much as I can as an individual and as a part of the whole.

Sing to God is for me truly one of the biggest achievements in humankind, I will defend it and praise it in all its madness, not for a specific reason at all, just out of pure and complete happiness, and if there is something more than I love more than myself, than I love more than my family, my friends, my life, the tastiest food I have ever tasted or anything else, is this. How beautiful is to be able to stop listening to reason and finally be to experience pure vivid and intense amusement? How wonderful is to be able to feel this wicked for no reason at all?

Custom Tracklist

1.01 Eden On The Air 1.02 Eat It Up Worms Hero 1.03 Insect Hoofs On Lassie 1.04 Fiery Gun Hand 1.05 Fairy Mary Mag 1.06 Dog-Like Sparky 1.07 Bellyeye 1.08 A Horse's Tail 1.09 Manhoo 1.10 Hurricane 1.11 Devils 1.12 Wireless

2.01 Billion 2.02 Spinney 2.03 Odd Even 2.04 Red Fire Coming Out From His Gills 2.05 Flap Off You Beak 2.06 What Paradise is Like 2.07 Bell Stinks 2.08 Bell Clinks 2.09 Quiet As A Mouse 2.10 Angleworm Angel 2.11 Dirty Boy 2.12 No Gold 2.13 Nurses Whispering Verses 2.14 Foundling

Running Time: 1h 39m

25/10

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[64hellboy]

Vinyl, vinyl, vinyl...