EventsGazpacho
Gazpacho is roughly what I’d call a progressive rock band. They have the core of a progressive rock band but surface appearance of an older rock band. Their singer immediately reminded me of an odd mixture of Thom Yorke and Jeff Buckley, but the music definitely had a sound of progressive rock. What makes Gazpacho a bit on the outskirts of progressive rock is their ambient, art rock, and folk influences.
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Gloria | Disillusion
I could write an entire editorial about the nuances of attempting a complete sonic redefinition, so I won’t bore you with the details (yet!) and I’ll get back on topic. I’m not sure I can succinctly express to what extent I love Gloria, but it’s not often that I hear an album so ground breaking that my review of it turns out to be full of general and fundamental ideals about music. I think this album will be hit or miss for most of you. It will challenge how you think metal should sound; so much so that you may even try to claim this isn’t really metal… but you’d be wrong. See, for me, this is the best kind of metal I never thought existed. To quote Disillusion’s MySpace page: this sounds like “David Lynch on Metal”.
Quitting While Ahead
There’s a good chance you’d never guess that I’m a big fan of Radiohead. I mean, I’ve never written a review of their work and I’ve mentioned them maybe once on the entire site. Well the truth is I love the band and I think any Obnoxious Listener would at least appreciate their work, even if they can’t bring themselves to embracing their unique style… or should I say styles? Radiohead has redefined their sound more times than Donald Trump has filed for bankruptcy. Unfortunately, it doesn’t seem as though they have it in them any more. I just read at the Guardian News that, “Radiohead have no plans to release another album, Thom Yorke has revealed. Long-playing records, it seems, have ‘just become a real drag’.”
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I’ve come across a band that has me questioning the already loose definition of jazz I thought I knew.
New Baroness album comes out this October!
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