Don’t miss out on these 3 eclectic releases this week!
Releases of the Week 10/2021 feat. Turbulence, Autarkh, The Anchoress and more
Introducing our brand new Releases of the Week format where we’ll highlight a few editorial picks with mini-reviews. Check back every Friday to get your weekly fix of new prog releases! Today, we have some melodic prog metal from Lebanon with Turbulence, some genre-bending extreme metal madness with the dutchies of Autarkh and finally some art pop with The Anchoress. What’s your favourite release of the week?
Turbulence - Frontal
Lebanon’s first and foremost purveyors of exquisite melodic prog metal Turbulence are back with their sophomore record, “Frontal”, their label debut for italian Frontiers Music. While they were wearing their classic Dream Theater and Symphony X influences on their sleeves on the 2015 debut album “Disequilibrium”, they are coming into their own voice with “Frontal”, a concept album about the curious case of Phineas Gage. Combining traditional and contemporary melodic prog metal sounds, “Frontiers” is polished off by a stellar mix and master from Lucas de la Rosa. Dario
Autarkh - Form in Motion
Massive debut album from these dutch extreme boundary pushers. A natural successor band to avantgarde black metal phenomenon Dodecahedron, mainman Michel Nienhuis orchestrated a cacophonous bastard of extreme metal and electronic IDM sound aesthetics. Touching really epic cinematic scopes whenever the dissonance and electronic blast- and breakbeats give way to layered harmonies. Autarkh‘s “Form in Motion” is an unexpected bomb. Dario
The Anchoress - The Art of Losing
Welsh singer and multi-instrumentalist The Anchoress (aka Catherine Anne Davies), has already been described as a “modern-day Kate Bush”, and heralded for the work with Manic Street Preachers, and Simple Minds. Her music is at times breathtaking, and flows effortlessly between the fragile and the more energetic and bombastic. I would not necessarily describe her music as prog, but more like art-rock, or intelligent pop music with the occasional progressive tendency. “The Art of Losing” is a small masterpiece of emotional, genre-defying music, and could very well be of interest to music fans who enjoy the solo works of musicians like Steven Wilson or Tim Bowness. Rune
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