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Kanaan & Ævestaden – Langt, langt vekk

This is the ultimate trip for Kanaan and Ævestaden, to take us through the musical journey with their own portal, and their own vision by giving us a chance to see what lies ahead. If you’re very new to their music, then this might be a start for you.

Julie Square – The Last Days of The Holocene

An excellent introduction to an artist that obviously has the ability to grow further.

Maul – In the Jaws of Bereavement

In the Jaws of Bereavement is an uncompromising album, heavy as hell, and punching our sweet angels straight into the face.

Guy Blakeslee – Extravision

When there is so much genuine emotion involved in music making, the results are bound to be equally stirring and calming for the listeners too, trying to make the sense not only out of what Blakeslee felt but what they feel too.

Mekigah – To Hold Onto A Heartless Heart

It really is better just to experience the album over and over, piecing together the fragments and crafting your own perplexing, fascinating story.

Stick In The Wheel – A Thousand Pokes

Stripped back instrumentation paired to punchy structural minimalism for a sound that is both urgent and intimate.

Ritual – The Story of Mr. Bogd, Part 1

Ritual pull all of the stop signs out to create this mind-blowing story they’ve unleashed to the prog community.

Trelldom – …By The Shadows…

An unexpected sonic machine with an enlarged range of music styles exploring new progressive musical paths.

Blue Zero – Colder Shade Blue

No weak or meandering songs of the nine are presented here, announcing Blue Zero as a band all shoegaze fans can easily embrace.

Theo Travis – Aeolus: One Hour Duduk Meditation

It puts you through a meditated trance, revealing all of the craziness, the dystopian wastelands, and the structures that Travis pours his heart and soul into the duduk.

The Verge – The Verge

The Verge’s sole self-titled debut is the album that can put you through a sonic trance with unexpected results that are earth-shattering, glorious, and keeping you on the edge of your seat.

envy – Eunoia

Eunoia is full of the beauty, energy and passion that only envy can produce.

Kamra – Shift Circuit

Essentially, out of nowhere, we get an album that is at the same time experimental and utterly listenable at the same time.

David Gilmour – Luck and Strange

It is a moving, stirring, and emotional record which sees David, finally at peace with himself. And, who knows what he’ll do next.

Bobbie Dazzle – Fandabidozi

One of the heaviest, metallic, ‘70s pop, and progressive orientations that she’s unleashed.

Light Of The Morning Star – Wings In The Night Sky

Pitch black, draped in gloom but with a knack for melodies as sharp as a surgeon’s scalpel, these four songs strip back a lot of the polish of Charnel Noir and instead deliver something cold and starkly alluring.

Echoes of the Past: Storm Corrosion – Storm Corrosion

Storm Corrosion is a revelation by proving us that Wilson and Åkerfeldt are more than just the progressive orientations, death metal growls, extreme guitar textures, it’s an album that takes a lot of repeatable listens to see what they were doing behind studio doors, creating this immensely unsung gem.

Chat Pile – Cool World

Cool World is undoubtedly going to enhance Chat Pile’s popularity as it’s a blistering riot of noise and melody.

Hawklords – Relativity

Despite song writing credits being spread throughout the trio there is a real sense of cohesion, it is an art piece, a body of work not just a collection of songs. Superbly paced, with ‘Relativity’ Hawklords and their collaborators have produced a classic space rock album. 

Heilung – LIFA lotungard

If you’re very new to the world of Heilung’s music, then this is a complete start to see what you’re missing.

Brick Briscoe – Paris, Indiana

With all its eclecticism, it’s an intriguing album, no matter what.

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