New Progessive Rock Band(Get Ready to Gawk)

[murkat]

Buy the album. It is infectious. Great for driving too. Cool talent.

[Kerry Marchman]

Seems like I saw that drummer in a movie a long time ago...

[jisham]

Awesome...I love it and thanks for sharing because I had not even heard of this before now.

 

[JohnZ]

On 2/15/2026 at 5:57 AM, Dutchman said:

WTF?

 

Thanks for sharing! I love it 😂

[kizanski]

[Vintage Hamer-Lover]

Remarkable! King Crimson genes. Perhaps will influence haute couture, too...

[Jakeboy]

II will say this: at least they are apparently real people playing real instruments making real music that some people like. 
Beats AI.

[veatch]

Missed it by *this* much. 

I think you meant to say:

This band has:

✅ Real humans involved

✅ Actual instruments (not just a laptop having feelings)

✅ Music was, in fact, created

✅ At least some people genuinely like it

If you like… I can type up a more detailed critique too.

[veatch]

To further the thought I asked OpenAI to guess what my reaction would be to this band based upon previous chats.

It came back with this, and I think it pretty much nailed my opinion:

"I love it for about 20 minutes. After that, it feels like homework."

[gorch]

@zorrow introduced me to them the other day. I found it interesting although I wouldn‘t listen more often I think. I‘m rather waiting for Queen II 2026 remix to arrive by the 27th. Can‘t wait to hear the original guitar orchestration decyphert in some way. 

[hamerhead]

Pretty sure this is the new Rush.

[diablo175]

 

[RobB]

On 3/21/2026 at 6:58 AM, hamerhead said:

Pretty sure this is the new Rush.

So, you’re 4-Imprint certain?

[BubbaVO]

They are very entertaining.  

[Willie G. Moseley]

They're no Sigue Sigue Sputnik.

[jwhitcomb3]

I'm late to the party - the singer in my band just sent one of their videos. LOVE IT! They balance the trance-y repetition with a good feel for when enough is enough.

[Jim85IROC]

I couldn't stand it the first time I heard it.  Sounded like out of tune noise.  But, as more of the youtubers that I watch kept analyzing it, I found that it was starting to grow on me... or wear me down. I'm still not sure which, but I dislike it way less than I did a week ago.  It's interesting, it's different, and it's of a high quality.  I'm not sure I'm ready to buy the album and put it on repeat, but I'm starting to find myself enjoying it in short bursts.

[LucSulla]

On 2/16/2026 at 1:53 PM, kizanski said:

ok...here's the thing...

I've watched this several times now.  I can't seem to stop.

The drummer (who is an animal, by the way) is cracking me the f**k up with that acetylene tanks helmet and his dangling nose penis, swaying as he plays. 

 

I sent the clip to a non-musician buddy of mine because I knew he would pee himself laughing at it.

He asked me if they were serious.
I didn't understand the question.
"I mean," he said, "do they know they're ridiculous, or are they trying to be serious?"
I said, "I think if at any point in your life, you find yourself applying polka dot paint to your bare feet before a performance, you've pretty much thrown 'serious' out the window."

He said he hadn't. noticed that, which I found curious in itself.

 

...and what's up with the frets on this instrument?

 

ETA:

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That's where I ended up with it. 

I like Secret Chiefs 3 and Mr. Bungle, so liking outside music isn't outside of my wheelhouse. Disco Volante is one of my favorite albums, and I imagine most people here would call that shit. 

However, this struck me more in the way folks like Tim Henson or Tosin Abasi do initially. I can look at that and appreciate that it is very hard and that it clearly takes talent. Then usually I lose interest very quickly after a listen or two because it's more interesting as a novelty and a skills exhibition than it is as a piece of popular music. 

But this - I found myself listening to it more and more. After your ear adjusts to it a bit, some of these songs are just straight up bangers as far as I'm concerned. The novelty is only a small part to my ear, and for me, that wearing off led to recognizing I genuinely enjoy the songs. 

I remember when music wasn't like oxygen back in the days of physical media and if you bought something you didn't like initially, your choice was to either sit with it or just listen to old stuff you already have until you built up enough yard-mowing money to go buy something new. Most of my favorite albums were stuff I thought was pretty bad the first time I listened to it. I won't lump everyone into this category - I can genuinely understand why someone would listen and say "this is not for me," but I do also think that a lot of us have forgotten what it is like to encounter something we didn't expect and have to digest it for a bit before really knowing what we think of it because it is so easy to move on to the next song these days. 

There's also a psychological phenomenon known as "reactance" that can be hard to overcome. Many of us, myself included, naturally hate anything that seems to be getting a buzz. Nothing makes me irrationally decide to never give a band a chance more than a bunch of people telling me that I have to like them. "Fuck you! I'll listen to whatever I want, hipster trash!" Luckily, these guys were already on my radar in passing, so I was able to choke that emotion down. 

[Jim85IROC]

1 hour ago, LucSulla said:

 

That's where I ended up with it. 

I like Secret Chiefs 3 and Mr. Bungle, so liking outside music isn't outside of my wheelhouse. Disco Volante is one of my favorite albums, and I imagine most people here would call that shit. 

However, this struck me more in the way folks like Tim Henson or Tosin Abasi do initially. I can look at that and appreciate that it is very hard and that it clearly takes talent. Then usually I lose interest very quickly after a listen or two because it's more interesting as a novelty and a skills exhibition than it is as a piece of popular music. 

But this - I found myself listening to it more and more. After your ear adjusts to it a bit, some of these songs are just straight up bangers as far as I'm concerned. The novelty is only a small part to my ear, and for me, that wearing off led to recognizing I genuinely enjoy the songs. 

I remember when music wasn't like oxygen back in the days of physical media and if you bought something you didn't like initially, your choice was to either sit with it or just listen to old stuff you already have until you built up enough yard-mowing money to go buy something new. Most of my favorite albums were stuff I thought was pretty bad the first time I listened to it. I won't lump everyone into this category - I can genuinely understand why someone would listen and say "this is not for me," but I do also think that a lot of us have forgotten what it is like to encounter something we didn't expect and have to digest it for a bit before really knowing what we think of it because it is so easy to move on to the next song these days. 

There's also a psychological phenomenon known as "reactance" that can be hard to overcome. Many of us, myself included, naturally hate anything that seems to be getting a buzz. Nothing makes me irrationally decide to never give a band a chance more than a bunch of people telling me that I have to like them. "Fuck you! I'll listen to whatever I want, hipster trash!" Luckily, these guys were already on my radar in passing, so I was able to choke that emotion down. 

there's a lot of wisdom in this post!  I'm a dinosaur so I still buy CDs, and I always force myself to listen through the whole CD no less than twice before I toss it on the "never again" pile.  Like you, I learned that not everything is something that I'll love immediately.  I'm more a creature of habit who doesn't tend to like new things. I prefer familiar things.  When I get a new album, more often than not, it's not necessarily what I expected, so there's always that period of regret or buyer's remorse.  Many, many times, by the time I got to the end of the 2nd listen, I would have a different perspective on the music, and usually for the better.  I noticed the same thing here with this band as I became more familiar with the music through a few of the videos that I've watched about it.

[Steve Haynie]