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Apologies for the list, all! It's a long thread, I jumped to the end. Maybe I should have started a new one anyway. Here are some details.
Our Lady Peace - alternative rock band from Canada, I like their album of last year, Healthy in Paranoid Times very much. I suppose to an old fogey like me many youngish bands sound derivative, you could make a lot of comparisons, but they do it with a passionate intensity that I like. An American correspondent of mine age 20 said recently: "haha i used to listen to Our Lady Peace all the damn time back in my angsty teen days". Ah well.
Spock's Beard my favourite contemporary prog band. Again you could say: "That was a Yes moment! That was a Genesis moment! That was a Krimson moment!" but they are a fucking good band & I'd rather listen to them than Yes or Genesis any time, these days. They lost a key band member, Neal Morse a few years back because what they were doing wasn't (purses lips to impart a certain je ne sais quoi) Christian enough. Shame, I thought that they already were quite Christian in the nicest possible ways. Their album of last year, Octane is as good as the earlier ones, like the seminal Beware of Darkness - title track a George Harrison cover - which features their most popular &/or well known songs: The Doorway & Waste Away. They sang that song the Mouth of Madness at the end of the excellent Lovecraftian movie of that name. A guy I met in the pub once shook my hand when I butted into a conversation he was having with his flatmate in the bog to recommend the Beard & he said that I'd made his day.
The Young Gods I don't know much about them. I'm listening to an album called Music For Artificial Clouds electronic, ambient & maybe if you're into the stuff that David Sylvian did with the likes of Holger Czukay you'd like it.
The Bombay Dub Orchestra: not quite what it says on the tin, my wife said: "How can they call this dub?" It has got some good dub rhythms in it but the Bombay part of the recipe has the upper hand. Good album though, album title is the band name, it came out last year.
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