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Recommendation: Upcdownc - I, Awake

Band: Upcdownc
Album: I, Awake
Label: Self Released
Year: 2017








Tracklist
01. Am I Awake? Part 1
02. Am I Awake? Part 2
03. Am I Awake? Part 3
04. Am I Awake? Part 4
05. Awake Part 1
06. Awake Part 2
07. Awake Part 3
08. Awake Part 4
09. Adrift Part 1
10. Adrift Part 2
11. Adrift Part 3
12. Adrift Part 4
13. Looming Part 1
14. Looming Part 2
15. Foreboding Part 1
16. Foreboding Part 2
17. Black Dracula
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‘I, Awake’ is the new album from progressive, sludge, horror synth outfit Upcdownc. Following 17 years of producing constant heavy, instrumental, fuzzy noise this will be the band’s first album as a 3 piece. The concept behind the music and artwork is based on the idea of sleep, dreams, nightmares and fears coupled with extreme anxiety and night terrors. ‘I, Awake’ explores the transitions between sleep and waking life.

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Streaming: A Lot Like Birds - Divisi

Band: A Lot Like Birds
Album: DIVISI
Label: Equal Vision Records
Year: 2017








Tracklist
01. Always Burning, Always Dark
02. The Sound Of Us
03. For Shelley (Unheard)
04. Trace The Lines
05. Atoms In Evening
06. The Smoother The Stone
07. Infinite Chances
08. No Attention For Solved Puzzles
09. Further Below
10. Good Soil, Bad Seeds
11. From Moon To Son
12. Divisi
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A Lot Like Birds is a six piece progressive rock/post-hardcore outfit from Sacramento, CA, formed in September 2009, known for their tendency to experiment with several diverse genre influences and their incorporation of orchestral and ambient sound-scapes contrasted by chaotic, schizophrenic episodes. On January 9th of 2011, A Lot Like Birds announced that Kurt Travis (Ex of Dance Gavin Dance, Five Minute Ride, No Not Constant, and O! the Joy) would be the new singer and second front-man, alongside Cory Lockwood. With their acclaimed addition, the band quickly signed to Doghouse Records (All American Rejects, Say Anything, The Get Up Kids) and acquired The Artery Foundation (Asking Alexandria, Dance Gavin Dance, Alesana) as management.

Their debut album Plan B was the brainchild of the band’s guitarist/original vocalist Michael Franzino, who invited several talented musicians in the Sacramento scene (including various orchestral instrumentalists and a female vocalist) to perform on the record. They spent their first year of existence diligently perfecting their live set, building their fan base, and most recently, writing their sophomore album as a collaborative effort. Their live set is known for setting deep moods that swing from thoughtful, emotional build-ups to body-moving, epic climaxes.

After signing both deals, they entered Interlace Audio Recording Studio with producer / engineer Kris Crummet (Closure In Moscow, Fear Before, Dance Gavin Dance) to record their second full length, Conversation Piece.

After it's release in the fall of 2011, Conversation Piece received praise and they were called "one of post-hardcore’s most important new bands and one of the few capable of saving the scene." (-MindEqualsBlown.net).

A Lot Like Birds spent all of 2012 on the road, taking their new album and frenzied live antics to the masses. The positive reception to their high energy performances lead to a one month tour of Europe in February 2013. The band's growing fan base fueled powerful performances in London, Paris, Vienna, Budapest and 19 other cities.

A Lot Like Birds released their second LP 'No Place' with Equal Vision Records on October 29th, 2013 and their third LP 'Divisi' with Equal Vision Records on May 5th, 2017.

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Streaming: Audiolepsia - Muses

Band: Audiolepsia
Album: Muses
Label: dunk! records
Year: 2017








Tracklist
01. Beatrix
02. Satine
03. Motoko
04. Evey
05. Charlotte
06. Clarice
07. Rachel
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Audiolepsia is an instrumental prog/post-rock band from Barcelona. Emotive melodies, full force moments, amazing and intense atmospheres.

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Recommendation: Outrun The Sunlight - Red Bird

Band: Outrun The Sunlight
Album: Red Bird
Label: Self Released
Year: 2017








Tracklist
01. Red Bird
02. Synergy
03. The Danger Of Alignment
04. Remaining In A Constant State Of Discomfort
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Outrun The Sunlight is a 4-piece instrumental progressive metal band from Chicago,USA.

From soaring guitar lines, complex rhythms and ambient soundscapes, “Red Bird,” demonstrates the vastness of metal music, taking influence from Caspian, Cloudkicker, The Contortionist and more. Traditionally grouped into progressive metal and djent, the quartet has made a conscious effort to transcend all conventions and constraints that factor into production, songwriting and image of those genres. Leaving behind direct-in guitar recording, programmed drums and in-house mixing/mastering, all four members performed and critiqued the album, creating the most organic and truest form of the band yet. “Red Bird” evokes cathartic feelings of love, growth and uncertainty, and being that it’s instrumental, it encourages the listener to create their own narratives in the music. 

This album is best listened to in a quiet space on your best set of headphones.

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Recommendation: Sleep Maps - No More Good Dreams

Band: Sleep Maps
Album: No More Good Dreams
Label: Self Released
Year: 2017








Tracklist
01. Dreams
02. The Lonelies
03. Under The Pyramid
04. You Can't Escape
05. The Black Island
06. Recurring Dream
07. Approaching Wave
08. Left Alone
09. Those Days Are Gone
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Over the course of moving from Chicago, to Los Angeles, to New York, multi-instrumentalist Ben Kaplan has developed Sleep Maps from a solo project to a full band in time for the debut album, Fiction Makes the Future. Sleep Maps tend toward the dark side of post-rock, with spoken word samples.

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Streaming: Into Orbit - Unearthing

Band: Into Orbit
Album: Unearthing
Label: Self Released
Year: 2017








Tracklist
01. Dark Matter 03:52
02. Stone Circles 05:41
03. Scattering Light 03:06
04. Equilibrium 08:02
05. Caldera 05:40
06. The Archer 04:43
07. Unearthing 03:36
08. Gilgamesh
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Into Orbit is a dynamic duo of guitar and drums whose immersive, genre-defying sound contains aspects of experimental rock, metal, prog, doom, ambience & drone.

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Streaming: Aeons End - Imago EP

Band: Aeons End
Album: Imago EP
Label: Self Released
Year: 2016








Tracklist
01. Confess
02. Uncage
03. Expand
04. Reflect
05. Perceive
06. Define
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Aeons End is a four-piece progressive project based in Rostock, Germany.

Their music combines memorable melodies with impulsive grooves and offer a variety of profound, melancholic, depressed and sometimes promising vibes.

The do it yourself approach plays a dominant role in the whole project.

Their first EP Imago released in September 2016.

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