Tuesday 17 September 2024

US Castle Canyon in 2 (Gods of 1973, Criteria Obsession) flacs limited time only






First album was a masterpiece no matter how you want to present it. When I first heard this I thought for sure this is the best recently released true progressive music, with the synths, dissonances, etc. you could ever hope for, but then it turns out the music actually did come, as the title suggests, from the 70s. So a little less impressive in that sense, but still shocking it wasn't heard back in that era when the music could've been better appreciated.  Like others though they came back in recent times to put out an album that is just as good, kudos to them, called Criteria Obsession. Of course it's a little bit simpler, but you couldn't not expect that.

From 1973, Canoeing on the River Styx:



By far the best track off the more recent release is one called Disaster with its classical grand piano intro (similar to the US band Cathexis I extensively reported on back here) that segues so marvelously and classic-proggishly into a fusionary synthesized madness and every time I hear those smashing dissonances I just want to cry with absolute joy:





 

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