2026-08-29
The full log for this week — every entry annotated and sourced. ▶ play the whole edition on Spotify
Where it started: the first edition, twenty tracks, one rule — nothing you'd find on an algorithm's front page. — ed.
SUBMASQMonuments
Monumental in name and nature — modern prog with metal weight and architectural patience.
VisagemAbismo
South American prog with real voltage — Abismo ("abyss") does exactly what the title promises.
LufehOVERWHELMED
Drummer-led prog with aerial dynamics — OVERWHELMED wears its capital letters honestly.
OddlandIlluminate
Finnish prog metal with an unusually light touch for the genre — Illuminate glows rather than bludgeons.
Kavus TorabiWater Into Wine
The Knifeworld/Cardiacs lineage at its most buoyant — Torabi's songcraft bends time signatures into pop shapes without ever losing the grin. A solo single that earned its opening slot.
SourceOptimistic
From the first harvest's deeper cuts — modern prog with a melodic heart and no interest in showing off.
Tanertill90 Percent
One of the harvest's left-field picks — compact, hooky, and off-kilter in the right proportions.
Pattern-Seeking AnimalsMaybe All a Dream
The Neal Morse-adjacent outfit operating at full melodic strength — dream-logic prog with immaculate harmonies.
Last Scene AliveSummit Not The Chasm
A pep talk with guitars — modern prog that takes its own advice.
REZNAerial Birth
Chicago's doom-psych heavyweights. Aerial Birth rides a riff the size of a weather system — the volume is the point, and the point is well taken.
Changing Places in the FireHome
Quiet-loud dynamics done with actual feeling — Home builds its crescendo the old way, by earning it.
OceanriseBring Down the Sky
Italian post-sludge that swings for the horizon. The riff arrives like weather; Bring Down the Sky is the forecast.
Jakub TircoEvery Day Is a Vortex
Piano-led fusion that whirls — the title is the honest review.
Naná RizinniThe Right Side of the Escalator
Brazilian jazz-fusion with a songwriter's wit — the escalator metaphor extends further than you'd think.
Lorenzo Di MaioSomething To Believe In
Guitar-forward fusion with a romantic streak — Something To Believe In makes the case without words.
KryptonesMatti's Mojo
A jazz-fusion two-hander with humor in the pocket — Matti's Mojo has the swing the name implies.
Tigran HamasyanPrelude For All Seekers
The Armenian pianist-composer's foliar arpeggios — a prelude that sounds like a whole orchestra tuning to a folk memory.
The MesstheticsRules Of The Game
The Fugazi rhythm section's instrumental outfit — jazz-punk with DC pedigree and zero wasted notes.
Janel LeppinTo March Is To Love, Pt I
Cello-led ambient jazz — To March Is To Love drifts with purpose.
DikajeeGunpowder
The French duo's single from Prog's Tracks Of The Week — angular, theatrical, unmistakably from the French prog tradition of taking odd ideas seriously.