The ProgBlog June 2025 playlist

Описание: The Hadal Sherpa download VOID WEAVER, released in May 2025, is an album of melodic instrumental psyche, more riff-based than their trippy, proggy debut HADAL SHERPA from 2017 which I bought after listening to the new album and which makes an appearance here. The earlier recording takes wide-ranging influences from the 70s while this year's effort see the band on a spaceship heading deeper into the cosmos.
The first new purchase, ESP Project's just released VELVET CRUNCH sees Tony Lowe reunited with both Peter Coyle and Mark Brzezicki and the results are highly favourable, with inventive drumming underpinning Lowe's beautifully crafted cinematic soundscapes and Coyle's intelligent lyrics telling the story of the network of connections beneath the forest floor: symbiosis, growth, decay and rebirth.
Plank's FUTURE OF THE SEA featured as a new CD purchase in April but an unexpected return of some vinyl copies from a distributor meant that I was able to get my hands on my favoured format.
THINKING WITHOUT LANGUAGE is a five track EP released earlier this year by Australia's The Orphaned Bee, an accidental discovery after responding to a barely related Reddit post. While the EP is designed to be listened to in the stated running order, it's difficult to pin down the music to any specific genre, although the synthesizer work and Vocoder hint at 80s art rock or pop-prog. Project leader Brett Tollis writes uplifting music and certainly has an ear for a good melody.
THINGS TO COME was a purchase from Eel Pie Records in Twickenham on a ProgBlog day out. Seventh Wave are probably more art-rock than prog but this album, which supplements my 2005 Japanese edition CD, has plenty of proggy moments.

As usual, the rest of the playlist is an assortment of music chosen from the ProgBlog collection, covering a wide range of sub-genres.
I hope you find something to your taste.