Midas Fall "The Menagerie Inside"

Country: UK
Genre(s): Progressive Rock/Pop, Post Rock
Label: Monotreme Records
Format: CD, vinyl, digital
Release date: September 4, 2015
Tracklist: 

1. Push
2. Afterthought
3. Circus Performer
4. Counting Colours
5. Low
6. The Morning Asked and I Said No
7. Half a Mile Outside
8. Tramadol Baby
9. A Song Built From Scraps of Paper
10. Holes

Line-up: 
Elizabeth Heaton - vocals, guitar, synths
Rowan Burn - guitar, piano
Steven Pellatt - drums, percussion
Chris Holland - bass

Description/Reviews: 

Midas Fall focus on the more contemplative side of progressive rock, continuing where the Gathering and Anathema have gone recently, but veering off in their own direction. The key difference is singer Elizabeth Heaton, whose tender voice brings sensitivity to the music, often echoing the likes of Loreena McKennitt and Elizabeth Fraser.
  As a result Midas Fall’s new album The Menagerie Inside bridges prog and dreampop in a way that hasn’t quite been done this way before. Arrangements are sprawling, often reminiscent of Isis, but that distinctly feminine side makes the music feel so much more welcoming and alluring. (Adrien Begrand at popmatters.com)

 Also read full review by Lance Turner at echoesanddust.com

Media/Samples 
Stream
Push
Circus Performer

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Stearica "Fertile"

Country: Italy
Genre(s): Instrumental Progressive Rock, Post Rock, Experimental
Label: Monotreme Records
Format: CD, digital, vinyl
Release date: April 13, 2015
Tracklist: 
1. Delta
2. Halite
3. Bes
4. Geber
5. Nur
6. Tigris
7. Siqlum
8. Amreeka
9. Shāh Māt

Line-up: 
Francesco Carlucci: guitars, bass, synths, electronics, additional sounds
Davide Compagnoni: drums, percussions, samples
Luca Paiardi: bass
   With
Scott McCloud (Girls Against Boys): vocals (8)
Colin Stetson (Tom Waits, Arcade Fire, Bon Iver): flute, french horns, tenor and bass saxophones (9)
Ryan Patterson (Coliseum): vocals (5)

Description/Reviews: 

Both the concept of ‘fertile’ as ‘life-giving’ and the revolutionary impulses of the Arab Spring and the Indignants protests in Barcelona provided inspiration for this latest work from STEARICA, who begin their creative process by freely improvising for several hours. These torrents of sound are then edited into finished songs, just as a receding flood leaves behind fertility-bringing silt.
Produced by band member Francesco Carlucci, Fertile captures the primordial nature of the sound that the trio creates in their dynamic live performances. At times brutal, chaotic, mysterious, tranquil; Fertile is music born of our time: instinctively revolutionary.

Media/Samples 
Delta
Halite
Nur
Shah Mat

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