the concept that is "progressive rock" was not meant to set a style into stone for it to be emulated over and over, but to set fire to the convention of genre, allowing for absolute expressive freedom.

i liked some of the darker material on the colour spectrum, but that really hit me by surprise; what i expect from this outfit is stale cliche, and that is predictably all i've gotten from them since and all i expect from them in the future. hipster nods to appalachia, recycled post-rock, generic film scores, fairytale conservative narratives - it's not challenging, but tiring.

70s punk critiques of 70s prog were mostly strawmen arguments; roger waters had a more sophisticated critique of capitalism than anybody that came out of the punk movement did; peter gabriel reflected working class values better than anybody out of punk did, too. but, they apply startlingly well to the totally pretentious, fully recycled, creatively dead, lowest common denominator garbage that we call modern prog.

ReptoidBoffin
+deathtokoalas You're so goddamn right. I always found punk opprobrium towards prog rock bizarre, it isn't as if it's a pro-establishment genre or anything. (I am confused as to why you want to kill koalas though).

deathtokoalas
+ReptoidBoffin to an extent, i think it was a typical conflict between theory and practice. punks just wanted to fucking get on with the revolution. spontaneous anarchist revolt! prog had a lot of escapist aspects, and that deserved the criticism that it got, but the more politically oriented of it wanted to take the role of social critic, vanguard and curator. it's a pretty typical argument in leftist circles.

also, koalas must be destroyed due to their despicable cuteness.