Pepe Deluxé - A Night and a Day [Electropop, Progressive Rock]

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Pepe Deluxé - A Night and a Day [Electropop, Progressive Rock] · 5

acezee · 4375 days ago

Pepe Deluxé's aesthetics, instrumentation, and production makes Queen of the Wave one of the most satisfying releases of this year. This video, the trailer, the artwork, the album companions, the Great Stalacpipe Organ, the Tesla Coil synthesizer, etc, etc combine to form an ambitious release that just pleases every sense. Queen of the Wave's subtitle is An Esoteric Pop Opera In Three Parts. In my opinion, the album justifies the title completely.

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cgod · 4375 days ago · link ·

Why do you think it's progressive rock? Aside from the snare drum it feels like it's music from the past.

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acezee · 4374 days ago · link ·

Honestly, it's hard to define this work's genre. I was conflicted between electronic, electropop, pop rock, alternative rock, baroque pop, and progressive rock. So I checked last.fm and one of the top tags for Queen of the Wave was progressive rock. So seeing as the album as a whole incorporates baroque, fantasy, and story elements it seemed appropriate to be labeled progressive rock in my view. Of course, seeing as Pepe Deluxé started out as a trip-hop band, they have more electronic influences than traditional progressive rock bands. If they made this album in the 1970s or started out as a rock band, it would feel more like traditional prog rock.

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cgod · 4374 days ago · link ·

Genre is hard. I've been on a Various Wave bender for about 2 weeks now. Bands are classified as New, Minimalist or Dark Wave with synth pop and post punk poking it's head in here or there. Sometimes I feel relativity confident that something fits a "minimalist wave" category but other times I think what a waste of time trying to classify this stuff.

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cgod · 4375 days ago · link ·

Not trying to be downer, but I would say I'm a progressive rock fan, but defining what is and what isn't seems difficult to me. Guess would say I think I know progressive when I hear it.

I personally would say progressive rock, is rock that pushes the envelope on traditional rock and roll conventions, while still appealing to a rock and roll conventionality. Standard modern drum synthesizer sounds don't really seem to fit the bill as progressive to me.

Stuff I think is progressive. Battles http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FsvMyQeC-Q King Crimson http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCo00hwrlK0 Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_95u4axtNY&feature=relat... Captain Beefhart http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mi8vz_3tZc&feature=relmf... Can http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQ7pYfELOeY

Plenty of other, but I think that these are fairly representative of what I'm talking about. I'll re-post some of these later, some good stuff that some people have probably never heard. If I post them at this hour they will just disappear to page 2 or 3 of hubski, and never be seen by anyone.

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vinyl · 4375 days ago · link ·

agreed. This song/video gives me hope that things can still surprise me in a good way. I'm glad I found this, thanks.