Pure Reason Revolution - Eupnea (2019-2020)

1/31/20
 the 1st single, the 10+minute "Silent Genesis"
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very The Dark Third-like. 1st few minutes sound like Aeropause pt 2 in some ways.

Not a stretch, but with Dirt Poor Robins Dead Horse, Alaska coming, this may be a co-favorite for an AotY, but we'll see.




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1/22/20
Loudersound

The duo say in a statement: “We stuck to our manifesto of no musical boundaries and the result was Eupnea. 
“We return to a more progressive sound with ferocious guitars, thunderous drums and the stacked harmonies that give us our signature sound. We're excited to begin playing it live.”


Yeah boi 👍👍👍👍👍👍😁😁😁😁😁

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Some news 🙊:
Pure Reason Revolution announce ‘Eupnea’; their first studio album in nearly 10 years
Last year, Jon Courtney and Chloë Alper reunited the much-loved Pure Reason Revolution, playing their first show in close to eight years at Midsummer Prog Festival and performing their debut album ‘The Dark Third’ in full. Today they are excited to announce the release of ‘Eupnea’, their first new studio album in nearly 10 years, for the 3rd of April 2020.

1. New Obsession
2. Silent Genesis
3. Maelstrom
4. Ghosts and Typhoons
5. Beyond Our Bodies
6. Eupnea

6 tracks? EPICS???????? 😄😄😄

Pure Reason Revolution REUNION in 2019!

It's only 1 gig at Midsummer's Prog Festival in the UK, and of course not something I likely will be making (I've never seen them live unfortunately), even though the festival falls around my birthday.

Will this lead to more? who knows. I suppose it is worth noting how Chloe Alper's projects since PRR's breakup have been slow to happen. Tiny Giant have released a few singles and plays live at times; and I know there has been stuff about their debut album coming, but it was at least 2, maybe 3 years ago.

Jon Courtney's band Bullet Height did finally put out their highly industrial-influenced debut album in 2017, but I was only luke warm about it.

I.e. as a huge fan of PRR, I would love to still see them make more music and play live, even if it is independent while simultaneous with their current music projects.

I guess we'll see next year. Unlike some band break ups in the last decade, I recall the PRR members ended on good terms and said they planned to reunite at some point in the future. I guess 2019 is that year.

edit:



PRR's FB photo from October 9th.

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Tiny Giant - Thirsty [VIDEO] [1B]

nice video, even if the sound a little heavy on the noise.

Random Artist Feature: Pure Reason Revolution (16 mins)

Not exactly a perfect video, especially considering I chose them partially per the size of their discography.

And length-wise, 16 minutes was hardly ideal, but so be it.

I just thought, despite lower viewership, I still have been meaning to make a bunch more of these videos, even if people don't watch them initially.

And my Tuesday Half-days have gotten off to a bit of a slow start with these per last week I went to see The Lobster, and the week before I brought my car in to have the oil changed, etc. But if all goes well, I should have the chance to come home late in the morning and make more of these during that time, if not other times.

Lots of work and Wedding stuff has been taking up my time of late, but hopefully those 1/2-days especially will help.

As far as PRR, they're a favorite, and there's not much more to say. Ministry of Music recently mentioned he dropped some requests, including my request for a review of The Dark Third, so that kind of inspired me to go ahead and make a video about PRR.

Tiny Giant - Joely / How [1B] (2016)

The debut single from Tiny Giant (Chloe Alper, ex-Pure Reason Revolution) which is available on Spotify, deezer, Google Play and iTunes.

Also the 2nd track/b-side? "How" is there as well.

I actually may prefer "How" of these 2 new tracks. But good stuff, even if it's not exactly prog.

Tiny Giant - Joely + How on Google Play
iTunes

Bullet Height: Jon Courtney (ex-Pure Reason Revolution)

This sounds pretty good. Kind of PRR-like in some ways, with a bit of an electronic/industrial slant.

On Superball Music too.

While a PRR reunion may happen someday, the time table on that is unclear, but between this band from Jon Courtney and Chloe Alper's project Tiny Giant, the members are at least doing music again, and music I'm enjoying at initially.

Sammi Doll, the female singer I guess has played with the band IAMX.

http://www.bulletheight.com/
Bullet Height on Facebook

Tiny Giant - Heavy Love [New song from Chloe Alper of PRR's new band]

This is pretty nice. Not exactly the crazy layering of PRR, but so be it. The 2nd half does have a nice climax.

Ever since Pure Reason Revolution split back in 2011, I've been rather curious to see what the members would do. Chloe Alper specifically, has been dabbling in some different things. A solo career under more than 1 name (her name, Chloe and Flood?), and then Tiny Giant was talked about maybe a year and a half ago, I forget. And I notice even in my tags, Mat Collis's name, whose the other half of Tiny Giant.

This song, may or may not be new, but newly recorded I imagine. I remember the mention of an EP last December, which never came.. But this new recorded single "Heavy Love" is quite good, so much, I really hope they have more coming soon. Maybe not this year, but hopefully in 2016 then.

Tiny Giant: New band feat. Chloe Alper (ex-Pure Reason Revolution)

Per altprogcore's post

http://tinygiantmusic.com/
https://www.facebook.com/TinyGiantmusic



This is a new project/band from Chloe Alper (ex-Pure Reason Revolution). You can stream their 1st song "Heavy Love" on their website linked above.

Not bad. Probably more *rock* like than the music I wondered if she was going toward with her solo music. Which with this new band with Mat Collis, I wonder how much this will impact said solo career. She has posted the last few years about a solo album coming under the name "Chloe." So, perhaps she will be doing both? or will that solo music not be coming so soon now?

Mat Collis, apparently is an engineer and perhaps a drummer among other things. It appears he's worked with Steven Wilson, Katatonia among his experience, as an engineer and drum, keyboard and guitar tech.

But Tiny Giant has an EP expected next winter per their website.

Chloë (Chloe Alper ex-Pure Reason Revolution) video for "Leaf" (was new song "Oueda")

5/28/13 10:15PM

http://chloealper.com/

this is odd to say the least, and quite a departure from the PRR stuff. But then again, this may be some kind of art video and a segue/intro/outro kind of piece.

The name Peter Gabriel does come to mind, or even Kate Bush, Imogen Heap or Bjork in some ways.


also, I BELIEVE the demo below has been PULLED unfortunately. But hopefully she'll share that piece again, as it was pretty sweet sounding.

4/20/13 8:00AM
Chloe's new demo "One of Two"

Damn, verry very nice!

edit: she pulled the demo unfortunately. Hopefully it'll be back up soon.

1/30/13 4:45PM

12/19/12 12:04PM
I haven't heard it yet, but shall later today. She says she has music coming the end of the year here, and early in 2013.

Music by Chloë Alper; a British singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. She launched her career as a solo musician in 2012, having previously been best known as a singer and bassist in the British New prog rock group Pure Reason Revolution.

Her new facebook page is here http://www.facebook.com/therealchloealper
And the Soundcloud page https://soundcloud.com/chloe-alper

What I'm unclear on a bit here is, the name Flood going to be dropped? This may get a bit like the Jimmy Gnecco/Ours thing if that kind of stuff isn't mentioned early on.

EDIT:  The music she is making will be released under the name "Chloë" and the "Flood" name is not going to happen. Honestly, that makes a lot of sense given there's like a dozen bands with that name

already. Although there's a few "Chloe's as well.

Flood (Chloe Alper of Pure Reason Revolution+ Tom Bellamy)

I'm not sure yet if this new project is/has become the name of Chloe Alper of PRR's new band, or if it is a completely separate thing from what I read as an upcoming solo album coming hopefully later this year. (I just sent her a message via twitter inquiring, she has changed her name to "Flood", but not the s/n/url as you can see here )

Tom Bellamy is from The Cooper Temple Clause, and more importantly, someone who co-wrote/produced some of Pure Reason Revolution's last record, Hammer & Anvil.

Whether this is that formerly announced solo album of hers, or something else, I and I'm sure other PRR fans especially will be interested to check it out.

Warpaint - live videos

Yourstru.ly Presents: Warpaint "Undertow" from Yours Truly on Vimeo.

Yourstru.ly Presents: Warpaint "Bees" from Yours Truly on Vimeo.

God sometimes I wish I could watch or even listen to their music without having any lustful ideas in my mind. It's-too-fucking-hard. At least at this point.

I mean I give up. They're all incredibly beautiful, and the fact their music is so good makes them even more attractive. Maybe this crush will fade over time, but I still hold a candle for Annie Haslam after all these years. Imogen Heap? I suppose so, although not as much on a physical level as I once did. Chloe Alper? yeah, she's still at times overwhelmingly beautiful. But the Warpaint girls are all flowers to me, and also I wish I could just be best friends with them as well. At this point I'd be happy to just have them book a concert in Minneapolis and be given 10 minutes to say hello, etc. Hopefully in 2011. Hopefully the fucking local radio stations (yeah you, 89.3 and Radio K) will start playing "Undertow" or any of their other songs off either The Fool or Exquisite Corpse.

Hot Prog Chics make me melt and I have no choice. I would marry Emily Kokal if she'd have me. Or for that matter probably any of them.