It took three daysto get through The Acts,five albums, eleven discs. And now I approachMigrant, a collection of prog-pop-rockso delicious, so melodic, so powerful, as to makeit one of my favoritealbums of the last decade. Released initially in 2013, interrupting The Acts in progress, and then remixedand resequenced and expanded for it’s 10thanniversary in 2023,Continue reading “#663: D is for The Dear Hunter (Part the Second)”
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#662: D is for The Dear Hunter (Part the First)
In 2020, I wrote a whole thingabout these Dear Hunter kidsand how I discovered them, slowlybut surely, and how they becameone of my favorite new acts of thefirst decades of the 21st century.Now, five or six years later afterthat discovery, I remain a superfan. They are the only contemporaryband, for example, that I have seenliveContinue reading “#662: D is for The Dear Hunter (Part the First)”
The Dear Hunter: My New Prog Rock Obsession
It starts innocently enough, and slow, with the download (I think from emusic) of a six tune extended play called “All Is As All Should Be” by a band called The Dear Hunter. This happens maybe two years ago. Undeniably a great performance by extremely gifted musicians and a singer who is both super melodicContinue reading “The Dear Hunter: My New Prog Rock Obsession”