>>127530366
I listened at least twice to each song, and tried to find in them what I want these threads to uphold, but none of these are enough. I think I'll remove "technical" from the next thread description to dispel this kind of tech-demo rock.

>Polyphia
>>Playing God
Chill-hop beats with electric flamenco playing. Sounds nice, but Christopher Cross is more rock than this.
>>The Audacity
Really wanted to find something up to standard in this. Close enough to rock I suppose. Still sounds like technical but completely welcoming guitar athletics, cycling between main theme and variation/tangent, lacking the progression that historically gave progressive rock its namesake. I hope math rock as a genre is more than this dexterity-flexing.

>Animals as Leaders
>>Physical Education
One of many byproducts of the long telephone game played with Meshuggah's influence: time signature rock anchored to monotonous cymbal crashes, because lively rhythms or melodic development would disrupt the instrument-players' compositional watchmaking. This track is djent bled dry of any extremity or progression, shuffling through a few pretty but filler melodies before vanishing like a half-asleep daydream.
>>Monomyth
Better, but still falls short. Mostly Morse code chug patterns with undulating synths and prawg salad sprinkled in to break the monotony that comes from writing lawn sprinkler chug music. I will be disappointed if a service like Suno doesn't end this band's career.