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Progressive pop is pop music that attempts to break with the genre's standard formula, or an offshoot of the progressive rock genre that was commonly heard on AM radio in the 1970s and 1980s. It was originally termed for the early progressive rock of the 1960s.
Dec 14, 2021 · The Best Progressive Pop Music of 2021. From PinkPantheress’ lo-fi club cuts to Bladee’s self-deprecating sing-song raps, C. Tangana’s folkloric reimaginations to Tinashe’s featherlight...
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Dec 13, 2022 · The Best Progressive Pop Music of 2022. From Haru Nemuri’s punk-inflected J-pop to Coco & Clair Clair’s spaced-out diss tracks, Ralphie Choo’s computerized flamenco and MUNA’s synth-pop...
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- The Beach Boys - The SMiLE Sessions. November 1, 2011. Baroque Pop, Psychedelic Pop, Progressive Pop. 96 21 reviews. Spotify.
- Kate Bush - Hounds of Love. September 16, 1985. Art Pop, Progressive Pop. 94 5 reviews. Spotify.
- Fiona Apple - Fetch the Bolt Cutters. April 17, 2020. Art Pop, Singer-Songwriter, Progressive Pop. 93 33 reviews. Spotify.
- Moses Sumney - græ. May 15, 2020. Art Pop, Ambient Pop, Progressive Pop. 87 25 reviews. Spotify.
Progressive pop is a form of pop music that brings in more complex ideas while retaining a straightforward pop sensibility. Songs typically involve multiple key changes, tempo modulations, unorthodox instrumentation, or other qualities that may surprise the listener and sound novel for its time.
Music critic Simon Reynolds writes that beginning with 1967, a divide would exist between "progressive" pop and "mass/chart" pop, a separation which was "also, broadly, one between boys and girls, middle-class and working-class".
Mar 26, 2018 · Take a wryly observational song, add a kaleidoscopic pinch of Stockhausen-style atonality, throw them into the blender, press play, and then stand back as pop music’s ambitions are irrevocably altered. You say: “The Fab Four at their proggiest. Every band listened and learned from it.” Sal Ashcroft
