PliniSunhead

A little groove here, a little jazz there, throw in some electronic pop undertones and a smidge of grinding rock and hey, presto! Here you have Sunhead, the stellar and innovative EP from prog instrumentalist Plini.

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It’s not a bad sounding little number at all, really, if sometimes mellow and all times mind-blowing swoops of well-executed and complex riffs is your thing. Plini courses through four tracks of specially detailed jazz-inspired prog, melded together by fluid guitar playing, a skill to be considered twice as impressive when you throw in that this is mostly a bedroom studio effort.

The influences Plini’s gathered from extensive travel and international support slots is evident as the music seemingly takes you on a journey

Voluminous tracks like Kind and Salt + Charcoal more than compensate for a lack of vocals as Plini throws in enough detail for his sound to morph into that otherwise created by a full band. The influences Plini’s gathered from extensive travel and international support slots is evident as the music seemingly takes you on a journey, exotic friends and encounters of interest surfacing in mind-blowing saxophone solos, dancing piano appearances and some rambunctious bass lines.

Instrumental prog is definitely taking off in a big way, hitting the mainstream with a ferocity that’ll leave you breathless—and with acts like Plini a spearhead in the movement, who would want to stop it?

STANDOUT TRACKS: Kind, Salt + Charcoal, Sunhead
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