Progrock Trio | The Wrong Sides: The Singles (2023/2024)

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The Wrong Sides: The Singles (2023/2024)

Three new tracks by The Wrong Sides prove the prog rock trio as an art form is anything but dead.

"Each of these tracks provided a way for us to explore the sonic landscape of this lineup," says the trio in a statement.

The Wrong Sides progrock band album cover

The Wrong Sides are a progressive metal band from Puerto Rico, in a classic trio lineup of bass-drums-guitar. They're usual M.O. is to release a series of singles, culminating in an album, a habit they've developed since forming in 2019.

Elephant Spaceship is prog rock with a polished edge, compleat with all those impressive arpeggiated chords and jazzy harmonic progressions. There's a lot of notes for just one melodic instrument, in other words. The band calls it "a galactic somewhat freeform prog metal jam".

What keeps it interesting - and keeps it from sliding into musical navel gazing - is the passion you can feel for the music, and the tight playing between the trio. The band also has a nice sense of structure, and how to maintain the momentum in a way that sounds effortless.

Like the Western art music that is its cousin, the form explores a series of themes and variations.

Progrock band The Wrong Sides

Sour Sea builds a sense of urgency through interwoven themes and variations that progress to a climax and then slow down, strip back to melody and simpler rhythmic accompaniment for an intriguing middle section... only to slide back into guitar heavy metal.  

Each of the instruments gets its chance to take the spotlight. In Sour Sea, it's a mesmerizing fretless bass solo by Joan Torres that tears through the last part of the track.

In Chasing The Wrong Insanity, the drums take over the wheel. Always present, they're more demure in the other tracks. There's a nice bit in the song where the bass and drums trade riffs back and forth. Torres arranged the track as inspired by the video game Maximum Carnage. 

Through impeccable musicianship, the trio manages effects that most would routinely try to recreate via programming.

Personnel:

  • Israel Romero - Guitar
  • Joan Torres - Bass
  • José Linares - Drums

Tracks:

  • Sour Sea (February 17, 2023)
  • CHASING THƎ WЯONG INSANITY (October 16, 2023)
  • Elephant Spaceship (March 11, 2024)

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