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Destiny Potato - LunProgressive Pop Metal, 2014What we have here is some of the most interesting material of the last decade: Destiny Potato.
This serbian band, featuring one of the genius of the latest generation, David Maxim Micic (which serves as main composer, producer and guitarist for the band), unites Progressive Metal, specifically the djenty kind, with pop hooks and vocals provided by Aleksandra Djelmash, an amazing vocalist, that can get on the harsh side of things too. Yeah, she does harsh vocals in a couple of tracks and it's pretty awesome.
The whole album revolves around this idea, and everysong is as heavy and groovy but also enjoyable - the hybrid is so perfect that I think that if you want to, let's say, "convert" a mainstream guy towards the more heavy stuff, this is one of the albums to go to.
While songs like Indifferent, Blue Sun and Love Song stay more towards the "pop" side, and songs such as the epic closer, Addict (truly a masterpiece if you ask me), Take A Picture are heavier, there are also some tracks where the balance within the two ends is perfect:
Lost Dream, with its Icarus Lives-esque djenty riffing, and U.Y.M., which is full of electronics.
Good god, the electronics in this album are used awesomely, especially the glitches. I love 'em, and if you use them good they can add a ton to the music spectrum and experience - for instance, in the song U.Y.M. (which stands for Use Your Mind, btw) there's a beautiful melodic build-up that is suddently interrupted by this glitch, and then the song jumps into the heavy chorus, and the glitch is capable of making the chorus even heavier, in a sense.
But enough of my rambling, if you wanna have fun but headbang at the same time while singing pop lyrics, this is where to go to.
Also, you should check out Lunatic, if you wanna have a real good time.
Recommended songs: Take A Picture Love Song Lunatic Blue Sun U.Y.M. Addict