Check out Hamster Theater and anything related to Bob Drake

Relatively Clean Rivers album is a fine rural-psych album. The Phoenix Records reissue is the best sounding of the two reissues (the other being on Radioactive Records).

Tool

Whoa.

Look up:
Purge Solenoid

Oceansize

Forgive me for quoting this a second time
 

I just heard the 2012 Thinking Plague album, Decline And Fall, and it's just the tits





There's just tons of proggy artists like this on Cuneiform Records

CUNEIFORM RECORDS

Goddamn that is good, Zappa would definitely be proud. I've heard of a few Cuneiform artists, mainly Miriodor, Steve Moore, The Muffins, etc., but there is a lot I'ven't yet heard. Thanks for the rec!

Related to TP is Hamster Theatre. This is from the studio side of this 2 disc CD

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/...500_AA280_.jpg

The live side (Quasi Day Room) was a show here in Seattle, the first show HT ever played outside Colorado IIRC, was attended by about 30 people, many of whom were from the music press & blogs but one of the few attendees was yours truly. Their performance was the absolute best of the festival (2002 The Progman Cometh) by all who saw them, and became a bit of a legend. I was incredibly lucky to have comped tickets





HT is more or less an instrumental version of TP