The Coroners Court – Comparative Projects – Music

The Coroners Court is relatively unique in it’s approach to composition and music as a whole, but different aspects of the whole can be linked to other projects that we have either been inspired by, or are just creating work along similar lines.

From a strictly musical sense, the court clearly reflects a lot of classic progressive rock, with its fusion of jazz funk and rock along and sprawling long structures, from the obvious influence of King Crimson, through the joining of rock and jazz in The Soft Machine, to the ubiquitous Pink Floyd and ELP. While these bands are sonically very related to The Coroners Court, they cannot be considered competition, per se. While all of them except for The Soft Machine are still sporadically performing, in some sense, they are really running on remaining momentum from when they were more popular, relying mostly on an older audience – the audience they have kept with them.

There is, however a small uprising in nu-prog, with bands such as Pure Reason Revolution (admittedly very recently disbanded), who hoped to revive the spirit of Pink Floyd and market it at a new, younger generation with electronica and post-rock elements added into the mix. They achieved relative success to this aim, before deciding their journey had run its course, just before christmas. Other bands in the mainstream can be considered as nu-prog, or at the very least rock with certain prog elements, for example Radiohead, Muse, Coheed and Cambria, Battles, Indukti (ok, maybe not quite so mainstream, but still fairly popular!)