Your Top 7 Modern, Post-1970's Prog Bands

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 Psychedelic Paul wrote:

 Mascodagama wrote:

 Psychedelic Paul wrote:

There are several bands I'd not previously heard of in the final Top 26 listing, including...
Guapo
Present
Thinking Plague
<span style=": rgb248, 248, 252;">Koenjihyakkei</span>
<span style=": rgb248, 248, 252;">Swans </span>

...but at least I've heard of them all now. 
You should give them a listen.

All five of those bands are listed as avant-garde experimental bands, so the chances are I probably wouldn't like them. 

 I have loved all of those, but then my tastes commonly are on the Avant-garde, experimental side.  I have diverse tastes.  Progressive Rock has been used as a synonym for experimental rock, some is more progressive and experimental than others, but also it often eclectic.  Swans is the one of those that I have been most into over the last few years.  It is diverse over a long carreer spanning many albums.  I would expect that Swand would have made music that you like, dislike and are whatever about.  Often I think it’s about finding that right moment with a band at the right time and in the right mindset.  Helps when we’re at our most open-eared and curious often.  I have been listening to Swans 1991 more gothic and Neo-Folk album, White Light From the Mouth of infinity (a very post rock title)

This earlier one I find a beautiful song, which doesn’t mean that you should, of course.

Now I might do a topic on Swans most beautiful tracks.  Helpless Child was my first Swans love, though I would not expect you to like that.