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Not listening too enough nowadays and trying to stick to buying Vinyl when I can. 

Marillion - An Hour Before Dark
The Flower Kings - By Royal Decree
Big Big Train - Welcome To The Planet
The Tangent - Songs From The Hard Shoulder
Animals As Leaders - Parrhesia
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I think the new black midi is my favorite album of the year so far, but I have not really listened to too many. Maybe this thread can help me find others to listen to!
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Originally posted by Lewian Lewian wrote:

Haven't heard that much, but this one...
Originally posted by BrufordFreak BrufordFreak wrote:

Way too early for me (I don't start getting seriously into the year's music with reviews until September), but so far this is what I've got:

1. WESERBERGLAND Sacrae Symphonae nr. 1
 

...is my number one up to now as well.

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Bubblemath - Turf Ascension
Simon Phillips Protocol - V
The Lickerish Quartet - Volume 3 (not prog)
DOMi & JD Beck - s/t
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Haven't heard that much, but this one...
Originally posted by BrufordFreak BrufordFreak wrote:

Way too early for me (I don't start getting seriously into the year's music with reviews until September), but so far this is what I've got:

1. WESERBERGLAND Sacrae Symphonae nr. 1
 

...is my number one up to now as well.
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Marillion- An Hour before Its Dark
Jethro Tull-The Zealot Gene
Big Big Train- Welcome to the Planet
Rick Miller- Old Souls 
JPL- Sapiens Chapitre 3/3 : Actum
Temple of Switches- Four 
Framauro- My Life is Ending 
Sintesi del Viaggio Di Es- Gli Alberi di Stavropol
Lana Lane- Neptune Blue 
Retreat From Moscow- The World As We Knew It
Electric Mud-The Inner World Outside
The Rome Prog(j)ect -V Compendium of a Lifetime 
Laughing Stock-Zero Acts 3&4
The Guildmaster- Liber de Dictis 
Patterson-Melbourne- Dark Before Dawn 
Simon Phillips- Protocol V 
Lalu- Point of Sky 
Time Horizon- Power of Three
From.uz- The Assymetric Rules
Inner Prospekt- Grey Origin
Kalle Wallner- Voices
Robert Reed-The Ringmaster PT2
Tiger Moth Tales- A Song of Spring
Moon Halo- Together Again
Gazpacho- Fireworking at St-Croix 
Wolfgang Flur- Magazine 1 
Tangerine Dream- Raum 
Shamblemaths- Two
Naxatras- Four
Kaprakar's Constant- The Murder Wall
Kite Parade- The Way Home
Men Without Hats- Again Part2 
Von Hertzen Brothers- Red Alert in The Blue Forest
Strange Pop- Ten Years Gone 
Electric Mud-Lost Places 
Bjorn Riis- Everything to Everyone
Envy of None- same 
Cyril- Amenti's Secret Coin Pt2
Steve Vai- Inviolate
Returned to the Earth- Fall of the Watcher
Tim Bowness/Giancarlo Erra- Memories of machines
ESP Project- Anarchic Curves
DAAL- Daedalus
Ghost Toast- Shade Without Colour 
Prefers to Hide in the Dark- Boundless Eternity…
Pure Reason Revolution- Above Cirrus
Mysteries of the Revolution- Longing for the Dawn
Odin Dragonfly- Sirens
Lobate Scarp- You Have It All
Soft Ffog- I 
Tenderton- The Château
Pymlico- Supermassive
Starfish 64- Scattered Pieces of Blue
Crystal Palace- Still There
Galaxy-Runaway Men 
The Fixx- Every 5 Seconds
The Tangent- Songs from the Hard Shoulder 
Ghost of the Machine-Scissorgames 
Eye of Melian- Legends of Light
Conjure One-Innovation Zero
Chas Cronk-Liberty
Affirm- One More Moment
Deaton-LeMay Project- The 5th Element 
Porcupine Tree- Closure/Continuation 
Ellesmere- Livesmere
Lady Lake- Not Far from Llyn Llydaw
Riccardo Romano Land- Spectrum
Stuckfish- Days of Innocence
JP Boffo- InSpiral
Talisk- Dawn
Alan Parsons-From the New World
Jalayan- Floating Islands
Solace Supplice- Liturgies Contemporaines
Birth- Born
Imaginarium- The Rise of the Medici
Ryo Okumoto- The Myths of Mostrophus
Nathan- Uomini di Sabbia
Hats Off Gentlemen It's Adequate- The Confidence Trick
Head Spin- Escape Velocity


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Way too early for me (I don't start getting seriously into the year's music with reviews until September), but so far this is what I've got:

1. WESERBERGLAND Sacrae Symphonae nr. 1

The scrum (in some order):
STRANGE POP Ten Years Gone
RETURNED TO THE EARTH Fall of the Watcher
RANESTRANE Apocalypse Now
BREIDABLIK Alduorka
SILENT TEMPLE Faery Revolution
JONAS LINDBERG & THE OTHER SIDE Miles from Nowhere
TANGERINE DREAM Raum
INNER PROSPEKT Grey Origin
VON HERTZEN BROTHERS Red Alert in the Blue Forest
BEN CRAVEN Monsters from the Id
MIDLAKE For the Sake of Bethel Woods
STEVE VAI Inviolate 
MOON X Zap!
BIG BIG TRAIN Welcome to the Planet
THE POWER OF THREE Time Horizon
ALMS The Trial
THE LIGHT IN THE OCEAN Deep Reef Dream
KARFAGEN Land of Green and Gold
GHOST TOAST Shade Without Color

As I said in my review, the Weserbergland album makes me proud to be human.
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I will need this thread badly, as I feel quite behind on this year musically speaking. 
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Adding to this list which I copied from the other thread...

Originally posted by Mirakaze Mirakaze wrote:

* Anthropods - Anthropods
* Tangerine Dream - Raum
* Tatsuya Yoshida & Risa Takeda - Plate No. 4
* Oksana Linde - Aquatic And Other Worlds
* Tatsuya Yoshida & Risa Takeda - Nazabukha
* Tatsuya Yoshida & Risa Takeda - Syndebuk
* John Irvine - Psychopomp
* National Diet - The Noon Hour
* Crushing My Palms Between The Glass Shards You Gave Me - Wake Up! A New Dawn Is Waiting For You.
* Alex Ward, Mark Browne & Pat Thomas - Oxford 1992
* Trio Subliminal - Cinema Infernale
* Odd Fiction - Puzzle Machine
* Mario Lino Stancati - Vairagya
* Tigran Hamasyan - StandArt
* Missigno - Dystopian Reverie
* Handwrist - Nine Steps
* Black Midi - Hellfire
* Join The Din - Elephants In Autumn Rage
* Louis De Mieulle - Magnetic Feel
* John Zorn - Suite For Piano


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I'm really far behind on listening to new stuff, and there are some key albums I have yet to listen to. So, this is what I got so far...

Afforested – Ancient Healing Oakwood Journeys
Artefactron – Artefactron
The Tangent – Songs from the Hard Shoulder
October Equus – Noches Blancas, Luces Rojas
Magician’s Red – Threshold
Anthropods – Anthropods
Bresk – A Journey Through the Life of Peder Balke 1804-1887
Jalayan – Floating Islands
François Thollot – Alternatives
Giant Hedgehog – Im Siel
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I did search for similar threads before I posted but the search function and my memory failed to produce any results.
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From your list, Ian, I’ve not yet listened to the following - which I fully expect to be competing for a place in my list, once I have:

Black Country, New Road
black midi
Deadly Orgome Radiation
5UU's
Join The Din
October Equus
The Smile

[EDIT] I’ve also remembered some more albumsfor my Not in PA list:

Alexisonfire 
Fontaines DC
Wet Leg




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The closest is this, which is obviously not the same thing. (And which, equally obviously, you know about, since you’ve posted in it.)


But it is interesting to see how I feel now, compared to what I felt were my favourite albums of 2022 last time I posted in the above thread.

For a start one of my top five albums (by OU) of bands not in PA, is now in PA - meaning even if my opinions has not changed overall, I would still need to make some alterations.

Amusingly, last time I posted in the above thread, I mentioned an album still relatively new to me, that I was sure would end up taking a place in my not in PA list. You’d think that would solve the problem of what to replace OU with, except now that band (Pájaro) has also been added to PA! 🤪

I still haven’t heard this year’s black midi or Black Country, New Road, and there is a very good chance that at least black midi will necessitate further changes to how I feel now.

Rather than attempt to work out a new top five, here is a probable top ten (off the top of my head, without checking what else I love from this year):

Top Ten in PA

Daal
Daymoon
Extra Life
Fromuz
Laughing Stock
Mental Fracture
OU
Pájaro
Solace Supplice
Ufomammut 

Bubbling Under

Ghost Toast
Long Distance Calling
Mattergy
Plesiosaurio 
Riverwood

Top Ten NOT in PA

a-tota-so
Boris 
The D/A Method
Flow Collective
GGGOLDDD 
Humanotone
Kalandra
MWWB
Shadow Universe
Mario Lino Stancati

Bubbling Under

DI’AUL
Enphin 
Narwhale 
Nebala 
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Don't think I've seen a thread here yet, what you got?

Favorites so far

Black Midi-Hellfire
5UU's- the quiet in your bones
Join The Din - Elephants In Autumn Rage
Melt Yourself Down - Pray For Me I Don't Fit In
Asceta - Asceta
Janel Leppin - Ensemble Volcanic Ash

All very good

Black Flower-Magma
Ikarus-Plasma
Bubblemath-Turf Ascension
Mary Halvorson - Amarylis
the Smile - A light for attracting attention
October Equus - Noches blancas nuches rojas
Akku Quintet - Live
Glass Museum - Reflet
Black Country, New Road - Ants From Up There
Yang - Designed for Disaster
Schnauser - Altra Seccatura
Deadly Orgone Radiation - Desecration Of Form
Held By Trees - Solace
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