2017 albums!

Just spinning that Kotebel album and on closer inspection it seems the production actually is quite modern. What I like about it though, and what made me think of those Scandinavian bands, is that instruments sound like instruments being played live in the studio.

So many have the new Accordo dei Contrari album on their lists. I need to have another listen.

Nogbad_The_Bad wrote: My final list 1) Art Zoyd - 44 1/2 Live and Unreleased Box 2) Thinking Plague - Hoping Against Hope 3) Vezhlivy Otkaz - Military Verses 4) Mike Oldfield - Return To Ommadawn 5) Schnellertollermeier - Rights 6) Yolk - Solar 7) Yowie - Synchromysticism 8) Cheer-Accident - Putting Off Death 9) Aquaserge - laisse ca etre 10) Miriodor - Signal 9 11) Led Bib - Umbrella Weather 12) Accordo dei Contrari - Violato Intatto 13) Camembert - Negative Toe 14) Schnauser - Irritant 15) Markus Reuter & Sonar - Falling Ascension   16) Trojan Horse - Fukushima Surfer Boys 17) The Orvalians - The Great Filter 18) Prescott - Thing Or Two 19) Ephemeral Sun - Lord Of Hounds 20) Bubblemath - Edit Peptide  Bent Knee, Kotebel, Akku Quintet, Charlie Cawood bubblying under

I know this is last minute for peeps making AOTY, but if you're into instrumental symph prog with flute, mellotron and the works, then I highly recommend you go check out Spanish Kotebel's Cosmology over at bandcamp: https://kotebel-music.bandcamp.com/album/cosmology

Like Wobbler, Dungen, Tusmørke (another band that released great music this year btw), Causa Sui, Papir, Agusa, Gösta Berlings Saga, Hooffoot, Our Solar System, Les Big Byrd, Paatos, Elephant9 and a lot of other Scandinavian acts, Kotebel too employs an old school analogue production...and I just love that.
I'd love for Black Widow records to take a leaf or two from the Scandinavian production book now that I think of it.

^The average ratings don't say everything. Hair in a G-string has been on #1 or #2 of the 2016 list from the start, but it was ranked #18 in 2016's AotY list. Nevertheless I think Wobbler will win this edition hands down. And well-deserved, methinks (though I put two albums above From Silence to Somewhere). It appears in almost every list I have seen.

Just heard the Wobbler album. Wow oh wow. Where the hell did this come from? An incredible throwback masterpiece, exactly how I like them. Deserves every point of its sky-high average rating in the database. God bless these guys for making this record.

My top-2017
Обійми Дощу - Сон
Cast - Power and Outcome
Deluge Grander  - Oceanarium
Pain Of Salvation – In The Passing Light Of Day
Organized Chaos -Divulgence
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Luciferian Tower
Lunatic Soul – Fractured
Wobbler - From Silence To Somewhere
Soen — Lykaia
Soul Enema - Of Clans and Clones and Clowns

10.《Wonderland (as TNNE)》

^Hey I just got this myself and am really digging the vibe of it. I don't think it'll find many fans on here as it comes with the forbidden style of hip hop...that's a no-no to most proggers right there. I can't blame em really. I used to be the same. 

Tyler the Creator's new album Flower Boy. No question, it's one of the best albums ever. Surprised it's not on anybody's list here.

Mixing hip-hop, pop, rock, new age, electronica, loads of organ and creative ideas.