Your biggest discovery of the year!

Well, the year is comming to an end... it is time for this.

What band/artist was your biggest discovery this year? It doesn´t necesarly has to be something you never heard of before and found out this year, but it can be something very famous, like say Genesis, but not until this year you have never really listen to them.

My BIG discoveries were: David Bowie (finally!), Between the Buried and me, Flobots (yes, non prog bands are allowed), Frantic Bleep, My Morning Jacket and most specially... Kate Bush. I am not a fan, I a LOVER of everything she does, I can´t get enough!!!


...now you

Protest The Hero
Fleet Foxes
Cynic

You beat me to it el bothy! I think these are the best discoveries I've made this year.
 
Dark Suns
The Pax Cecilia
Le Orme
Virgin Black
To-Mera

Peregio,Passport,Fruupp,Spring,Jonesy,Mike Westwood ,Larry Coryelland I am sure there is more,mainly thanx to PA.

Wow. Well, I only got into prog three years ago; although I did like Genesis and Yes, I didn't know I liked prog. (I'm only 14.) So:

My biggest find of the year has to be: KEVIN GILBERT
And his bands Giraffe and Toy Matinee, which are good, but his solo stuff is superior.
It took me a while to track down his The Shaming of the True, which I finally found for 54 dollars (I'm just a kid, and I don't have that much money to toss around). Anyway, it was rereleased for $16 two weeks later.

Other great finds include:
CRACK THE SKY (s/t, Animal Notes, Safety in Numbers) - Really good hard rock/art rock that never really got attention.
PHISH (Junta, Lawn Boy) - Not exactly prog, but proggish. Either way, it sounds great, especially Lawn Boy.
URIAH HEEP (all their early stuff) - Yes, prog-geniuses, but I'd never heard them.
THE MARS VOLTA (everything) - They really rock!
WEEN (The Mollusk, Chocolate and Cheese, The Pod) - Wacky and wonderful!
TOOL (everything) - I heard "The Pot" on the radio and got the wrong impression. Lateralus is a masterpiece!
DIXIE DREGS (Free Fall) - I saw the record in a shop for a few dollars and it spoke to me.
OSI (s/t) - An unlikely choice for me, but their s/t album was really impressive, especially with the bonus tracks.
ESPERANTO (Last Tango) - A Beatles-covering Belgian prog band is always something to be wary of.
MAN MAN (Rabbit Hats, Six Demon Bag) - Great, absolutely insane band. Not prog, but equally experimental.
IDIOT FLESH (Nothing Show) - Another unlikely choice, but it was captivating, (and it barely qualifies as music).

Bohren & der Club of Gore

Well , in january is goinng to be a year since I joined PA. My greatest discoveries would not be bands but entire genres such as RPI , Krautrock or Canterbury.

Well, I guess I'm pretty new to the prog scene, so my great new discoveries of the year are "Lateralus" and King Crimson's music. Now I see why so many comparisons are drawn between Tool and KC. They both make perfect music!!!

It was About Tess, with their album Beautiful. Really surprised me, excellent new band! Recommended to fans of rocky post-rock :P.

Hmm well I guess: