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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 02 2010 at 11:36
Wolf People - Steeple.

A mix of folk, blues, prog, psych and heaviness. This young UK band are probably not proggy enough to be included on PA but their debut album is a real knockout. Listening to it I heard influences from Cream, Hendrix, Sabbath, Jethro Tull, Fairport Convention, and Free. The epic track Banks of Sweet Dundee reminds me of Wishbone Ash c.Pilgrimage. It might be retro but it's damn good!

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 03 2010 at 07:43
Porcupine Tree for me, eight weeks ago I had no recordings by them, went to see them live and they blew me away,  So being  the impulsive sort, i went out and bought 14 of their albums, its a kinda OCD thing I haveEmbarrassed
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 03 2010 at 08:31
A Passion Play - Now my most listened Jethro Tull album i barely have time left to listen to Thick as a Brick anymore!
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 03 2010 at 08:54
OSI, Pat Metheny, Subsignal, Djabe, Phlox, The Dear Hunter, Haken, Moon Safari, Lunatic Soul. I has been a great year in progressive music.
All the best freaks are here, please stop staring at me. Marillion - Freaks (1988).
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 03 2010 at 13:42
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 03 2010 at 14:13
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Atmosphera (from Israel)
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 06 2010 at 20:09
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 10 2010 at 08:57
My biggest discoveries this year I would have to say were mainly non-prog bands, but bands that in a way or another are related to prog (or new prog) and even some Rap (or Hip Hop, whatever the name of that genre of music actually is):

Deftones
Muse
Incubus (Wow! Some band!, their albums "A Crow Left Of The Murder" & "Light Grenades" should be listened by all who call themselves music lovers)
Niemen (recommended psychedelic-blues-prog-rocker from Belorussia)
Neal Morse (actually discovered him last year, but it was only until this year that I really was blown away by his genius)
Tangerine Dream (and a few other similar bands, Can for example, but TD especially)

On a separate category I'd like to note some Hip Hop that has seriously blown my mind away:
Jedi Mind Tricks (Hip Hop duo who use orchestral, symphonic and just very original sampling and of course incredible lyricism and flow)
Wu-Tang Clan (and some of their solo materials, especially GZA, Method Man and RZA)

And I would like to propose a toast 
to musical open-mindedness and understanding.


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 10 2010 at 09:02
Gnidrolog
Alejandro Matos
Stackridge
 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 10 2010 at 14:30
Zeuhl (the whole dang sub-genre)
Big Big Train (The Underfall Yard)
The fabulousness of live Porcupine Tree
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 10 2010 at 16:10
Originally posted by elchafa elchafa wrote:

Niemen (recommended psychedelic-blues-prog-rocker from Belorussia)


Do not trust every blogspot for information.LOL


And welcome to the site!
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 25 2010 at 07:25

Plastic People - Birth Control

I've known this band for 2 years or so but my fav albums were always Operation and Hoodoo Man. So this year I disovered Plastic People is even better than those two albums. 

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 25 2010 at 07:56
Biggest discovery?  It doesn't really matter.  After a while you have discovered so many artists that biggest is irrelevant:  So in no particular order:
Big Big Train
Bubu
Garbarek, Anja
Flood
Gorishankar, The
Rhodes, Happy
Univers Zero


Edited by Slartibartfast - December 25 2010 at 07:57
Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 25 2010 at 08:00
The forgotten archetypeLOL.Incredible band.Go to hear them on Unsigned bands.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 25 2010 at 09:18
STRAY   homonymous debut.
 
Seems I always had a copy of   "Suicide"  and the third release , but somehow this slipped thru the cracks.
 
Was totally blown over this year by the excellence of the first lp.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 17 2013 at 07:09
This thread needs a serious revival!

One of the biggest discoveries for me recently was hearing Alcest's Écailles de Lune. What a beautiful album!

Of new music, I am thoroughly impressed with what I've heard of the recent Henry Fool record.
“The Guide says there is an art to flying or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.”

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 17 2013 at 08:20
iamthemorning for sure! Wonderful debut with the promise of more for the future. Of course I still have another half of a year still, so more will surely follow.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 17 2013 at 08:53
So far, Family. 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 17 2013 at 09:46
Hmmm....within the last 2 years I 'discovered' Phideaux, Diagonal, Wobbler.
One does nothing yet nothing is left undone.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 17 2013 at 12:37
This year, Steven Wilson so far. I checked him out because of all the ravin' over the Raven. Embarrassed
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