2017 albums!

Disperse - Foreword is my favorite so far. 

A few weeks late on this one, but new Unreal City is good: https://unrealcityprogband.bandcamp.com/album/frammenti-notturni

Mascodagama wrote: Second album from The Knells to drop shortly: https://theknells.bandcamp.com/album/knells-ii The first was outstanding.

By shortly, I thought you meant a week or something.
If it's as good as their first it'll definitely be one of my favorites this year.


Edited by Zugzwang - September 30 2017 at 18:44

Second album from The Knells to drop shortly:

https://theknells.bandcamp.com/album/knells-ii

The first was outstanding.

Thanks, guys!

dauinghorn wrote: New Jordsjø-album out. In the scandinavian tradition: https://jordsjo.bandcamp.com/album/jord

Polymorphia wrote: Fans of contemporary jazz, minimalism, and/or Southeast Asian classical music should enjoy Sagaara's 2, an amalgamation of all these things.

Edited by Mascodagama - September 10 2017 at 06:12

Guldbamsen wrote: Though not prog in any way I still am very much looking forward to the new Fleet Foxes album.

Well it's very Prog Folk in my book, have they been considered for adding to PA?

andreol263 wrote: Toby Driver - Madonnawhore was excellent surprise this year, must listen!!

Truly it is!

Since my last visit to this thread was around March, I gotta add these:

Cormorant - Diaspora (early Opeth meets Wolves In The Throne Room, FANTASTIC!)
Cobalt Blue - Stop Momentum (A Brazilian The Mars Volta, just brilliant!)
Vin De Mia Trix - Palimpsests (amazing 100-minutes-4-tracks-long Prog Doom)
Richard Dawson - Peasant (if you like Espers and Comus, you'll love this)
Grizzly Bear - Painted Ruins (an Electronic/Folk band with a lot of Prog leanings)
Anubis - The Second Hand (Australian Neo-Prog)
Elder - Reflections of a Floating World (fellow stoners-turning-proggers)
Tim Bowness - Lost In The Ghost Light (really mellow Art Rock record)

and one more vote down for this disappointly weak and directionless Discipline album

Yes, it will be released on both vinyl and cd in 2017! We are on the same label as Wobbler now.

Heard the new Wobbler album on friday in Lars' car... Truly amazing, definitely top 3 this year. Really looking forward to playing the vinyl in the living room in october/november. Beautiful melodies, extraordinary instrumentation and well balanced between complexity and more dreamlike parts.

AFlowerKingCrimson wrote: Yeah, that sounds like the kind of thing they would gush over over at PE. All you have to do is add the word "jazzy" to anything and they all start to salivate.  JMA(Jazz Music Archives) is good. I have only checked it out a few times though. There's also gnosis2000 which has a lot of reviews and ratings. They finally started to make it so you can narrow the search on there but it's still a very slow process with some subgenres being able to be searched more than others(not too much in the jazz section although there is plenty of jazz on there).

PE has its own fair share of symph weenies too, you know (suffice to start a Yes or Gen thread and watch it grow exponantially for the next days)... And more than jazzers, I'd say what is maybe more surprising is the amount of Avant-prog and CantZeuhl fans hang out there.

JMA's forum is a dead thing (always was), but it has two must-visit threads... the 20XX jazz new releases and the 20XX Jazz-related new releases. You click on the sample below the album cover pic and you get an idea of what it sounds like. The sample is well-chosen enough not to be misleading about the majority of the album's content. Disappointed you may be, but not deceived

As for G2K (and a rating member there), there are very few reviews, especially the for newer stuff (if any at all). For the search, I don't like much these categorisation (oner of the strength of that site) , but unless you're doing it blindly (and trust G2K as equally blindly), if you want to just search new stuff, just do it the way you used to and confirm which album to get on G2K (because it's simply the most trustworthy source ... for moi, anyways)