Best of 2022 so far - Progressive Rock Music Forum

My favourite of the year so far

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I’ve felt (and said) for some time that I think the debut album from Solace Supplice is likely to be my favourite release from this year. If there were any doubt, it’s probably now gone, and for the worst reason.

As much as I wanted to think and hope otherwise, I knew the horrible probability was that this would be the first and last Solace Supplice release. I only wish I had managed to complete my Imaginærium review in time for Eric to have seen how much I enjoy that album, too. It feels a little odd, knowing the Imaginærium album has not even been released yet. And there is still Nova Cascade to come, too. The spirit carries on….

RIP, mon ami. 😔

https://solacesupplice.bandcamp.com/album/liturgies-contemporaines

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richardh wrote:

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

Excellent choices and I’d add Pure Reason Revolution

Friedrich Nietzsche: "Without music, life would be a mistake."

Music Is Live

Two people are better off than one, for they can help each other succeed.

Keep Calm And Listen To The Music…
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Also adding

Motorpsycho - Ancient Astronauts

Muse - Will of The People

Lonely Robot - A Model Life

3 very different albums. Muse have released their best album since Absolution and probably on a par with Black Holes and Revelations. It's an excellent set of songs all written by Matt Bellamy as the world came of of lock down. Looking forward to the Plymouth gig next year and singing We're f**king f**ked with everyone else!

The redoubtable talent of John Mitchell again delivers a very nice album indeed. Love the production and bass sound especially.

Motorpsycho will likely end up my favourite album of the year perhaps just edging out Daal. Developing into another great year for prog.

Update:

Mirakaze wrote:

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

* Acid Mothers Temple - Japanese New Music Festival Japan Tour 2022

* 5uu's - The Quiet In Your Bones

* 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

* Robert Fripp - Washington Square Church

* John Zorn - John Zorn's Olympiad, Vol. 2: Fencing 1978

* Ventifacts - Chronic Town

* Paranoid Void - Travels In My Universe

* Raze The Maze - 7AM Dream

* Tatsuya Yoshida & Sara Wakui - Reflections

* Wayne Shorter, Terri Lyne Carrington, Leo Genovese & Esperanza Spalding - Live At The Detroit Jazz Festival

* The Fourth World Quartet - Grand Bland Vapid Rapids

* Björk - Fossora

* In-Dreamview - Spires

* Tatsuya Yoshida & Risa Takeda - Gaku

* Tatsuya Yoshida & Risa Takeda - Sin (I swear, these two are out to ruin me financially)

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Five-Storey Ensemble is apparently not listed here, which is very strange. Anyway, just listening to their wonderful 2022 Presence album. One of the best! I also like the new Motorpsycho, Legendary Pink Dots, and Björk a lot.