Favourite Prog Albums Year by Year: 2010-2020

2010: Persephone's Dream - Pan: An Urban Pastoral
2011: Wobbler - Rites at Dawn
2012: Diablo Swing Orchestra - Pandora's Piñata
2013: Ayreon - The Theory of Everything
2014: IQ - The Road of Bones
2015: Jordsjø - Jordsjø
2016: Cirrus Bay - Places Unseen
2017: Inside the Sound - Wizard's Eyes
2018: Gryphon - ReInvention
2019: Michael Romeo - War of the Worlds, Pt. 1
2020: Elds Mark - Elds Mark

Mostly used PA's top lists regarding the respective years, as source. (Too lazy to search my memory for countless albums.) Otherwise some of them would be different in my list. But these are all awesome albums for me. So not a loss...

Edited by Shadowyzard - November 08 2021 at 05:42

I do prefer the topics commonly when it comes to music that aren't just about Prog as so many of my favourites are not Prog, and even a lot of what I like and is in PA is not what a Prog purist would want to acknowledge as Prog. Of course there is plenty of room for both, but I see so many Prog list type topics being revived rather than those in General Music Discussions -- nothing wrong with that, but I just am not big on that Prog/ non-Prog divide, which is nebulous/ amorphous anyway. Very fuzzy, artificial and subjective boundaries.

Most of what I like that is classified Prog here might well generally be labelled something other than Prog first by audiences outside of PA. And most of what I like of recent/ modern music is not in PA. I've long thought that if a band call itself Prog it is not so likely to be for me. But I like a lot of Prog umbrella music. From the last decade included in PA, I guess Swans and Anna von Hausswolff have particularly prominent places in my heart, and Susanne Sundfør is great as is the music of the past by Klaus Morlock and Kosmischer Laufer.

Here I include one album per artist and all are included in PA, David Bowie is in Prog Related, but Blackstar is in my progressive rockiverse. I was going to have a Chelsea Wolfe album who is mostly approved for Crossover, although I know that is not a traditional kind of Prog act and could be controversial, but instead I will stick with ones in PA. I mostly feel the need to care about the Prog boundaries for various site business. Good thing we can discuss all types of music at PA. :)

2019: Cisnienie - JazzArt Underground
2018: Klaus Morlock - The Three Faces of Janice
2017: Yolk - Solar
2016: David Bowie - Blackstar
2015: Anna von Hausswolff - The Miraculous
2014: Swans - To Be Kind
2013: Kosmischer Läufer - Volume One
2012: Susanne Sundfør - The Silicone Veil
2011: North Sea Radio Orchestra - I a Moon
2010: Univers Zero - Clivages


Edited by Logan - August 01 2023 at 11:59