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    Posted: September 21 2023 at 15:31
Maybe we are giving away 5 star reviews/ratings too often? So, from the last ten years, what are five (and only five), five star releases for you? 

Wippy Bonstack - 22
The Aristocrats - Culture Clash
Bubblemath - Edit Peptide
Rascal Reporters - The Strainge Case of Steve
Nova Collective - The Further Side




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It's really hard to narrow it down to just five outstanding albums (which means I won't be able to include the last two albums by YES, although I'm sure that'll come as a blessed relief to many here), but here goes anyway.....

5 stars 2021: Forbidden Myth - Zantea Chronicles: The Dream Dominator - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLaBU4nHamOnWwcRWn5vOWeV-H2dmxxL_E
 2012: Francis Lickerish - Far and Forgot: From the Lost Lands - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kq-pjlZUbHbWHat5VafAgRa4jb9t9rILI
5 stars 2019: Pallas - The Edge of Time - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37V7uR7becU
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Prog only, in chronological order.
iamthemorning - Lighthouse
Art Zoyd - Phase V
Cisnienie - Brass Album
Battlestations - Splinters Vol. I: Tremor
Five-storey Ensemble - Presence

There aren't many more, I'm critical enough. Tongue I'd have listed Blackstar but it's Prog Related, so I haven't.


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iNFiNiEN Beyond the Veil (2022)
OIAPOK OisaLün (2023)
WESERBERGLAND Sacrae Symphony No. 1 (2022)
THE RETICENT The Oubliette (2020)
ACCORDO DEI CONTRARI UR- (2021)

with Wippy Bonstack and Five-Storey Ensemble right on the edge.
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Far Corner - Risk
Thirlwell / Steensland - Oscillospira
Upsilon Acrux - Sun Square Dialect
Schnellertollermeier - X
Poil - Brossaklitt

Thinking Plague - Hope Against Hope
Knifeworld - The Unraveling
Dan Weiss - Starebaby
The Comet Is Coming - Trust In The Lifeforce Of The Deep Mystery
Led Bib - The People In Your Neighborhood

Yazz Ahmed - LA Saboteuse
Yolk - Solar
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Frost* - Day and Age (my fave post pandemic release)
Magenta - We Are Legend (return to form)
Big Big Train - Folklore (think that just sneaks in timewise and the last of their real masterpeices for me)
Far Corner - Risk (glad to see this mentioned by Ian above!)
Waste Of Space Orchestra - Syntheosis ( a bit odd ball this and got an international release some months after its original Finnish push out. I don't think it was ever properly promoted or appreciated but got into the collabs list of top ten albums of the year before the international release kicked in. Otherwise would likely have made No1 I believe)
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As for a genuine five star, I can only think of one that's "prog":
black midi - Hellfire (2022)
But these 4.5's or 9/10's would have been rounded up to five if I had rated them at PA:
Swans - The Glowing Man (2016)
King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard  - Polygondwanaland (2017)
Secret Chiefs 3/Ishraqiyun - Perichoresis (2014)
Kosmischer Läufer  - The Secret Cosmic Music of the East German Olympic Program 1972-83: Volume Three (2015)

I'm sure I've forgotten some albums /artists here. Love many more, but I don't hand out five stars easily.
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Originally posted by Saperlipopette! Saperlipopette! wrote:

Love many more, but I don't hand out five stars easily.
I am guilty of rounding up to five stars. But, not often. My reasoning is... 5 star releases account for 5% of all albums you've heard. So it should be used sparingly.
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Originally posted by Grumpyprogfan Grumpyprogfan wrote:

Originally posted by Saperlipopette! Saperlipopette! wrote:

Love many more, but I don't hand out five stars easily.
I am guilty of rounding up to five stars. But, not often. My reasoning is... 5 star releases account for 5% of all albums you've heard. So it should be used sparingly.

I think I'm closer to 1.5% (but I rate at RYM, so I might have about 8-9% 4.5's)
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Originally posted by Grumpyprogfan Grumpyprogfan wrote:

Originally posted by Saperlipopette! Saperlipopette! wrote:

Love many more, but I don't hand out five stars easily.
I am guilty of rounding up to five stars. But, not often. My reasoning is... 5 star releases account for 5% of all albums you've heard. So it should be used sparingly.

And You & I know I hand out 5-star ratings all too easily. Any remaining credibility I had left here was shot to pieces when I gave The Quest album a 5-star rating on (the strength of?) the magical Mystery Tour tribute to The Beatles, which everyone here but me appears to hate. Tongue 
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In PA:

David Bowie - Blackstar
Swans - To Be Kind
Anna von Hausswolff - Dead Magic
Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool
black midi - Cavalcade

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For whatever reason, I don't think I'll give any 5 stars for an album from the last 10 years, but this one comes closest:

Universal Totem Orchestra (I) - Mathematical Mother (2016)
                      quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond
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Originally posted by Logan Logan wrote:

In PA:

David Bowie - Blackstar
Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool

those are two addtional 4.5's bordering on 5 (and the remaining three would be 4.5's landing on a 4).
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I could only find three 5-star albums on this site from the last 10 years:

Pink Floyd: The Endless River (2014)
Styx: The Mission (2017)
Rick Wakeman: The Red Planet (2020).
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Anekdoten - Until All the Ghosts Are Gone (2015)
Fish - Weltschmerz (2020)
Nine Stones Close - Leaves (2016)
Oaksenham - Upon All the Living and the Dead (2018)
Big Big Train - Grimspound (2017)

(there are quite a few more)


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Wow... this is SO hard ! Too many choices...

Anyway, here is my current top 5 :
  • Steven Wilson - The Raven That Refused to Sing (and Other Stories)
  • Tirill - Um Himinjǫšur
  • Squintaloo - Über Bord!
  • Wobbler - From Silence to Somewhere
  • Major Parkinson - Twilight Cinema

then the runner-ups :
  • Toxic Smile - Farewell
  • Haken - The Mountain
  • Hasse Fröberg & Musical Companion - HFMC
  • Malady - Ainavihantaa
  • Caligonaut - Magnified as Giants
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Porcupine Tree - C/C
Riverside - Love Fear and the Time Machine
Ozric Tentacles - Technicians of the Sacred
Pure Reason Revolution - Eupnea
Baroness - Stone

Honirable mentions:

Steven Wilson - Hand Cannot Erase
Pendragon - Love over fear
Big big train - Grand Tour
Motorpyscho - The All is One
Leprous - The Congregation

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Steven Wilson - "Hand. Cannot. Erase"
Wobbler - From Silence to Somewhere"
Caligonaut - "Magnified as Giants"
IQ- "The Road of Bones"
Big Big Train- "Grimspound"

Hey Deadwing!  I love Baroness- Stone. 



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Sticking to just PA.

IQ - The Road of Bones
Anna von Hausswolff - Dead Magic
Bent Knee - Shiny Eyed Babies
The Tea Club - If/When
The Mercury Tree - Countenance
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BBT Folklore
Wobbler- STS
Styx COTC.
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