2020s albums from 25 acts

A not random selection of bands/ artists/ projects included in PA's Prog categories with releases this decade (the 2020s) that I have heard. I am only including albums of these artists that I have heard from this decade with one exception: While I have heard seven 2010s-decade King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard albums, I have only heard Butterfly 3000 from this decade. It ,may not be very respected album by Gizz, but I really like it. I will get down to listening to the other King Gizz albums anon. Actually, it's only quite recently that I started to get into this band in a significant way (did not do as much for me before). Feel free to vote for any King Gizz album of the 2020s, but please specify which one in particular in a post.

A lot of my favourites are not in PA, but I decided to do this rather than one in General Music Discussions. Do you have a favourite of these releases?

Feel free to vote for up to three of these albums by three of these acts (multiple choice enabled, and no more than one vote per act, please) and please feel free to mention any of your favourites not on the list (which would be all of them for some). And if some wish to discuss certain omissions, I am very happy to have that conversation (time and commitments permitting), and I am happy for others to discuss together what they like not on the list. Also I am happy to receive positive and/or negative feedback on the choices. Different tastes, different experiences, different listenings, eh?

Aksak Maboul - Figures (2020)
Amoeba Split - Quiet Euphoria (2023)
Björk - Fossora (2022)
Black Country, New Road - For the First Time (2021) or Ants From Up There (2022)
black midi - Cavalcade (2021) or Hellfire (2022)
Breidablik - Omicron (2020) or Alduorka (2022)
Ciśnienie (with Lód 9) - Brass Album (2020)
Current 93 - If a City Is Set Upon a Hill (2022)
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - G_d's Pee AT STATE'S END! (2021)
Homunculus Res - Andiamo in giro di notte e ci consumiamo nel fuoco (2020) or Ecco l'impero dei doppi sensi (2023)
Kikagaku Moyo - Kumoyo Island (2022)
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Butterfly 3000 (2021) or any other 2020s release
Kosmischer Läufer - Volume Five (2023)
Magick Brother & Mystic Sister - S/T (2020)
Klaus Morlock - The Memory Chamber (2020)
Magma - Kãrtëhl (2022)
Needlepoint - Walking Up That Valley (2021)
Oiapok - OisoL​ü​n (2023)
PoiL / Ueda - PoiL / Ueda (2023) or Yosh*tsune (2023)
Regal Worm - The Hideous Goblink (2021) or Worm (2023)
The Smile - A Light for Attracting Attention (2022)
Squid - Bright Green Field (2021) or O Monolith (2023)
Susanne Sundfør - Blómi (2023)
Swans - The Beggar (2023)
Anna von Hausswolff - All Thoughts Fly (2020) or Live at Montreux Jazz Festival (2022)
Zopp - Zopp (2020) or Dominion (2023)

Please mention your choices (up to three by three different acts) and any faves you want to from this list in a post, and please do free to mention any other releases you like that you think relevant. And digressions can be fun. :)

Edited by Logan - December 01 2023 at 09:27

Psychedelic Paul wrote: Zopp without a doubt, even though it's the only album in the poll I know.

A good reason to vote for it, especially if you like it.

My tastes are not the most mainstream for Prog Archives (but more mainstream with some other music communities).

Without giving it much thought, my top three albums from the list du jour will be (but it being my list I could easily go for others):
black midi - Cavalcade
Swans - The Beggar
Ciśnienie - Brass Album

Homonculus Rex (the most recent) plus Zopp (although I much prefer their latest) and also Black Midi (both).

I know and like three bands here, I don't think I will vote for now. 

Lots of great ones but voted black midi, Magick Brother & Mystic Sister, & Needlepoint.

Amoeba Split, Regal Worm's The Hideous Goblink, Zopp's Zopp. Thank you for inventing mathematics and cobble stone briefcases.

Gentle and Giant wrote: Yes, an excellent list. My 3 choices are black midi, Squid and Black Country, New Road

Logan wrote: Psychedelic Paul wrote: Zopp without a doubt, even though it's the only album in the poll I know.  A good reason to vote for it, especially if you like it.

Anna von Hausswolff---All Thoughts Fly.

richardh wrote: Psychedelic Paul wrote: Logan wrote: Psychedelic Paul wrote: Zopp without a doubt, even though it's the only album in the poll I know.  A good reason to vote for it, especially if you like it. Amazingly, I voted for a poll winner for a change when it's more often the case that my 2-star albums go on to win a poll.  Don't speak too soon, currently Black Midi is equal (5 votes each) with Zopp.

But I wonder how mnay votes are for Zopp's Zopp, how many are for Zopp's Dominion, how many are for black midi's Cavlacade and how mnay are for Helffire? To know which specific albums are being voted for because in those cases it's an "OR" proposition.

As for King Gizz, I did not really like the band until quite recently when I started to really explore it more and found muc that had appeal over various albums and after that more music opened up and I grew to like those one that initially held some appeal more. It is such an eclectic band where different albums are of different styles, but much of the jamminess had not appealed to me. No syaing others should like it, but while Butterfly 3000 is one of the albums that I have seen as lowest rated from Gizz, I like it for it's Indietronica/ synthpop, Neo-Psych pop vibes.

I love this:



By the way, the other one I most considred voting for at the time was Squid's Bright Green Field.

Oh lovely to see so many positive responses, and wow, am pleased, Kees, that you know so much and listed those. Thanks. And Cristi, but how you come at some time to say which acts you do like and any albums of interest. I'm interested in the votes and more interested in more than just the votes. Thanks to all for the comments. :)