What prog band did you recently discover?

Their best albums (or the ones I like the best anyway) are the first 4 up to and including The Last Encore (1976). After that they became mostly AOR ish rock with some prog for the next run of albums. Merlin was their last album of their original album run and that's actually a bit better than the earlier 3 or 4 albums. A return to prog mainly but still a bit of a fudge between their older style and the newer 'commercial' style. They split up in 1982 then reformed in the late 90's to record an expanded version of Merlin called Merlin:Bard Of The Unseen. Their last 2 albums (probably 'ever' as the band seems finished now) are actually pretty decent rock/prog albums. I would love to have seen them pre pandemic when they were scheduled to support the Flower Kings in London. They had to pull out because Ton Scherpenzeel was ill. I think that his health issues has inevitably lead to a halt of the bands activities for good. A real shame. I'm very fond of them and they brought a lighter touch to prog compared to the English bombastic prog bands of the 70's.

Also Kayak - I bought their Phantom of the Night album in the '70s and didn't like it. I tried several times over the years but always found it boring. Recently I heard Royal Bed Bouncer and couldn't believe it was the same group.