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Points: 13298 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 29 2013 at 15:15
Originally posted by m2thek m2thek wrote:

Hubardo is the only one I feel particularly strong about.

I was pretty disappointed by Hubardo. I'm a huge Toby fan, and this, I felt, was one of his weaker attempts. It felt way too loose and unorganized for my liking. There is a degree of Toby chaos that is absolutely delicious (I'm thinking motW's Bath) and this album seemed to pass that. Plus I'm a bigger of fan of Kayo Dot's darker moodier stuff, like Choirs, BLD, and Coyote. Gamma Knife was another album I could pass on, although it was quite good.
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Originally posted by BrufordFreak BrufordFreak wrote:

Okay, Gang, before the onslaught of the autumn releases, what are your favorite albums of the year, so far. Here's today's version of mine:

1. Not That City - FIVE-STOREY ENSEMBLE
2. Interior City - THE GABRIEL CONSTRUCT
3. Harvest Moon - VOTUM
4. The RAven That Refused to Sing (and other Stories) - STEVEN WILSON
5. Not A Good Sign - NOT A GOOD SIGN
6. In hoc signo - INGRANAGGI DELLA VALLE
7. La crudeltà di Aprile - UNREAL CITY
8. In Extremis - DAYS BETWEEN STATIONS
9. The Trip - DJAM KARET
10. How Much Are You Willing To Forget? - FLICKER

I am very sorry to have to leave out excellent releases from KOSMOS, VIENNA CIRCLE, SCARLET STORIES, ARABS IN ASPIC, LA COSCIENZA DI ZENO, OCTOBER EQUUS, SUBMARINE SILENCE, KARDA ESTRA, HENRY FOOL, THIEVES' KITCHEN, BROTHER APE, RHUN, LOST WORLD, JOHANNES LULEY and RIVERSIDE.

That was then (August), this is now (12/30):

1. Not That City - FIVE-STOREY ENSEMBLE
2. Interior City - THE GABRIEL CONSTRUCT
3. Harvest Moon - VOTUM
4. Master & M - LIZARD
5. Empty Days - EMPTY DAYS
6. Asymmetry - KARNIVOOL
7. Force Majeure - BROTHER APE 
8. The Greatest Show on Earth - AIRBAG 
9. How Much Are You Willing to Forget? - FLICKER
10. In Extremis - DAYS BETWEEN STATIONS

Add to those I'm sad to have left out of my top 10:  
MIDDAY VEIL, 
INNER EAR BRIGADE, 
INGRANAGGI DELLA VALLE, 
UNIT WAIL, 
NOT A GOOD SIGN, 
HAKEN, 
RESONAXIS, 
FROMUZ, 
THE PSYCHEDELIC ENSEMBLE, and 
ULVER 
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Gotta revise my Top 10

1) Fates Warning-- A Darkness In A Different Light
2) Dream Theater--Dream Theater
3) Clive Nolan---Alchemy (studio version)
4) Unreal City--La Crudeltà Di Aprile
5) Ulver--Messe I.X--VI.X
6) Ingranaggi Della Valle---In Hoc Signo
7) Cosmograf--The Man Left In Space
8) T--Psychoanorexia
9) Ayreon--The Theory of Everything
10) Katatonia---Dethroned & Uncrowned

I'm sticking with this one. Also, just want to say that the song of year for me is Fates Warning's AND YET IT MOVES....yes it certainly does with me ! I've played this one a billion times. ;)
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Toxic Smile - 7 

album seemed to be overshadowed by Haken, check it out, it's amazing
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Ok, I finally finished my Top-10 albums list of 2013. I posted it on my blog, and it's in 2 parts.
If any of you is interested, you can check it here:
Thank you.
Have a great New Year's Eve! :)
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This is my Blog mostly about Rock music, but also a few other things as well.

You are most welcome!

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Hangover Paradise's Mirrors, maybe the best one in Neo Prog category.












Bilo 3.0 by David Maxim Micic (already in PA) is great prog metal album and would be mentioned in this thread.







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Here is my top albums of 2013:

1-Steven Wilson: The Raven That Refused To Sing (And Other Stories)
2-Days Between Stations: In Extremis
3-Soup: The Beauty Of Our Youth
4-Airbag: The Greatest Show On Earth
5-Amplifier: Echo Street
6-I Will Kill Chita (IWKC): Before We Disappear
7-Bruce Soord With Jonas Renkse: Wisdom Of Crowds
8-Henry Fool: Men Singing
9-T: Psychoanorexia
10-Taipuva Luotisuora: 8
11-Leprous: Coal
12-Il Giardino Onirico: Complesso K MMXIII
13-Ayreon: The Theory Of Everything
14-Riverside: Shrine Of New Generation Slaves
15-Long Distance Calling: The Flood Inside.

DVD-Anathema: Universal.

Hard-Rock-Spiritual Beggars: Earth Blues.
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One more day and will be over :) Can you guys please vote? :D

Progshine's Best 2013 Albums: http://www.progshine.net/2013/11/progshines-best-2013-albums-update-3.html
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Originally posted by Andy Webb Andy Webb wrote:

Originally posted by m2thek m2thek wrote:

Hubardo is the only one I feel particularly strong about.

I was pretty disappointed by Hubardo. I'm a huge Toby fan, and this, I felt, was one of his weaker attempts. It felt way too loose and unorganized for my liking. 


It certainly had a diversity of styles, but I feel like the tracks hung together pretty well if you can follow the "story", as it were.  I loved it (obviously), but as it's quite a departure from previous efforts I could see why others might not.
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Ok I would like to participate.

1. Steven Wilson                             - The Raven that Refused to Sing
2. Rhun                                              - Fanfare Du Chaos
3. Not a Good Sign                          -  Not a Good Sign 
4. Days Between Stations            - In Extremis
5. Ingranaggi Della Valle               - In Hoc Signo 
6. State Urge                                    - White Rock Experience
7. Oceans 5                                      - Return to Mingulay 
8. Birds And Buildings                    - Multipurpose Trap


I stop here... I have not yet heard Echoes Of Giants and Unreal City very well
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My top 20 of 2013:

1. In Extremis – Days between Stations
2. You Have a Chance – Camelias Garden
3. The High Places – Oblivion Sun
4. The Mountain – Haken
5. Le Porte del Domani – La Maschera di Cera
6. English Electric (Part Two) – Big Big Train
7. A Broken Truce – Violent Silence
8. Out of the Barnyard – Fright Pig
9. In Hoc Signo – Ingranaggi della Valle
10. Le Sacre du Travail – The Tangent
11. The Twenty Seven Club - Magenta
12. Fanfare & Fantasy – Comedy of Errors
13. Shrine of New Generation Slaves - Riverside
14. The Raven That Refused to Sing (and Other Stories) – Steven Wilson
15. The Lamplighter – Anima Mundi
16. A Feast of Consequences – Fish
17. Liminal - Exivious
18. Solipsistic – Semantic Saturation
19. The Tale of the Golden King – The Psychedelic Ensemble
20. Nine Lives – Von Hertzen Brothers



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My  top 10...not all of it is prog (obviously...)

10.  Roy Harper -- Man and Myth
9.  Katatonia -- Dethroned and Uncrowned
8. Steven Wilson -- The Raven that Refused to Sing
7. VNV Nation -- Transnational
6.  Wisdom of Crowds (Soord/Renkse) -- Wisdom of Crowds
5. Russian Circles -- Memorial
4. Upcdpwnc -- Black Sea
3. Pelican -- Forever Becoming
A tie for No. 1:
Riverside -- Shrine of New Generation Slaves
Editors -- The Weight of Your Love

**is the Wisdom of Crowds album not listed in the archive or am I just blind?  And if not, why not?
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Progressive/Art Rock
Riverside - Shrine Of New Generation Slaves
Spock's Beard - Brief Nocturnes and Dreamless Sleep
Karnivool - Asymmetry
Sanguine Hum - The Weight Of The World
Steven Wilson - The Raven That Refused To Sing
Camel - The Snow Goose (re-recording)
Half Past Four - Good Things
Comedy Of Errors - Fanfare & Fantasy
Big Big Train - The English Electric Pt. II
The Flower Kings - Desolation Rose
Sound Of Contact - Dimensionaut
Anima Mundi - The Lamplighter

Rock Progressivo Italiano
Ingranaggi Della Valle - In Hoc Signo
Unreal City - La Crudeltà di Aprile
Homunculus Res - Limiti All'eguaglianza della Parte con il Tutto
Progenesi - Ulisse l'alfiere nero
PFM - PFM In Classic Da Mozart A Celebration

Progressive Metal
Dream Theater - Dream Theater
Fates Warning - Darkness In A Different Light
Haken - The Mountain
Scale The Summit - The Migration
Persona Grata - Reaching Places High Above
Queensryche - Queensryche
Thought Chamber - Psykerion

Avant Prog
Miriodor - Cobra Fakir
Setna - Guerison
miRthkon - Snack(s)

Jazz-Rock/Fusion
The Aristocrats - Culture Clash
Exivious - Liminal
Spyro Gyra - The Rhinebeck Sessions
Djabe - Down And Up
Virgil Donati - In This Life
Simon Phillips - Protocol II
Levin Minnemann Rudess - LMR
Chick Corea - The Vigil
Paolo Fresu Devil Quartet - Desertico
Omar Sosa - Eggun: The Afri-Lectric experience
Trilok Gurtu - Spellbound
Jazz Q - Znovu

Melodic Rock/AOR
John Elefante - On My Way To The Sun
Seventh Key - I Will Survive

Hard Rock
Deep Purple - Now What?!
Snakecharmer - Snakecharmer

Instrumental Guitar Rock/Metal
Joe Satriani - Unstoppable Momentum
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Points: 23104 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 16 2014 at 06:15
^Wow! 

A late contender for me has been Amorphous Androgynous' The Cartel vol 1 and 2. 
I think most PA youngsters would dig this big time. 
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What got into Italy's water supply this year is what I want to know:


Barbarica - Museo Rosenbach

In hoc signo - Ingranaggi della Valle

Sensitivitá - La Coscienza di Zeno

PFM in Classic: Da Mozart a Celebration - Premiata Forneria Marconi

L'Angelo rinchiuso - Aldo Tagliapietra

Le Porte del Domani - La Maschera di Cera

Limiti all’eguaglianza della parte con il tutto - Homunculus Res

La Crudeltà di Aprile - Unreal City

Ulisse l'alfiere nero - Progenesi

Not a Good Sign - Not a Good Sign

Momentum - DGM

Concerto Grosso N° 3 - La Leggenda New Trolls


I might do an updated full list later.
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1. Birds and Buildings - Multipurpose Trap


2. Sigur Rós - Kveikur


3. Jaga Jazzist - Live with Britten Sinfonia


4. Homunculus Res - Limiti all'eguaglianza della Parte con il Tutto


5. Vespero - Droga


6. Grand General - Grand General


7. Steven Wilson - The Raven That Refused to Sing (And Other Stories)


8. Guapo - History of the Visitation


9. Motorpsycho - Still Life with Eggplant


10. Il Cerchio d'Oro - Dedalo e Icaro
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Points: 23104 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 31 2014 at 16:32
^Nice list Audun - reminds me that I still need to get my hands on the new Vespero album(one of those releases I couldn't get myself to stream. I want a hard copy, when it comes down to my fave artists).
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I haven't heard their other ones, but Droga really impressed me, from first listen. Yes, you should definitely try to get a hard copy of it. It's very nicely packaged, IMO.
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Originally posted by The Bearded Bard The Bearded Bard wrote:

I haven't heard their other ones, but Droga really impressed me, from first listen. Yes, you should definitely try to get a hard copy of it. It's very nicely packaged, IMO.

I only have Subkraut, two live albums as well as my fave of theirs: By the Waters of Tomorrow. Droga is definitely high on my list, especially seeing as it is supposed to be more in the vein of BTWOT than Subkraut was. 
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