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Topic: A selection of 2019 albums
Posted By: Logan
Subject: A selection of 2019 albums
Date Posted: June 30 2024 at 13:43
So this is a 2019 list of albums which includes quite a few favourite albums of mine, both Prog and non-Prog -- and Prog related/adjacent/tangential... -- and it includes various albums I have not heard. Please vote for an album you like (I have NOT done multiple votes) and mention any others you like if you wish to both on and off this list. I would expect IQ's to get the most votes at PA, but I don't think of these polls as contests with winners and losers. Every album I like here is a winner in my book! lol

Big Big Train - Grand Tour
black midi - Schlagenheim
Ciśnienie - JazzArt Underground
The Comet Is Coming - Trust in the Lifeforce of the Deep Mystery
Cult of Luna - A Dawn to Fear
De Lorians - De Lorians
Klone - Le Grand Voyage
Lana Del Rey - Norman F*cking Rockwell
Duster - Duster
IQ - Resistance
Izz - Don't Panic
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Infest the Rats Nest
Lingua Ignota - Caligula
Motorpsycho - The Crucible
The Neal Morse Band - The Great Adventure
Angel Olsen - All Mirrors
Opeth - In Cauda Venenum
Rascal Reporters - Redux, Vol. 1
Secret Chiefs 3 - Malkhut
Swans - leaving meaning.
Uboa - The Origin of My Depression
Vanishing Twin - The Age of Immunology
Weyes Blood - Titanic Rising
Wilderun - Veil of Imagination
Yamai - Le Silo



Replies:
Posted By: Nogbad_The_Bad
Date Posted: June 30 2024 at 14:22
The Comet Is Coming

Just ahead of

black midi & Secret Chiefs 3

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Posted By: Grumpyprogfan
Date Posted: June 30 2024 at 14:25
Secret Chiefs 3 for me.

2019 is my favorite year for prog so far. Here are some more excellent releases that year.

Marco Minnemann - My Sister
Thank You Scientist - Terraformer
Thieves' Kitchen - Genuis Loci
Richard Henshall - The Cocoon
Virgil Donati - Ruination
Dewa Budjana - Mahadini
The Psychedelic Ensemble - Mother's Rhymes
The Aristocrats - You Know What...?
On The Raw - Climbing The Air
Charlie Cawood - Bluring Into Motion
Morglbl - The Story of Scott Rotti
Asturias - Electric Asturias: Trinity


Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: June 30 2024 at 14:26
My favourite IQ album over Big Big Train, which hasn't yet left the station. Confused


Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: June 30 2024 at 15:00
My fifteen favorites. Only 100% certain that Weyes Blood takes the top spot for me:

5 to 4.5 Stars:
Weyes Blood - Titanic Rising
Billie Eilish - WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO?
Lingua Ignota - Caligula
Bremer/McCoy - Utopia
Greg Foat - The Mage
Secret Chiefs 3 - Malkhut
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Infest the Rats Nest
Blood Incantation - Hidden History of the Human Race
4 Stars:
Swans - leaving meaning.
The Comet Is Coming - Trust in the Lifeforce of the Deep Mystery
black midi - Schlagenheim
Kit Sebastian - Mantra Moderne
billy woods & Kenny Segal - Hiding Places
The Caretaker - Everywhere, an Empty Bliss
Motorpsycho - The Crucible


Posted By: Gentle and Giant
Date Posted: June 30 2024 at 15:19
black midi - Schlagenheim

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Posted By: Lewian
Date Posted: June 30 2024 at 15:41
I do like the Swans, The Comet Is Coming, Lingua Ignota, Vanishing Twin albums and some more, but the Cisnienie album eats them all for breakfast. Sometimes I vote for such underdog albums because nobody else does, but this one is insanely good.


Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: June 30 2024 at 15:48
IZZ - Don't Panic
Jordsjø - Nattfiolen
Big Big Train - Grand Tour
IQ - Resistance


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Posted By: Mellotron Storm
Date Posted: June 30 2024 at 16:11
I went Motorpsycho with De Lorians second.
I want to mention Stephan Thelen's Fractal Guitar

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Posted By: mathman0806
Date Posted: June 30 2024 at 18:16
2019 seems so long ago to me. Pre-pandemic times. I think I had heard about a third of the releases listed. For whatever reason, i had not listened to the Secret Chiefs 3 release. Voted for Motorpsycho.

A few other albums that were among my favorites, last one not on PA:

The Tea Club - If/When
Jambinai - Onda
Teeth of the Sea - Wraith
Fat White Family - Serf's Up

Edit to add a few more on PA:

Nolan Potter's Nightmare Band - Nightmare Forever
Monkey3 - Sphere
Helium Horse Fly - Hollowed
Bent Knee - You Know What They Mean
Sonar & David Torn - Tranceportatation Vol. 1
Oh Sees - Face Stabber


Posted By: Magog2112
Date Posted: June 30 2024 at 21:30
IQ - Resistance


Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: June 30 2024 at 22:50
Forgot that one. Love it. Among the finest retro prog albums that I know of. So warm and atmospheric. It's got that special pastoral feel or sound to it (missing in a lot of seemingly similar retro prog) that originally made me fall in love with the sound of classic Prog. Easily in my top ten-fifteen and surely among my ten most listened to albums from this amazing year in music.
Originally posted by someone_else someone_else wrote:


Jordsjø - Nattfiolen

I might as well make a top twenty out of it and add another favorite four 4-star albums of the year I also forgot:

Maurice Louca - إلفنتين Elephantine
Little Simz - GREY Area
Jorja Chalmers - Human Again
Resavoir - Resavoir


Posted By: MikeEnRegalia
Date Posted: July 01 2024 at 02:43
Big Big Train. The compositions on Grand Tour are just epic Cool


Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: July 01 2024 at 03:12
Klone - Le Grand Voyage


Posted By: Octopus II
Date Posted: July 01 2024 at 03:20
Big Big Train - Grand Tour Smile


Posted By: essexboyinwales
Date Posted: July 01 2024 at 04:00
I voted IQ, because I know it best on this list. But it’s a deeply disappointing album for me, the weakest the band have ever released.

Some great albums from that year though:
Cellar Darling - The Spell
Devin Townsend - Empath
Avantasia - Moonglow

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Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: July 01 2024 at 04:25
Originally posted by essexboyinwales essexboyinwales wrote:

Some great albums from that year though:
Cellar Darling - The Spell
 
great choice! Tongue


Posted By: omphaloskepsis
Date Posted: July 01 2024 at 05:26
These are the 2019 albums that I still listen to:

Melting Clock- Destinazioni
IZZ - Don't Panic
Jordsjø - Nattfiolen
IQ - Resistance
The Tea Club - If/When

The Psychedelic Ensemble - Mother's Rhymes
De Lorians- De Lorians
Motorpsycho- The Crucible
Opeth- In Cauda Venenum









Posted By: Manuel
Date Posted: July 01 2024 at 05:53
Originally posted by Grumpyprogfan Grumpyprogfan wrote:

Secret Chiefs 3 for me.

2019 is my favorite year for prog so far. Here are some more excellent releases that year.

Marco Minnemann - My Sister
Thank You Scientist - Terraformer
Thieves' Kitchen - Genuis Loci
Richard Henshall - The Cocoon
Virgil Donati - Ruination
Dewa Budjana - Mahadini
The Psychedelic Ensemble - Mother's Rhymes
The Aristocrats - You Know What...?
On The Raw - Climbing The Air
Charlie Cawood - Bluring Into Motion
Morglbl - The Story of Scott Rotti
Asturias - Electric Asturias: Trinity
I like this list better. On the origninal list, I voted for Big Big Train.


Posted By: Mormegil
Date Posted: July 01 2024 at 05:57
BBT and IQ from this list.

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Posted By: progaardvark
Date Posted: July 01 2024 at 05:59
From this list, went with Izz's Don't Panic. 

Some others from 2019 worthy of attention:
Le Grand Sbam - Vaisseau Monde
Cheeto's Magazine - Amazingous
Moon Letters - Until They Feel the Sun
Karakorum - Fables and Fairytales
ni - Pantophobie
The Mercury Tree - Spidermilk
Alber Jupiter - We Are Just Floating in Space
Richard Pinhas & Tatsuya Yoshida - Ascension
Macchina Pneumatica - Riflessi e Maschere
Fervent Send - Obliterate the Moon
Emme Phyzema - Dispelling Differences
Kitschy - Cupcake
Solaris - Nostradamus 2.0
Quantum Fantay - Yemaya Orisha
Conqueror - In Orbita

Some tidal wave house pants and an encounter with the Humor Bagel in Central Park.


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Posted By: Grumpyprogfan
Date Posted: July 01 2024 at 06:43
Originally posted by Manuel Manuel wrote:

Originally posted by Grumpyprogfan Grumpyprogfan wrote:

Secret Chiefs 3 for me.

2019 is my favorite year for prog so far. Here are some more excellent releases that year.

Marco Minnemann - My Sister
Thank You Scientist - Terraformer
Thieves' Kitchen - Genuis Loci
Richard Henshall - The Cocoon
Virgil Donati - Ruination
Dewa Budjana - Mahadini
The Psychedelic Ensemble - Mother's Rhymes
The Aristocrats - You Know What...?
On The Raw - Climbing The Air
Charlie Cawood - Bluring Into Motion
Morglbl - The Story of Scott Rotti
Asturias - Electric Asturias: Trinity

I like this list better. On the origninal list, I voted for Big Big Train.

You have great taste.


Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: July 01 2024 at 07:21
Thanks for all of your lists and responses. Really happy when people do share what they appreciate outside of the given lists, as well as sharing what they know and appreciate on the given lists as well. I have discovered much music over the years here by people mentioning other choices. Greg Foat was mentioned, and I will look into him more (love what I have heard from him), and will look into various others. I should check out that Morglbl; a band I discovered and then suggested to PA long ago (I only liked to suggest that which I appreciated).

Like with George, 2019 does seem a long (and different) time ago, and I couldn't remember much of what I liked then from the year, nor did I look it up. Most of what I listed that I like I got to know more recently.

Cisnienie was one of my favourite discoveries that I am pleased to have suggested for PA inclusion and was most excited about being added. Weyes Blood's Titanic Rising is the one I have listened to the most, partially because Weyes Blood is something my wife also loves. I love various of her albums, but And in the Darkness, Hearts Aglow has received the most spins. Lingua Ignota was a great discovery for me thanks to its suggestion thread in this forum. Caligula Rising may be harder listening than Sinner Get Ready, but I hugely appreciate both albums.

black midi is a band I grew to love, although I have turned to the later albums more. I think I discovered The Comet Is Coming through the Interactive Polls; really like this album. Secret Chiefs 3 is a favourite of mine, and I got to know this more thanks to some forum conversation. Swans is of course a band I have often talked about over the last few years, and I enjoy all of it albums from Children of God up. Motorspsycho I have come to appreciate much more recently. Uboa is a favourite of mine.

Duster and Angel Olsen were recent discoveries of mine. And the other one I really like is Vanishing Twin's The Age of Immunology. I love Stereolab, Broadcast, Komeda, Pram...., and this is very much music of that ilk. If one likes Stereoloab and/or Broadcast, then I would think this would appeal. De Lorians was one I know in 2019 at least.

As for most of the rest, the options were chosen by searching charts and used even if the music is outside my wheelhouse/ interests. And I love various King Gizz albums, but I have not yet listened to the one in this list in full.

Not sure how to vote, but I feel like going Lingua Ignota right now (I know not all that know it here appreciate it as much as me -- it is a tortured output).


Posted By: Grumpyprogfan
Date Posted: July 01 2024 at 08:19
^Knowing your current tastes, the Morglbl won't be for you, Greg. But, Thieves' Kitchen may. Have you heard any of their albums? They have some National Health vibes. I'm surprised they aren't more popular on PA.


Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: July 01 2024 at 08:39
^ MY tastes often will adapt and change depending upon what I'm feeding it, I find. I'm quite impressionable and malleable, as long as the music can somehow resonate with personality traits often (I'm a reserved person). I have heard various tracks from Thieves' Kitchen that I enjoyed. Just listened to music from Genius Loci ("Eilmer") and yes, strong National Health vibes. I like it; thanks, Will. :)


Posted By: suitkees
Date Posted: July 02 2024 at 04:04
From these I would single out Ciśnienie, The Comet is Coming and Vanishing Twin. Since the latter has no vote yet I'll give mine to The Age of Immunology.

Some other albums from 2019 that I like a lot:
On PA:
- Yôkaï - s/t
- Stephan Thelen - Fractal Guitar
- Sonar & David Torn - Tranceportatation Vol. 1
Not on PA:
- Nits - Knot
- Rozi Plain - What A Boost
- De Staat - Bubble Gum

Originally posted by Saperlipopette! Saperlipopette! wrote:

Maurice Louca - إلفنتين Elephantine

Nice to see this one mentioned; great album, indeed.


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Posted By: BrufordFreak
Date Posted: July 02 2024 at 15:52
My own Top 30:

1. TIRILL Said the Sun to the Moon
2. JAMBINAI Onda
3. THIEVES' KITCHEN Genius Loci
4. FUZZ PUDDLE Speciecide
5. SEVEN STEPS TO THE GREEN DOOR The? Lie
6. FLY PAN AM C'est ça
7. HAMMOCK Silencia
8. MELTING CLOCK Destinazioni
9. THE LOOMINGS Hey, Weirdo!
10. MONKEY3 Spheres

11. STEVE HAUSCHILDT Nonlin
12. THE TEA CLUB If / When
13. ARNAUD BUKWALD La marmite cosmique V
14. BENT KNEE You Know What They Mean
15. IAMTHEMORNING The Bell
16. MONO Nowhere, Now Here
17. BLACK MIDI Schlagenheim
18. DIZZY MYSTICS Wanderlost
19. UNITED PROGRESSIVE FRATERNITY Planetary Overload, Part 1 - Loss
20. STEVE UNRUH Precipice

21. KARFAGEN Echoes from Within The Dragon's Island
22. SONAR with DAVID TORN Tranceportaion Vol. 1
23. MODERN-ROCK ENSEMBLE Night Dreams & Wishes
24. DIAGONAL Arc
25. IQ Resistance
26. CONSIDER THE SOURCE You Are Literally A Metaphor
27. CHARLIE CAWOOD Blurring Into Motion
28. THE PSYCHEDELIC ENSEMBLE Mother's Rhymes
29. EX CANIX Shaman
30. BIG BIG TRAIN Grand Tour

Not a lot of common ground with you, Greg! Only three albums!



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Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: July 02 2024 at 18:35
Only a bit more than half of the list for the poll are personal likes. That list is a combination of ones I like and one found in the charts that I know of (nice to hopefully reach people who commonly don't gravitate to the kind of music I tend to go for by listing ones outside my wheelhouse). I culled the list from a longer one. I certainly had chosen Fly Pan Am for it initially. From your three choices from the list I prepared, only one of those is in the poll that I really like, which is black midi - Schlagenheim.

My top three from your list might be:
Fly Pan Am - C'est ça
black midi - Schlagenheim
Ex Canix - Shaman

I've largely forgotten what I was listening to in 2019. It is a year that largely seems forgotten by me.



Posted By: Nogbad_The_Bad
Date Posted: July 02 2024 at 20:21
My top 5 from 2019

The Comet Is Coming - Trust In The Lifeforce Of The Deep Mystery
October Equus - Presagios
PoiL - Sus
Ni - Pantophobie
Anna Meredith - Fibs


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Posted By: King of Loss
Date Posted: July 02 2024 at 21:31
Weyes Blood - Titanic Rising stands out to me as the best record from this list. 


Posted By: verslibre
Date Posted: July 03 2024 at 12:05
IQ

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Posted By: essexboyinwales
Date Posted: July 03 2024 at 13:36
2019 was my favourite year for gigs:

IQ Resistance album launch gig (London)
Marillion With Friends From The Orchestra (Cardiff)
Cellar Darling (Cardiff)
Devin Townsend (Cardiff Uni)
Take That (London’s O2) - yeah, I know, but it was a family thing, at my suggestion….and it was awesome!😎
Ghost - Cardiff😎😎👻😎😎

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Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: July 03 2024 at 13:49
^ Sweet. For my 2019 concert memories, I remember missing out on tickets to see Stereolab in concert that year.

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Posted By: Nogbad_The_Bad
Date Posted: July 03 2024 at 13:54
My best 2019 concerts

Vezhlivy Otkaz - New York - bucket list band for a decade, never thought I'd get to see them, stunningly good
King Crimson - Boston - not as good as any of their recent tours, still stellar
Nick Mason - Boston - really excellent to see all the old Floyd material with real sense of joy and a high energy packed venue
The Comet Is Coming - Big Ears Knoxville & Boston - high energy modern electro jazz funk featuring Shabaka Hutchings on sax
Koenjihyakkei - RIO Lyon - another bucket list band, high energy Japanese Zeuhl heavy and bonkers all the time
This Is Not This Heat - Big Ears Knoxville - Experimental Rock one of the highlights of the festival
Nik Bartsch Ronin - Big Ears Knoxville - Swiss minimalist modern zen groove jazz
PoiL - RIO Lyon - punky avant rock - tiny club all standing loads of fun
Schnellertollermeier - RIO Lyon - Swiss brutal minimalist jazz, crushingly good.


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Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: July 03 2024 at 14:08
IQ

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Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: July 04 2024 at 03:48
I find with the last 2 IQ albums that I like the second disc much more that the first. Perhaps IQ are overeaching a tad as it doesn't get any better than Frequency. Massive BBT fan but The Grand Tour never quite did it for me compared to Folklore or English Electric (Pts 1 and 2)
That Izz album gets better every time I hear it. A masterpiece. I may have voted for Thieves' Kitchen Genius Loci if that had been included.



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