2024 studio album releases
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Topic: 2024 studio album releases
Posted By: Logan
Subject: 2024 studio album releases
Date Posted: January 29 2025 at 11:18
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This is not multiple votes. I took the top 12 albums of 2024 from PA's album chart, and then added my top 12 at Awesome Prog's album chart -- plus one since The Smile (Radiohead-related) have two albums from this year that I really like. My list, which starts with Beth Gibbons, does not limit itself to prog per se or what is in PA, please just vote for the album you like most from these 24 options or choose or your own favourite not in the list. The only album I have now heard from PA's top 12 is Present's, but that album may take time to grown on me. Here is a playlist of my top albums here, and maybe share a track of your album choice. Actually, rather than making anew playlist here's one I made some time back with a track from various ones I have listened to: One other that might get more than one mention is Sleepytime Gorilla Museum's Of the Last Human Being. I should give that another spin. Time is running out on the AOTY event (not sure how many active forum/ PA users have not put up lists yet, but the more who participate the better, imo). |
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Posted By: King of Loss
Date Posted: January 29 2025 at 11:34
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Blood Incantation - Absolute Elsewhere. Yes, I picked a progressive death metal release. It is absolutely a banger!
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Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: January 29 2025 at 11:53
I've only heard one... so Focus 12 it is!!  ------------- Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson |
Posted By: rushfan4
Date Posted: January 29 2025 at 12:18
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From the list I've only heard Ritual, Opeth, and The Smile. Only Ritual made my top 20 and it came in at 16. My number 1 for 2024 is Big Big Train's The Likes of Us. ------------- 
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Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: January 29 2025 at 12:40
Thanks guys. And to anyone voting other, please do say what album you are choosing, otherwise not sure the point of voting (list twenty others if you want... or a hundred). Sharing is caring. :) I am more of a details oriented than some. I just noticed one other vote without comment. Maybe that person will post later talking about their choices. Love to hear some of it if one has a track to link to.
I checked out some of it's music, hugely accomplished. The death metal aspect appeals to my ears. It's an eclectic and actually quite light to these ears sound. I was expecting something heavier. By the way, while I don't tend to listen to lots of metal, Boris and Neurosis are faves of mine in the metal categories at PA.
The latest Focus album I have heard is X in 2012, and the last one I bought was Focus 9 / New Skin in 2006. I love 70's Focus music, and it is one of the Prog bands that I first fell for (with the meaty masterpiece that is Hamburger Concerto). I like to try to keep up with newer releases, although I have done more of that over the last few years than before. I love lots of contemporary music, as well as so much from every decade especially form the 60s up (other than "classical music" to use the broad term, there's not much pre-late 50s music that I am very into.
I was expecting to see that BBT album in PA's top 12, it's at 18 there. I have not hear it but did appre ciate some of BBT's earlier albums. At Awesome prog for it's AOTY thing that Mike is hosting, it's at number 2. Sleepytime... being at one, and Greep being in third. I regret not doing this poll like I had planned to at first which was to make a portion of the top albums the top ones at Awesome Prog. That's a more interesting to me list than the top ones in the PA chart, but then so is the RYM top chart. I opted not to when I had troubles making the AP chart include all for 2024 (including those not in PA and not tagged prog or prog-adjacent at AP). In other words, I wanted the "other" chart as part of it, plus PA and AP Prog. While this is Prog polls, I prefer the polls that go beyond prog genres.... |
King of Loss wrote:Posted By: IncogNeato
Date Posted: January 29 2025 at 12:42
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From the list, I am choosing Ritual as it's one of the only ones I have heard. Not on the list, for me: The Chronicles Of Father Robin - The Songs & Tales of Airoea: Book 3 Zeal & Ardor - Grief Slift - Ilion Lowrider/ Elephant Tree - The Long Forever Weather Systems - Ocean Without A Shore
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Posted By: Lights Faces
Date Posted: January 29 2025 at 12:50
And I have literally not listened to a single one. Wait, I just realized that within the list is... a new album of Believe!! I need to go listen to that.
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Posted By: Teunis
Date Posted: January 29 2025 at 12:58
| Not on this list. My choise is Kingcrow - Hopium with Leprous - Melodies Of Atonement close second. |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: January 29 2025 at 13:01
I definitely have seen many very positive comments about that Father Robin album.
You better Believe it! ;) I have not heard it. I commonly have been a little "behind the times" one might say, but now as I want to be going to more concerts I especially want to be that much more up-to-date. Well, I went to a lot of concerts in my 20s (especially my early 20s) and quite a few in my teens, but now in my later years I want to be doing that kind of stuff more again, be more active, even if the body is slowing down a bit. There is so much good music for so many tastes to discover from so, so many years. :)
Thanks. Both on the metal-side as I recall. |
Posted By: Lights Faces
Date Posted: January 29 2025 at 13:06
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"You better Believe it! ;) I have not heard it." The reviews are super laudative, so I can't help but expect a lot from it. That being said, I also expected from Pendragon's last, and it happens to be the one with the best notes on Prog Archives, and yet I was really disappointed by it. But we'll see! There's also gonna be a new one from IQ, and given this band's consistency, I have very little fear, they're gonna deliver as usual.
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Posted By: A Crimson Mellotron
Date Posted: January 29 2025 at 13:52
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I am pulling an Opeth on this one. |
Posted By: MikeEnRegalia
Date Posted: January 29 2025 at 13:55
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^ Same here. My top release of 2024 is actually Powernerd, it really grew on repeated listens. Same with the Opeth release, not as stellar as their masterpieces, but I really, really enjoy listening to it. ------------- https://awesomeprog.com/release-polls/pa/aotm-2025-1/vote" rel="nofollow - 2025 Monthly Release Poll Listened to: 
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Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: January 29 2025 at 13:57
^ and ^^ I do hopeth to heareth that album at some time.
Welcome to the site by the way. Good to heave more new blood. Neo-Prog is something that I have come to appreciate more over the years, but it was mostly discovering so many things like Zeuhl, RIO/Avant Prog, Progressive Electronic, Canterbury Scene, Krautrock, certain jazz-Rock Fusion, then Post-Rock that really got me going. Nowadays I especially listen to Indie Rock, Art Pop/Folk/Rock, kinds of post-punk, and stuff associated with Hipsters, I guess. LOL. Been obsessed with Sufjan Stevens albums of late. I love atmospheric music.. The album (from a band in PA) that I am most anticipating this year is Swans with Birthing, but Birthing would be a painful labour to most here, I expect. It always amazes me in a way me how much good music (I mean good for one's interests) there is to discover and how many new music avenues can be opened with discovering new-to-oneself music, and how new obsessions lead to other obsessions.... There are endless depths to plumb and discover, and it's always an adventure. And for me often what's greatest at one time gets replaced with something else... But I babble, I do that. 
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Posted By: Heart of the Matter
Date Posted: January 29 2025 at 15:21
| All I can say is I want to listen to Solaris, and... oh yeah, Focus 12 is good, that too. |
Posted By: BrufordFreak
Date Posted: January 29 2025 at 15:40
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Favorite (not best, right)? For me it's been a tie all year long between: Bent Knee Twenty Pills without Water and plantoid Terrapath ------------- Drew Fisher https://progisaliveandwell.blogspot.com/ |
Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: January 29 2025 at 16:05
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The twin peaks of this year: Alejandro Matos - Carnaval de las Victimas Arnaud Bukwald - Moondragore Somewhat but not far behind: The Tangent (for One) - To Follow Polaris ------------- 
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Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: January 29 2025 at 16:39
I like classic Solaris and classic Focus.
The poll question is "What is your favourite 2024 studio album?" meaning your preference, what you particularly appreciate and enjoy, what is "best for you" from what you know. Asking what is best from a global perspective does not make early as much sense to me as asking, "What is an album from 2014 that you particularly enjoy?" I mean it is so subjective and none of us have heard every release of the year. While I am not one of those who claims it's all subjective as I have seen from some at this forum, and that there is no way to determine better in music (I think intent matters, expectations can matter, one can judge performance / aptitude, there are conventions and one can determine quality to whatever extent within specific frameworks), I think some go too far in thinking that they can be the arbiters of what is good and has merit when there are so many ways to appreciate music. Taste is subjective, people have biases, some value their own assessments, methodology and analyses too highly, one can approach music from different angles. Suffice to say, I prefer to talk about preference/ taste/ what one enjoys and what excites one. :) I care about what people are passionate about commonly. I like Bent Knee, but I have not listened to that album yet.
Not familiar with those releases, but since you mentioned "twin peaks", RIP David Lynch and RIP FBI Deputy Director Gordon Cole. Fire walk with me... |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: January 29 2025 at 19:11
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I listened to about 90 albums last year which is far too many. It was only towards the end of the year that I discovered a few albums that needed a lot more attention namely Mangrove - A Bridge To Fiction and Azure - Fym. I am genuinely surprised that latter album hasn't garnered more attention but I'm still trying to digest it as it's just shy of 80 minutes. I'm not sure it was given any sort of physical release but if it had I would happily swap my vinyl copy of Frost* - Life In The Wires for it. In the end I plumped for Swedish post metal band A Swarm Of The Sun - An Empire just ahead of Weather Systems - Ocean Without A Shore at the head of my list. Geordie Greep - The New Sound would have been my favourite album of the year if it had been a little shorter. In the end it outstays its welcome a bit at the length it's at. Jupiter Fungus and Beardfish releases were the others that made up my top 5 prog albums although I also loved Mdou Moctar's heavy north African shredding a whole lot on A Funeral For Justice. The rest of my top ten is mostly made up of French artists/ bands and they couldn't be more different! Tom Penaguin doing Canterbury just across the English channel as well as Slift's weird but wonderful Ilion and Orange Blossom's captivating world beats on Spells From The Drunken Sirens. Nothing much else stood out really. Solid releases (but nothing special) from stalwarts Big Big Train, Izz and Focus. I also discovered some Krautrock I like from Bristol band Beak>. |
Posted By: Fischman
Date Posted: January 29 2025 at 19:54
| My "other" is Drifting Sun - Veil |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: January 29 2025 at 19:58
^ Thanks.
Geordie Greep's is the only album I have heard of your mentions. I have it at number 22 right now, but it could be higher. My ranking is quite arbitrary. I plan to see him in concert on May 11 in Vancouver. I have 40 albums in my list and I have only listened to maybe ten more in full. Heard bits and pieces of many more of course Even so, that feels like a lot. I do wish some more people would contribute to the Album of the Year "event", and I think it's great that people are being exposed to new music, but it's great that as many PA members are participating as are. I do think it's important to support these creative endeavors by buying albums, merch, going to concerts (easier for some of us than others... location, finances, health...) and even by sharing what one likes in the forum which helps with promotion. Reviewing is great, but I am so bad at it. |
Posted By: Nogbad_The_Bad
Date Posted: January 29 2025 at 20:08
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Sleepytime Gorilla Museum > Present ------------- Ian Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on Progrock.com https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-avant-jazzcore-happy-hour/ |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: January 29 2025 at 20:20
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^ Had I made this poll like the 2023 one, which I think a better approach, the Sleepytime Gorilla museum album would have taken a prominent place in this poll. My particular choices are all not only voteless but commentless thus far, but then I know my favourites commonly don't align very much with the tastes of most at PA. Nothing wrong with that, there's room for all sorts of niches here. :) |
Posted By: Nogbad_The_Bad
Date Posted: January 29 2025 at 20:24
Not sure if I can spot yours (I know 1 for sure) but Tapir, Beth Gibbons & Tigran Hamasyan would all be in the list for possible votes. I came late to the last 2 and still getting to know them. ------------- Ian Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on Progrock.com https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-avant-jazzcore-happy-hour/ |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: January 29 2025 at 20:32
The second half of the list is my current top 12 (or 13 since there are two The Smiles) at Awesome Prog. Most are not in PA and so won't count for the actual AOTY event. I really do think I'll really like the Sleepytime and Present with more spins. Just a few days to go until the submissions part of the AOTY event concludes. My choices... Beth Gibbons - Lives Outgrown Godspeed You! Black Emperor - "No Title as of 13 Feb..." The Smile - Wall of Eyes OR Cutouts Tapir! - The Pilgrim Julia Holter - Something in the Room She Moves Kimbanourke - Binjari St. Vincent - All Born Screaming samlrc - A Lonely Sinner Tigran Hamasyan - The Bird of a Thousand Voices Mount Eerie - Night Palace Mount Kimbie The Sunset Violent Xiu Xiu - 13" Frank Beltrame Italian Stiletto with Bison Horn |
Posted By: Nogbad_The_Bad
Date Posted: January 29 2025 at 20:38
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Godspeed, The Smile, Tapir & Tigran all feature in my list. ------------- Ian Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on Progrock.com https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-avant-jazzcore-happy-hour/ |
Posted By: mathman0806
Date Posted: January 29 2025 at 21:03
| My top three were albums by Pond, Yang, and Into the Glasshouse. The order is interchangeable. From the list, Present, Compassionizer, The Smile, and Tigran Hamasyan are in my top 20 or so. Still rate last year higher. Also coming in late is the album by Vylet Pony. A few tracks are just okay to me, but the two long tracks really stand out as among the best tracks of the year. |
Posted By: Mellotron Storm
Date Posted: January 29 2025 at 22:17
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I mentioned somewhere that I hoped to have my list done by March, but that's looking more like May. Oh spring! So I just went with my favourite from your list and that's Present over Greco Bastian. ------------- "The wind is slowly tearing her apart" "Sad Rain" ANEKDOTEN |
Posted By: octopus-4
Date Posted: January 29 2025 at 23:42
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Voted for Bastian, but I haven't listened to many of the others ------------- I stand with Roger Waters, I stand with Joan Baez, I stand with Victor Jara, I stand with Woody Guthrie. Music is revolution |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: January 30 2025 at 00:18
Nice.  After the results are in I will be looking closer at individuals lists. Somehow I have not wanted people's lists to affect me very much when it comes to PA's Album of the Year exhibitions. That said, I have peeked at some lists, including yours.  It was in part because of you that I checked out the Tigran. And why I checked out the Present and Sleepytime (well, due to your comments). That's good stuff to listen to in the right headspace and mood for me.
I definitely have some serious listening to do. SInce you brought up Vylet Pony, I'm listening to "Sludge" right now and loving it! Awesome. Thanks for mentioning it. :) It really hits my sweet spots.
I wish I had until Spring or summer to refine my list. I realise that I still have plenty of serious listening to to feel at all ready for this. That said, i know my list will never be definitive. I will keep on coming across great-for-me-stuff from this year and many years to come if things go reasonably well.
And I have yet to listen to that. So much music, so many years, so little time. And I'm one of those who does not want to listen to music every day (I'm a freak), but on those days I do (most days) it can be such bliss, such an emotional and such a joyous ride. |
Posted By: Octopus II
Date Posted: January 30 2025 at 01:15
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Solaris - Martian Chronicles III: I Or A.I.
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Posted By: Mormegil
Date Posted: January 30 2025 at 02:44
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”Other” - The Chronicles Of Father Robin - The Songs & Tales of Airoea: Book 3 ------------- Welcome to the middle of the film. |
Posted By: progaardvark
Date Posted: January 30 2025 at 06:51
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Present gets my vote. I have a B.S. degree in mooing and walking in circles. ------------- ---------- i'm shopping for a new oil-cured sinus bag that's a happy bag of lettuce this car smells like cartilage nothing beats a good video about fractions |
Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: January 30 2025 at 06:58
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I like three albums here, I don't know whether i should vote or not.
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Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: January 30 2025 at 07:31
| Vote if you have a favourite if those three or want to mention an other. More interesting to me than if you voted is what those three albums are and if you have a favourite from the year. You know me, more interested in the commentary and a details oriented guy. :) But more than that, just follow your heart in whatever you do here if you can, I suggest. Thanks with whatever you decide. |
Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: January 30 2025 at 07:46
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^ The three albums are: Believe - The Wyrding Way Opeth - The Last Will and Testament Godspeed You! Black Emperor - "No Title as of 13 Feb..." The GY!BE album is the most interesting, I will give it a vote.
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Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: January 30 2025 at 08:32
^ Thanks so much, Cristi. And thanks to all who have commented. 
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Posted By: Meltdowner
Date Posted: January 31 2025 at 09:07
| First vote for Viima, #12 in my list. #1 is Magick Brother & Mystic Sister's Tarot part I. |
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: February 03 2025 at 13:51
| Kenso - An Old Warrior Shook the Sun |
Posted By: Lewian
Date Posted: February 03 2025 at 14:59
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As an old Art Zoyd fan, I mention the two Thierry Zaboitzeff albums. I love them both, and Le Passage is my favourite of the year (on PA). From the list I love both The Smile albums most. Today I'd vote for Wall of Eyes (but they're both together here so I don't have to decide), but I have a hard time knowing which of them I prefer. I feel slightly embarrassed about the fact that these two artists are with four albums among my top 7 or so. Here's a 20 sec trailer for Le Passage. |
Posted By: mellotronwave
Date Posted: February 03 2025 at 15:06
| Solaris |