2012 Album Releases

2012 is a year that I was excited to cover.

This poll comes in three sections and an "other" (see details on when to use), and multiple voting is not enabled.

The first eight are taken from the unfiltered, except by year, Prog Archives Top Album Chart for 2012. The second eight is taken from the top twelve listed albums of the 2012 Collab Album of the Year topic -- there were four duplicated listings with the top eight PA chart so I did not duplicate those in the poll. The third eight is from my top ten Awesome Prog for 2012 list. two of my actual top eight were already listed for the poll in the collab top albums, but very happy with the eight I got and my lists are in no way definitive even for my tastes. I could change it up considerably. It's an indication of interests/ what I am most into right now.

"Other" as a voting option is intended to use if you don't like any of the listed options. That said, I would ask people to mention their favourites on and off the list. If, for instance, your favourite on the list is Rush's Clockwork Angels , but your actual favourite is Thinking Plague's Decline and Fall (would have made my list in the poll before, but been a long time since I last listened to the album), then I request voting for and mentioning Rush's album in a post while also mentioning Thinking Plague's as being your actual favourite album of 2012.

So I would like to hear about what people like both on AND off the list if applicable and, to reiterate, for the "other" voting poll option only to be used if nothing is liked that is already listed. Mention as many of your favourites as you like, both and off the list. And feel free to mention what you don't like that is listed too, and then preferably why it does not appeal

Prog Archive's Progressive Rock Top Eight Albums of 2012

1. Änglagård - Viljans Öga (Symphonic Prog)
2. Big Big Train - English Electric (Part One) (Crossover Prog)
3. Motorpsycho & Ståle Storløkken - The Death Defying Unicorn (Eclectic Prog)
4. Between the Buried and Me - The Parallax II - Future Sequence (Tech/Extreme Prog Metal)
5. Iamthemorning - ~ (Tilde) (Crossover Prog)
6. The Flower Kings - Banks of Eden (Symphonic Prog)
7. Ne Obliviscaris - Portal of I (Tech/Extreme Prog Metal)
8. Mantric Muse - Mantric Muse (Psychedelic/Space Rock)

From the top 12 Collaborators' Top Albums of 2012

Änglagård - Viljans Öga (the Collab Album of the Year, but already listed also in first place)
Big Big Train - English Electric (Part One) (the Collab runner-up but already listed and also in second place)
1. Echolyn - echolyn (Symphonic Prog, would be in third place here were it not for exclusions)
The Flower Kings - Banks of Eden (the actual fourth ranked album but already listed)
Motorpsycho & Ståle Storløkken - The Death Defying Unicorn (actual fifth place here, but already listed)
2. Magma - Félicité Thösz (Zeuhl, actual sixth place)
3. The Mars Volta - Noctourniquet (Heavy prog, actual seventh place)
4. The Tea Club - Quickly Quickly Quickly (croover Prog, actual eighth place)
5. Storm Corrosion - Storm Corrosion (eclectic Prog, actual ninth place)
6. Rush - Clockwork Angels (Heavy Prog, actual 10th place)
7. Enslaved - RIITIIR (Tech/Extreme Prog Metal, actual 11th place)
8. Astra - The Black Chord (Psychedelic/Space Rock, actual 12th place)

From my top ten at Awesome prog for 2012 (please consider sharing your yearly lists of faves there)

1. Beach House - Bloom (not in PA, Dream/Indie Pop)
2. Swans - The Seer (in PA, Post Rock)
3. Anna von Hausswolff - Ceremony (in PA, Crossover Prog)
4. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - 'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend! (in PA, Post Rock)
5. Melody's Echo Chamber - Melody's Echo Chamber (not in PA, Neo-Psychedelia, Dream Pop)
6. Susanne Sundfør - The Silicone Veil (in PA, Crossover)
Magma - Félicité Thösz (already listed so not in my poll section)
7. Kayo Dot - Gamma Knife (in PA, Avant Prog)
Motorpsycho - The Death Defying Unicorn (already listed so not in my poll section)
8. Goat - World Music (in PA, Psychedelic/Space Rock)

My top 20 at Awesome Prog:

1. Beach House - Bloom [AP Non-Prog]
2. Swans - The Seer
3. Anna von Hausswolff - Ceremony
4. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - 'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend!
5. Melody's Echo Chamber - Melody's Echo Chamber [AP Non-Prog]
6. Susanne Sundfør - The Silicone Veil
7. Magma - Félicité Thösz
8. Kayo Dot - Gamma Knife
9. Motorpsycho - The Death Defying Unicorn
10. Goat - World Music
11. Alio Die - Deconsecrated And Pure
12. Comus - Out of the Coma
13. Thinking Plague - Decline And Fall
14. Julia Holter - Ekstasis [AP]
15. Dead Can Dance - Anastasis
16. Mount Eerie - Clear Moon [AP]
17. Com Truise - In Decay [AP]
18. Corima - Quetzalcoatl
19. Alamaailman Vasarat - Valta
20. The Mountain Goats - Transcendental Youth [AP Non-Prog]

Shared this several times at PA, but a video from a song off my album of the year featuring Ray Wise who played Leland Palmer in Twin Peaks.



Edited by Logan - February 13 2025 at 06:26

RRUUSSHH and BBT.

Storm Corrosion   Whew, 2012 was a fantastic year.  It was a tough call. I decided between Storm Corrosion and...

Swans > GYBE, Magma, Anna von Hausswolff, Anglagard

I give it to Magma's Felicite Thosz, just edging out Motorpsyho from this list. Quite a few other contenders, like iamthemorning, Swans, Goat, Mars Volta.

Rush

Swans also win this year. Then Motorpsycho, Iamthemorning

1. Anathema - Weather Systems [BC] [SPO] 2. Francis Lickerish - Far and Forgot - From the Lost Lands [BC] [SPO] 3. Steve Hogarth & Richard Barbieri - Not The Weapon But The Hand [BC] 4. Glass Hammer - Perilous [BC] 5. The Enid - Invicta 6. Keith Emerson - Keith Emerson Band: Three Fates Project [SPO] 7. Corvus Stone - Corvus Stone [BC] [SPO] 8. Presto Ballet - Relic Of The Modern World [SPO] 9. Muse - The 2nd Law [SPO] 10. Big Big Train - English Electric Part One [BC] [SPO] 11. Astra - The Black Chord [SPO] 12. The Flower Kings - Banks Of Eden [SPO] 13. The Moulettes - The Bear's Revenge [BC] [SPO] 14. Echolyn - echolyn [BC] 15. The Tea Club - Quickly Quickly Quickly [SPO] 16. Marillion - Sounds That Can't Be Made [SPO] 17. Focus - X [SPO] 18. Jon Durant & Colin Edwin - Burnt Belief [SPO] 19. Headspace - I Am Anonymous [BC] [SPO] 20. Storm Corrosion - Storm Corrosion [SPO]

Favourite Prog Albums of 2012