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Originally posted by richardh richardh wrote:

I seem to be developing a love for Canterbury late in the day. Check out the new Homunculus Res album, quirkier and even more fun than the Zopp release imo.

Can't really get into it, besides a bit of Caravan... Soft Machine just too much for me, What, from the heyday, would you recommend?
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Originally posted by richardh richardh wrote:

I seem to be developing a love for Canterbury late in the day. Check out the new Homunculus Res album, quirkier and even more fun than the Zopp release imo.

I prefer the Zopp album - a little less grating Wink
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Hey this can be a work in progress right?
Originally posted by Saperlipopette! Saperlipopette! wrote:

Swans - The Beggar
The Necks - Travel -still my second favorite 2023 album so far, but they are not in the archives
King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard - PetroDragonic Apocalypse
Susanne Sundfør - Blómi
Trees Speak - Mind Maze
Squid - O Monolith
Kosmischer Läufer - Volume Five 

Kosmischer Läufer's fifth is still wonderful, but it may be my fifth favorite release of theirs. Squid and the always great Trees Speak  however - has both outdone themselves imo.
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I seem to be developing a love for Canterbury late in the day. Check out the new Homunculus Res album, quirkier and even more fun than the Zopp release imo.
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Just wanted to give a mention to a superb album released about two months ago. Marco Minnemann "Their Colors Fade". This is one of those albums that get better with every listen, and Marco's guitar playing is excellent.

Currently it has two ratings at PA. Anyone want to be number three?
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My top 10 of the year so far :
10. Tritop - Rise of Kassandra
9. Le Vele di Oniride - La Quadratura del Cerchio
8. Asceta - Erebus, La Suite de las Sombras
7. Pewman - Crónica Musical de Vicente Cau Cau
6. Zopp – Dominion
5. Seven Impale – Summit
4. La Théorie des Cordes - 4U-9525
3. Lars Fredrik Frøislie - Fire Fortellinger
2. Amoeba Split - Quiet Euphoria
1. The Chronicles of Father Robin - The Songs & Tales of Airoea

So many fantastic albums this year.
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Out of the 156 releases of 2023 I've listened to so far:

- PetroDragonic Apocalypse by King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard
- Fauna by Haken
- Cope Land by Crossroad Copeland
- The Golden Age of Music by Arjen Lucassen's Supersonic Revolution
- One Man's Grief by Deposed King


Only 300 more releases to listen to, going by the TYM database. And it's only June! Smile
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Originally posted by Sean Trane Sean Trane wrote:

Originally posted by Nogbad_The_Bad Nogbad_The_Bad wrote:

Poil Ueda - s/t
Squid - O Monolith
Ultraphauna - No No No No
Natural Information Society - Since Time Is Gravity
SRWM - Salamander

Currently discovering (you just knew I would, uh?? Wink)

I can submit them to our Prog Folk team. Clap



Which one? Ultraphauna are approved for addition to Eclectic I just haven't got round to it yet. Natural Information Society would be a good add. I'll probably suggest SRWM to PSIKE.
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I only have one album from 2023 so far, but since so many people have mentioned Zopp's Dominion, I checked that out, and it's very nice! I've come across their debut album before but didn't listen to it IIRC. So if I decide to get that one on CD some time this year that would be my top 1 at that point I guess.
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Originally posted by Nogbad_The_Bad Nogbad_The_Bad wrote:

Poil Ueda - s/t
Squid - O Monolith
Ultraphauna - No No No No
Natural Information Society - Since Time Is Gravity
SRWM - Salamander

Currently discovering (you just knew I would, uh?? Wink)

I can submit them to our Prog Folk team. Clap
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Originally posted by Nogbad_The_Bad Nogbad_The_Bad wrote:

Poil Ueda - s/t
Squid - O Monolith
Ultraphauna - No No No No
Natural Information Society - Since Time Is Gravity
SRWM - Salamander


I don't think I have a top 5 yet but that Ultraphauna album would surely be there. I think you had posted a Bandcamp link in another thread and that's how I came to hear it. So, thank you. It's great.
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1-All My Shadows: Eerie Monsters,
2-Overhead: Telepathic Minds,
3-Riverside: ID.Entity,
4-Crown Lands: Fearless,
5-Klone: Meanwhile.




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Anchor and Burden - Kosmonautik Pilgrimage
Alex Ward - Furthered
PoiL Ueda - PoiL Ueda
Zopp - Dominion
Amoeba Split - Quiet Euphoria
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My top 5 now would be:

Swans - The Beggar
ALL HANDS_MAKE LIGHT - Darling the Dawn (not in PA but it is apt Post-Rock)
Kosmischer Läufer - Volume 5
Susanne Sundfør - Blómi
Squid - O Monolith
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A lot of my current favorites aren't on PA, so I'll incorporate both PA and non-PA artists into my current top 10:

1. Jeromes Dream - The Gray in Between (hardcore/screamo)
2. Fires in the Distance - Air Not Meant for Us (death/doom metal)
3. Kostnateni - Upal (avant-garde death/black metal) (I'm planning on forwarding this project to the PM team pretty soon Smile)
4. Leith Ross - To Learn (indie pop/folk)
5. Avenged Sevenfold - Life Is but a Dream (progressive/avant-garde metal)
6. Katatonia - Sky Void of Stars (progressive rock/metal)
7. Paramore - This Is Why (post-punk/new wave/alternative rock)
8. Vintersea - Woven Into Ashes (progressive/melodic death metal)
9. Damien Jurado - Sometimes You Hurt the Ones You Hate (indie folk)
10. Pupil Slicer - Blossom (metalcore/mathcore)

Honorable mentions:

Meg Baird - Furling (indie folk)
Cattle Decapitation - Terrasite (death metal/deathgrind)
Immortal - War Against All (black metal)
Omnerod - The Amensal Rise (progressive death metal)
Jethro Tull - RokFlote (progressive/folk rock)
Dave Lombardo - Rites of Percussion (avant-garde/experimental)


Edited by Necrotica - June 28 2023 at 13:43
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1. OIAPOK OisoLün
2. AMOEBA SPLIT Quiet Euphoria
3. AISLES Beyond Drama
4. MOTORPSYCHO Yay!
5. ZOPP Dominion
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Poil Ueda - s/t
Squid - O Monolith
Ultraphauna - No No No No
Natural Information Society - Since Time Is Gravity
SRWM - Salamander
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Originally posted by Lewian Lewian wrote:

Aksak Maboul - Une aventure de VV (Songspiel)
Squid - O Monolith

One more I wasn't aware of (the Songspiel one) and another I was aware of but haven't gotten around to checking out yet (O Monolith). Edit: just listened to a couple of songs from the latter bands latest, and decided to buy. Sounded amazing. I heard the quality of the music but wasn't personally completely sold on their debut, but I've understood that O Monolith is a different beast.


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Aksak Maboul - Une aventure de VV (Songspiel)
Squid - O Monolith
Kong - Traders of Truth
Battlestations - Memories of once
Kavus Torabi & Richard Wileman - Heaven's Sun

I don't list the Swans album yet, only heard it once, but chances are it'll be top 5.

Just didn't make it: Zopp - Dominion, Poil Ueda
Not on PA: Mammal Hands - Gift from the Trees; Jeremias Keller - Alloy. The Necks album isn't bad either.


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Originally posted by Sean Trane Sean Trane wrote:

Trees Speak - Mind Maze

Wasn't aware of a new album by them. Looking forward to it. The Zopp-album as well (which I was aware of, but simply haven't checked out yet). So far I've got:

Swans - The Beggar
The Necks - Travel
King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard - PetroDragonic Apocalypse*
Susanne Sundfør - Blómi
Kosmischer Läufer - Volume Five

-and that's pretty much all I got too... with any sort of PA-relevance I mean.

*; or, Dawn of Eternal Night: An Annihilation of Planet Earth and the Beginning of Merciless Damnation
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