Collaborators' Top Albums of 2014

Polymorphia wrote: Carrion Skies is the only Fen album I've not heard.

It's a solid 4 star album IMO, more agressive than Dustwalker but probably their weakest offering so far.

Carrion Skies is the only Fen album I've not heard.

Here's mine, also with a couple of changes:

1. Ut Gret - Ancestor's Tale

My list has also changed a bit, I guess it's something like this...

Snap...I forgot to post my list as well (which has changed ever so slightly since January)


1)    Electric Orange - Vol 10
2)    Kayo Dot - Coffins On Io
3)    Agusa - Högtid
4)    Necromonkey - A Glimpse Of Possible Endings
5)    Fire! Orchestra - Enter
5)    Syd Arthur - Sound Mirror   
7)    Seven Impale - City Of The Sun   
8)    Battiato/Pinaxa - Joe Patti's Experimental Group
9)    Major Parkinson - Twilight Cinema
10) Goat - Commune



Edited by Guldbamsen - March 29 2015 at 09:44

bloodnarfer wrote: The Bearded Bard wrote: 1. A Silver Mt. Zion - F**k Off Get Free We Pour Light on Everything (15) 2. Kayo Dot - Coffins on Io (8) 3. Motorpsycho - Behind the Sun (6) 4. Guillaume Perret & the Electric Epic - Open Me (28) 5. Fire! Orchestra - Enter (49) 6. Krokofant - s/t (186) 7. SOT - Redwings Nest (204) 8. Goat - Commune (70) 9. Knifeworld - The Unravelling (10) 10. Seven Impale - City of the Sun (3)   Cool, I was really digging that Goat album too Audun, didn't know they were on PA. And of course, Kayo dot and Silver Mt Zion were sick

Yeah, those are three great albums, Ryan. And all three were responsible for me really discovering the respective bands too. 

Andy thank you so much. Love to see others favourites. Very interesting.

I was very impressed with the Seven Impale album(3) and I feel it does deserve a top ten slot;

However I hope more people get an exposure to the unique post/experimental prog Metal that Devin Townsend creates. His late 2013 album Z2 album (60)I felt was an absolute masterpiece. Epic music with a sense of humor.

lazland wrote: ^ Colin, you should be proud. The band have gotten there by votes cast by collaborators on the site, so absolutely no hint of anything other than a deserved recognition of a fine piece of work

Thank you Lazland! We certainly make the music for the fun of it but still it's a huge task for us and all bands to get the technical and boring work that creates an album release. I can actually sit and listen to what we did now, while relaxing. That and this end of year chart makes us all feel like we did good in the end.
Beware... I have recorded the guitars first 64 mins of an album featuring Blake Carpenter.

Andy Webb wrote: Official ProgArchives Album of the Year Spotify Playlist (Top 100 albums of this list) Full List of Albums as Voted by PA Collaborators # Artist Album Total no. of Points 1 Opeth Pale Communion 316 2 IQ The Road of Bones 288 3 Seven Impale City Of The Sun 270 4 Swans To Be Kind 220 5 Logos L'Enigma Della Vita 194 6 Motorpsycho Behind the Sun 193 7 Pink Floyd The Endless River 192 8 Kayo Dot Coffins on Io 160 9 Dream the Electric Sleep Heretics 148 10 Knifeworld The Unraveling  146 11 PoiL Brossaklitt 114 12 Ut Gret Ancestor's Tale 106 13 Transatlantic Kaleidoscope 96 Corvus Stone Corvus Stone II 96 15 Perfect Beings  Perfect Beings 90 A Silver Mt. Zion F**k Off Get Free… 90 17 Lunatic Soul Walking on a Flashlight Beam 88 18 Deluge Grander Heliotians 82 Frank Zappa Roxy by Proxy 82 20 Gazpacho Demon 80 21 Happy Family Minimal Gods 78 22 Mostly Autumn Dressed in Voices 74 Electric Orange Volume 10 74 24 Moetar Entropy of the Century 72 Mogwai Rave Tapes 72 26 Anathema Distant Satellites 70 27 Univers Zero Phosphorescent Dreams 66 28 Guillaume Perret & The Electric Epic Open Me 64 Solaris Marsbéli Krónikák II (Martian Chronicles II) 64 30 Kaukasus I 62 31 Morbus Chron Sweven 60 32 Atomic Ape Swarm 58 33 iamthemorning Belighted 56 34 Steve Rothery The Ghosts of Pripyat 52 Gong I See You 52 36 Frequency Drift Over 50 Necromonkey A Glimpse of Possible Endings 50 Randone Ulreia 50 39 Dean Watson Fantasizer! 48 Hail Spirit Noir Oi Magoi 48 41 Daal Dances of the Drastic Navels 46 Secret Chiefs 3 Ishraqiyun : Perichoresis 46 43 Robert Reed Sanctuary 44 Animals as Leaders The Joy of Motion 44 Anubis Gate Horizons 44 Thantifaxath Sacred White Noise 44 FEM Prog Band Sulla bolla di sapone 44 Jakob Sines 44 49 Fire! Orchestra Enter 43 50 Hibernal Replacements 42 Nodo Gordiano Nous 42 Agusa Hogtid 42 53 Eccentric Orbit Creations of the Humanoids 40 Spleen Arcana The Light Beyond the Shades 40 Moraine Groundswell 40 56 Adebisi Shank This is the Third Album of A Band… 38 A.C.T. Circus Pandemonium 38 58 Pendragon Men Who Climb Mointains 36 59 Astrolabio L'Isolamento dei Numari Pari 34 The Devin Townsend Project Z2 34 61 Glass Hammer Ode To Echo 33 62 Djam Karet 3017 Regenerator 32 Mike Oldfield Man on the Rocks 32 Mastodon Once More Round the Sun 32 65 Circa Survive Descensus  30 Introitus Anima 30 Alcest Shelter 30 Magma Rïah Sahïltaahk 30 69 The Contortionist Language 29 70 Ysma Fourth Wall 28 Sonar Static Motion 28 Hiromi Alive 28 Major Parkinson Twilight Cinema 28 Goat Commune 28 Phoenix Again Look Out 28 76 Distorted Harmony Chain Reaction 26 Samurai of Prog The imperial hotel 26 Threshold For The Journey 26 Vanden Plas Chronicles of the Immortals: Netherworld (Path 1) 26 Cynic Kindly Bent to Free Us 26 Lantlos Melting Sun 26 Deerhoof La Isla Bonita 26 John Zorn The Last Judgment 26 Tim Bowness Abandoned Dancehall Dreams 26 85 Devin Townsend Casualties of Cool 24 Pymlico Guiding Light 24 FreddeGredde Brighter Skies 24 Duwa Budjana Surya Namaskar 24 Anubis Hitchhiking To Byzantium 24 Ian Anderson Homo Eratticus 24 91 Ad Maiora Ad Maiora 22 Dropshard Silk 22 Fabio Zuffanti La Quarta Vittima 22 Anton Roolaart The Plight Of Lady Oona 22 Fen Carrion Skies 22 96 Lowercase Noises This is for our Sins  20 Arlekin Disguise Serenades 20 Syndone Odysséas 20 Epica Quantum Enigma 20 Quantum Fantay Terragaia 20 Marty Friedman Inferno 20 Zoltan Sixty minute zoom 20 Latte e Miele  Passio Secundum Mattheum: The Complete Work 20 Sunn 0))) / Ulver Terrestrials 20 Spoke of Shadows Spoke of Shadows 20 The D Project Making Sense 20 Agalloch The Serpent and the Sphere 20 Syd Arthur Sound Mirror 20 Rhys Marsh Sentiment 20 110 Over the Earth The Accident 18 Protean Collective The Red and the Grey 18 Stewart Bell The antechamber of being (part 1) 18 Ossicles Mantelpiece 18 Druckfarben Second Sound 18 Colin Mold Now You See Me 18 Marco Ragni Mother from the Sun 18 Ideamen Schemata  18 Flaming Row Mirage 18 Trioscapes Digital Dream Sequence 18 OOIOO Gamel 18 Kant Freud Kafka No Tengas Miedo 18 Lizards Exist Lizards Exist 18 123 Mats/Morgan [schack tati] 16 Hemina Nebulae 16 Brimstone Mannsverk 16 Nomads of Hope Breaking the Circles for a While 16 Huis Despite guardian angels 16 Mad Fellaz Mad Fellaz 16 United Progressive Fraternity Fall in love with the World 16 Synaesthesia Synaesthesia 16 Papir IIII 16 Junius Days of the Fallen Sun 16 Fractal Mirror Garden of Ghosts 16 Ne Obliviscaris Citadel 16 Hominido  Estirpe Litica 16 Clearlight Impressionist Symphony 16 Crippled Black Phoenix White Light Generator 16 O Corvo Mudo Linhas  16 139 Discipline This One's For England 14 Nucleus Torn Street Lights Fail 14 Delusion Squared the Final Delusion 14 Abel Ganz Abel Ganz 14 Steve Roach The Delicate Forever 14 Light Damage Light Damage 14 Redemption Live From The Pit 14 Crazy World of Arthur Brown Zim Zam Zim 14 Aquaserge A l'Amitie 14 Giron Forest 14 Moonlit Sailor We come from exploding stars 14 Flying Colors Second Nature 14 Superdensecrushloadfactor Themes 14 Hail the Sun Wake 14 Messenger Illusory Blues 14 Anima Morte Upon Darkened Stains 14 155 Frank Carducci Torn Apart 12 hAND Kintsugi 12 Lagartija Amore di Vinile 12 Accordo dei Contrari AdC 12 Coloseum Time On Our Side 12 PFM Paper Charms 12 Backhand Through the turbulence 12 Fallujah The Flesh Prevails 12 Rick Miller Heart Of Darkness 12 Keith Emerson Live from Manticore Hall 12 Mekong Delta In A Mirror Darkly 12 Eno-Hyde Someday World 12 Kaipa Sattyg 12 Random Pidanoma 12 The Samuel Jackson Five Seasons In The Hum 12 Node Node 2 12 171 Syd Arthur A Monstrous Psychedelic Bubble 11 Modest Midget Crysis 11 173 Led Bib The People in Your Neighborhood 10 3rd Ear Experience Incredible Good Fortune 10 Nick Magnus N'Monix 10 Pain of Salvation Falling Home 10 Tiger Moth Tales Cocoon 10 Vanishing Point Distant is the Sun 10 Nichelodeon/Insonar UKIYOE 10 Tempel On the Steps of the Temple 10 Cheeto's Magazine Boiling Fowls 10 My Brother the Wind Once There Was a Time When Time and Space Were One 10 Subterranean Masquerade The Great Bazaar 10 Anglagard Prog Pa Svenska Live In Japan 10 Don Kerzner* New World 10 186 Krokofant Krokofant 8 Contemporary Dead Finnish Music Ensemble Dark Matters  8 This Will Destroy You Another Language 8 Team Me Blind as Night 8 Karfagen Magician's thater 8 RPWL Wanted 8 Minor Giant On the Road 8 Stream of Passion A War of Our Own 8 Purson In The Meantime 8 Dave Bainbride Celestial Fire 8 Panopticon Roads to the North 8 Unicorn Porn The White Stag 8 Jack O' The Clock Night Loops 8 Bjorn Riis Lullabies in a Car Crash 8 John Zorn Valentine's Day 8 Evergrey Hymns For the Broken 8 Panic Room Incarnate 8 Simak Dialog Live at Orion 8 204 SOT Redwings Nest 6 Monarch Trail Skye 6 Weltraum Spirituality 6 Battiato/Pinaxa Joe Patti's Experimental Group 6 Mushroom Giant Painted Mantra 6 Lazuli Tant Que L'herbe est Grasse 6 Enchant The Great Divide 6 The Merlin Bird Chapter and Verse 6 Glazz The Jamming Sessions: Take II 6 Haken Restoration 6 Pavlovs Dog The Pekin Tapes 6 Senmuth WAB SWT WSRKAF 6 Solstafir Otta 6 Rosa Luxemburg Chapitres III & IV 6 Primus Primus and the Chocolate factory 6 Pinhas/Ambarchi Tikken 6 Eyot  Similiarity 6 A Lonely Crowd Transients 6 Zoundworks 2014 6 223 Iluvator From The Silence 4 Aranis Made In Belgium II 4 Matt Stevens Lucid 4 Chickencage Experiment KamaSutra BlackBelt 4 Smallman Envision 4 Zombie Frogs Awaken 4 Woven Hand Refractory Obdurate 4 Michael Pinnella Ascension 4 John Zorn On Leaves of Grass 4 Saga Sagacity 4 Jeff Green Elder Creek 4 Vintersorg Naturbål 4 Machine Mass Trio Inti 4 Alex Carpani Four Destinies 4 Long Distance Calling Nighthawk 4 238 Eyesberg Blue 2 The Pineapple Thief Magnolia 2 Trojan Horse World Turned Upside Down 2 Giant Squid Minoans 2 Bob Drake Lawn Ornaments 2 Superfluous Motor Shipwrecked 2 Curved Air North Star 2 Flor de Loto Nuevo Mesias 2 Yes Heaven & Earth 2 Umphrey's McGee Similar Skin 2 Silhouette Beyond the Seventh Wave 2 Asia Gravitas  2 Pinhas/Yoshida Welcome…In the Void 2 Tangerine Dream Sorcerer 2 Quarto Vuoto Quarto Vuoto 2 Taika  Aware 2

Thank you for doing all this Andy. All of Corvus Stone are as pleased as can be to be on this list. Awesome!

Seven Impale was the big discovery from this list for me. It takes a lot for a prog band with jazzy elements to impress me, and this does... big time. just hope the rest of the album is as good as the tracks available on YouTube.

Edited by Stereolab - February 07 2015 at 14:13