Favourite Prog Albums Year by Year: 2010-2020

I do prefer the topics commonly when it comes to music that aren't just about Prog as so many of my favourites are not Prog, and even a lot of what I like and is in PA is not what a Prog purist would want to acknowledge as Prog. Of course there is plenty of room for both, but I see so many Prog list type topics being revived rather than those in General Music Discussions -- nothing wrong with that, but I just am not big on that Prog/ non-Prog divide, which is nebulous/ amorphous anyway. Very fuzzy, artificial and subjective boundaries.

Most of what I like that is classified Prog here might well generally be labelled something other than Prog first by audiences outside of PA. And most of what I like of recent/ modern music is not in PA. I've long thought that if a band call itself Prog it is not so likely to be for me. But I like a lot of Prog umbrella music. From the last decade included in PA, I guess Swans and Anna von Hausswolff have particularly prominent places in my heart, and Susanne Sundfør is great as is the music of the past by Klaus Morlock and Kosmischer Laufer.

Here I include one album per artist and all are included in PA, David Bowie is in Prog Related, but Blackstar is in my progressive rockiverse. I was going to have a Chelsea Wolfe album who is mostly approved for Crossover, although I know that is not a traditional kind of Prog act and could be controversial, but instead I will stick with ones in PA. I mostly feel the need to care about the Prog boundaries for various site business. Good thing we can discuss all types of music at PA. :)

2019: Cisnienie - JazzArt Underground
2018: Klaus Morlock - The Three Faces of Janice
2017: Yolk - Solar
2016: David Bowie - Blackstar
2015: Anna von Hausswolff - The Miraculous
2014: Swans - To Be Kind
2013: Kosmischer Läufer - Volume One
2012: Susanne Sundfør - The Silicone Veil
2011: North Sea Radio Orchestra - I a Moon
2010: Univers Zero - Clivages


Edited by Logan - August 01 2023 at 11:59

2010: Persephone's Dream - Pan: An Urban Pastoral
2011: Wobbler - Rites at Dawn
2012: Diablo Swing Orchestra - Pandora's Piñata
2013: Ayreon - The Theory of Everything
2014: IQ - The Road of Bones
2015: Jordsjø - Jordsjø
2016: Cirrus Bay - Places Unseen
2017: Inside the Sound - Wizard's Eyes
2018: Gryphon - ReInvention
2019: Michael Romeo - War of the Worlds, Pt. 1
2020: Elds Mark - Elds Mark

Mostly used PA's top lists regarding the respective years, as source. (Too lazy to search my memory for countless albums.) Otherwise some of them would be different in my list. But these are all awesome albums for me. So not a loss...

Edited by Shadowyzard - November 08 2021 at 05:42

Progressive=my own inclusive definition + plus I had to cheat, so that I could mention two releases for every year:

2010 Umberto - Prophecy of the Black Widow
(alt. Kayo Dot - Coyote)
2011 Vektor - Outer Isolation
(alt. The Caretaker - An Empty Bliss Beyond This World)
2012 Can - The Lost Tapes (archival/compilation, but its Can!)
(alt. Dead Can Dance - Anastasis)
2013 Kosmischer Läufer - The Secret Cosmic Music of the East German Olympic Program 1972-83: Volume One
(alt. Matt Berry - Kill the Wolf )
2014 Secret Chiefs 3/Ishraqiyun - Perichoresis
(alt. Kayo Dot - Coffins on Io)
2015 Susanne Sundfør - Ten Love Songs
(alt. Jono El Grande - Melody of a Muddled Mason)
2016 David Bowie - Blackstar
(alt. Kadhja Bonet - The Visitor)
2017 The Caretaker - Everywhere at the End of Time Stages 1-32018 Kadhja Bonet - Childqueen
(alt. Spurv - Myra)
2019 Kit Sebastian - Mantra Moderne
(alt. Greg Foat - The Mage)
2020 Greg Foat - Symphonie Pacifique
(alt. Andrew Wasylyk - Fugitive Light and Themes of Consolation)

Steven Wilson - Hand Cannot Erase

Yet again, some very hard decisions here have led to lots of runners up and several ties:

Edited by emisan - August 22 2021 at 06:07

Sean Trane wrote: 10- Dhafer Youssef - Abu Nawas Rhapsody    Xing Sa - Création de l'Univers 11- Nat Birchall - Sacred Dimension              Ske - 100 Autunni  12- Aka Moon - Unison                                Anglagard - Viljans Öga 13- Ibrahim Maalouf - Illusion                      Setna - Guérison 14- Matthew Halsall & Gondwana Orchestra - When the World Was One  Serge Fiori - s/t 15- Kamasi Washington - The Epic               Anekdoten - Until All the Ghosts are Gone 16- Shabaka and the Ancestors - Wisdom Of Elders    Santana - IV 17- Yazz Ahmed - La Saboteuse                   Waters - Is This the Life We Really Want? 18- Maisha - There Is A Place                      Vak - Budo 19- Graham Costello & Strata - Obelisk         Hooffoot - The Lights in the Aisle Will Guide You 20- Tigran Hamasyan - The Call Within....    Trees Speak - Ohms Waddya mean, this isn't JMA!?!? .

Psychedelic Paul wrote: dr wu23 wrote: Lots of bands I have never heard of being listed....either I'm getting old or just not paying attention to all these weird bands....or both. I must be getting old too then, seeing as the only list where I knew all the bands was yours.

I'm old, but have heard many of the bands listed. Those I don't know that are not "out-there avant stuff" I will be checking out. So thanks to all posts. 

Edited by Grumpyprogfan - June 01 2021 at 12:57

dr wu23 wrote: Lots of bands I have never heard of being listed....either I'm getting old or just not paying attention to all these weird bands....or both.