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Albums I've been spinning and digging over the past week or so:

Hedersleben - The Fall Of Chronopolis (Psychedelic prog with hints of Amon Düül ll. They remind me of Goat who also sports a female vocalist a la Renate Knaup)
La Conscienza di Zeno - La Notte... (Modern by the numbers RPI. Sounds like most other Italian prog bands.)
La Curva di Lesmo - s/t (This one speaks more to me, although I am not completely sold by the vocals. The organs though sound incredible)
Mammatus - Sparkling Water (If Popol Vuh was a metal act)
Simon Steensland - A Farewell to Brains (Wonderful almost Canterburian sounding avant-prog)

3 of those deserve to be on my list, but I have no space left
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Originally posted by Man With Hat Man With Hat wrote:


The lack of new Rune Grammophones in America is very upsetting. Anyone know what's up with his? (Mostly Bearded bard here...)
 
Finally getting around to doing this...top 20 will be a bit of a stretch, though I have a good list that I still need to hear.


So does this mean that you still haven't heard the new Elephant9 album?
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My list so far:

1. Unreal City - Il Paese Del Tramonto
2. Anekdoten - Until All The Ghosts Are Gone
3. IOEarth - New World
4. Ciccada - The Finest Of Miracles
5. Comedy of Errors - Spririt
6. Grand Tour - Heavy on the Beach
7. Izz - Everlasting Instant
8. Thieves' Kitchen - The Clockwork Universe
9. Sanguine Hum - Now We Have Light
10. Special Providence - Essence of Change
11. Echolyn - I Heard You Listening
12. The Tangent - A Spark In The Aether
13. Sylvan - Home
14. Alco Frisbass

Honorable mentions:
Seven Steps to the Green Door - Fetish
T - Fragmentropy
ptf - What is Constant
Mammoth - Innate
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Originally posted by Guldbamsen Guldbamsen wrote:

Oh and I like your style Kazza! So cool to see that you've got Kendrick at the top.

(That Everything Everything album though...yikes. Bought it on a whim earlier in the year and I can only stand two tracks at a time. I think it's the vocals.)

Hah... their debut is one of my favourite records, quite a bit more out there and creative than where they are now (though I like the catchy but strange indie pop of this record), but I'm not sure that it'll do much for you, seeing as the vocals have only gotten stronger and less weird over time.

And cheers, yeah, Kendrick is just that good, hits all the right spots, especially in the second half.
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The lack of new Rune Grammophones in America is very upsetting. Anyone know what's up with his? (Mostly Bearded bard here...)
 
Finally getting around to doing this...top 20 will be a bit of a stretch, though I have a good list that I still need to hear.
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Some very cool lists up - thanks you guysSmile

Oh and I like your style Kazza! So cool to see that you've got Kendrick at the top.

(That Everything Everything album though...yikes. Bought it on a whim earlier in the year and I can only stand two tracks at a time. I think it's the vocals.)
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My top 10, including non-prog (mostly non-prog, in fact)

1. Kendrick Lamar- To Pimp A Butterfly
2. Everything Everything- Get to Heaven
3. Timbre- Sun and Moon
4. Björk- Vulnicura
5. Schnellertollermeier- X
6. Small Leaks Sink Ships- Face Yourself and Remove Your Sandals
7. Courtney Barnett- Sometimes I Sit And Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit
8. Vijay Ayer Trio- Break Stuff
9. Jaga Jazzist- Starfire
10. The Necks- Vertigo


Also: Snarky Puppy, Godspeed You Black Emperor, Colin Stetson & Sarah Neufeld, Deantoni Parks, Chelsea Wolfe
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My final lists for the year...

PA:

1. Guapo -  Obscure Knowledge
2. Jaga Jazzist -  Starfire
3. Battles -  La Di Da Di
4. Turzi -  C
5. Thy Catafalque - Sgùrr
6. Zombi - Shape Shift
7. Elephant9 with Reine Fiske - Silver Mountain
8. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Asunder, Sweet And Other Distress
9. Squarepusher - Damogen Furies
10. Chon - Grow
11. Unit Wail - Beyond Space Edges
12. Sanguine Hum - Now We Have Light
13. Magma - Sl*g Tanz
14. Rêve Général - Howl
15. Julian Julien - Terre II
16. Pond - Man It Feels Like Space Again
17. Battlestations - The Extent Of Damage
18. Methexis - Suiciety
19. Roz Vitalis - Lavoro D'Amore
20. Unreal City - Il paese del tramonto

Non-PA:

Oneohtrix Point Never - Garden Of Delete
Dan Deacon - Gliss Riffer
Grimes - Art Angels
The Internet - Ego Death
Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp A Butterfly
Death Grips - Jenny Death
FFS - FFS
Viet Cong - Viet Cong



Edited by zravkapt - December 25 2015 at 09:49
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Yeah, I guess I need to get serious about doing this list. First things first...finding out what was released in 2015.
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As usual, your list contains a lot of albums that will also appear on mine - whenever I will get round to writing oneLOL!
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My current list in order

Guapo - Obscure Knowledge
Reve General - Howl
Steensland, Simon - A Farewell To Brains
Unit Wail - Beyond Space Edges
Sonar - Black Light
Drake, William D. - Revere Reach 
Schnellertollermeier - X
Upsilon Acrux - Sun Square Dialect 
Jaga Jazzist - Starfire
Altais / Apsara - Archives
Ghost Rhythms - Madeleine
ni - Les insurgés de Romilly
Zombi - Shape Shift
Chelsea Wolfe - Abyss
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Asunder Sweet & Other Distress 
Nerve Institute - Fictions
Rabbit Rabbit Radio, Vol. 3 - Year of the Wooden Horse
Kandinsky Effect - Somnambulist 
Vak - Aedividea
La STPO - L'imparfait multiplede dieu
Pixel - Golden Years
Stepmother - Calvary Greetings
Breznev Fun Club - il misantrope felice
Build - Place
Artaud Beats - Logos
Wilson, Steven - Hand. Cannot. Erase.
Scherzoo - 03
Necks - Vertigo
Karda Estra - Strange Relations
Alco Frisbass - Alco Frisbass 
Ligeia Mare - Amplifier
Decemberists - What A Terrible World, What A Beautiful World
Fernwood - Arcadia
King Crimson - Live at the Orpheum CD
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^ Seriously, I do like 'em, especially the collabs.  This is on my ever-growing list to check out now.
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Originally posted by Mascodagama Mascodagama wrote:

^ I like that they have tunes you can hum along to...if you're a Tuvan throat singer with the lung capacity of a blue whale.
LOL I mean in more of a "prettier chord progression" kind of way. You can definitely see where they took from their previous collaborations and even though it's not mind-blowing like Monoliths & Dimensions there are a couple of new tricks to their songwriting.
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^ I like that they have tunes you can hum along to...if you're a Tuvan throat singer with the lung capacity of a blue whale.
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The new Sunn O))) was pretty good. Nothing new for them, but probably their most melodic album insofar as melody is possible with them.
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Points: 23104 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 02 2015 at 11:42
Originally posted by The Bearded Bard The Bearded Bard wrote:

Originally posted by Guldbamsen Guldbamsen wrote:

Very nice list there Audun and quite a few I will be looking into myself. That Møster album is bound to end up on my doorstep at some point.
Great to see Elephant9 at the top. It will most likely be my AOTY unless something crazy happens (I develop a sudden taste for prog metal fx).
Møster!'s latest is sublime. If they can get on PA in time it'll probably be album numero uno for me. If not, the honour will probably go to E9.

Now I'm in the process of investigating my latest batch of 2015 albums. Was very impressed with Magma's Slaǧ Tanƶ when I heard it for the first time last night. Tonight it's time for the latest from Guapo, Zs and Zombi.

Btw, did you ever get to check out Krokofant? Their latest is even better than their debut from last year, IMO. Give them a listen if you haven't, you won't regret it. Oh, and John (Mellotron Storm) did a really good review of their debut, cumpolsory reading, of course. Wink

I listened to the debut last year and really dug what I was hearing. Haven't purchased it though for some reason...and I've even had a few Runegrammofon hauls since.
Anyway, thanks for the heads up on the new one. Definitely going to investigate. 

I like Sl*g Tanz but I'd rather listen to the originalBig smile 

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Deantoni Parks, who was the last drummer for The Mars Volta (on Noctourniquet), as well as a frequent collaborator with John Cale, Flying Lotus, Meshell Ndegeocello, etc, has released an album called Technoself, which is streaming here. It's all him playing drums with his feet and left hand, while playing keys/triggering samples with the right, like he did in Volta spinoff band Bosnian Rainbows, but it's pushed much much further here. It's all live or live in studio, no loops. Check it out if you like experimental electronic music of sorts.
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Update (added):

Quote For me this year is dominated by two albums that took some time in the making, but worth waiting for.

These are above all others:
Anekdoten - Until All the Ghosts Are Gone
Nice Beaver - The Time It Takes
Alejandro Matos - La Potestad

-o0o-

Some other excellent ones that should be mentioned here:
Cailyn - Voyager
La Coscienza di Zeno - La Notte Anche il Giorno
IOEarth - New World
District 97 - In Vaults
Battlestations - The Extent of Damage

-o0o-

Some other goodies:
Big Big Train - Wassail
Red Jasper - The Great and Secret Show
The Psychedelic Ensemble - The Sunstone
Unreal City - Il Paese del Tramonto
The Tangent - A Spark in the Aether
Roz Vitalis - Lavoro d'Amore
Seven Reizh - La Barque Ailée
Corvus Stone - Corvus Stone Unscrewed
Profusion - Phersu
Perhaps - Third

-o0o-

Overrated:
Steven Wilson - Hand.Cannot.Erase.


The list is not complete, except for the upper two categories.
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Zombi, Artaud Beats & The Necks for me today.
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