Neo-Prog Appreciation! ...

I was just searching for a neo-prog appreciation thread, and I was appalled to find there wasn't one! This could be a problem with my machine and there is a neo-prog thread - if so could admins please close this one - but if not, I'd personally love to hear some recommendations for post-80s neo-prog, which is why I went looking for a neo-prog thread in the first place, I'm not too knowledgeable on it. 

Here is a link to the top 100 NEO prog albums released since 1990 according to PA reviews.  You can adjust the search however you see fit.

I have to give a mention for Pendragon here - especially for their latest album Love Over Fear (best prog album of 2020 so far).

I don’t listen to much Neo-Prog, but I did like The Watch (as already mentioned by ProgArdvaark). You might like the Vacuum album and others (I only know Vacuum).    Also Citizen Cain’s Somewhere but Yesterday might be up your alley (very much in the Genesis vein, some would say too much, as is the Watch in the Genesis vein,, and well, quite a lot of Neo-Prog methinks).

And while it is no longer included in Neo-Prog, it used to be, Discipline is very good. I like Unfolded Like Staircase.

Here is a Citizen Cain track, and I know you like Genesis Duke, but this more reminiscent of Gabriel era.



Other people will likely do better with their suggestions. My favourite of those I mentioned is Discipline, but like I said, it was moved out of Neo-Prog. I think the debut by Discipline is the most Neo-Proggy album by the band .

^ Thanks for the response, FC. Discipline was moved to Symphonic Prog, and Symphonic Prog is very related to Neo-Prog anyway (some called it the new wave of Symphonic Prog). I have only heard Discipline'e early work, and of course it's common for bands to take different directions. That track I posted from the debut is I think commonly described as from an album of the Neo-Prog style -- more so than later albums I think. But I expect that they all have a Neo-Prog relation and classification, at least here, is not an exact science.   Good band, I think, whatever you call the music.

By the way, I don't mind clones if I think they do it well and I like what they are influenced by.

Edited by Logan - August 28 2020 at 15:13

I tend to get a bit stuck on IQ but enjoy some Arena, Marillion, Comedy Of Errors, Magenta, Alkozaur , Also Eden, The Far Meadow ,Legend and Altavia.

I listen to quite a bit of this neo-prog genre or at least artists that are labeled that here (God I hate genre tags...)

Discipline are under symphonic prog here on PA.

Neo-prog is like NWOBHM, a new wave of bands, inspired by 70s prog, especially Genesis, Pink Floyd, Camel, even VDGG (Twlfth Night, Marillion), think symphonic prog with an 80s twist, if that makes sense. 

Edited by Cristi - August 29 2020 at 10:23

Are you asking why all new prog bands aren't put in neo but are put in the sub genre suitable for their style music be it folk prog, avant, zeuhl, eclectic etc.