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Originally posted by dougmcauliffe dougmcauliffe wrote:

Originally posted by AlanB AlanB wrote:

There are a few advance reviews of the new Neal Morse Band album (due out on 3 weeks) online and they're all very positive. I'm particularly looking forward to hearing their prog version of Bridge Over Troubled Water.

Have you ever seen a pre-release review from anything related to the Neal Morse/Mike Portnoy camp that hasn't been overly positive and borderline circlejerky though? Just for it to come out and be another Neal Morse album?

ProgReport is the biggest offender in this department

I love Spock's Beard with Morse but of all the stuff he's done since then I haven't really found much that really grabs me. 
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Originally posted by Nogbad_The_Bad Nogbad_The_Bad wrote:

I think I prefer it, it's darker and slightly less angular. Same issue on PE, someone just started a thread on them as a new band and I was like I've been listening to them for 5 years

After a few more listens, it's good but I definitely like Flamethrower better. I just connect more with the songs on that album than Meat Mallet


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I've not really listened to much new prog, though I do really enjoy Steve Hackett's new classical guitar album.
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Originally posted by AlanB AlanB wrote:

There are a few advance reviews of the new Neal Morse Band album (due out on 3 weeks) online and they're all very positive. I'm particularly looking forward to hearing their prog version of Bridge Over Troubled Water.

Have you ever seen a pre-release review from anything related to the Neal Morse/Mike Portnoy camp that hasn't been overly positive and borderline circlejerky though? Just for it to come out and be another Neal Morse album?

ProgReport is the biggest offender in this department


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Nice list Hugues, agree on a lot, will check out others. Those Thollot's good? I've kinda skipped passed them so far.
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my favorite prog album of 2021 (so far)is Needlepoint's. I doubt anything would top that. Now I sound pessimistic. LOL
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So far (and I'm sure I'm missing one or two)
No particular order (so far)

Hedvig Mollstad Trio - Ding Dong You're Dead
Needlepoint – Walking Up That Valley
Elephant9 - Arrival of the New Elders
Tusmorke – Nordisc Krim
Caligonaut - Magnified As Giants
Jordsjo – Pastoralia
Vesilinja - Vesilinja
Portico Quartet - Terrain
Emma-Jean Thackray - Yellow
Graham Costello & Strata - Second Lives
Sons Of Kemet - Black To The Future
Matthew Halsall - Salute To The Sun
Nik Bärtsch – Entendre
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - G-d's Pee at State's End
Hoodna Orchestra – Offel
Machine Mass Sextet – Intrusion
Francois Thollot - Happy Lockdown
François Thollot – Virtually Spring
François Thollot - Tensions
Ske - Insolubilia
Ryley Walker And Kikagaku Moyo – Deep Fried Grandeur
Pasajero Luminoso - Pujol
Jay Tausig - Ancient Roots, New Branches
Green Diesel - After Comes The Dark




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I think a lot of people will like the new NMB (Neal Morse Band.)

It's a double album but NOT a concept album. The first disc (Innocence) has the shorter songs and disc two (Danger) is comprised of two long epics. And they are both great. 
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There are a few advance reviews of the new Neal Morse Band album (due out on 3 weeks) online and they're all very positive. I'm particularly looking forward to hearing their prog version of Bridge Over Troubled Water.
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Originally posted by Nogbad_The_Bad Nogbad_The_Bad wrote:

The new A Formal Horse - Meat Mallet is going to be way up my list by year end.

Played it twice now. For me it'll be up there with black midi this year.
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Originally posted by richardh richardh wrote:

To add to my list BBT - Common Ground. Probably their best album since Folklore.

I was really nervous about this one. Being a huge XTC fan, the absence of Dave Gregory was concerning. I was worried over nothing - it's fantastic!!!
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Originally posted by progaardvark progaardvark wrote:

I had only managed to find three albums back in June when this was posted. I've been listening to some more new stuff over the last month. I think these all might be worthy of around 3.8 out of 5 and higher:

Black Midi - Cavalcade
Blacksmith Tales - The Dark Presence
Caligonaut - Magnified as Giants
Cast - Vigesimus
Chance - Original Worlds
Cosmograf - Rattrapante
Caio Csizmar - Decriptas
Czyszy - Agent Mousey
The Emerald Dawn - To Touch the Sky
Ensemble 1 - Guitar, Bass & Drums
Eyesberg - Claustrophobia
The Flying Luttenbachers - Negative Infinity
French TV - All Our Failures Are Behind Us
Snakes Don't Belong in Alaska - The Eternal Electric Landscape
Sun Colored Chair - Seated
Stephan Thelen - Fractal Guitar 2
Transatlantic - The Absolute Universe: The Breath of Life (Abridged Version)

Here are some more to add to the list above:
Fufluns - Refusés
Gnohgnuhgnlus - Thomisme
God Is an Astronaut - Ghost Tapes #10
Heavy Moon - Heavy Moon 20
Infinitome - Voyage Home
Inner Prospekt - Canvas Two
Jack Dupon - JackAQuinzeAns
Jack Dupon - La république dominicale du zoo
Jordsjø - Pastoralia
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To add to my list BBT - Common Ground. Probably their best album since Folklore.
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Originally posted by nick_h_nz nick_h_nz wrote:


Squid, Black Midi and Black Country, New Road are three quite impressive young British bands who are exploring similar sounds from different directions.


Seconded on those three.
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Originally posted by nick_h_nz nick_h_nz wrote:

It must be that time of the year, as many people seem to be posting their lists of their favourite albums from the year so far. So I thought would give it a go. My first attempt at coming up with a short list had almost 70 albums on it….. (sigh)

I kept cutting down until I got to 50 which was relatively easy, and then down to 30, which was harder. But I really struggled to turn that 30 into 25. Eventually I managed, and just for the fuller picture, here in alphabetical order are the top 25, and also the next 25.

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I’ve listened to not quite 200 releases from 2021 so far, and I still haven’t scratched the surface, as I seem to have listened to hardly any of the albums featuring in the lists for the year so far I’ve seen in the last couple of weeks!


You are one of the few that can produce a big list that is 80-90% artists I have never heard of. 
I have not decided yet if they fit our scope well enough to bring up for suggestion, but that Squid album is a real corker.

Squid, Black Midi and Black Country, New Road are three quite impressive young British bands who are exploring similar sounds from different directions.

If they are any other bands you’re interested, almost every one of those in my list have Bandcamp pages, and quite a few are Name Your Price. Many of them I have reviewed for TPA, and a few I am thinking of suggesting for inclusion in PA.
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Originally posted by nick_h_nz nick_h_nz wrote:

It must be that time of the year, as many people seem to be posting their lists of their favourite albums from the year so far. So I thought would give it a go. My first attempt at coming up with a short list had almost 70 albums on it….. (sigh)

I kept cutting down until I got to 50 which was relatively easy, and then down to 30, which was harder. But I really struggled to turn that 30 into 25. Eventually I managed, and just for the fuller picture, here in alphabetical order are the top 25, and also the next 25.

Top 25:

Æetheria Conscientia - Corrupted Pillars of Vanity
Aphexia - Interdependence 
Black Country, New Road - For The First Time
Chassm - Falling Forever
Cronofonía - Cronofonía 

Echoes and Signals - Mercurial
Fair Wind Pleases - The Wind of the Season
Five the Hierophant- Through Aureate Void
Föss - Memorias de la Peste
Grey Mouse - A Moment of Weakness

Grorr - Ddulden’s Last Flight
Dusan Jevtovic - Vasil Hadzimanov - DUO
Kurushimi - Chaos Remains
Laughing Stock - Zero
The Lion’s Daughter - Skin Show

Massen - ContrAesthetic
Minutian - Magical Thinking
Mission Jupiter - Talk to Me
River Flows Reverse - When River Flows Reverse
Sauropoda - Pangea

Shiva the Destructor - Find the Others
Toboggan - Première Descente
The Vicious Head Society - Extinction Level Event
Voronai - The Last Three Seconds
Way Wau Collectif - Yaral Sa Doom

Next 25:

Aborym - Hostile
Ad Nauseam - Imperative Imperceptible Impulse
The Anchoress - The Art of Losing
Ángel Ontalva - Songs to Say Goodbye
Årabrot - Norwegian Gothic

Asymmetry - Anima
Atravan - The Grey Line
Black Midi - Cavalcade
Dewa Budjana - Naurora
Confusion Field - Disconnection Complete

DROTT - DROTT
Jonatan Piña Duluc - Sountrack Vol.1: Secuencia
Chloe Herington - Silent Reflux
Isnaj Dui - Bright Star
JackDupon - La République Dominicale du Zoo

No Mandate - Recalibrate
Nubiyan Twist - Freedom Fables
postcards from new zealand - city islands
Real Loud - Real Loud
Sons Of Kemet - Black To The Future

Squid - Bright Green Field
Triangle Singular - Starbreaker
Varego - Varego 
VOLA - Witness
Steven Wilson - The Future Bites

I’ve listened to not quite 200 releases from 2021 so far, and I still haven’t scratched the surface, as I seem to have listened to hardly any of the albums featuring in the lists for the year so far I’ve seen in the last couple of weeks!


You are one of the few that can produce a big list that is 80-90% artists I have never heard of. 
I have not decided yet if they fit our scope well enough to bring up for suggestion, but that Squid album is a real corker.


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Here is my top 3, its true that this year is being a bit scarce in new prog material, hoping to improve the situation with the new Neal Morse and DT album coming up soon..

1. Transatlantic - The Absolute Universe
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I think I prefer it, it's darker and slightly less angular. Same issue on PE, someone just started a thread on them as a new band and I was like I've been listening to them for 5 years
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Originally posted by Nogbad_The_Bad Nogbad_The_Bad wrote:

The new A Formal Horse - Meat Mallet is going to be way up my list by year end.

It's not grabbing me quite like the last album did but I need a few more listens.  

No one talks about this band on prog archives. Unhappy


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Haven't given much attention to the year's stuff yet but the new black midi, mono, Monobody, Ciccada, Beautiful Bedlam, and Unaka Prong releases are starting to get me excited.

 
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