Unnoticed Prog Albums from the 2000s

Pretty much most more modern prog is rather overlooked on PA.

There’s a whole lot of melancholic and metallic prog from Poland, but it seems that only Riverside has managed to become well known. The Pinkroom and Votum albums you mention are both fantastic, and there are several other Polish bands who have also put out some great albums in the same vein. Some might say that Riverside has had more success because they are make better music, but I don’t think that is at all the case (and I’m a fan of Riverside, so I’m not knocking them).

In a way, it’s more surprising that band like Votum and Pinkroom, who are more “conventional”, have not made more of an impact, than that bands like Koenji Hyakkei or OOIOO have been overlooked. After all, they are definitely far more accessible, and more melodic.

Beyond the ten or so albums I have, I recognise several names that are on my “to listen to” list. There’s not much there that I’ve not heard of at all, so I guess it’s always possible that most albums listed here might not necessarily be overlooked, so much as not yet looked at. It will be interesting to see how people react to the albums in your list, or the albums people list for themselves.

Koi - Tomorrow Hid Yesterday (2010) only 21 ratings, a rare mix between Anekdoten + Porcupine tree + Landberk and swedish melancholic, my fav debut album of that year

Another gems

Cult Of Luna - Salvation (2004)  70 ratings

Callisto - Noir (2006) 24 ratings

Antique Seeking Nuns - Double Egg  With Chips And Beans (2006) 34 ratings (amazing band and album!)

Bauer - Astronauta Olvidado (2004) 23 ratings (highly recommend this Argentinean band)

Panzerpappa - Koralrevens Klagesans (2006) 52 ratings

October Equus - October Equus (2005) 34 ratings

Gargamel - Watch For The Umbles (2006) 76 ratings

Ok, at the risk of being boring, since so far I have only been reacting to the lists of others, I own seven of these nine! I guess that means I need to check out Bark and Bauer.

Most of these are not super-unnoticed, only less noticed by the general PA public than I notice them.

Art Zoyd - Metropolis

Jannick Top - Infernal Machina

Holger Czukay - Linear City

Irmin Schmidt & Kumo - Axolotl Eyes

William D. Drake - Briny Hooves

Karda Estra - Eve

North Sea Radio Orchestra - Birds

From Monument to Masses - The Impossible Leap in One Hundred Simple Steps

Set Fire to Flames - Telegraphs in Negative/Mouths Trapped in Static

Rapoon & Birds of Tin - Monomyth

All of Rick Wakeman's many album releases completely passed me by in the 2000's, but I've since discovered them all 20 years later at the beginning of 2021:-