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Poll Question: How many of this year's releases have you listened to?
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4 [8.70%]
13 [28.26%]
14 [30.43%]
3 [6.52%]
1 [2.17%]
3 [6.52%]
4 [8.70%]
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A tad more than twenty.
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Haven't been on these forums for a minute!

I don't listen to prog as predominantly these days as I used to, so my roundup on this list:

Hellfire - black midi (Awesome, in my opinion the clear cut prog album of the year. I don't think it is flawless, Half Time has no purpose outside of strictly scaring the sh*t out of me, but man you got to commend these guys for not only being so popular despite making such outlandish, abrasive and infernus music. And for also, in my eyes, doing the best job of moving progressive music into the 2020s with every album they release)

King Gizz:

Ice Death Planets - My favorite of the trilogy, incredibly lively, energetic, well structured and elaborate acid rock jamming

Laminated Denim - Probably my second favorite prog album of the year. Two longform yet concise Krautrock/Space Rock influenced jams with all sorts of cool polyrhythmic fun

Changes - Really unique record, one I enjoy a lot, especially the long form and Gentle Giant infused title track "Change" as well as the bouncy and space lounge tinged "Hate Dancin"

Omnium Gatherum - The Dripping Tap is my favorite song they've ever done, but I found a lot of the rest of the record to be a bit of a safe grab bag of songs from the band. A lot of solid tracks from, but very few spectacular songs.

Motorpsycho - Ancient Astronauts (Pretty solid jammy, noisy heavy psych. Nothing they've done since The All is One has really grabbed me and I think I'd benefit from more listens of this one)

Black Country - Ants From Up There (Some really good songs here, Concorde especially. But I think on average, the album, themes and performances are a little too melodramatic for me. And I think Snow Globes is a pretty weak song taking up a good chunk of the album)

Porcupine Tree - Closure Continuation (Kind of middle of the road and forgettable. I think there's good moments, and I wouldn't even really single out a song as bad, but I just find that as a whole the songwriting strikes me as underwhelming and this album kind of fell right off the radar for me mere days out of it's release and overly long-winded roll out.)

Voivod - Synchro Anarchy (A surprisingly strong late career record from the band, full of those wacky, off-kilter riffs we know them for. Not an overly ground shaking statement, but I remember digging this one quite a bit.)

To be honest that's about all the prog I listened to this year. I'm not really at all interested in Neo Prog or certain types of modern prog bands (Flower Kings, Marillion, Karfagen) so if anyone has recommendations from this list of records I should check out please send them my way. I've been out of the loop, here's some other albums from this year I enjoyed

Soul Glo - Diaspora Problems (Hardcore Punk)
Beach House - Once Twice Melody (Dream Pop)
Alvvays - Blue Rev (Indie/Shoegaze)
Immolation - Acts of God (Death Metal)
The Smile - A Light For Attracting Attention (Alternative Rock)
Billy Woods - Aethiopes (Abstract Hip Hop)
JID - The Forever Story (Southern Hip Hop)
Kikagaku Moyo - Kumoyo Island (Psychedelic Rock/Raga Rock)
Denzel Curry - Melt My Eyez See Your Future (Southern Hip Hop)
Animal Collective - Time Skiffs (Neo Psych)
Big Thief - Dragon New Warm Mountain (Indie Folk)
Nas - Kings Disease III (Hardcore Hip Hop) 
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Originally posted by projeKct projeKct wrote:

Originally posted by moshkito moshkito wrote:

One other small detail ... the availability of some of these things is difficult ... and that hurts the music. I wanted to get The Rome Pro(g)jet cd ... good luck to me! With all those names, the album is buried in nowhere land ... very sad! I would say that about one third to a fourth are not distributed regularly ... and while this should not be the main detail for PA, it should be considered. I find it scary, weird and strange, that so much of this material listed here is showcased, and it's impossible to get.

Hi Pedro, you're right about some stuff being hard to find on CD. Or even in samples so we can listent to it before buying. But I'm always doing my best to get the CD's of albums I like. So I often order from obscure online shops... or directly from the artists.

In the case of The Rome Pro(g)jet, I think you can/should buy it from Vincenzo's store. And pretty much all of his album is available to listen on his Youtube page.

Hi,

Neither has the CD ... now I'm curious ... how can someone review these things when they are not available to anyone else?

Very scary thought, and here was a thread on people cheating and creating fake rankings!

I'm thinking that for a band to be reviewed, it should have a CD out ... not hidden, either! 

Just like some other places I know, they get some promos, and Guy Guden sure gets them, so far ahead it isn't funny! But, in the end, I gave up ... there are other things I would like to get and fighting just to find one of them, is not worth the time anymore when you are 72. So, goodbye Pro(g)jet ... the list is 100 albums long, so finding something else of interest should be much easier! The hard part is that obviously some of the folks in that album do not seem to care enough about what they did ... otherwise, it would be seen and heard a lot more. 


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None so far, but plenty to look forward to. Smile
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Originally posted by moshkito moshkito wrote:

Originally posted by projeKct projeKct wrote:

In the case of The Rome Pro(g)jet, I think you can/should buy it from Vincenzo's store. And pretty much all of his album is available to listen on his Youtube page.
Neither has the CD ... now I'm curious ... how can someone review these things when they are not available to anyone else?

I don't get your point. The last Rome Pro(G)ject CD is available on the artist store (and other places) and you can listen to 90% of the album on Youtube. Isn't that enough?
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max 3 of them
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Of this list, I have listened to 37. I have on my website reviewed 72 albums this year, so many decent records which do not even figure in PA or top lists.
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Top non-PA releases

Anteloper - Pink Dolphins
The Comet Is Coming - Hyper-Dimensional Expansion Beam
Janel Leppin - Volcanic Ash Ensemble
Melt Yourself Down - Pray For Me I Don’t Fit In
Asceta - s/t
Black Flower - Magma
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Of the list only bought 4......There are many that I streamed but found them to be non essential for my collection in physical media form.
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Just the PT and Marillion. I'm boring and predictible like that.Tongue
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Originally posted by AFlowerKingCrimson AFlowerKingCrimson wrote:

Just the PT and Marillion. I'm boring and predictible like that.Tongue
That's half of what I bought....Clap. Most of what I streamed was not my taste, even the harder stuff was just meh for me.
I'm boring too....
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Originally posted by dougmcauliffe dougmcauliffe wrote:

Haven't been on these forums for a minute!

I don't listen to prog as predominantly these days as I used to, so my roundup on this list:

Hellfire - black midi (Awesome, in my opinion the clear cut prog album of the year. I don't think it is flawless, Half Time has no purpose outside of strictly scaring the sh*t out of me, but man you got to commend these guys for not only being so popular despite making such outlandish, abrasive and infernus music. And for also, in my eyes, doing the best job of moving progressive music into the 2020s with every album they release)

King Gizz:

Ice Death Planets - My favorite of the trilogy, incredibly lively, energetic, well structured and elaborate acid rock jamming

Laminated Denim - Probably my second favorite prog album of the year. Two longform yet concise Krautrock/Space Rock influenced jams with all sorts of cool polyrhythmic fun

Changes - Really unique record, one I enjoy a lot, especially the long form and Gentle Giant infused title track "Change" as well as the bouncy and space lounge tinged "Hate Dancin"

Omnium Gatherum - The Dripping Tap is my favorite song they've ever done, but I found a lot of the rest of the record to be a bit of a safe grab bag of songs from the band. A lot of solid tracks from, but very few spectacular songs.

Motorpsycho - Ancient Astronauts (Pretty solid jammy, noisy heavy psych. Nothing they've done since The All is One has really grabbed me and I think I'd benefit from more listens of this one)

Black Country - Ants From Up There (Some really good songs here, Concorde especially. But I think on average, the album, themes and performances are a little too melodramatic for me. And I think Snow Globes is a pretty weak song taking up a good chunk of the album)

Porcupine Tree - Closure Continuation (Kind of middle of the road and forgettable. I think there's good moments, and I wouldn't even really single out a song as bad, but I just find that as a whole the songwriting strikes me as underwhelming and this album kind of fell right off the radar for me mere days out of it's release and overly long-winded roll out.)

Voivod - Synchro Anarchy (A surprisingly strong late career record from the band, full of those wacky, off-kilter riffs we know them for. Not an overly ground shaking statement, but I remember digging this one quite a bit.)

To be honest that's about all the prog I listened to this year. I'm not really at all interested in Neo Prog or certain types of modern prog bands (Flower Kings, Marillion, Karfagen) so if anyone has recommendations from this list of records I should check out please send them my way. I've been out of the loop, here's some other albums from this year I enjoyed

Soul Glo - Diaspora Problems (Hardcore Punk)
Beach House - Once Twice Melody (Dream Pop)
Alvvays - Blue Rev (Indie/Shoegaze)
Immolation - Acts of God (Death Metal)
The Smile - A Light For Attracting Attention (Alternative Rock)
Billy Woods - Aethiopes (Abstract Hip Hop)
JID - The Forever Story (Southern Hip Hop)
Kikagaku Moyo - Kumoyo Island (Psychedelic Rock/Raga Rock)
Denzel Curry - Melt My Eyez See Your Future (Southern Hip Hop)
Animal Collective - Time Skiffs (Neo Psych)
Big Thief - Dragon New Warm Mountain (Indie Folk)
Nas - Kings Disease III (Hardcore Hip Hop) 
Great to see you here again, Doug! Did you end up listening to the new Snarky Puppy release? I think it's another stellar release in an already strong discography.
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Originally posted by dougmcauliffe dougmcauliffe wrote:

To be honest that's about all the prog I listened to this year. I'm not really at all interested in Neo Prog or certain types of modern prog bands (Flower Kings, Marillion, Karfagen) so if anyone has recommendations from this list of records I should check out please send them my way.

Hi Doug,


Their last album(s) are so good, and very eclectic. I'm talking about Équivoques vol. 1 and vol. 2, both released in 2022.

Just follow the Bandcamp links on each album page.
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Originally posted by Catcher10 Catcher10 wrote:

Originally posted by AFlowerKingCrimson AFlowerKingCrimson wrote:

Just the PT and Marillion. I'm boring and predictible like that.Tongue
That's half of what I bought....Clap. Most of what I streamed was not my taste, even the harder stuff was just meh for me.
I'm boring too....

To be honest, there's maybe two or three from this past year (other than Marillion or PT) that I bought but haven't listened to yet. Those would be Lobate Scarp, Moon Letters and Born (I think that's it). LS didn't even make this list and neither did ML I don't think.

Edit: Oh yeah, the latest TFK too. I'm behind on their last several albums. The last one I heard was Desolation Rose. Lol.


Edited by AFlowerKingCrimson - December 28 2022 at 08:18
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