PA AOTY 2024 (Deadline extended until Feb 2)

richardh wrote: Puzzled by a lot of comments. I love this year a lot and it's at least as good as last year in my estimation.Steve Hackett is barely clinging onto my top 30 for the year and that is a fine album. Deep Purple don't make my personal top 50 but it's another great album from a band in late career bloom. Oh well.

MikeEnRegalia wrote: ^ I enjoyed it as well, and I think that "great" describes it well. I put it in the "Great" tier at AP and it's still my lowest-rated DP release, most of the others are awesome or even stellar. If anyone wants to try out the poll system some more, here's a poll on the Deep Purple releases: https://awesomeprog.com/release-polls/ap/aota-1431/vote

hmmm, this new feature seems like a cleaner, more streamlined (and ultimately better) version The Top Tens...

Edited by bardberic - November 23 2024 at 04:41

MikeEnRegalia wrote: Ultimately lists and tiers/ratings are competing features. tiers and ratings are much more powerful, once a release is tiered/rated it can appear in many automatically generated lists. But lists are more organic and fun to compile.

Also, what does "aota" stand for? Album of the Artist?

MikeEnRegalia wrote: ^ Yes, I needed some code to identify the type of poll. Can be extended to several artists. As an example, just for fun, here's a poll pitting Deep Purple "against" Opeth: https://awesomeprog.com/release-polls/pa/aota-1431-3928/vote

https://awesomeprog.com/release-polls/ap/Symphonic%20Metal/vote

wen?

Edited by bardberic - November 23 2024 at 19:39

Updated my list for two awesome November releases (Opeth and Crippled Black Phoenix). 

Should this thread maybe be pinned? I had some trouble finding it.
Anyway this isn't really definitive still but at this point I at least feel comfortable enough putting together this preliminary top 5 of the year:
1. Risa Takeda - Parallel World
Runs the gamut from J-pop to atonal chamber music to cinematic classical music to jazz fusion to tango to freaked out avant-prog but still feels like an amazing unified gestalt.
2. Tom Penaguin - Tom Penaguin
Maybe a wee bit too overt on the Canterbury homages, but no less expertly put together and played because of that.
3. Tigran Hamasyan - The Bird Of A Thousand Voices
The impeccable old familiar Hamasyan sound, blown up to its most epic and ambitious proportions but never feeling out of its depth. A true journey.
4. Grdina Lillinger - Duo Work
A quirky beautiful thing that sounds like two slightly misaligned robots attempting to operate their avant-prog clockwork.
5. Vylet Pony - Monarch Of Monsters
Resembling at times a noisy feminine Swans and at other times a pissed off crossoverish Mars Volta, this is really something special.

The Tom Penaguin debut album is very nice indeed. I'm liking myself a bit of Canterbury in my old age. Tom is a young French guy apparently. Very talented and one to watch for the future. I put him in my top 30. This won't change much now so I'll officially submit it.

Edited by richardh - December 12 2024 at 23:25

Updated list

1. Sleepytime Gorilla Museum - of the Last Human Being [BC] [SPO]
    Eerie Complex Exp Prog Avant RIO/Jazz
2. Present - this is NOT the end [BC]
    Dark Cryptic Exp Prog Avant RIO/Jazz
3. Nik Bärtsch’s Ronin - SPIN [BC]
    Ambient Contemporary Jazz/Electronic
4. Rob Mazurek & Exploding Star Orchestra - Spectral Fiction [BC]
    Prog Avant Jazz
5. Janel Leppin - Ensemble Volcanic Ash: To March Is To Love [BC]
    Exp Prog Art Jazz/Rock
6. Mary Halvorson - Cloudward [BC] [SPO]
    Playful Complex Prog Chamber Jazz/Rock
7. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - "No Title as of 13 February 2024 28,340 Dead" [BC] [SPO]
    Ambient Prog Post Rock
8. The Smile - Wall of Eyes [BC] [SPO]
    Mellow Abstract Neo Prog Post Rock/Pop
9. Caroline Shaw & Sō Percussion - Rectangles and Circumstance [BC]
    Exp Contemporary Classical
10. Six Organs of Admittance - Shackleton & Six Organs of Admittance: Jinxed by Being [BC] [SPO]
    Mysterious Atmospheric Non-Prog Avant Electronic/Rock
11. Antistatic - Relics [BC]
    Exp Prog Art Jazz/Rock
12. Tomeka Reid Quartet - 3​+​3 [BC]
    Exp Prog Art Jazz/Rock
13. Chelsea Wolfe - She Reaches Out To She Reaches Out To She [BC] [SPO]
    Dark Nocturnal Non-Prog Post Darkwave/Industrial
14. Avalanche Kaito - Talitakum [BC] [SPO]
    Energetic Rhythmic Exp Prog Avant Electronic/Rock
15. Cosa Brava - Z Sides [BC]
    Exp Rock/Jazz
16. Thumbscrew - Wingbeats [BC]
    Exp Non-Prog Avant Jazz/Rock
17. The Holy Family - Live Burning, Burning Live [BC] [SPO]
    Psych Exp Prog Alt Rock
18. Horse Lords - As It Happened: Horse Lords Live [BC] [SPO]
    Tech Exp Non-Prog Avant Rock/Jazz
19. Janel and Anthony - New Moon In The Evil Age [BC]
    Ambient Exp Prog Art Jazz/Independent
20. Tapir! - The Pilgrim, Their God and the King of My Decrepit Mountain [BC] [SPO]
    Mellow Lush Neo Prog Chamber Electronic/Folk
21. Lankum - Live In Dublin [BC]
    Irish Drone
22. Extra Life - The Sacred Vowel [BC]
    Melancholic Exp Prog Math Rock
23. Radio Massacre International - Galactic Furnace [BC]
    Exp Prog Art Electronic/Jazz
24. Olivia Block - The Mountains Pass [BC]
    Exp Electronic
25. Lunar Mistake - Lunar Mistake [BC]
    Quirky Post Punk/New Wave
26. Holy Tongue meets Shackleton - The Tumbling Psychic Joy of Now [BC]
27. GoGo Penguin - From The North [SPO]
    Tech Non-Prog Post Fusion
28. Rob Mazurek & Exploding Star Orchestra - Live at the Adler Planetarium [BC]
    Psych Avant Electronic/Jazz
29. Kugelschreiber - Cheerleaders [BC]
    Exp Chamber Pop
30. Orchestre Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamp - Ventre Unique [BC]
    World
31. Inner Ear Brigade - Perkunas [BC]
    Zappaesque Exp Prog Avant Rock/Jazz
32. Das Rad - Funfair [BC] [SPO]
    Exp Prog Avant RIO/Jazz
33. Pom Poko - Champion [BC]
    Alt Noise/Pop
34. Craven Faults - Thwaite Watermill [BC]
    Ambient Prog Electronic
35. Caroline Shaw - Leonardo da Vinci (Original Score) [BC]
    Ambient Folk Classical
36. Monkey3 - Welcome To The Machine [BC] [SPO]
    Psych Prog Space Rock/Metal
37. The Flying Luttenbachers - Losing the War Inside Our Heads
    Brutal Non-Prog Avant RIO
38. Smith, Ches - Laugh Ash [BC] [SPO]
    Complex Exp Non-Prog Avant Jazz
39. Papangu - Lampião Rei [BC] [SPO]
    Eclectic Prog Art Rock/Metal
40. Upupayāma - Mount Elephant
    Psych Non-Prog Raga
41. Snowdrops - Singing Stones (Volume 1) [BC]
    Ambient Exp Chamber Classical/Electronic
42. Cassiber - Collaborations [BC]
    Exp Prog Avant RIO/Jazz
43. Luz De Riada - Rizoma [BC]
    Slow Exp Prog Avant RIO/Jazz
44. Snakes Don't Belong In Alaska - Navegando Al Paraiso [BC] [SPO]
    Psych Prog Space Krautrock
45. Cheer Accident - I Want My Buddha Back [BC]
    Noisy Exp Prog Post Rock/Metal
46. Shabaka - Perceive Its Beauty, Acknowledge Its Grace [SPO]
    Soothing Poetic Non-Prog Chamber Jazz
47. 137 - Strangeness Oscillation [BC] [SPO]
    Exp Jazz
48. Zombi - Direct Inject [BC] [SPO]
    Ambient Prog Space Rock/Electronic
49. Quartet Diminished - Deerand [BC]
    Suspenseful Exp Prog Art Jazz/Rock
50. This Celestial Engine - This Celestial Engine [BC] [SPO]
    Melancholic Lush Exp Prog Fusion/Rock
51. Yussef Dayes - Live From Malibu [BC] [SPO]
    Mellow Cinematic Funky Non-Prog Contemporary Jazz/Fusion
52. Panzerpappa - Skjeringspunkt [BC]
    Prog Rock
53. Rhùn - Tozzos [BC] [SPO]
    Eclectic Exp Prog Avant Zeuhl/RIO
54. Slift - Ilion [BC] [SPO]
    Eerie Psych Prog Space Rock/Metal
55. Nik Bärtsch - Ronin Rhythm Clan: Moonday [BC] [SPO]
    Contemporary Jazz
56. Theo May's ODD UNIT - Alive In The Forest Of Odd [BC] [SPO]
    Spiritual Lush Exp Prog Chamber Jazz/Folk
57. ZIO CROCIFISSO - Campana di Legno [BC]
    Exp Prog Math Rock
58. Full Earth - Cloud Sculptors [BC] [SPO]
    Psych Exp Prog Space Rock/Electronic
59. Sean Ono Lennon - Asterisms [SPO]
    Psych Prog Psychedelia/Fusion
60. Plantoid - Terrapath [BC] [SPO]
    Energetic Eclectic Exp Prog Space Rock/Pop
61. Can - Live in Paris 1973 [BC] [SPO]
    Hypnotic Psych Exp Prog Avant Krautrock
62. The Flying Luttenbachers - Spectral Warrior Mythos 2 [BC]
    Exp Post Classical/Noise
63. Montresor - Autopoiesis [BC] [SPO]
    Heavy Prog Avant RIO
64. Join The Din - Tales from Dance (Live Session) [BC]
    Psych Prog Alt Jazz/Rock
65. Tenk Van Dool & Paul Sears - Aperiodic Grok [BC] [SPO]
    Eclectic Prog Hard Rock/Fusion
66. Tom Penaguin - Tom Penaguin [BC]
    Exp Prog Canterbury Scene/Fusion
67. Greco Bastián - With a Little Hell from MORE friends [BC]
    Dark Prog Avant Zeuhl/RIO
68. Agusa - Noir [BC] [SPO]
    Psych Prog Folk Rock
69. Jane Getter Premonition - Division World [SPO]
    Melodic Prog Art Rock
70. PAKT - No Steps Left To Trace [BC] [SPO]
    Fusion
71. Elephant9 - Mythical River [BC] [SPO]
    Eclectic Prog Avant Fusion/Rock
72. FUR - Notebook [BC]
    Jazz
73. Yang - Rejoice! [BC]
    Heavy Exp Prog Art Rock/Jazz
74. The Band Whose Name Is A Symbol - Verdun
    Psych Non-Prog Rock
75. Utopianisti - Reason In Motion [BC]
    Exp Prog Rock/Jazz
76. Jumble Hole Clough - They've Built an Ark in Arkham [BC]
    Prog Post Punk
77. Spectrum Orchestrum - Noziroh [BC] [SPO]
    Exp Prog Avant RIO/Jazz
78. Cloud Over Jupiter - Atomic Jupiter [BC] [SPO]
    Eclectic Prog Rock/Jazz
79. Sentient Beings - Truth Is Not The Enemy [BC]
    Exp Prog Jazz
80. God is an Astronaut - Embers [BC] [SPO]
    Ominous Tech Prog Post Rock/Metal

My list!

Not until the end of January (probably)