Release Poll: PA Albums of 2024

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.