Aoty 2025: Ongoing Release Polls

MikeEnRegalia wrote: ^ Nice! Unfortunately the Motorpsycho release was added to the database twice. Will fix it and add more code to prevent duplicates from being added.

My top 10 for 2025 is beginning to take shape ... but it will probably (hopefully) change tomorrow 

2025 so far

^ I hope you consider adding your list to Awesome Prog. Currently only MikeEnRegalia (18), richardh (32), Nogbad_The_Bad (9), bardberic (8) and myself (8) have albums up for this year as users with accounts at Awesome Prog. https://awesomeprog.com/release-polls/pa/aoty-2025/users

I just listened to France's live release, Destino Scifosi. I like it and it is now added to my Awesome Prog list.

1. Hesse Kassel - La Brea [AP Prog] [BC] [SPO]
2. Squid - Cowards [BC] [SPO]
3. Niechęć - Reckless Things [AP Prog] [BC] [SPO]
4. Motorpsycho - Motorpsycho [BC] [SPO]
5. France - Destino Scifosi
6. Richard Dawson - End of the Middle [BC] [SPO]
7. Heartworms (Jojo Orme) - Glutton for Punishment [AP Non-Prog] [BC] [SPO]
8. Krokofant - 6 [BC] [SPO]

The albums I am most anticipating at this time are Swans' Birthing (May 30, 2025) and Jenny Hval's Iris Silver Mist (May 2nd, 2025).

Here is the top overall list from users at AP as it now stannds (unless I made mistakes, which happens more and more) https://awesomeprog.com/release-polls/pa/aoty-2025/results

1. Squid - Cowards (47 points)
2. Motorpsycho (44 points)
3. Hesse Kassel - La Brea (38 points)
4. The Aurora Project (34 points)
4. Wyatt E. -Zamāru ultu qereb ziqquratu Part 1 [Music from inside the Ziggurat Part 1] (34 points)
6. Dim Gray - Shards (26 points)
7. Steven Wilson - The Overview (22 points)
8. Tremonti - The End Will Show Us How (20 points)
8. Avatarium - Between You, God, The Devil And The Dead (20 points)
8. Şatellites - Aylar [Months] (20 points)
8. Вежливый отказ [Vezhlivy Otkaz] - That's Not the Point (20 points)
12. Fluctus Quadratum - Laplacian (19 points)
12. Bumblefoot - ... Returns! (19 points)
12. Blue Lake - Weft (19 points)
15. Niechęć - Reckless Things (18 points)
15. Karmakanic - Transmutation (18 points)
15. Jacob Roberge - The Passing (18 points)
15. Tiktaalika - Gods of Pangaea (18 points)
19. Dominic Sanderson - Blazing Revelations (17 points)
19. Chercán - Chercán (17 points)
19. Yair Elazar Glotman - Glory Fades w/ Mats Erlandsson (17 points)
19. Yazz Ahmed - A Paradise in the Hold (17 points)
23. France - Destino Scifosi (16 points)
23. Eyal Talmudi - Sonolodge (16 points)
23. Shackleton - In the Cell of Dreams (16 points)
26. Richard Dawson - End of the Middle (15 points)
26. The Lab Experience - The Lab Experience (15 points)
26. bunsenburner - Reverie (15 points)
26. Kali Trio - The Playful Abstract (15 points)
30. Heartworms (Jojo Orme) - Glutton for Punishment (15 points)
30. Gerald Massois - Demain à l'aube (14 points)
30. CKRAFT - Uncommon Grounds (14 points)
30. Roger Clark Miller - Curiosity for Solo Electric Guitar Ensemble (14 points)
34. Krokofant - 6 (13 points)
34. Echolyn - Time Silent Radio II (13 points)
34. Maud the moth + trajedesaliva - The Distaff (13 points)
37. Dream Theater - Parasomnia (12 points)
37. Amplifier - Gargantuan (12 points)
37. Moundabout - Goat Skull Table (12 points)
40. Ghost of the Machine - Empires Must Fall (10 points)
41. Corde Oblique - Cries and Whispers (9 points)
42. The Night Flight Orchestra - Give Us the Moon (8 points)
43. Steve Hackett - Live Magic at the Trading Boundaries (7 points)
44. Riverside - Live ID. (6 points)
44. Pattern-Seeking Animals - Friend of All Creatures (6 points)
46. Jonathan Hultén - Eyes of the Living Night (5 points)
47. Limite Acque Sicure - Un'altra Mano Di Carte (4 points)
48. Banco del Mutuo Soccorso - Storie Invisibili (3 points)
48. Mogwai - The Bad Fire (3 points)
50. Nuova Era - 20.000 Leghe Sotto I Mari (2 points)
51. Let See Thin - Machine Called Life (1 point)

Edited by Logan - March 15 2025 at 14:45

And here's my new list after yesterday's releases:

1		Tremonti The End Will Show Us How ★★★★★ Prog-Adj Groove Metal/Rock Links: AP BC SPO RYM
2		Bumblefoot ... Returns! ★★★★★ Shred Prog Metal/Fusion Links: AP BC SPO RYM
3		Tiktaalika Gods of Pangaea ★★★★★ Ominous Raw Prog Thrash/Groove Metal Links: AP BC SPO RYM
4		Chercán Chercán ★★★★★ Prog Rock Links: AP BC SPO
5		Dim Gray Shards ★★★★☆ Prog Rock Links: AP BC SPO
6		Motorpsycho Motorpsycho ★★★★☆ Psych Prog Rock Links: AP BC SPO RYM
7		The Aurora Project Evos12 ★★★★☆ Prog Rock Links: AP BC SPO
8		Echolyn Time Silent Radio II ★★★★☆ Prog Rock Links: AP BC SPO RYM
9		Amplifier Gargantuan ★★★★☆ Prog Rock/Metal Links: AP YT BC SPO RYM
10		Steven Wilson The Overview ★★★★☆ Prog Rock/Electronic Links: AP SPO RYM
11		Ghost Of The Machine Empires Must Fall ★★★★☆ Neo Prog Rock Links: AP BC BC SPO RYM
12		Squid Cowards ★★★★☆ Exp Prog Rock Links: AP YT BC SPO RYM
13		The Night Flight Orchestra Give Us The Moon ★★★★☆ Non-Prog AOR Links: AP BC SPO RYM
14		Avatarium Between You, God, The Devil And The Dead ★★★★☆ Prog-Adj Post Doom/Rock Links: AP SPO RYM
15		Pattern-Seeking Animals Friend of All Creatures ★★★☆☆ Prog Rock Links: AP SPO RYM
16		Jacob Roberge The Passing ★★★☆☆ Prog Rock Links: AP YT BC SPO RYM
17		Dream Theater Parasomnia ★★★☆☆ Ominous Symph Prog Groove Metal Links: AP YT BC SPO RYM
18		Mogwai The Bad Fire ★★★☆☆ Prog Post Rock Links: AP BC SPO RYM

I’ve been flaking and am on my phone. When I get to my desktop I’ll give it another try… this is all I have at the moment.

1. Steven Wilson - The Overview [SPO]
    Atmospheric Prog Space Rock/Electronic
2. Jonathan Hultén - Eyes of the Living Night [BC] [SPO]
    Dark Ambient Prog Folk Singer Songwriter/Rock
3. Bloodbark - Sacred Sound of Solitude [BC] [SPO]
    Cold Atmospheric Prog-Adj Post Black/Blackgaze
4. Mogwai - The Bad Fire [BC] [SPO]
    Suspenseful Lush Prog Post Rock/Independent

Counting Info

I guess it was as simple as copy and paste... silly me!   Feel free to delete my previous attempts posts (Clutter). This is where I'm at so far... I just had a listen to the Niechec at Bandcamp and found it to be right up my alley. Haven't Rated it yet but I want to listen again.  Steven Wilsons New one gave me a thrill at first listen, it could change after a while, but I liked it a lot.  The bogus album cover could lower his score, Ha!

Counting Info

1		Steven Wilson The Overview
2		Niechęć Reckless Things
3		Jonathan Hultén Eyes of the Living Night
4		Gayle Ellett & The Electromags The Painted River Of Light
5		Bloodbark Sacred Sound of Solitude
6		Dream Theater Parasomnia
7		Rolf Zero Poseidon
8		Cereus Sounds The Lost Oasis
9		Mogwai The Bad Fire

Edited by Valdez - March 15 2025 at 19:59

To anyone who wants to participate, these are the instructions in a nutshell:

^ Yes, I corrected the Maud the Moth's release yesterday at AP, but of course it's still wrong in the forum export here.