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Originally posted by Psychedelic Paul Psychedelic Paul wrote:

Originally posted by chopper chopper wrote:

Originally posted by Psychedelic Paul Psychedelic Paul wrote:

I almost forgot to mention the 5-star  "Frampton Forgets the Words" album by the Peter Frampton Band, although I realise my idea of a 5-star "masterpiece" may differ from almost everyone else here. Tongue

Played it, got bored half way through. I mean it's nice guitar playing but Frampton playing instrumental covers is not exactly a 5-star masterpiece.
Psychedelic Paul forgets the words to describe the album, but I remember hearing it for the first time and thinking this is even better than the classic Frampton Comes Alive! Smile


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How about the new Drifting Sun? They now have Jargon on vocals. Just wow. 
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Another couple to add:
Glass Hammer - Skalligrim: Into The Breach ****1/2
continuing the heavier approach of Dreaming City , and even more like Rush at times. If you're missing Rush then it's worth getting this, Steve Babb is a wonderful bass player.

Tori Amos - Ocean To Ocean ***1/2
Another lovely set of songs from our resident 'Cornwallian'  . Not very 'prog' but don't let that put you off necessarily.
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black midi - Cavalcade
Black Country, New Road - For the first time
Meat Mallet - A Formal Horse
Hedvig Mollestad Trio - Ding Dong. You’re Dead.
Alex Ward - Gated
Graham Costello's Strata - Second Lives
Desertion Trio - Numbers Maker
A Holy Family - s/t
Emma Jean Thackeray - Yellow
Ske - Insolubilia
Sons Of Kemet - Black To The Future
Squid - Bright Green Field
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Originally posted by Psychedelic Paul Psychedelic Paul wrote:

Originally posted by chopper chopper wrote:

Originally posted by Psychedelic Paul Psychedelic Paul wrote:

I almost forgot to mention the 5-star  "Frampton Forgets the Words" album by the Peter Frampton Band, although I realise my idea of a 5-star "masterpiece" may differ from almost everyone else here. Tongue

Played it, got bored half way through. I mean it's nice guitar playing but Frampton playing instrumental covers is not exactly a 5-star masterpiece.
Psychedelic Paul forgets the words to describe the album, but I remember hearing it for the first time and thinking this is even better than the classic Frampton Comes Alive! Smile


Peter Frampton covering Avalon by Roxy...seriously....I mean really..?
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Originally posted by dr wu23 dr wu23 wrote:

Originally posted by Psychedelic Paul Psychedelic Paul wrote:

Originally posted by chopper chopper wrote:

Originally posted by Psychedelic Paul Psychedelic Paul wrote:

I almost forgot to mention the 5-star  "Frampton Forgets the Words" album by the Peter Frampton Band, although I realise my idea of a 5-star "masterpiece" may differ from almost everyone else here. Tongue

Played it, got bored half way through. I mean it's nice guitar playing but Frampton playing instrumental covers is not exactly a 5-star masterpiece.
Psychedelic Paul forgets the words to describe the album, but I remember hearing it for the first time and thinking this is even better than the classic Frampton Comes Alive! Smile


Peter Frampton covering Avalon by Roxy...seriously....I mean really..?
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If I had to rank what I've listened to up to this point, it would go like this... Still have a lot more to listen to, so this is subject to change. 

1. Alco Frisbass -- Le Mystère du Gué Pucelle
2. Ars de Er -- Other Side
3. Caio Csizmar -- Decriptas
4. Gnohgnuhgnlus -- Thomisme
5. Shamblemaths -- Shamblemaths 2
6. Antony Kalugin -- Stellar Gardener
7. Czyszy -- Agent Mousey
8. Korekyojinn -- Mesopotamia
9. Jack Dupon -- JackAQuinzeAns
10. Alex Ward -- Gated
11. K’Mono -- Return to the ‘E’
12. Krokofant -- Fifth
13. Emme Phyzema -- Temporary Triumph
14. Mourning Knight -- Mourning Knight
15. Looking-Glass Lantern -- The Country House Weekend
16. Chance -- Original Worlds
17. Kerrs Pink -- Presence of Life
18. Monarch Trail -- Wither Down
19. Czyszy -- Retro Adventures
20. Neal Morse Band -- Innocence & Danger
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My top albums at the end of October 2021:

01-God Is An Astronaut: Ghost Tapes #10
02-Vola: Witness
03-Giant Sky: s/t
04-Human Factor: Observer
05-Leprous: Aphelion
06-Karmamoi; Room 101
07-Meer: Playing House
08-Subterranean Masquerade: Mountain Fever
09-AmartiA: Daylight Beauty
10-Feeling Of Presence: Of Lost Illusion
11-Soen: Imperial
12-Nine Skies: 5.20
13-Himmellegeme: Variola Vera
14-White Moth Black Butterfly: The Cost Of Dreaming
15-Enine: Spiritus Natura
16-Ske: Insolubilia
17-Cosmograf: Rattrapante
18-Dec Burke: Life In Two Dimensions
19-Illuminae: Dark Horizons
20-Lazuli: Dénudé.
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2 new great releases:

Mastodon - Hushed And Grim
Diablo Swing Orchestra - Swagger & Stroll Down the Rabbit Hole
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Originally posted by Deadwing Deadwing wrote:

2 new great releases:

Mastodon - Hushed And Grim
Diablo Swing Orchestra - Swagger & Stroll Down the Rabbit Hole
Yesterday, I listened to some tracks of the new Mastodon. Very interesting ! Wink

And I am not a big fan of DSO.


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Originally posted by Deadwing Deadwing wrote:

2 new great releases:

Mastodon - Hushed And Grim
Diablo Swing Orchestra - Swagger & Stroll Down the Rabbit Hole

Didn't realize this was out already
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Originally posted by Nogbad_The_Bad Nogbad_The_Bad wrote:

Originally posted by Deadwing Deadwing wrote:

2 new great releases:

Mastodon - Hushed And Grim
Diablo Swing Orchestra - Swagger & Stroll Down the Rabbit Hole

Didn't realize this was out already

Me, neither. The cover art seems to promise some mischievous stuff. Super interested!
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Simon Steensland released Let's Go To Hell on Oct 29th
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My updated list would look like this:

1. NEEDLEPOINT Walking Up That Valley
2. CALIGONAUT Magnified As Giants
3. CICCADA Harvest
4. SKE Insolibilia
5. MANNA / MIRAGE Man Out of Time
6. MONOBODY Comma
7. MONO Pilgrimage of the Soul
8. A FORMAL HORSE Meat Mallet
9. BLACK MIDI Cavalcade
10. KRISTOFFER GILDENLÖW Let Me Be a Ghost

11. HANDS OF THE HERON 13 Moons
12. ARGOS The Other Life
13. GLEB KOLYADIN Water Movements
14. JØRDSJO Pastoralis
15. FROST* Day and Age
16. GLASS KITES II
17. SYLVAN One to Zero
18. INNER PROSPEKT Canvas Two
19. BEAUTIFUL BEDLAM Beautiful Bedlam
20. KONOM Konom

21. BIG BIG TRAIN Common Ground
22. EMERALD DAWN To Touch the Sky
23. KAYO DOT Moss Grew on the Swords and Plowshares Alike
24. LEPROUS Aphelion
25. LIFESIGNS Altitude
26. JAVIER MIRANDA Strange Imperfection
27. PALE MANNEQUIN Colours of Continuity
28. NEAL MORSE BAND Innocence & Danger
29. CAST Visegimus
30. DIAGONAL 4

31. DRIFTING SUN Forsaken Innocence
32. UNAKA PRONG Kudzu
33. VOLA Witness
34. CORRADO RUSTICI Interfulgent
35. AZURE Of Brine and Angel's Beaks
36. ANTONY KALUGIN Chameleonic Shapeshifter
37. MOSTLY AUTUMN Graveyard Star
38. BETWEEN THE BURIED AND ME Colors 2
39. HIMMELLEGEME Variola Vera
40. MOTORSYCHO Kingdom of Oblivion

41. JOHN HOLDEN Circles in Time
42. ALCO FRISBASS Le mystère de Guy  Pucelle 
43. BIG HOGG Pageant of Beasts
44. EVERSHIP The Uncrowned King
45. FRAGILE Beyond
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Originally posted by BrufordFreak BrufordFreak wrote:

4. SKE Insolibilia
Killer album, easy top ten for the year.
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Simon Steensland released Let's Go To Hell on Oct 29th


Just listened to this today. Really enjoyed it. Probably will make my top 10.
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Here's my best-loved prog album of 2021 (so far).

  MONARCH TRAIL - 'Wither Down'.
 
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Originally posted by Mirakaze Mirakaze wrote:

Originally posted by Mirakaze Mirakaze wrote:

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So far I think this year's shaping up better than the last one. Not every year can be a 2019. The new Rascal Reporters release did not disappoint and I'm looking forward to the new Missigno album too (and very much to the new Devilish Dear album but that's not really prog).

My favourite prog albums of this year so far (I've heard most of these just once up until now so my opinion may change in the future):
- Monobody - Comma
- Black Midi - Cavalcade
- The Fourth World Quartet - 1975
- Desertion Trio - Numbers Maker
- Real Loud - Real Loud
- Mahogany Frog - In The Electric Universe
- Sun Colored Chair - Seated
- Cody Carpenter - Memories And Dreams


Updating my list one month down the line, I'm going to add:
- Música D' Repuesto - Fake
- Fred Frith & Ikue Mori - A Mountain Doesn't Know It's Tall
- Machine Mass Sextet - Intrusion
- Gnohgnuhgnlus - Thomisme
- Greco Bastián - EP
- Owane - YOLO EP, Vol. 1


Another update:
- Pierre Vervloesem - Ruder
- John McLaughlin - Liberation Time
- Mediabanda - Maquinarias
- Alex Ward - Gated
- Microkingdom - Minds In Deep Neutral
- Ángel Ontalva - Angel On A Tower
- Pierre Vervloesem - Flambant Neuf


One more of these before the month ends and I'll start relistening to all of these throughout December so that I can properly order them:
- Pierre Vervloesem - Folklorik
- Hedvig Mollestad Trio - Ding Dong. You're Dead.
- Alex Ward - The Trade
- Eskalation - The Birthday Episode
- Hiromi - Silver Lining Suite
- Nichelodeon - Incidenti: Lo Schianto
- Superluminal Pachyderm - Word Soup
- Vangelis - Juno To Jupiter
- Tatsuya Yoshida & Risa Takeda - Hue
- Tatsuya Yoshida & Risa Takeda - Superhelix
- Samuel Cadima - 70TU5
- Wippy Bonstack - Wippy Bonstack's Dataland
- In-Dreamview - Triptych
- Tatsuya Yoshida & Risa Takeda - Theism
- Lichtpyramide - Lichtpyramide II
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I'm expecting I'll find space for:-

Agusa - En Annan Varld
Android Trio - Other Worlds
Simon Steensland - Let's Go To Hell
Wax People - s/t
Ghost Rhythms - Spectral Music
Accordo Dei Contrari - UR
Portico Quartet - Monument
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Originally posted by Mirakaze Mirakaze wrote:

Originally posted by Mirakaze Mirakaze wrote:

Originally posted by Mirakaze Mirakaze wrote:

Originally posted by Mirakaze Mirakaze wrote:

So far I think this year's shaping up better than the last one. Not every year can be a 2019. The new Rascal Reporters release did not disappoint and I'm looking forward to the new Missigno album too (and very much to the new Devilish Dear album but that's not really prog).

My favourite prog albums of this year so far (I've heard most of these just once up until now so my opinion may change in the future):
- Monobody - Comma
- Black Midi - Cavalcade
- The Fourth World Quartet - 1975
- Desertion Trio - Numbers Maker
- Real Loud - Real Loud
- Mahogany Frog - In The Electric Universe
- Sun Colored Chair - Seated
- Cody Carpenter - Memories And Dreams


Updating my list one month down the line, I'm going to add:
- Música D' Repuesto - Fake
- Fred Frith & Ikue Mori - A Mountain Doesn't Know It's Tall
- Machine Mass Sextet - Intrusion
- Gnohgnuhgnlus - Thomisme
- Greco Bastián - EP
- Owane - YOLO EP, Vol. 1


Another update:
- Pierre Vervloesem - Ruder
- John McLaughlin - Liberation Time
- Mediabanda - Maquinarias
- Alex Ward - Gated
- Microkingdom - Minds In Deep Neutral
- Ángel Ontalva - Angel On A Tower
- Pierre Vervloesem - Flambant Neuf


One more of these before the month ends and I'll start relistening to all of these throughout December so that I can properly order them:
- Pierre Vervloesem - Folklorik
- Hedvig Mollestad Trio - Ding Dong. You're Dead.
- Alex Ward - The Trade
- Eskalation - The Birthday Episode
- Nichelodeon - Incidenti: Lo Schianto
- Superluminal Pachyderm - Word Soup
- Vangelis - Juno To Jupiter
- Tatsuya Yoshida & Risa Takeda - Hue
- Tatsuya Yoshida & Risa Takeda - Superhelix
- Samuel Cadima - 70TU5
- Wippy Bonstack - Wippy Bonstack's Dataland
- In-Dreamview - Triptych
- Tatsuya Yoshida & Risa Takeda - Theism
- Lichtpyramide - Lichtpyramide II
A great list!  I find much to explore here. 

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