2015 Album Releases

The tenth of this series. Again this poll comes in three sections and an "other", and again multiple voting is not enabled.

The first eight are taken from the unfiltered, except by year, Prog Archives Top Album Chart for 2015. The second eight is taken from the top eleven the Collab Album of the Year for 2015 topic (there were three duplicates in it top eight with the PA chart). The third eight is from my Awesome Prog for 2015. "Other" as a voting option is intended to use if none of the listed options have much appeal. That said, I would ask people to mention their favourites on and off the list. If your favourite on the list is Magma - Slaǧ Tanƶ, but your actual favourite is Arena's The Unquiet Sky, then I suggest voting for and mentioning Magma's album in a post while mentioning Arena's as being your actual favourite.

Mention as many of your favourites as you like, both and off the list. And feel free to mention what you don't like that is listed too, and then preferably why it does not appeal.

Top Eight At ProgArchives 2015 Chart

1. Steven Wilson - Hand. Cannot. Erase. (Crossover)
2. Anekdoten - Until All the Ghosts Are Gone (Heavy)
3. Nemo - Coma (Eclectic)
4. The Dear Hunter - Act IV: Rebirth in Reprise (Crossover)
5. Elder - Lore (Heavy)
6. Magma - Slaǧ Tanƶ (Zeuhl)
7. Riverside - Love, Fear and the Time Machine (Prog Metal)
8. La Coscienza di Zeno - La Notte Anche di Giorno (RPI)

Collaborators' Top Album of 2015 (contains 8 of the top 11 as three are in the top eight of the PA chart)

Anekdoten – Until All the Ghosts Are Gone (the collab album of the year, not in this poll section due to duplication)
Steven Wilson – Hand. Cannot. Erase. (collab AOTY runner-up, duplication)
1. Jaga Jazzist – Starfire (JRF)
Riverside – Love, Fear, and the Time Machine (actual fourth, duplication)
2. Elephant9 – Silver Mountain (JRF)
3. Leprous – The Congregation (Tech/Extreme Prog Metal)
4. Unreal City – Il Paese del Tramonto (RPI)
5. La Fabbrica Dell’assoluto – 1984: L’ultimo Uomo d’Europa (RPI)
6. Ciccada – The Finest of Miracles (Eclectic)
7. Guapo – Obscure Knowledge (RIO/Avant Prog)
8. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Asunder, Sweet and Other Distress (Post-Rock)

My top eight currently at Awesome Prog

1. Anna von Hausswolff - The Miraculous (in PA, Crossover)
2. Julia Holter - Have You in My Wilderness (not in PA, Art/Chamber Pop)
3. Susanne Sundfør - Ten Love Songs (in PA, Crossover)
4. Kosmischer Läufer - Volume Three (in PA, Krautrock)
5. Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell (not in PA, Indie Folk)
6. Beach House - Depression Cherry (not in PA, Dream Pop)
7. William D. Drake - Revere Reach (in PA, Eclectic)
8. Oneohtrix Point Never - Garden Of Delete (in PA, Progressive Electronic)

My top 20 at Awesome Prog (not very well ordered, and sometimes albums are lower just because I have not listened to it in a long time. Wish my ninth also was in the poll, had that higher than Revere Beach before...):

1. Anna von Hausswolff - The Miraculous
2. Julia Holter - Have You in My Wilderness [AP]
3. Susanne Sundfør - Ten Love Songs
4. Kosmischer Läufer - Volume Three
5. Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell [AP Non-Prog]
6. Beach House - Depression Cherry [AP Non-Prog]
7. William D. Drake - Revere Reach
8. Oneohtrix Point Never - Garden Of Delete
9. 공중도덕 (Gongjoong Doduk) - 공중도덕 (Gongjoong Doduk) [AP Non-Prog]
10. Joanna Newsom - Divers [AP Prog]
11. Thee Oh Sees - Mutilator Defeated At Last
12. Elephant9 - Silver Mountain
13. Camila Moreno - Mala madre [AP]
14. Chelsea Wolfe - Abyss
15. Björk - Vulnicura
16. Grim (aka Jun Konagaya) - Maha [AP Prog-Adj]
17. Beach House - Thank Your Lucky Stars [AP Non-Prog]
18. Magma - Sl*g Tanz [AP Prog]
19. Tame Impala - Currents [AP Non-Prog]
20. Guapo - Obscure Knowledge

Anekdoten was my favourite of this year. Nice Beaver - The Time It Takes and Alejandro Matos - La Potestad complete the top three.
Other great albums in this list by La Coscienza di Zeno, Ciccada and Unreal City.

Edited by someone_else - February 11 2025 at 14:37

My winner in the given year was Dear Hunter, again! Act IV was even better than Act V. Leprous' Congregation is a very, very close second. 

Unreal City

Mellotron Storm wrote: someone_else wrote: Anekdoten was my favourite of this year. Nice Beaver - The Time It Takes and Alejandro Matos - La Potestad complete the top three. Other great albums in this list by La Coscienza di Zeno, Ciccada and Unreal City. I'm glad you mentioned Nice Beaver, I like that one a lot. And I went with Anekdoten as well. There's at least five on here I rate really high. Some favs not mentioned... Reve General- Howl Needlepoint-Aimless Mary Vak- Aedividea Nik Turner-Space Fusion Odyssey

Reve General is excellent, saw that performed live

Nogbad_The_Bad wrote: Mellotron Storm wrote: someone_else wrote: Anekdoten was my favourite of this year. Nice Beaver - The Time It Takes and Alejandro Matos - La Potestad complete the top three. Other great albums in this list by La Coscienza di Zeno, Ciccada and Unreal City. I'm glad you mentioned Nice Beaver, I like that one a lot. And I went with Anekdoten as well. There's at least five on here I rate really high. Some favs not mentioned... Reve General- Howl Needlepoint-Aimless Mary Vak- Aedividea Nik Turner-Space Fusion Odyssey Reve General is excellent, saw that performed live

Come on man!

Anekdoten - Until All the Ghosts Are Gone 

Other - Steve Hackett's Wolflight.

Favourite Prog Albums of 2015

^ That Tame Impala album is indeed strangely appealing.