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2018 Studio Album Releases
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Poll Question: Choose a favourite from the list if you can to vote for, else "other"
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Hmm, this top 20 is definitely starting to feel a lot patchier and random; this is kind of before I really started paying active attention to music being currently released as opposed to looking solely to previous decades for my prog fix, so there's undoubtedly a lot I've missed out on. Nevertheless, here is a list (Dhorimviskha got my vote in the poll):

1. The Nels Cline 4 - Currents, Constellations
2. John Coltrane - Both Directions At Once: The Lost Album
3. Koenjihyakkei - Dhorimviskha
4. Dani Lee Pearce - Feed The Demon Love
5. Jacob Collier - Djesse, Vol. 1
6. Nicotina Es Primavera - Perder Planetas
7. Animal Collective - Tangerine Reef
8. Orthodox - Kréas
9. Mats/Morgan - Live With Norrlandsoperan Symphony Orchestra
10. Homunculus Res - Della Stessa Sostanza Dei Sogni
11. Palm - Rock Island
12. Reuben Gingrich - Gravity Flash
13. Owane - Yeah Whatever
14. Patrick Grant - Fields Amaze And Other Strange Music
15. Ryan Carraher - Obscure Sorrows
16. Bryncom - Suburban Leisure Hyper Capitalism
17. Sherpa The Tiger - Great Vowel Shift
18. Hakushi Hasegawa - Somoku Hodo
19. Kamasi Washington - Heaven And Earth
20. Zevious - Lowlands


Edited by Mirakaze - February 16 2025 at 15:01
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^ Nice, much less "mainstream" than my list. Have you considered compiling the list at AP? :-) 

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Haken
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Between The Buried And Me
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All Traps On Earth
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Voïvod
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Warrel Dane
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Edited by MikeEnRegalia - February 12 2025 at 14:14
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^^ I like seeing Mira's lists at AwesomeProg.

Because the question resulted in me looking at the top overall album right now for quite a few years in the Awesome Prog AOTY polls... Of course various years have very few participants this far...

This is the top album overall per year at AwesomeProg in its best of polls based on the various users data. I stopped at 2008 which is only how far I got so far with my lists.

2024: Sleepytime Gorilla Museum - of the Last Human Being (180 points)
2023: Agusa - Prima Materia (284 points)
2022: black midi - Hellfire (59 points)
2021: black midi - Cavalcade (41 points)
2020: Aksak Maboul - Figures (31 points)
2019: IQ - Resistance (31 points)
2018: KoenjiHyakkei - Dhorimviskha (24 points)
2017: King Gizzard... - Polygondwanaland AND L'Rain - L'Rain (tie, 28 points each)
2016: David Bowie - Blackstar (57 points)
2015: Steven Wilson - Hand. Cannot. Erase. (38 points)
2014: Hiromi Uehara - Alive (38 points)
2013: Steven Wilson - The Raven That Refused to Sing (40 points)
2012: Big Big Train - English Electric Part One (30 points)
2011: Kate Bush - 50 Words For Snow AND Steven Wilson - Grace For Drowning (tie, 35 points each)
2010: Anathema - We're Here Because We're Here (39 points)
2009: IQ - Frequency (37 points)
2008: Portishead - Third AND It Bites - The Tall Ships AND Ayreon - 01011001 (tied, 20 points each)

So happy to see Portishead doing as well as it did for 2008 (tied for number one).     Those 20 points are from my having it in number one. And yes, I am a Portishead fanboy.

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Phideaux's my winner this year, even though it didn't quite live up to the hype of its predecessor / the years of waiting, it was still a very strong entry. I hope they release more music, hadn't realized it had been so long already.

All Traps on Earth, definitely a strong contender for next best from this list.

Looking at the albums from that year, I listened to a LOT of music but few stand out in my memory anymore - I think it was probably this overconsumption of music that lead to me falling back to classical music the year after. I was just getting used to being able to stream anything that caught my eye. Most of the stuff in my library released in 2018 that I have a strong impression of, I listened to for the first time in the last couple of years, when I've started giving more time to music before moving on from it.
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Originally posted by TheGazzardian TheGazzardian wrote:

... Most of the stuff in my library released in 2018 that I have a strong impression of, I listened to for the first time in the last couple of years, when I've started giving more time to music before moving on from it.


It's a similar case with me.
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Favourite Prog Albums of 2018

5 stars 2018: Galahad - Seas of Change - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRPsgusgtBk
4 stars 2018: Gryphon - Reinvention - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlydIQu-Cyk
4 stars 2018: Sharron Kraus - Joy's Reflection is Sorrow - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_lJjrxbBqNig3EssaVTVw2SjfCoaoPUCms
4 stars 2018: Mystery - Lies and Butterflies - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4BsFVVPP14
5 stars 2018: Robert Reed - Sanctuary III - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXEU0aQMFjo
4 stars 2018: Talitha Rise - An Abandoned Orchid House - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLglikDVPehq5Nf4DTcwk-W352YLhA9EJv
5 stars 2018: Michael Alan Taylor - Avalonia (The Sonnets of Guinevere) - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_lXkEL6wWKJh_UyirC6BwLqdd_2IAyJdUs
4 stars 2018: Nik Turner & Youth - Pharaohs from Outer Space - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mgDyHrbPuw3H67x80BVJ7tLVYyxMd9Wqo
4 stars 2018: Darryl Way - Vivaldi's Four Seasons in Rock - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_TaS3ukydpLF6lnVBPZCPoxrhgi1386r


Edited by Psychedelic Paul - February 13 2025 at 01:53
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All Traps on Earth - A Drop of Light Smile
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Mostly Autumn: White Rainbow
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Originally posted by Jared Jared wrote:

Mostly Autumn: White Rainbow

I somehow managed to miss White Rainbow off my list, believing it was a 2019 release. Embarrassed
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A tough vote in a top-heavy and deep year goes to far Corner. A deep prog year. I made a top 20 with only one non-PA artist.

1. Far Corner - RisK
2. Anna von Hausswolff - Dead Magic
3. Orchestre Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamp - Sauvage Formes [AP]
4. Sonar - Vortex
5. Ovrfwrd - Blurring The Lines ...A Democracy Manifest
6. Mother Turtle - Zea Mice
7. Galahad - Seas of Change
8. All Traps On Earth - A Drop Of Light
9. The Fierce & The Dead - The Euphoric
10. Daal - Decalogue of Darkness
11. Roz Vitalis - The Hidden Man of the Heart
12. Karmic Juggernaut - The Dreams That Stuff Are Made Of
13. PinioL - Bran Coucou
14. Jack O' The Clock - Repetitions of the Old City II
15. Perfect Beings - Vier
16. Pineapple Thief - Dissolution
17. Ángel Ontalva - Ángel Ontalva & Vespero: Carta Marina
18. Vespero - Hollow Moon
19. Daal - Navels Falling Into A Living Origami
20. Lunatic Soul - Under The Fragmented Sky
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