Five best albums to get someone into Modern Prog

Might as well do this, as the "classic" era is already covered in another thread. For simplicity's sake, and the purpose of this thread, the starting point is 1990. And you can be introducing someone totally new to prog, or someone who's already familiar with the 70s bands. Just prove that prog didn't die in 1977 or whatever.

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Spock's Beard - The Light

The Flower Kings - Stardust We Are

Dream Theater - Images and Words

Steven Wilson - Hand, Cannot, Erase

Big Big Train - English Electric (Part one)

Properly modern? OK:

1. Ghost Rhythms - Madeleine
2. Knifeworld - Bottled Out of Eden
3. Necromonkey - A Glimpse of Possible Endings
4. Ut Gret - Ancestor's Tale
5. Circle - Pharaoh Overlord

Edited by Mascodagama - February 23 2017 at 14:45

IQ: Frequency
The Dear Hunter: Act V
Haken: The mountain
Phideaux: Doomsday afternoon
Unitopia: The garden

zravkapt wrote:

Tortoise - Standards

The Mars Volta - Amputechture

Secret Chiefs 3 - Book M

Battles - Mirrored

Chrome Hoof - Crush Depth

good list... has two of my five at least including my #1.

Battles - Mirrored. As has been said, so it will be, the ITCOTKC for the 21st century progressive scene. A complete break with old fart prog rock. Prog for the 21st century.

Secret Chiefs 3 - Book M
Talk Talk - Spirit of Eden
Moraine - Manifest Destiny
Guapo - Five Suns

The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip

I'm doing two lists. The first list is post-1990 albums from classic bands/ artist from the 70s, and one that released its first in 1980, just to show that the early ones released good stuff, for those into such music at least, post 80s. The second list consists of some of my favourites from various post classic era bands.

Art Zoyd's Haxan
Magma's E-Re,
Rbert Wyatt's Comicopera,
Univers Zero's Clivages
Present's No. 6.

Second list:

Secret Chiefs 3 - Book of Horizons
Cardiacs - Sing to God
Guapo - Black Oni
U Totem - U Totem
Aranis - Aranis II

But these lists are really avant-prog heavy and not good as general introduction. Miriodor is what got me into post 70s Prog originally.

Most any modern Prog list of mine would include Bent Knee, Knifeworld, Tortoise, and Chrome Hoof (and Matt Berry).... And I'd like to include the quite retro Electric Orange. After all these words, I don't really feel like I'm up to the task to choose only five that are good and diverse representatives of modern Prog approaches.

Edited by Logan - February 23 2017 at 20:26

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It really depends on the person you're trying to convert.

Young guy with yellow socks into the indie scene should preferably start with:

Porcupine Tree - In Absentia
Bent Knee - Shiny Eyed Babies
Syd Arthur - On And On
Sigur Ros - Takk
The Moulettes - Preternatural

Old man into Diana Ross:
Mirthkon - Vehicle

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someone_else wrote:

Discipline - Unfolded Like Staircase

Maudlin of the Well - Part the Second

Echolyn - s/t (2012)

Big Big Train - English Electric (Part One)

Anekdoten - Until All the Ghosts are Gone

I would replace BBT with Steven Wilson's Raven that refused to sing and add some RPI (La Coscienza Di Zeno, Unreal City, Astrolabio, Egonon, Ingranaggi Della Valle...).