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Best Prog Year of the 2010's
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Poll Question: Which year of the past decade has seen the best prog albums iyho?
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Originally posted by Lewian Lewian wrote:

Will give it to 2016. Blackstar (listed here, so prog enough) -  a.P.a.t.T.s superb Fun with Music - Lighthouse by iamthemorning - excellent albums by Swans, Jeremy Flower, Chenille, Tortoise, North Sea Radio Orchestra, Van der Graaf, Shamblemaths, Radian (not listed here but very progressive),...There are top highlights elsewhere (I a Moon, The Seer, Art Zoyd's 2017 box set and Phase V), but the range of good material to my ears is just best in 2016.


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Originally posted by Nogbad_The_Bad Nogbad_The_Bad wrote:

Originally posted by Lewian Lewian wrote:

Will give it to 2016. Blackstar (listed here, so prog enough) -  a.P.a.t.T.s superb Fun with Music - Lighthouse by iamthemorning - excellent albums by Swans, Jeremy Flower, Chenille, Tortoise, North Sea Radio Orchestra, Van der Graaf, Shamblemaths, Radian (not listed here but very progressive),...There are top highlights elsewhere (I a Moon, The Seer, Art Zoyd's 2017 box set and Phase V), but the range of good material to my ears is just best in 2016.


It's up there.

Coincidence that just as you are commenting on this, I'm listening to another 2016 one I know you like, Bottled Out Of Eden.
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Originally posted by Lewian Lewian wrote:

Originally posted by Nogbad_The_Bad Nogbad_The_Bad wrote:

Originally posted by Lewian Lewian wrote:

Will give it to 2016. Blackstar (listed here, so prog enough) -  a.P.a.t.T.s superb Fun with Music - Lighthouse by iamthemorning - excellent albums by Swans, Jeremy Flower, Chenille, Tortoise, North Sea Radio Orchestra, Van der Graaf, Shamblemaths, Radian (not listed here but very progressive),...There are top highlights elsewhere (I a Moon, The Seer, Art Zoyd's 2017 box set and Phase V), but the range of good material to my ears is just best in 2016.


It's up there.

Coincidence that just as you are commenting on this, I'm listening to another 2016 one I know you like, Bottled Out Of Eden.

Oh hell yeah, my top for 2016 were - 
Bent Knee - Say So 
Gogo Penguin - Man Made Object
Nik Bartsch Mobile - Continuum
Knifeworld - Bottled Out Of Eden 
North Sea Radio Orchestra - Dronne
a.P.A.t.T. - Fun With Music
Free Salamander Exhibit - Undestroyed
Jeremy Flower - The Real Me

So yeah it's a top year.

I saw Jeremy Flower recently, he was playing guitar in Carla Kihlstedt's band Rabbit Rabbit Radio who were supporting Cheer-Accident. Went and had a quick chat afterwards and told him how much I enjoyed  The Real Me, I think he was quite surprised.


Edited by Nogbad_The_Bad - March 04 2020 at 19:24
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I've gone for 2019. A number of great releases for me, plus a few I haven't yet purchased but was really impressed with.  2015, 2014, and 2011 were also good years for me :)
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I really can't choose. I try to approach the question by eliminating years. But every time I try that I remember some great album from that year. I have to say 13,14,17,18,19 were all awesemo.

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Originally posted by someone_else someone_else wrote:

2011
Akt - Blemmebeya
Discipline - To Shatter All Accord

2012
Echolyn - s/t
Big Big Train - English Electric (Part One)

2013 (The Year of Many Minor Masterpieces)
Days between Stations - In Extremis

2014
Deluge Grander - Heliotians

2015 (The Year of the Long Awaited Albums)
Anekdoten - Until All the Ghosts Are Gone
Nice Beaver - The Time It Takes
Alejandro Matos - La Potestad

2016
Nine Stones Close - Leaves
Ingranaggi della Valle - Warm Spaced Blue
Shamblemaths - s/t

2017
Big Big Train - Grimspound
Deluge Grander - Oceanarium
Wobbler - From Silence to Somewhere

2018
Oaksenham - Upon All the Living and the Dead
Dean Watson - Track of Days

2019
IZZ - Don't Panic
Jordsjø - Nattfiolen

These are the standout albums of the decade. But I had to plough through my AotY lists to determine what was the best year in my book, examining the lower ranks. I expected 2015 or 2017 to be the best, but in the lower regions there were some excellent albums in 2013 and 2018. I think 2018 had the best prog to offer.

 

I had forgotten about those Deluge Grander albums ( Heliotians especially) so I've updated my list. Thumbs Up
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I'm a Kansas fan and I think it was 2016 when they released 'the prelude implicit' regardless of all the other great releases over the decade of which I've tried to listen to nothing means as much to me personally as when Kansas release new material, it's always a very special thing, well for me anyway. The more I play that album the more perfect it seems to get. I'm listening to it now as a matter of fact and still moved emotionally by it Big smile  

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If I go by "Z's Top Prog Tracks List", it would easily be 2013. 

Admittedly, though, there is not (yet) anything beyond 2016 on the list, partly due to the fact that I don't typically rush out to get the latest albums, but usually lag a couple years; then usually take a lot of listens (over several months) before adding any "standout" tracks to the list.

Of course, it is mostly (still) 70's that dominate the list.  Of the 317 tracks currently on it, 35 are from the 2010's, and of those, 12 are from 2013.

The albums from which these track come are:

The Raven that Refused to Sing....
English Electric Part II
Shrine of New Generation Slaves
The Mountain
Multipurpose Trap
Out of the Barnyard
Ritual (Nemrud)
Brief Nocturnes and Dreamless Sleep




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2019

Big Big Train
Neal Morse
Pattern-Seeking Animals
Banco Del Mutuo Soccorso
Gong
Jordsjo
IZZ
IQ
Magic Pie
Opeth
Hasse Froberg
Kaprekar's Constant
The Tea Club
Flying Colors
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The Flower Kings
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I'm not sure, something between 2012 and 2013.
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Originally posted by Tapfret Tapfret wrote:

My favorite album of the decade came from 2017.
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surprised nobody voted 2015.

Easily the best year in my book, though it's not just prog-wise.  
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Originally posted by Sean Trane Sean Trane wrote:

surprised nobody voted 2015.

Easily the best year in my book, though it's not just prog-wise.  
 

I struggled to find anything in that year I really loved. Steven Wilson - Hand Cannot Erase was okay but not at the same level of his 3 previous imo.

I checked the collab list thread and I made no comment so it's likely I didn't even submit a list that year.
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2015 was a terrific for me, just not as great as 2010

Guapo - Obscure Knowledge 
Reve General - Howl
Steensland, Simon - A Farewell To Brains
Unit Wail - Beyond Space Edges
Sonar - Black Light
Drake, William D. - Revere Reach 
Schnellertollermeier - X
A Formal Horse - Morning Jigsaw
Upsilon Acrux - Sun Square Dialect 
elephant9 - Silver Mountain
Jaga Jazzist - Starfire
Hooffoot - s/t
Scherzoo - 03
ni - Les insurgés de Romilly
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