PA Release Polls: Open to all PA members

1. David Cross - David Cross Band : Ice Blue, Silver Sky {ap:66616}

2. LogoS - Bokeh {ap:66825}

3. D'Virgilio, Morse & Jennings - Sophomore {ap:65659}

4. This Winter Machine - The Clockwork Man {ap:65230}

5. Galahad - The Long Goodbye {ap:65324}

How can one best keep track of new releases? About a year ago I started to put effort into collecting many different sources into the AwesomeProg.com (AP) database. But how to pick the most interesting releases to listen to from more than 200 new releases per month?

This is an ongoing effort to chart these new releases. There is a poll for each calendar month (AOTM), and there's also a poll for each year (AOTY). The polls are open to all PA forum users, and they are hosted at AP for technical reasons. Each user can vote for their favorite releases for each month and year, including all types of releases. You do not need to register at AP in order to participate. Simply go to the poll page at AP, select your favorite releases and then post them here in this thread (please only one list per post). If you like you can also register at AP and benefit from other tools like the listening queue and wishlist which can help you to keep track of all the releases you listened to, but like I mentioned above, an AP account will never be required to participate.

Currently the monthly polls have a limit of five releases, and the yearly poll has a limit of 20 releases. The limit means that for each user, only this number of releases from their list will yield points for any particular combined result list. Users can and should submit much longer lists, provided that they have that many favorite releases.

Ok, so let the voting begin! See you on the poll page at
https://awesomeprog.com/release-polls/pa/aoty-2023!

To recap, here's how you participate:

- Go to the poll page (link above).

- Select your favorite releases (using the filters and search box).

- Sort your releases.

- Copy the forum code (there's a link/textbox below your list that does that).

- Paste it in a new post in this thread.

- My scripts will eventually capture your list and add it to the database.

- Check the results on the poll page.

- At some point each particular poll will be closed (or at least a snapshot will be made), and the results will be posted in a thread in this forum.

Here's some more suggestions/info for how this works:

- Only put releases on the list which you really find awesome! You do not need to hit the maximum number of releases for each month/year. Each release you put in the list should be a serious recommendation.
- You can and should put any release in the list that you really like, regardless of genre or prog status. By default you can select from all releases at PA (excluding singles/demos/etc), but you can remove that filter and select from all releases at AP.

- From the list you submit the system will pull releases into different combined result lists, including one exclusively for non-prog releases. This enables you to focus on assembling a list of your actual favorite releases, while also making sure that people looking only for progressive music do not get annoyed by non-prog items.

- Don't think of this as a competition between releases where there are winners and losers - it's not about the point "score" a release gets. Instead, think of the "winners" at the top of each list as the more popular releases, and the "losers" at the bottom as the more obscure ones. Check them out preferably, and if you like them, put them in your list! 

- If your favorite release is missing, please register at AP and add it yourself. Any registered user at AP can add artists and releases. You only need to add the basic data (artist name, release name, year and type), and we will add all the metadata we can find, including links to spotify and bandcamp.

- If there's a problem or something is not working correctly, please drop me a PM or contact me via the AP feedback form.

- Even if you do not want to submit a list yourself (yet), you can still browse the lists of other users to find cool music to listen to.