Prog Critics' Choice 2020 Top 20

Wobbler easily from the ones I've heard. Nothing else in there made my personal top ten and only The Pineapple Thief scraped into my Top Twenty with Katatonia just outside. I thought both the Haken and Rick Wakeman albums were vastly overrated. There is a fair amount  on that list I haven't heard though.

Kind of like the PA Top 20, they have 20/25 magazine employees/critics/writers list their top 20, and this top 20 list is the compilation of the top 20 from these lists.  The magazine does provide a copy of each of the individual lists so one can peruse and see a lot of number bands that made the individual lists....they just didn't make enough of them to make the Top 20.  I only saw the PA #1, Zopp, on a few of the lists, and none were rated that high in their lists (that I can remember anyways). 

Edited by rushfan4 - March 17 2021 at 20:23

No Italian?

Rick Wakeman is an excellent form!!!!!

It's always a good idea to wear a helmet on the surface of The Red Planet. 

2020 was definitely a better year than that list implies, although that is my purely subjective take on it. Honestly, I felt last year was such an amazing year - and so much better than I would ever have expected, given what the world was going through (and continues to deal with). There was, of course, a lot of music already composed and/or recorded, etc. before covid and quarantines changed out world. But there was an awful lot of music that came from that, which might otherwise never have come to be, or have been released so soon, or in the manner it was. I could write twenty different top 20 lists, for different styles of music. There was just so much great stuff.

Went with Wobbler. Not enough weird stuff or RPI in the list. Haven't bought this magazine in over a year.

I have only heard two from this list, so no vote.

Wobbler over Wakeman. 

Rick Wakeman's superb Martian odyssey - the only album I know in the poll. No surprise there.