Great new progressive bands

So the OP was lookingfor just RIO and Avant bands? Jeez, just do a search on this site for that category(and maybe add eclectic prog)for the past ten years or so.

Edited by AFlowerKingCrimson - October 28 2018 at 14:28

Raff wrote: I think the OP asked for recommendations of great albums released from 2010 to this day, not just for bands/artists that started out in this (not yet complete) decade - hence my own recommendations. Now, as promised, I'd like to add a few more - this time concentrating on the US scene. Alec K Redfearn and the Eyesores - Sister Death (2012) - already mentioned by my better half Ut Gret - Ancestor's Tale (2014) Frogg Cafe - Bateless Edge (2010) MoeTar - From These Small Seeds (2010) miRthkon - Snacks (2013) Moraine - Groundswell (2013) A shout out for some excellent albums of a more "mainstream" persuasion, which should appeal to those who prefer not to stray too far from classic prog modes: Phideaux - Snowtorch (2011) Shadow Circus - On a Dark and Stormy Night (2013) 3rd Degree - The Long Division (2012) The Tea Club - Grappling (2015) Hands - Caviar Bobsled (2015) More to come later...

Yeah most of my reco's are RIO, in my defense Raff and Logan recoed a bunch of non-RIO bands I would have picked and 4 of mine are jazz or folk.

Most of the modern Prog albums in my collection are so-called avant-prog or avant prog-related music, so that's a reason why it will be heavily represented. If this were 2000-2009, there would more PA categories represented and more progressive music outside of Prog Archives. Still, had I put more thought into my post, I would have put various others in there and there would be a wider range of progressive music on display. At first I was just planning to mention Bent Knee as a band, but then decided to list some of my fave album from this decade. Where I think I went most wrong wasn't in being diverse enough, with more thought and time I would have been, but that some of the music I included isn't that progressive (as an adjective and some is downright retro). I certainly wish I'd included jazz fusion, art pop, electronica, jazz, and some modern academic or experimental music that is progressive while not being rock, and I think that a lot of bands that have explored alternative/experimental rock would work (in a similar vein to Radiohead, which has been a very progressive band in terms of its evolution).

Another that now springs to mind is the post pop of Julia Holter with the album Tragedy. And I'd like to mention Anna von Hausswolff's The Miraculous and Ishraqiyun's Perichoresis.

Lewian wrote: Doesn't perhaps really belong in this thread but as micky mentioned the spectacular Mirrored album of Battles, I can't stop myself from posting an incredibly dynamic version of "Atlas" (no. 1 song of the century up to now) still  with Tyondai, nominated by me earlier as a solo artist.

oh well digested Ian. Have and love all their albums and do consider Mirrored to be the 21st century version of ITCOTCK..  but as David noted in his stellar review of La Di Da TI it will just take some time.. for Hip Hip's hold on popular music to fade.. and 'prog fan'  to die off along with supporting boring generic retro genre(unprogressive )acts and a younger more open minded generation to take over

it was very much a product of merging a rock band with computer technology..  some say the first... most all say the most fullly realized of what will likely come to dominate later 21st century rock music.  Again.. just how revolutionary it was... will really only be seen in the years to come when the finger is pointed back to that album as the genesis where it all began.

I think OK Computer and that particular sentiment had less to do with it musically.. great album as it was...but in the context of it... with the beginning of the prog revival of the 90's but as it is now sadly very evident... that has sort of died.  The divorce I have posted about over the last years is very much in play and the Battles is a perfect example of the truly progressive that has no.. zero basis in the genre of prog rock. Which of course it what doomed Prog Rock..  it became a set of axioms and conditions one had to check off to meet approval of 'prog fan'.. which when you reach that point.. you are creatively dead as a genre which where prog rock has arrived at.  

Edited by micky - October 29 2018 at 19:42