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Originally posted by Deadwing Deadwing wrote:

2 new great releases:

Mastodon - Hushed And Grim
Diablo Swing Orchestra - Swagger & Stroll Down the Rabbit Hole

Didn't realize this was out already
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Originally posted by Deadwing Deadwing wrote:

2 new great releases:

Mastodon - Hushed And Grim
Diablo Swing Orchestra - Swagger & Stroll Down the Rabbit Hole
Yesterday, I listened to some tracks of the new Mastodon. Very interesting ! Wink

And I am not a big fan of DSO.


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2 new great releases:

Mastodon - Hushed And Grim
Diablo Swing Orchestra - Swagger & Stroll Down the Rabbit Hole
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My top albums at the end of October 2021:

01-God Is An Astronaut: Ghost Tapes #10
02-Vola: Witness
03-Giant Sky: s/t
04-Human Factor: Observer
05-Leprous: Aphelion
06-Karmamoi; Room 101
07-Meer: Playing House
08-Subterranean Masquerade: Mountain Fever
09-AmartiA: Daylight Beauty
10-Feeling Of Presence: Of Lost Illusion
11-Soen: Imperial
12-Nine Skies: 5.20
13-Himmellegeme: Variola Vera
14-White Moth Black Butterfly: The Cost Of Dreaming
15-Enine: Spiritus Natura
16-Ske: Insolubilia
17-Cosmograf: Rattrapante
18-Dec Burke: Life In Two Dimensions
19-Illuminae: Dark Horizons
20-Lazuli: Dénudé.
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If I had to rank what I've listened to up to this point, it would go like this... Still have a lot more to listen to, so this is subject to change. 

1. Alco Frisbass -- Le Mystère du Gué Pucelle
2. Ars de Er -- Other Side
3. Caio Csizmar -- Decriptas
4. Gnohgnuhgnlus -- Thomisme
5. Shamblemaths -- Shamblemaths 2
6. Antony Kalugin -- Stellar Gardener
7. Czyszy -- Agent Mousey
8. Korekyojinn -- Mesopotamia
9. Jack Dupon -- JackAQuinzeAns
10. Alex Ward -- Gated
11. K’Mono -- Return to the ‘E’
12. Krokofant -- Fifth
13. Emme Phyzema -- Temporary Triumph
14. Mourning Knight -- Mourning Knight
15. Looking-Glass Lantern -- The Country House Weekend
16. Chance -- Original Worlds
17. Kerrs Pink -- Presence of Life
18. Monarch Trail -- Wither Down
19. Czyszy -- Retro Adventures
20. Neal Morse Band -- Innocence & Danger

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Originally posted by dr wu23 dr wu23 wrote:

Originally posted by Psychedelic Paul Psychedelic Paul wrote:

Originally posted by chopper chopper wrote:

Originally posted by Psychedelic Paul Psychedelic Paul wrote:

I almost forgot to mention the 5-star  "Frampton Forgets the Words" album by the Peter Frampton Band, although I realise my idea of a 5-star "masterpiece" may differ from almost everyone else here. Tongue

Played it, got bored half way through. I mean it's nice guitar playing but Frampton playing instrumental covers is not exactly a 5-star masterpiece.
Psychedelic Paul forgets the words to describe the album, but I remember hearing it for the first time and thinking this is even better than the classic Frampton Comes Alive! Smile


Peter Frampton covering Avalon by Roxy...seriously....I mean really..?
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote dr wu23 Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 01 2021 at 09:27
Originally posted by Psychedelic Paul Psychedelic Paul wrote:

Originally posted by chopper chopper wrote:

Originally posted by Psychedelic Paul Psychedelic Paul wrote:

I almost forgot to mention the 5-star  "Frampton Forgets the Words" album by the Peter Frampton Band, although I realise my idea of a 5-star "masterpiece" may differ from almost everyone else here. Tongue

Played it, got bored half way through. I mean it's nice guitar playing but Frampton playing instrumental covers is not exactly a 5-star masterpiece.
Psychedelic Paul forgets the words to describe the album, but I remember hearing it for the first time and thinking this is even better than the classic Frampton Comes Alive! Smile


Peter Frampton covering Avalon by Roxy...seriously....I mean really..?
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black midi - Cavalcade
Black Country, New Road - For the first time
Meat Mallet - A Formal Horse
Hedvig Mollestad Trio - Ding Dong. You’re Dead.
Alex Ward - Gated
Graham Costello's Strata - Second Lives
Desertion Trio - Numbers Maker
A Holy Family - s/t
Emma Jean Thackeray - Yellow
Ske - Insolubilia
Sons Of Kemet - Black To The Future
Squid - Bright Green Field
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Another couple to add:
Glass Hammer - Skalligrim: Into The Breach ****1/2
continuing the heavier approach of Dreaming City , and even more like Rush at times. If you're missing Rush then it's worth getting this, Steve Babb is a wonderful bass player.

Tori Amos - Ocean To Ocean ***1/2
Another lovely set of songs from our resident 'Cornwallian'  . Not very 'prog' but don't let that put you off necessarily.
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How about the new Drifting Sun? They now have Jargon on vocals. Just wow. 
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Cristi Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 26 2021 at 03:16
Originally posted by Psychedelic Paul Psychedelic Paul wrote:

Originally posted by chopper chopper wrote:

Originally posted by Psychedelic Paul Psychedelic Paul wrote:

I almost forgot to mention the 5-star  "Frampton Forgets the Words" album by the Peter Frampton Band, although I realise my idea of a 5-star "masterpiece" may differ from almost everyone else here. Tongue

Played it, got bored half way through. I mean it's nice guitar playing but Frampton playing instrumental covers is not exactly a 5-star masterpiece.
Psychedelic Paul forgets the words to describe the album, but I remember hearing it for the first time and thinking this is even better than the classic Frampton Comes Alive! Smile


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Originally posted by chopper chopper wrote:

Originally posted by Psychedelic Paul Psychedelic Paul wrote:

I almost forgot to mention the 5-star  "Frampton Forgets the Words" album by the Peter Frampton Band, although I realise my idea of a 5-star "masterpiece" may differ from almost everyone else here. Tongue

Played it, got bored half way through. I mean it's nice guitar playing but Frampton playing instrumental covers is not exactly a 5-star masterpiece.
Psychedelic Paul forgets the words to describe the album, but I remember hearing it for the first time and thinking this is even better than the classic Frampton Comes Alive! Smile

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Originally posted by Psychedelic Paul Psychedelic Paul wrote:

I almost forgot to mention the 5-star  "Frampton Forgets the Words" album by the Peter Frampton Band, although I realise my idea of a 5-star "masterpiece" may differ from almost everyone else here. Tongue

Played it, got bored half way through. I mean it's nice guitar playing but Frampton playing instrumental covers is not exactly a 5-star masterpiece.
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I'll also add Vangelis' latest masterpiece "From Juno to Jupiter" to my list, having just been lifted into orbit after hearing it for the first time. Thumbs Up
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Leprous - Aphelion
Agusa - En Annan värld
Dream Theater - A View From The Top of the World
Steven Wilson - The Future Bites
Frost - Day And Age
Himmellegene - Variola Vera
Big Big Train - Common Ground
Caligonaut - Magnified as Giants
Delving - Hischbrunnen
Motorpsycho - Kingdom of Oblivion

I'm waiting for Riverside and Diablo Swing Orchestra albums, though :D
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Steve Hackett - Under A Mediterranean Sky ****
Lifesigns -Altitude ****
3.2 - Third Impression ***
Liquid Tension Experiment - 3 ****
Frost* - Day and Age *****
Kayak - Out Of This World ****
Steven Wilson - The Future Bites ***
Kansas - Point of Know Return Live and Beyond ****
Big Big Train - Common Ground ****
Steve Hackett - The Surrender Of Silence****
IO Earth - Acoustic Vol 1 ****
Vangelis - From Juno To Jupiter ****

shaping up to be a good year , Frost leading the way but BBT, Steve Hackett and LTE not far behind 



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Originally posted by progaardvark progaardvark wrote:

Originally posted by progaardvark progaardvark wrote:

I had only managed to find three albums back in June when this was posted. I've been listening to some more new stuff over the last month. I think these all might be worthy of around 3.8 out of 5 and higher:

Black Midi - Cavalcade
Blacksmith Tales - The Dark Presence
Caligonaut - Magnified as Giants
Cast - Vigesimus
Chance - Original Worlds
Cosmograf - Rattrapante
Caio Csizmar - Decriptas
Czyszy - Agent Mousey
The Emerald Dawn - To Touch the Sky
Ensemble 1 - Guitar, Bass & Drums
Eyesberg - Claustrophobia
The Flying Luttenbachers - Negative Infinity
French TV - All Our Failures Are Behind Us
Snakes Don't Belong in Alaska - The Eternal Electric Landscape
Sun Colored Chair - Seated
Stephan Thelen - Fractal Guitar 2
Transatlantic - The Absolute Universe: The Breath of Life (Abridged Version)

Here are some more to add to the list above:
Fufluns - Refusés
Gnohgnuhgnlus - Thomisme
God Is an Astronaut - Ghost Tapes #10
Heavy Moon - Heavy Moon 20
Infinitome - Voyage Home
Inner Prospekt - Canvas Two
Jack Dupon - JackAQuinzeAns
Jack Dupon - La république dominicale du zoo
Jordsjø - Pastoralia

More to add since last post:
Canvas Solaris - Chromosphere
Czyszy - Retro Adventures
A Formal Horse - Meat Mallet
Fragile - Beyond
K'Mono - Return to the 'E"
Antony Kalugin - Stellar Gardener
Kerrs Pink - Presence of Life
Korekyojinn - Mesopotamia
Lucas Lee - Sindrome de Estocolmo
Liquid Tension Experiment - Liquid Tension Experiment 3
Metamorphosis - I'm Not a Hero
Monobody - Comma
Mourning Knight - Mourning Knight
Noisy Diners - The Princess of the Allen Keys (The History of Manto)
Papangu - Holoceno
Paradigm Blue - Transist
Emme Phyzema - Temporary Triumph

Since last posting on August 21, here is more stuff I think of as worthy of at least a 3.75 rating or higher:

Agusa - En Annan Värld
Alco Frisbass - Le Mystère du Gué Pucelle
The Arc Light Sessions - The Poetry in Contemplation
Ars de Er - Other Side
Arts - Find a Way
Big Big Train - Common Ground
Big Hogg - Pageant of Beasts
Samuel Cadima - 70TU5
Chain Reaktor - Homesick
Ciccada - Harvest
Department of Revenge - Shut Up, and Pay the Bill
Diagonal - 4
Elephant9 - Arrival of the New Elders
Evership - The Uncrowned King, Act 1
Falling Into Birds - Scraps of Paper
The Far Cry - If Only
Feeling of Presence - Of Lost Illusion (on PA under the name Frequency Drift)
Finally George - Icy Skies
The Flying Caravan - I Just Wanna Break Even
Fred Frith and Ikue Mori - A Mountain Doesn't Know It's Tall
Galaad - Paradis posthumes
Giant Sky - Giant Sky
Himmellegeme - Variola Vera
Horte - Maa Antaa Yön Vaientaa
Isildurs Bane - In Disequilibrium
Antony Kalugin - Chameleon Shapeshifter
Krokofant - Fifth
Lind - A Hundred Years: The Justification of Reality, Part 1
Maat Lander - Elements: Air
Manna / Mirage - Man Out of Time
Möbius Strip - Time Lag
Neal Morse Band - Innocence & Danger
Bader Nana - Wormwood II
The Old Mill Free Ensemble - Moments
Perfect Storm - No Air
Perilymph - Tout en haut
Emme Phyzema - Shorts Are Comfy and Easy to Wear
Il Porto di Venere - E pensa che mi meraviglio ancora
Prognoise - Lacrimal
Red Sand - The Sound of the Seventh Bell
Ske - Insolubilia
Tom Slatter - Escape
Suburban Savages - Demagogue Day (on PA under the name Tr-Ond and the Suburban Savages)
The Sun or the Moon - Cosmic
thedeepstate - Mysinformation Highway Part 1
François Thollot - Happy Lockdown
François Thollot - Virtually Spring
François Thollot - Reboot
François Thollot - The End of the Past
Thy Catafalque - Vadak
Time Traveller - Chapters V & VI
Trees Speak - PostHuman
Trettioåriga Kriget - Till Horisonten
The Trip - Caronte 50 Years Later
Umphrey's McGee - You Walked Up Shaking in Your Boots but You Stood Tall and Left a Raging Bull
Pierre Vervloesem - Ruder
Pierre Vervloesem - 2020
Vienna Circle - Secrets of the Rising Sun
Alex Ward - Gated
The Watch - The Art of Bleeding
Zombi - Liquid Crystal [EP]
3.2 - Third Impression
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I almost forgot to mention the 5-star  "Frampton Forgets the Words" album by the Peter Frampton Band, although I realise my idea of a 5-star "masterpiece" may differ from almost everyone else here. Tongue
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Originally posted by Mirakaze Mirakaze wrote:

Originally posted by Mirakaze Mirakaze wrote:

So far I think this year's shaping up better than the last one. Not every year can be a 2019. The new Rascal Reporters release did not disappoint and I'm looking forward to the new Missigno album too (and very much to the new Devilish Dear album but that's not really prog).

My favourite prog albums of this year so far (I've heard most of these just once up until now so my opinion may change in the future):
- Monobody - Comma
- Black Midi - Cavalcade
- The Fourth World Quartet - 1975
- Desertion Trio - Numbers Maker
- Real Loud - Real Loud
- Mahogany Frog - In The Electric Universe
- Sun Colored Chair - Seated
- Cody Carpenter - Memories And Dreams


Updating my list one month down the line, I'm going to add:
- Música D' Repuesto - Fake
- Fred Frith & Ikue Mori - A Mountain Doesn't Know It's Tall
- Machine Mass Sextet - Intrusion
- Gnohgnuhgnlus - Thomisme
- Greco Bastián - EP
- Owane - YOLO EP, Vol. 1


Another update:
- Pierre Vervloesem - Ruder
- Coevality - Multiple Personalities
- John McLaughlin - Liberation Time
- Mediabanda - Maquinarias
- Alex Ward - Gated
- Microkingdom - Minds In Deep Neutral
- Ángel Ontalva - Angel On A Tower
- Pierre Vervloesem - Flambant Neuf
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Hedvig Mollstad Trio - Ding Dong You're Dead
Needlepoint – Walking Up That Valley
Elephant9 - Arrival of the New Elders
Tusmorke – Nordisc Krim
Caligonaut - Magnified As Giants
Jordsjo – Pastoralia
Vesilinja - Vesilinja
Portico Quartet - Terrain
Emma-Jean Thackray - Yellow
Graham Costello & Strata - Second Lives
Sons Of Kemet - Black To The Future
Matthew Halsall - Salute To The Sun
Nik Bärtsch – Entendre
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - G-d's Pee at State's End
Hoodna Orchestra – Offel
Machine Mass Sextet – Intrusion
Francois Thollot - Happy Lockdown
François Thollot – Virtually Spring
François Thollot - Tensions
Ske - Insolubilia
Ryley Walker And Kikagaku Moyo – Deep Fried Grandeur
Pasajero Luminoso - Pujol
Jay Tausig - Ancient Roots, New Branches
Green Diesel - After Comes The Dark[/QUOTE]
CAN - Live In Stuttgart 1975
Alco Frisbass - le mystere du gue pucelle

it's starting to peeve me off that CDs are not getting proposed by some of these AngryConfusedCry

I may exclude a few from my top list just because of that issue. Pig
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