Another 4's: 2004, 2014 and 2024 albums

I took the three in a row for 2014 Electric Orange, Kayo Dot and King Gizzard. With Volume 10 being my favourite of those. That one took a while to click with me. Some call it their most krautrock sounding record.

richardh wrote: Not much I know here but I voted for Beth Gibbons very nice ambient pop record. I have heard both albums by The Smile but I'm not really 'feeling it' tbh (''Radiohead lite''??!)

"Radiohead lite"?! Yet I could not get into them.
And i do love a few Radiohead albums.

^ I will give them a second chance as soon as i have the time.

^ I prepared this before your list. I have been doing multiple things and I am slow. So now Seven Swans, which you brought to my attention as I recall, gets two votes.

^^ "Bending Hectic" is pretty much me on a plate. I like the debut a lot from 2022, but I think it can help to be fan of A Moon Shaped Pool with some of that. I like Wall of Eyes a lot (I think that is my favourite The Smile album).

Anyway, while I don't usually vote in my own polls when it comes to lists of personal favourites -- seems both rather pointless to vote (I voted for all of them by including them already) and a little disloyal to those I don't vote for, but I will try and go with five with no votes {but Seven Swans has a vote but I could not go without it).

Seven Swans by Sufjan Stevens. I have been talking about him a lot for quite some time, and this is one of my very favourite albums of his. Here is the last track from it.



Bruno Pernadas from Portugal is brilliant for his space-age, psych, jazz music with lounge qualities. and this track is one of my favourites of his. I adore this (it is so very me):



Julia Holter - Something in the Room She Moves. I'm a big Julia Jolter fan.



Hypnotic World by Ghost. Now this psych band from Japan should not be confused with the hard rock/ heavy metal band from Sweden.



Kimbanourke - Binjari. So much great music, films and TV coming out of South Korea and this is no exception.



Is that five already, I want to go with six, so here's a vote for St. Vincent's All Born Screaming (Annie Clark has been a big part of my life over the past two or so years and she was in concert in Vancouver for this album, and I regret not going...).



Kikagaky Moyo really should have got my vote too (was expecting that to get at least one vote), and Flotation Toy Warning. But all are faves of mine of course.

Edited by Logan - May 28 2025 at 08:37

That is the first Air album I got into, when it was new, and that was before I got into the vast majority of music at PA. I don't know how to phrase this quite right, but I would not easily imagine many polls here (other than mine) where Air and Electric Orange might be both in it and leading. That said, I know Air has had quite a few fans at PA of diverse interests, especially for Moon Safari. Was happy to see Air at the Paris Olympics closing ceremony (had told my wife I hoped they would feature). I would have bet on Magma's K.A. to be in the lead, I think, if anything (one of its more or most "mainstream Prog" albums I would say).

Edited by Logan - Yesterday at 05:46

^ I'm very into GY!BE. It has been making great music since the 90s, and its album in the poll was at least my top ranked album that I think was applicable for the Prog Archives 2024 Album of the Year (it ended up tying for 22nd place with Pineapple Thief in the results of the thing). For those that may be interested to review again, or see it for the first time: PA Albums of 2024: Official Results That topic should be stickied, but methinks I'd have to change some forum settings at least temporarily for that (messed up the code of a topic when using the sticky function on such a topic at one time).