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Abel Ganz - The Life of the Honey Bee...
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The new release from Schnellertollermeier will end up in my top 3 by years end. Wonderful slab of Swiss minimalist brutal jazz.

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Originally posted by Nogbad_The_Bad Nogbad_The_Bad wrote:

The new release from Schnellertollermeier will end up in my top 3 by years end. Wonderful slab of Swiss minimalist brutal jazz.


so far, I've really liked your choices. You've turned me on to a lot of great artists I would not otherwise have known.  Since you and I share a musical sensibility, and I'm a Cuneiform fan, I'll be checking that one out as well. Muchas gracias.
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Thanks! If you like that one certainly check out their previous 2 albums, they're even more intense than this one.
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Alright so here's where we're currently at

Rating Pending=Still Digestating But I Have a General Idea Where It's Going to Fall
 
1: Wobbler/Dwellers of the Deep (Moderate-Strong 4 Stars)
2: The Flower Kings/Islands (Rating Pending)
3: Haken/Virus (Light-Decent 4 Stars)
4: Motorpsycho/The All is One (Rating Pending, Good Chance it Moves to Top 3)
5: Pain of Salvation/Panther (Very Strong 3 Stars/Very Light 4 Stars)
6: Pendragon/Love Over Fear (Very Strong 3 Stars)
7: Arabs in Aspic/Madness and Magic (Very Strong 3 Stars)
8: Kansas/The Absence of Presence (Light 3 Stars, Liked it Initially, Quickly Grew Tired of It)

Still Need to Listen:

Lunatic Soul/Through Shaded Woods
Logos/Sadako....
Zopp/Self Titled
King Gizzard/K.G. (Comes out in 5 days, anticipate this giving Panther the top 5 boot)
Pure Reason Revolution/Eupnea 
A ton of other crap to be honest i've been slacking


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My no. #1 album for this year would be Pure Reason Revolution - Eupnea

Other great albums are by:
Dai Kaht
Zopp
Wobbler
Pendragon 
Ozric Tentacles
Chromb!
Jaga Jazzist
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 Long Earth - Once Around the Sun
Pendragon - Love Over Fear
La Maschera Di Ceramic - S.E.I.
Wobbler - Dwellers
Rick Wakeman - Red Planet

I’m not sure I enjoyed any other. 
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This will be high on my list. Just picked it up today, absolute monster.

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Yeah, that may well end up #1 for me at year end, monstrously good.
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^yeah, I was not expecting what hit my ears. Steensland never impressed me before, will have to go back and relisten to his other stuff. And Thirlwell I was unfamiliar with, though I had heard the Venture Bros soundtracks in the show.

My top 5 at the moment (order subject to change):

Immortal Onion - XD
World Sanguine Report - Skeleton Blush
Grimény - Die Große Aufgabe
Cthulu Rise - Last
JG Thirlwell & Simon Steensland - Oscollospira

Others:

Zopp
Ghost Rhythms - Imaginary Mountains (caught this one off your Bandcamp list)

Haven't listened to Scherzoo's latest all the way through, but have high hopes. Also predicting Le Grand Sbam will have a high spot. Also have Schnellertollermeier on the way. I think their last album was somewhere near the end of my top 20 that year...or just outside of it. The tracks I have heard from this one are more enjoyable.

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My single favorite album from this year is 'Whoosh' by Deep Purple, and I really don't see any other album taking that first place.
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I'm nor sure I can prioritize these yet, I think my top 3 are:-

JG Thirlwell & Simon Steensland - Oscillospira
Mary Halvorson's Code Girl - Artless Falling
Schnellertollermeier - 5

Followed by

Behold The Arctopus - Hapelectic Overtrove
Dan Weiss Starebaby - Natural Selection
Darrifourcq / Hermia / Ceccaldi - Kaiju Eats Cheeseburgers
Led Bib - Live at The Vortex Jazz Club
Nubya Garcia - Source
The Yazz Ahmed Quintet - When We…
Polymorphie - Claire Venus
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The new Days Between Stations album is also great.
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  The Symbol Remains by Blue Oyster Cult
Power Up by AC/DC
....................................so far :)
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I’ve listened to well over 200 releases from 2020 so far, and while I would never suggest that all are contenders for my favourites of the year, the list of those that are is still surprisingly long. There have been a number of albums hat have really impressed me, and I guess it would be easier to whittle them down to a smaller list if they were all from the same, or similar, genre(s), because it would be easier to compare them, and work out which I enjoy more. Surely I can’t be the only one that finds it hard to rank enjoyment and favourite factor across genres?

Here’s the (long) short list, in alphabetical order. I’ll come back to it, if I manage to make it shorter! 😄🤪

Aadal - Silver
Adenine - Adenine
Aksak Maboul - Figures
The Animal State - Genus
Arabs in Aspic - Madness and Magic
Arcing Wires - Prime
Asian Death Crustacean- Baikal
Brudini - From Darkness, Light
Compassionizer - Caress of Compassion
Alex Crispin & Nicholas Whittaker  - Irian Jaga
Darkroom - Home Diaries 029
Desert Session Home Edition - Phase 1
Dool - Summerland
Doringo - Gužva u Svemiru
Eishan Ensemble - Afternoon Tea at Six
Electric Mud - Quiet Days on Earth
elliot. - As He Now Appears
The Erkonauts - I Want It To End
Eternal Wanderers- Homeless Soul
The Folsom Project - The Wolf and The Skull
Fren - Where Do You Want Ghosts To Reside
Ghost Toast - Shape Without Form
Golden Caves - Dysergy
Grandval - Descendu Sur Terre
Gravity Machine - Red
Green Carnation - Leaves of Yesteryear
Grumblewood - Stories of Strangers
The Hirsch Effekt - Kollaps 
hubris. - Metempsychosis 
Jonathan Hultén - Chants From Another Place
Japonica - Into the Kaleidoscope 
Jargon - The Fading Thought
Jupiter Hollow - Bereavement 
Dusan Jevtovic - If You See Me
Kalandra - The Line
Karina - 2
Kekal - Quantum Resolution
Kilter - Axiom
Laughing Stock - The Island
Phil Lively - The Fall
LogoS - Sadako...
Long Distance Calling - How Do We Want To Live?
Lucynine - Amor Venenat
Julia Marcell - Skull Echo
Marhold - A Homemade World
Maud the Moth - Orphné
Giorgi Mikadze - Georgian Microjamz
Ottone Pesante - DoomooD 
Our Oceans - While Time Disappears
Outside In - Karmatrain
Pencarrow - Growth in The Absence Of Light
Pie Are Squared - Muri 
Pie Are Squared - Con Calma
Ping - The ZigZag Manoeuvre
Postvorta - Porrima
Postvorta - Siderael 
Professor Tip Top - Tomorrow Is Delayed
Pull Down The Sun - Of Valleys And Mountains
Quel Che Disse Il Tuono - Il Velo Dei Riflessi
Mariana Semkina - Sleepwalking
Sky Cries Mary - Secrets of a Red Planet
Tic Tic - Comfort in the Echo
Turtle Skull - Monoliths
Void of Sleep - Metaphora
3,14 - Bombyx Mori 

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Originally posted by nick_h_nz nick_h_nz wrote:

I’ve listened to well over 200 releases from 2020 so far, and while I would never suggest that all are contenders for my favourites of the year, the list of those that are is still surprisingly long. There have been a number of albums hat have really impressed me, and I guess it would be easier to whittle them down to a smaller list if they were all from the same, or similar, genre(s), because it would be easier to compare them, and work out which I enjoy more. Surely I can’t be the only one that finds it hard to rank enjoyment and favourite factor across genres?

Here’s the (long) short list, in alphabetical order. I’ll come back to it, if I manage to make it shorter! 😄🤪

Aadal - Silver
Adenine - Adenine
Aksak Maboul - Figures
The Animal State - Genus
Arabs in Aspic - Madness and Magic
Arcing Wires - Prime
Asian Death Crustacean- Baikal
Brudini - From Darkness, Light
Compassionizer - Caress of Compassion
Alex Crispin & Nicholas Whittaker  - Irian Jaga
Darkroom - Home Diaries 029
Desert Session Home Edition - Phase 1
Dool - Summerland
Doringo - Gužva u Svemiru
Eishan Ensemble - Afternoon Tea at Six
Electric Mud - Quiet Days on Earth
elliot. - As He Now Appears
The Erkonauts - I Want It To End
Eternal Wanderers- Homeless Soul
The Folsom Project - The Wolf and The Skull
Fren - Where Do You Want Ghosts To Reside
Ghost Toast - Shape Without Form
Golden Caves - Dysergy
Grandval - Descendu Sur Terre
Gravity Machine - Red
Green Carnation - Leaves of Yesteryear
Grumblewood - Stories of Strangers
The Hirsch Effekt - Kollaps 
hubris. - Metempsychosis 
Jonathan Hultén - Chants From Another Place
Japonica - Into the Kaleidoscope 
Jargon - The Fading Thought
Jupiter Hollow - Bereavement 
Dusan Jevtovic - If You See Me
Kalandra - The Line
Karina - 2
Kekal - Quantum Resolution
Kilter - Axiom
Laughing Stock - The Island
Phil Lively - The Fall
LogoS - Sadako...
Long Distance Calling - How Do We Want To Live?
Lucynine - Amor Venenat
Julia Marcell - Skull Echo
Marhold - A Homemade World
Maud the Moth - Orphné
Giorgi Mikadze - Georgian Microjamz
Ottone Pesante - DoomooD 
Our Oceans - While Time Disappears
Outside In - Karmatrain
Pencarrow - Growth in The Absence Of Light
Pie Are Squared - Muri 
Pie Are Squared - Con Calma
Ping - The ZigZag Manoeuvre
Postvorta - Porrima
Postvorta - Siderael 
Professor Tip Top - Tomorrow Is Delayed
Pull Down The Sun - Of Valleys And Mountains
Quel Che Disse Il Tuono - Il Velo Dei Riflessi
Mariana Semkina - Sleepwalking
Sky Cries Mary - Secrets of a Red Planet
Tic Tic - Comfort in the Echo
Turtle Skull - Monoliths
Void of Sleep - Metaphora
3,14 - Bombyx Mori 


Woooow !!! What an amazing list !!

Edited by triptych - November 24 2020 at 06:31
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Originally posted by dougmcauliffe dougmcauliffe wrote:

Alright so here's where we're currently at

Rating Pending=Still Digestating But I Have a General Idea Where It's Going to Fall
 
1: Wobbler/Dwellers of the Deep (Moderate-Strong 4 Stars)
2: The Flower Kings/Islands (Rating Pending)
3: Haken/Virus (Light-Decent 4 Stars)
4: Motorpsycho/The All is One (Rating Pending, Good Chance it Moves to Top 3)
5: Pain of Salvation/Panther (Very Strong 3 Stars/Very Light 4 Stars)
6: Pendragon/Love Over Fear (Very Strong 3 Stars)
7: Arabs in Aspic/Madness and Magic (Very Strong 3 Stars)
8: Kansas/The Absence of Presence (Light 3 Stars, Liked it Initially, Quickly Grew Tired of It)

Still Need to Listen:

Lunatic Soul/Through Shaded Woods
Logos/Sadako....
Zopp/Self Titled
King Gizzard/K.G. (Comes out in 5 days, anticipate this giving Panther the top 5 boot)
Pure Reason Revolution/Eupnea 
A ton of other crap to be honest i've been slacking









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Originally posted by richardh richardh wrote:

Wobbler - Dwellers of The Deep

everything else

Glass Hammer - Dreaming City
The Flower Kings - Islands
IO Earth - Aura
Isobar - Isobar
Kansas - The Absence Of Presence
Gungfly - Alone Together
Deep Purple - Whoosh!
The Pineapple Thief - Versions Of The Truth
The Tangent - Auto Reconnaissance





Kansas album isn’t on my list was on the essential first listening.
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I would now add Katatonia - City Burials to my list. Didn't like it at first but it's definitely growing on me.

I encourage all fans of instrumental prog to check out the Isobar album. It's as captivating as the Far Corner album from a few years ago although not exactly the same style. It seems to be flying under the radar and not on many list. So far this year its the only album threatening Wobbler for me.
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^I second the Isobar recommendation.

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