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chopper
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Abel Ganz - The Life of the Honey Bee...
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Nogbad_The_Bad
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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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Ian
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peskypesky
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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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Prog fan since 1974.
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Nogbad_The_Bad
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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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Ian
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dougmcauliffe
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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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Sagichim
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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 Ovrfwrd
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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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Nogbad_The_Bad
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Yeah, that may well end up #1 for me at year end, monstrously good.
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Ian
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Tapfret
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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. Edited by Tapfret - November 16 2020 at 14:20 |
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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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Nogbad_The_Bad
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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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Ian
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Sagichim
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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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nick_h_nz
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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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triptych
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Woooow !!! What an amazing list !! Edited by triptych - November 24 2020 at 06:31 |
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Ratings are the same for myself |
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Kansas album isn’t on my list was on the essential first listening. |
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richardh
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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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progaardvark
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^I second the Isobar recommendation.
Listen to it here: https://isobarprog.bandcamp.com/album/isobar
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