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miamiscot 
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I was really nervous about this one. Being a huge XTC fan, the absence of Dave Gregory was concerning. I was worried over nothing - it's fantastic!!!
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Gentle and Giant
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Posted: August 04 2021 at 08:45 |
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Played it twice now. For me it'll be up there with black midi this year.
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Oh, for the wings of any bird, other than a battery hen
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AlanB
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Posted: August 04 2021 at 13:28 |
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There are a few advance reviews of the new Neal Morse Band album (due out on 3 weeks) online and they're all very positive. I'm particularly looking forward to hearing their prog version of Bridge Over Troubled Water.
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miamiscot
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Posted: August 05 2021 at 07:32 |
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I think a lot of people will like the new NMB (Neal Morse Band.)
It's a double album but NOT a concept album. The first disc (Innocence) has the shorter songs and disc two (Danger) is comprised of two long epics. And they are both great.
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Sean Trane
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Posted: August 08 2021 at 03:37 |
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So far (and I'm sure I'm missing one or two) No particular order (so far)
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 Pasajero Luminoso - Pujol Jay Tausig - Ancient Roots, New Branches Green Diesel - After Comes The Dark Can't be official Birth - Birth (demo album) Edited by Sean Trane - August 08 2021 at 04:20 |
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let's just stay above the moral melee
prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
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Cristi
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Posted: August 08 2021 at 06:21 |
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my favorite prog album of 2021 (so far)is Needlepoint's. I doubt anything would top that. Now I sound pessimistic.
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Nogbad_The_Bad
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Posted: August 08 2021 at 07:21 |
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Nice list Hugues, agree on a lot, will check out others. Those Thollot's good? I've kinda skipped passed them so far.
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Ian
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dougmcauliffe
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Posted: August 08 2021 at 10:59 |
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Have you ever seen a pre-release review from anything related to the Neal Morse/Mike Portnoy camp that hasn't been overly positive and borderline circlejerky though? Just for it to come out and be another Neal Morse album? ProgReport is the biggest offender in this department
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Sacro_Porgo
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Posted: August 10 2021 at 02:23 |
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I've not really listened to much new prog, though I do really enjoy Steve Hackett's new classical guitar album.
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Porg for short. My love of music doesn't end with prog! Feel free to discuss all sorts of music with me. Odds are I'll give it a chance if I haven't already! :)
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Jeffro
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Posted: August 10 2021 at 08:25 |
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After a few more listens, it's good but I definitely like Flamethrower better. I just connect more with the songs on that album than Meat Mallet
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Jeffro
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Posted: August 10 2021 at 08:27 |
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I love Spock's Beard with Morse but of all the stuff he's done since then I haven't really found much that really grabs me.
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Sean Trane
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Posted: August 10 2021 at 08:28 |
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I posted the Bandcamp for each on the PE 2021 best of (so far), one of them in the very first post.
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let's just stay above the moral melee
prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
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Posted: August 19 2021 at 01:34 |
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My top albums (August 2021):
01-God Is An Astronaut: Ghost Tapes #10 02-Giant Sky: s/t 03-Human Factor: Observer 04-Karmamoi: Room 101 05-Meer: Playing House 06-Subterranean Masquerade: Mountain Fever 07-AmartiA: Daylight Beauty 08-Feeling Of Presence: Of Lost Illusion 09-Nine Skies: 5.20 10-White Moth Black Butterfly: The Cost Of Dreaming 11-Cosmograf: Rattrapante 12-Illuminae: Dark Horizons 13-Lazuli: Dénudé.
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miamiscot
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Posted: August 19 2021 at 12:03 |
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Yeah, they are fans of Neal's music. Very smart people over there!!!
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Posted: August 19 2021 at 12:15 |
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Adding:- The Holy Family - s/t Graham Costello / Strata - Second Life A Formal Horse - Meat Mallet Emma-Jean Thackray - Yellow Craig Fortnam - Ark Ske - Insolubilia Twospeak - Reflector The Flying Luttenbachers - Negative Infinity Edited by Nogbad_The_Bad - August 19 2021 at 12:17 |
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Zeph
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Posted: August 20 2021 at 13:26 |
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Needlepoint and Caligonaut so far, but I have not been exploring much so far this year. Mostly what I’ve stumbled over or found on the PA top list.
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Posted: August 21 2021 at 09:36 |
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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
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Posted: August 23 2021 at 14:33 |
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Can't wait to hear this!!! Kavus Torabi!!! (The new one from A Formal Horse is truly awesome too.)
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Posted: August 24 2021 at 00:22 |
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I tend to take a pretty expansive view of what comprises "prog." My tastes also lean more metallic than this forum as a whole, but here's my top 10 so far (listed alphabetically by artist): -Æthĕrĭa Conscĭentĭa - Corrupted Pillars of Vanity -black midi - Cavalcade -Caligonaut - Magnified as Giants -Frummyrkrið - Dauðans Myrkri Genghis Tron - Dream Weapon -Neptunian Maximalism - Solar Drone Ceremony -Papangu - Holoceno -Bobby Shock - Street Angels -Stone Healer - Conquistador -Suburban Savages - Demagogue Days
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Cristi
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Posted: August 24 2021 at 04:14 |
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Big Hogg - Pageant Of Beasts
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