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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Psychedelic Paul Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 11 2022 at 09:39
Originally posted by Nogbad_The_Bad Nogbad_The_Bad wrote:

Rick Wakeman didn't release an album?

That surprised me too. The album would've been on my 2021 favourites list for sure if he had done. Smile
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Lewian Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 11 2022 at 10:32
Originally posted by richardh richardh wrote:

Originally posted by Lewian Lewian wrote:

My 2021 favourite still (now having heard quite a few more) is Splinters Vol. I by Battlestations, and although I'm used to my taste not being mainstream, I am somewhat bewildered by not seeing this mentioned by anyone else, and be it under honorary mentions below rank 20. 

apparently there is a Volume Two as well!
 

Yes, and I actually have already reviewed it. It's good, but it sounds a bit like 2/3 continuation of Vol. I (great) and 1/3 some more stuff thrown in to arrive at album length (not quite that great), so I prefer Vol. I.

Other things that really have impressed me (in the meantime I've heard enough to have a top 20 and more):
Aquaserge
Ske
Jordsjo
Craig Fortnam
Needlepoint
L.W by King Gizzard and the L.W (haven't heard the other one yet)


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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote someone_else Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 11 2022 at 13:34
I am still in the earlier stage of catching up with last year, but there are some worthy albums  by, in alphabetical order:

Big Big Train
Ciccada
The Emerald Dawn
Jordsjø
Shamblemaths
Ske



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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote tamijo_II Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 11 2022 at 14:21
doesn’t really explore as much as before, so can’t make meaningful yearly list as I only know a few albums from each year post 2015’ish
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my 2021 prog list

1- Agusa
2- Ske
3- Alco Frisbass
4- Amarok
5- Dream Theater
6- Frost*
7- Caligonaut
8- Steve Hackett - Surrender of silence
9- Needlepoint
10-Daniel Eliseev Project
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote BrufordFreak Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 11 2022 at 15:22
Originally posted by Lewian Lewian wrote:

My 2021 favourite still (now having heard quite a few more) is Splinters Vol. I by Battlestations, and although I'm used to my taste not being mainstream, I am somewhat bewildered by not seeing this mentioned by anyone else, and be it under honorary mentions below rank 20. 

 
Thanks for that, Lewian! I've been a big fan for over ten years and I hadn't a clue! (I generally tune out each year's music for the first six months as it helps me get my sanity back from the usual year-end rush.) I'm listening to it for the first time right now! Great 21st Century electronica! Reminds me of Ryuichi Sakamoto, Alva Noto, Christian Fennesz, Holger Czukay, David Sylvian, and, of course, Brian Eno!



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5 stars
Frost* - Day and Age

4.5 stars 
Glass Hammer - Skallagrim: Into The Breach 
Mastodon - Hushed and Grim 
Krokofant - Fifth 

4 stars
Steve Hackett - Under A Mediterranean Sky 
Lifesigns -Altitude
Liquid Tension Experiment - 3
Kayak - Out Of This World 
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 
Shamblemaths - Shamblemaths II 
Elephant 9 - Arrival Of The New Elders 
Needlepoint - Walking Up That Valley 
Black Midi - Calvacade 
Rachel Flowers - Bigger On The Inside 
Isobar - Isobar II 
Caligonaut - Magnified as Giants 
Lee Abraham - Only Human 

3.5 stars
Bent Knee - Frosting 
Tori Amos - Ocean to Ocean 
Clive Nolan - Song of the Wildlands 
Isildurs Bane and Peter Hammill - In Disequilibrium 
Nad Sylvan - Spiritus Mundi 

3 stars
3.2 - Third Impression 
Steven Wilson - The Future Bites 
Stephen Caudel - Return to Wine Dark Sea 
Motorpsycho -  Kingdom Of Oblivion
This Winter Machine - Kites




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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Lewian Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 26 2022 at 16:53
Here's my current list of 20 (or rather 22 including two albums not currently listed of which I hope that they still may come up) - after for the first time having listened to some 60 albums from the year to come up with such a list.

Battlestations - Splinters Vol I Tremor
Aquaserge - The Possibility of a New Work for Aquaserge
Asmus Tietchens - Neues Boot (with Miki Yui)
Jordsjo - Pastoralia
Isildirs Bane & Peter Hammill - In Disequilibrium
Ske - Insolubilia
Craig Fortnam - Ark
(currently not listed on PA)  Android Trio - Other Worlds
Needlepoint – Walking Up That Valley
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - L.W.
Mogwai - As the Love Continues
3 Primates - 3 Primates
Alco Frisbass - Le Mystère du Gué Pucelle
(currently not listed on PA)  Fred Frith and 123 other artists - Miniatures 2020
Gleb Kolyadin - Water Movements
Elephant9 - Arrival of the New Elders
God Is an Astronaut - Ghost Tapes #10
Battlestations - Splinters Vol. II Bruise
Mono - Pilgrimage of the Soul
Black Midi - Cavalcade
Fred Frith & Ikue Mori - A Mountain Doesn't Know It's Tall
Thy Catafalque - Vadak
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Mirakaze Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 27 2022 at 07:44
Originally posted by Lewian Lewian wrote:


(currently not listed on PA)  Fred Frith and 123 other artists - Miniatures 2020


This one is listed on the site under "various artists (tributes)": http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=74454
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Mellotron Storm Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 12 2024 at 21:15
My top five is strong but it really drops off after these for me. No order:
Shamblemaths- II
Stephan Thelen- Fractal Guitar 2
Jordsjo- Pastoralia
Needlepoint- Walking Up That Valley
Trees Speak- Vertigo Of Flaws

"The wind is slowly tearing her apart"

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