Well, everyone does it! Lists of their favourite albums of the year. I cannot put them in order as preferences change from day to day. But here are my top 30 favs. Head and shoulders above the rest.
Riverside - Shrine of New Generation so atmospheric and so emotional
Haken - The Mountain completely bonkers. Covers every form of prog
Sound Of Contact - Dimensionaut lush. Very, very lush
Sand - Sand even better than NAO
La Maschera Di Cera - Le Porte Del Domani Italians doing what Italians do so well
Steven Wilson - The Raven That Refused To Sing is this too obvious?
Von Hertzen Brothers - Nine Lives commercial prog. Great, great songs
Anima Mundi - The Lamplighter symphonic prog in all it's glory
Spock's Beard - Brief Nocturnes and Dreamless Sleep always reliably superb
Comedy Of Errors - Fanfare & Fantasy great to see some superb Scottish prog here
Big Big Train - English Electric Part 2 as good as Part one. How do they do it?
Days Between Stations - In Extremis so good. Nice epitaph for the great Pete Banks
The Opium Cartel - Ardor it's not White Willow. Different, but just as good
Fish - A Feast Of Consequences truly back on form. Gorgeous packaging
Magenta - The Twenty Seven Club always a pleasure to experience retro prog at its finest
La Coscienza Di Zeno - Sensitivita simply, RPI at its very best
Dream Theater - Dream Theater settling very nicely into their new lineup
The Flower Kings - Desolation Rose nearly been going for 20 years and still producing the goods
Believe - The Warmest Sun In Winter without a doubt their best yet. Mirek Gil's guitar playing is superb
Vienna Circle - Silhouette Moon hopefully this release will get these guys better known. They deserve it
Kingbathmat - Overcoming The Monster yes, a monster of an album. Big, big sound
Quickbeam - Quickbeam great Scottish band. An almost chamber folk charm
The Fierce and the Dead - Spooky Action best instrumental album in years
Ayreon - The Theory of Everything Arjen is back, doing what he does best
Nosound - Afterthought Giancarlo produces some of the best atmospheric music around at the moment
Rhys Marsh - Suspended In A Weightless Wind maybe not an album, but some sublime cover versions
Solstice - Prophesy not really familiar with this band. But love the extended arrangements. Great playing
The Tangent - Le Sacre Du Travail Andy Tillison's masterwork. His most complex and ambitious album yet
Airbag - The Greatest Show On Earth this took a while to grow, but it did. Superbly atmospheric and Floydy
Il Tempio delle Clessidre - alieNatura RPI album of the year. Elisa Montaldo is a prog superstar
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