Your prog-picks of 2016

[Bungalow Bill]

These are the albums I listened to more than once but I didn't have a favorite:

Julianna Barwick/Will
Nik Bartsch/Continuum
The Beatles/Live at The Hollywood Bowl
David Bowie/Blackstar
The Claypool Lennon Delirium/Monolith of Phobos
Gong/Rejoice! I'm Dead!
Mark Korven/soundtrack to The Witch [Maybe this was my favorite.]
Marillion/F. E. A. R.
Motorpsycho/Here Be Monsters
Moulettes/Preternatural ["Behemoth" was my favorite track of the year.]
Opeth/Sorceress [Probably my biggest disappointment of the year.]
Radiohead/A Moon Shaped Pool
VdGG/Do Not Disturb

Yet to hear 2016 releases by Arabrot; Knifeworld; and Swans.

[Sputnik]

Here's how I'd rate my 2016 purchases at this moment. I just recently got a bunch of these, so I'm still getting my ears around a lot of them. I will definitely be getting the Gosta Berlings Saga when available, so that is missing from the list for now.

Love these:

Amoeba Split - Second Split
Ampledeed - BYOB
Deus Ex Machina - Devoto
Utopianisti - The Third Frontier
Panzerpappa - Pestrottedans
Luz de Riada - Cuentos Y Fabulas, Volume 3
Macroscream - Macroscream

Like these a lot, some I'm still absorbing:

Tauk - Sir Nebula
An Endless Sporadic - Magic Machine
Anakdota - Overloading
Promenade - Noi Al Dir Di Noi

Like these OK, some I'm still absorbing:

TEE (The Earth Explorer) - Tales of Eternal Entities
Beledo - Dreamland Mechanism
Herd of Instinct - Manifestation
Moogg - Italian Luxury Style
Seven Impale - Contrabasso
Il Rumore Bianco - Antropocene

So-so on these:

Nuova Era - Return to the Castle
Sanguine Hum - What We Ask is Where We Begin (Sort of doesn't count because it's older material, but I'd never heard any of it before)

Bill

[aarongoldich]

Bill you're the best
Wishing you the happiest of New Years!

[hippypants]

David Bowie--Black Star
Jack DeJohnette--In Movement
Nik Bartsch--Continuum
Blameful Isles--Strange But Not Entirely Unattractive
Radiohead--A Moon Shaped Pool
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith--EARS
David Pritchard--City Dreams

[MYSTERIOUS TRAVELLER]

I've finally had several listens to all the 2016 albums I have

I did something very different this year (which is why it took so long to evaluate all of them) I decided to get any and every album that was highly rated by my Prog peers... even though I suspected that some would not be my cuppa. Fortunately, there were some surprises there, even if many wound up being "exactly who we thought they were"

top Prog albums of 2016 (to my ears):

13 Panzerpappa - Pestrottedans
13 Asturias - At The Edge Of The World
13 Human Factor - Homo Universum
12 Agusa - Katarsis
12 Endless Season - Endless Season
12 Gösta Berlings Saga - Sersophane
11 Amoeba Split - Second Split
11 Bocca della Verità, La - Avenoth
11 Bubu - Resplandor (EP)
11 Causa Sui - Return to Sky
11 Deus Ex Machina - Devoto
11 Dungen - Häxan
11 Floyd Bridgewater - Yacht Club
11 Nichols, Matt - Last Exit in NY
11 Pinhas, Richard / B.Cleveland, M.Manring, Alberti - Mu
11 RasaSound - Beginnings
11 TEE (The Earth Explorer) - Tales of Eternal Entities
11 Vespero - Lique Mekwas
11 Wallimann, David - Evolving Seeds of Glory
11 Norlander, Erik - Surreal
11 Campos, Xan - ESD

not sure if any of the "also rans" could creep up to an 11 upon subsequent listens... perhaps... we'll see

but

the "not my cuppas" are bands that I wont be getting any other albums by for sure. Either they were either too Pop/Prog, safe, overly-vocal or just abrasive-for-abrasiveness-sake ... IMO of course
BB Train
Bent Knee
Anakdota
Jackoclock
Elephant Tok
Shamblemaths
Karmakanik
Monarch
Metamorfosi (though I love Inferno)
Yugen
Winstons
Our Solar System
Rumore Bianco
Infinien
Thumbscrew
AxonNeuron
Dharmawan, Dwiki
and last and WAY least
Kurushimi

and it wasn't for lack of trying cause I listened to each 2016 album a minimum of 3 times through, some even more times
sometimes a thing just aint yer cuppa
I *will* say that there were interesting moments in all of the albums I didn't like (except one) but just not enough interesting moments to overcome the main vibe