What NEW releases are you looking forward to in 2020?

[Steve F.]

I do hope you can find new music -- be it new old music or new new music -- that excites you as much as the old classics once did

Seconded.

[aith01]

Seconded.

Thirded.

[TCC]

^^
The same here!!.

;-)

[Yodelgoat]

I recall going thru this a few years back. I got all excited by discovering Moon Safari, and my wallet imploded, suddenly I bought probably 40-50 new Cd's that year and a few years after, because there was great music blowing up in my face constantly. It was awesome... Continued for a few years. I still revisit all that "period" of my collection. But that enthusiasm has faded. I do try to listen for new things, but some of you, as we have discussed before ad-nauseum, have very different tastes. (no crime there) and when I listen to something someone says is "new and exciting" I just am not feeling it. 2019 was, and 2020 is looking rather bleak, in my opinion, but maybe in 2025, I'll revisit '19 and ask "what was I thinking?"

there is still plenty of old stuff I need to catch up with, so there's that.

[mnprogger]

January
10: The Chap - Digital Technology
10: Field Music - Making a New World
24: Nektar - The Other Side
29: Tricot - Makkuro

February
7: Rope and Ladder - Rope and Ladder
14: Ihsahn - Telemark
14: Psychotic Waltz - The-God-Shaped-Void
14: Marjana Semkina - Sleepwalking
21: Pat Metheny - From This Place

March
13: IAMX - Echo Echo

April
3: Pure Reason Revolution - Eupnea
24: Other Lives - For Their Love
Dirt Poor Robins - Dead Horse, Alaska (Black) [EP]

May
8: Green Carnation - Leaves of Yesteryear
TBA - TBA ...Mike Portnoy's new *fun* project on Inside Out

June
Fish - Weltschmertz

Confirmed Titles
Dirt Poor Robins - Dead Horse, Alaska
The Family Crest - The War Act II (Spring)
Gospel - Absurd Challenge
The Dear Hunter - The Indigo Child
Ours - Spectacular Sight III
Pain of Salvation - Panther
The Polyphonic Spree - Salvage Enterprise
The Red Paintings - Anthems for Unwanted Wars
Sculptured - The Liminal Phase

Likely

Anathema
The Anchoress
Avenged Sevenfold
Cloud Cult
Deep Purple (Spring)
Doves
Everything Everything
Fates Warning
Green Carnation
Kimbra
King's X (double album)
Major Parkinson
Mayer Hawthorne
Neverending White Lights - Act IV
Protest the Hero
Radical Face
Sir Video
Team Me
Tokyo Jihen
Transatlantic
Steven Wilson

?
22
dredg
Enchant
Imogen Heap
NewVillager
Pepe Deluxe - (the album should be written and/or recorded by early Spring)
The Tea Party

[aith01]

I'm looking forward to the new Pat Metheny disc for sure. Also the forthcoming Pure Reason Revolution release.

This morning I listened to The Slow Rush by Tame Impala since it dropped today, and I'm super-happy with that one. Kevin Parker is brilliant, especially at studio wizardry. I feel like he's almost another Todd Rundgren.

[mon40]

Phideaux / Steve Unruh live at Monforti Manor.

[moecurlythanu]

^ I'd be up for that too.

[Yodelgoat]

Maybe in 2021, Alex and/or Geddy will be up to "feeding the beast" again.

[Ten Thumbs]

Moulettes
Rick Wakeman

[cazz]

Roger & Brian Eno...……..Mixing Colours

BTW- Has anyone read the Roedelius autobiog?

https://www.curiousmusic.us/all-prod...chim-roedelius

[NogbadTheBad]

Doctor Nerve have a new EP out, LOUD, that is excellent.

https://doctornerve.bandcamp.com/album/loud

[interbellum]

Soften the Glare 03/03

Yes it is! Watch the Bandcamp-page coming Tuesday: https://www.facebook.com/softentheglare/
https://softentheglare.bandcamp.com/

[NogbadTheBad]

Jaga Jazzist

[Paulrus]

I never have to worry about the new stuff because I have such a ginormous backlog of old stuff I still need to add to the collection. I'm only up to Soft Machine 3, fer crissakes!

But I am curious if this is the release where Steven Wilson truly jumps the shark and loses droves of his old fans.

[Yestor]

Is it sad that I have nothing to look forward to? perhaps I am no longer feeling the prog love. 2019 was a slow year. 2020 isnt looking much better. everyone I like is getting old and dropping like flies.

That is kind of my reaction. I've never really warmed up to Neo-Prog or even what is just called Prog now-a-days. Maybe I just liked Yes and Genesis back in the day. A few others Camel, Pink Floyd, ELO. Most new acts I just don't dig. It's all personal preference since obviously many working in Prog today are very good musicians. Ah the excitement of youth, the discovery of new music.

As far as my modern tastes I love Elbow, Arcade Fire. Yet even these acts are hardly new, and their not considered Prog either. But I keep coming back to Progressive Ears looking for that magic that I heard when I was twenty years old.

[Steve F.]

But I keep coming back to Progressive Ears looking for that magic that I heard when I was twenty years old.

IMO and YMMV.

There's LOTS of magic out there, but you aren't 20 and you'll never, ever again experience the magic like you did when you were 20.

I experience the magic like I'm 62. I wish the same for you and anyone else who doesn't feel engaged.

[Yestor]

IMO and YMMV.

There's LOTS of magic out there, but you aren't 20 and you'll never, ever again experience the magic like you did when you were 20.

I experience the magic like I'm 62. I wish the same for you and anyone else who doesn't feel engaged.

I suppose thats true. Although I have found a few. "The Birds" by Elbow still sends shivers up my spine, and "Super Symmetry" by Arcade Fire is as enjoyable to me
as my favorites from the seventies. As I get older I suppose I suffer from the "heard that" syndrome.

Part of the reason I keep returning to PE is to feel the joy others feel for music and hoping it will work for me too.

[Steve F.]

Part of the reason I keep returning to PE is to feel the joy others feel for music and hoping it will work for me too.

Good outlook!!

[Steve983]

IMO and YMMV.

There's LOTS of magic out there, but you aren't 20 and you'll never, ever again experience the magic like you did when you were 20.

I experience the magic like I'm 62. I wish the same for you and anyone else who doesn't feel engaged.

This is so true. I've realised lately that most of the music I discovered in the 90's to 2010 means very little to me now. It just hasn't stood the test of time and yet the classics from the late 70's period still move me greatly. Over the last couple of years I've been selling more cd's than I've been buying. There have been a few exceptions of course most notably PT/SW whose solo works like GFD/The Raven/HCE could be right up there with the classics but then again time may not be so kind... and now even SW is threatening to become a pop star...

Very few to look forward to this year:

Pendragon (still waiting for it)
Nightwish
Anathema (hopeful of a return to form)
Steven Wilson (fearful of what this might be like, not buying on faith)
Steve Howe - Love Is (can only hope this will be pleasant to listen to)
Tim Bowness & Peter Chilvers

[yamishogun]

Todd Sucherman

[Dave (in MA)]

I never have to worry about the new stuff because I have such a ginormous backlog of old stuff I still need to add to the collection. I'm only up to Soft Machine 3, fer crissakes!

It doesn't end there, I'm afraid. A lot of the live SM releases (and some of the compilations) are every bit as essential (if not more) IMO as I-VII.

[Dave (in MA)]

This is fargin' great.

https://markus-reuter-moonjune.bandcamp.com/album/truce

[BravadoNJ]

Dennis De Young's first album in 11 years, titled 26 East, part 1...
hopefully part 2 will be out before another 11 years.
i'm already disappointed that the song Proof Of Heaven with Jim Peterik is not included.

[aith01]

Just got the new Caribou album in the mail. Looking forward to hearing it.