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05-11-2018
mike_hunt

Rough order:

Fire! - The Hands
Elephant9 - Greatest Show On Earth
Nik Bärtsch's Ronin - Awase
Sonar with David Torn - Vortex
PinioL - Bran Coucou
Merzbow, Balázs Pándi, Mats Gustafsson, Thurston Moore - Cuts Up Cuts Out
Nicklas Sørensen - Solo 2
Julian Lage - Modern Lore
GoGo Penguin - A Humdrum Star
Sleep - The Sciences
Marc Ribot's Ceramic Dog - YRU Still Here?
The Nels Cline 4 - Currents, Constellations
WorldService Project - Serve
Dungen & Woods - Myths 003
05-12-2018
Guess Who

My top 5 (so far):

Kayak - Seventeen
Moonshine Blast - Reality Fear
Matthew Browning - Love & Grief
Arena - Double Vision
Dukes Of The Orient - s/t
05-12-2018
Crawford Glissadevil

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Originally Posted by Guess Who

My top 5 (so far):

Kayak - Seventeen
Moonshine Blast - Reality Fear
Matthew Browning - Love & Grief
Arena - Double Vision
Dukes Of The Orient - s/t

A friend told me that Arena's Double Vision could be the best thing they've ever done....What do you think? Is Double Vision in that conversation?
05-12-2018
Guess Who

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Originally Posted by Crawford Glissadevil

A friend told me that Arena's Double Vision could be the best thing they've ever done....What do you think? Is Double Vision in that conversation?

Their strongest album for many years. Although, it doesn't reach the splendour and monumentality of "The Visitor".
05-12-2018
Socrates

Looking at the lists so far, I can see I've got some catching up to do.

Two albums so far that are bound to be near the top:
Sonar with David Torn - Vortex (one of the few albums recently where I felt like just pressing play again every time it had finished)
Mary Halvorson - Code Girl (always liked Halvorson's stuff, but this has singing in a style not a million miles away from a band like Thinking Plague)
05-12-2018
mnprogger

11/1/17-4/30/18
http://allmediareviews.blogspot.com/...bums-list.html

1. The Family Crest - The War: Act I
2. Kindo - Happy However After
3. Grimus - Unmanageable Species
4. Typhoon - Offerings
5. The Gloomcatcher - Blade in the Belfry [EP]
6. Long Distance Calling - Boundless
7. Galactic Cowboys - Long Way Back to the Moon
8. Kimbra - Primal Heart
9. Orphaned Land - Unsung Prophets and Dead Messiahs
10. In Vain - Currents
11. The Dear Hunter - All Is as All Should Be [EP]
12. Esperanza Spalding - Exposure
13. Kai Danzberg - Pop-Up Radio
14. Diablo Swing Orchestra - Pacifisticuffs
15. The Faceless - In Becoming a Ghost
16. U2 - Songs of Experience
17. Tax the Heat - Change Your Position
18. Between the Buried and Me - Automata I [EP]
19, StellaRoma - Revel and Ritual
20. Inferi - Revenant
21. Janelle Monáe - Dirty Computer
22. Field Music - Open Here
23. Josh Rouse - Love in the Modern Age
24. God is an Astronaut - Epitaph
25. Umbrellaman - Volcano Beach [EP]
26. Harakiri - Alchemy Choir
27. Umphrey's McGee - It's Not Us
28. Nicholas Krgovich - In an Open Field

Haven't Listened

The Dang Ol' Tri'ole - Dang!
Gleb Kolyadin - Gleb Kolyadin
Jeremy Messersmith - Late Stage Capitalism
The Decemberists - I'll Be Your Girl
Yossi Sassi and the Oriental Rock Orchestra - Illusion of Choice
05-12-2018
Splicer

The Decembrists - I'll Be Your Girl is the best thing they've done in quite a while. For me, it is up there with Picaresque and The Crane Wife.
05-12-2018
NogbadTheBad

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Originally Posted by mnprogger

14. Diablo Swing Orchestra - Pacifisticuffs

December '17 release
05-12-2018
MYSTERIOUS TRAVELLER

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Originally Posted by Kcrimso

Isildurs Bane : Off The Radar ****

I'm wondering if any of these dozen or so 2018 albums listed in this thread are in this wheelhouse... instrumental with excellent musicianship?
cause I luv me sum Off The Radar
05-13-2018
mnprogger

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Originally Posted by NogbadTheBad

December '17 release

Quote:

Originally Posted by mnprogger

11/1/17-4/30/18
http://allmediareviews.blogspot.com/...bums-list.html

yep.
05-13-2018
progmeister

Been a very slow start to 2018 but I expect Arena, Spock's Beard, The Sea Within, and Amorphis to change that.
05-13-2018
spacefreak

The Ex "27 Passports".
05-13-2018
Yeswave

Kavis Torabi - Solar Divination EP
Awooga - Conduit
Moetar - Final Four
05-13-2018
Mascodagama

Quote:

Originally Posted by MYSTERIOUS TRAVELLER

I'm wondering if any of these dozen or so 2018 albums listed in this thread are in this wheelhouse... instrumental with excellent musicianship?
cause I luv me sum Off The Radar

It's quite a different vibe, but you might check out the Calibro 35 album, which draws on cosmigroove and cinematic funk a la Janko Nilovic. As with the IB you get airtight musicianship with an expanded instrumental palette including horn section, strings and tuned percussion. If that sounds like something you'd dig, you probably will.
05-13-2018
aith01

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Originally Posted by Mascodagama

It's quite a different vibe, but you might check out the Calibro 35 album, which draws on cosmigroove and cinematic funk a la Janko Nilovic. As with the IB you get airtight musicianship with an expanded instrumental palette including horn section, strings and tuned percussion. If that sounds like something you'd dig, you probably will.

Thanks for the reminder! I had bookmarked these guys on Bandcamp a while back but forgot to follow up on that. :up
05-13-2018
MYSTERIOUS TRAVELLER

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mascodagama

It's quite a different vibe, but you might check out the Calibro 35 album, which draws on cosmigroove and cinematic funk a la Janko Nilovic. As with the IB you get airtight musicianship with an expanded instrumental palette including horn section, strings and tuned percussion. If that sounds like something you'd dig, you probably will.

yes indeed it does!

thanx!
05-14-2018
Camelogue

I don't think I've heard a 2018 release.
05-15-2018
Zeuhlmate

KOENJI HYAKKEI / Dhorimviskha

https://www.youtube.com/watch?featur...N0&app=desktop
05-15-2018
Crawford Glissadevil

Quote:

Originally Posted by MYSTERIOUS TRAVELLER

I'm wondering if any of these dozen or so 2018 albums listed in this thread are in this wheelhouse... instrumental with excellent musicianship?
cause I luv me sum Off The Radar

Roz Vitalis - "The Hidden Man of the Heart"

Sonar- "Vortex (with David Torn)"
05-15-2018
noni

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Originally Posted by Crawford Glissadevil

A friend told me that Arena's Double Vision could be the best thing they've ever done....What do you think? Is Double Vision in that conversation?

I'm not liking the guitar riffs on this album... Much prefer their earlier stuff which is awesome.. This album sounds a little too heavy for my taste!
05-16-2018
Zalmoxe

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Originally Posted by adap2it

A few not mentioned...

David Cross & David Jackson - Another day

I have this and I like it a lot. It also made me look into David Cross output. I had no idea so many gems are hidden behind his name. Well worth investigating.
05-16-2018
Zalmoxe

Quote:

Originally Posted by mike_hunt

Rough order:

Fire! - The Hands
Elephant9 - Greatest Show On Earth
Nik Bärtsch's Ronin - Awase
Sonar with David Torn - Vortex
PinioL - Bran Coucou
Merzbow, Balázs Pándi, Mats Gustafsson, Thurston Moore - Cuts Up Cuts Out
Nicklas Sørensen - Solo 2
Julian Lage - Modern Lore
GoGo Penguin - A Humdrum Star
Sleep - The Sciences
Marc Ribot's Ceramic Dog - YRU Still Here?
The Nels Cline 4 - Currents, Constellations
WorldService Project - Serve
Dungen & Woods - Myths 003

Some heavy hitters on that list!
05-16-2018
Zalmoxe

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Originally Posted by miamiscot

Fernando Perdomo Out To Sea

This is good but, my God, that cover is horrendous!!!
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05-16-2018
adap2it

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Originally Posted by Zalmoxe

I have this and I like it a lot. It also made me look into David Cross output. I had no idea so many gems are hidden behind his name. Well worth investigating.

Another day has IMO. a very early sounding KC influence in parts, way before David Cross joined the band.
05-17-2018
MJBrady

Adam Holzman Truth Decay
MetaQuaoorum - Witchcraft jazz
Marbin - Israeli Jazz
Progger - Dystopia

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