Your prog-picks of 2016

[Valen]

Folks

I guess we're all putting together our lists before the end of the year (and I don't necessarily mean Xmas pressie lists ), so I thought I'd get mine up and off during some down time:

https://momentstransition.wordpress....16-my-top-ten/

There's a brief paragraph on each of my choices, each accompanied by Youtube clip for the curious.

Thanks to everyone here who took the time to visit my blog this year and best wishes for the festive season.

[Steve983]

Lets see:
Iamthemorning
Opeth
Dream Theater
Steven Wilson
Riverside
Vangelis
Mantra Vega
Anderson/Stolt
Heather Findlay Band
Maschine

[progholio]

I honestly haven't bought much prog this year but the one album that really bowls me over is Bent Knee - Say So.
I sure hope they stay around for a while.

Deus Ex Machina - Devoto , been spinning that one a lot.

My #1 pick of the year is going to be David Bowie - Blackstar (and it's prog enough for me)

[BobM]

I am really enjoying Rachel Flowers first release, thought I don't think it truly qualifies as prog. More like a classical/jazz crossover.

[julioscissors]

Glass Hammer - Valkyrie is far and away my favorite prog release of 2016
Frost*'s "Falling Satellites" and Anderson/Stolt were both solid as well

[Drake]

David Bowie

Nothing comes close.

[Craigory]

This is my list for Progradar, though we weren't constrained to choosing prog albums only. Marillion's F.E.A.R. took the #1 spot, easily.

http://www.progradar.org/index.php/2...bacons-top-10/

[Craigory]

I'm glad to see that the new Riverside is making people's lists. It wasn't Top 10 for me, but I like it, and I was afraid that many would overlook it due to it's ambient-electronic content.

[notallwhowander]

I suppose the top of my list would be Mythic Sunship's Ouroboros.

[Phlakaton]

Deus Ex Machine
The Mercury Tree
Yugen
Bob Drake

[MYSTERIOUS TRAVELLER]

I haven't finished absorbing all of the 2016 releases yet
I'll prolly post my list in January

[NogbadTheBad]

Knifeworld, Nik Bartsch Mobile, Free Salamander, Jack O The Clock, Bent Knee

[flowerking]

I am really enjoying Rachel Flowers first release, thought I don't think it truly qualifies as prog. More like a classical/jazz crossover.

I second that, its a great release.

My pick for best prog release is actually only half the release: Schooltree Heterotopia disc 1 is tremendous.

Also noteworthy are Big Big Train's live album A Stone's Throw from the Line and the new Kansas.

[YESHEAD777]

This is my list in order, but that order may or may not change with time:

1)Neal Morse Band-Similitude of A Dream
2)Thank You Scientist-Stranger Heads Prevail
3)Anderson/Stolt-Invention of Knowledge
4)Kansas-The Prelude Implicit
5)Marillion-Fear
6)Glass Hammer-Valkyrie
7)Opeth-Sorceress
8)Circa-Valley of the Windmill
9)The Jelly Jam-Prophet
10)Steven Wilson-4 1/2

[act]

neal morse band
profuna ocean
different light
aurora Project
maglev
karmakanic
big big train
haken
kansas
evership
lee Abraham
Dream theater
huis
Southern empire
frost

those are the prog releases from 2016 i have enjoyed the most. i love the first 4 ,the rest are good solid releases imho, in no particual orden.

cheers

[Guess Who]

different light

They are in my top-3 list.

[act]

[QUOTE=Guess Who;651912]They are in my top-3 list.[/QUOTE

Yes different lights the burden of paradise are a great album, i have introduced this album for a couple of friends that also loved it , so i ended up with buying 3 copies .

Merry christmas

[DrGoon]

Bent Knee - Say So
David Bowie - ★
Knifeworld - Bottled Out of Eden
Mike Keneally - Scambot 2
Kate Bush - Before The Dawn
Marillion - Fuck Everyone And Run
Van Der Graaf Generator - Do Not Disturb
Radio Massacre International - Rain Falls in Grey (redux)
Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool
Gong - Rejoice! I'm Dead!
Hawkwind - The Machine Stops
Tilt - Hinterland

[NogbadTheBad]

Radio Massacre International - Rain Falls in Grey (redux)

You listened to this 5 or 6 times to get a good measure of it? I think I've listened to it once on total, it's great, but man, 6 and a half hours!!

[DrGoon]

Not in single sittings, but very likely yes. I have two and a half hours of commute a day.

[Rufus]

Neal Morse Band
Anderson/Stolt

[emperorken]

Far and away the best album of the year is:

Anima Mundi- I Me Myself

In alphabetical order, the very good albums are:

Amadeus Awad- Death Is Just a Feeling
Ben Craven- Last Chance to Hear
Crystal Palace- Dawn of Eternity
Drifting Sun- Safe Asylum
The Gift- Why the Sea is Salt
Holon- The Time is Always Now
Huis- Neither in Heaven
Kyros- Vox Humana
Lazuli- Nos Ames Saoules
Profuna Ocean- In Vacuum
SETI- Bold Travels
Triangle- Alert and Alive

[Craigory]

Far and away the best album of the year is:

Anima Mundi- I Me Myself

In alphabetical order, the very good albums are:

Amadeus Awad- Death Is Just a Feeling
Ben Craven- Last Chance to Hear
Crystal Palace- Dawn of Eternity
Drifting Sun- Safe Asylum
The Gift- Why the Sea is Salt
Holon- The Time is Always Now
Huis- Neither in Heaven
Kyros- Vox Humana
Lazuli- Nos Ames Saoules
Profuna Ocean- In Vacuum
SETI- Bold Travels
Triangle- Alert and Alive

And, good to see others hearing and enjoying the latest from Ben Craven. I wish it were feasible for us to get a vinyl pressing.

[Ravagin]

1) The Similitude Of A Dream - The Neal Morse Band
2) Folklore - Big Big Train
3) The Clockwork Fable - Gandalf's Fist
4) All That You Fear Is Gone - Headspace
5) Affinity - Haken
6) Alive Again - The Neal Morse Band
7) The Prelude Implicit - Kansas
8) The Great Unknown - Eric Gillette
9) Invention of Knowledge - Anderson/Stolt
10) The Astonishing - Dream Theater
Honorable mention: Frost - Falling Satellites, 4 1/2 - Steven Wilson, DOT - Karmakanic

[jazz2896]

My favorites from this year are Bowie, Bush, Radical Action, Arx Pilosa, Bent Knee, and Kayo Dot (for solely prog/proggish picks at least).