An amazing year for Prog music. It wasn’t easy to put this list together.
1 Steven Wilson – The Raven That Refused To Sing
“Classic album that will hold up for a long time. Brilliant title track.”
2 Dream Theater – Dream Theater
“Return to form for the Prog icons. Incredible songwriting and playing as always.”
3 Big Big Train – English Electric P.2
“70’s influenced prog with incredible songs, vocal harmonies and production.”
4 Haken – The Mountain
“The band keeps showing growth and maturity with songwriting and playing.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ox__xk3uho
5 Jolly – The Audio Guide to Happiness P.2
“One of the most interesting and exciting albums of the year. Heavy and melodic.”
6 Sound of Contact – Dimensionaut
“New band with interesting prog meets pop songwriting by Simon Collins and Dave Kerzner.”
7 The Flower Kings – Desolation Rose
“Prog veterans put out one of their best albums of their career.”
8 Queensryche – Queensryche
“Finally a Queensryche album fans have been waiting for. Should have been the follow up to Promised Land.”
9 Spock’s Beard – Brief Nocturnes & Dreamless Sleep
“New singer Ted Leonard helps the band produce another great prog rock album.”
10 Thank You Scientist – Maps of Non-Existent Places
“New relatively unknown band that mixes Prog with horns and incredible playing. Get to know this band.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsiN3V9TYXI
Haken and Steven Wilson deserve to be here. Sky Architect, Karnivool, and Riverside would have made my list.
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I had the good fortune of seeing Thank You Scientist live twice this year. They are unbelievable in concert.
“Maps of Non-Existent Places” is an extremely strong album from such a young band. I (almost literally) can’t stop listening to it. You’ve got to check it out…
Sound of Contact is the band.
I really miss the Riverside. They deserved to be in this list (near to the top 3) .