Luis' picks: 10. Dying Planet 9. Accordo Dei Contrari - UR, 8. Tomahawk - Tonic Immobility, 7. LTE 3, 6. Aziola Cry - The Ironic Divide, 5. Leprous - Aphelion, 4. Gojira - Fortitude, 3. Mastodon - Hushed and grim, 2. SKE - Solubilia, 1. Between The Buried And Me - Colors II Eric's picks: 10. Transatlantic - Breath of Life (Abridged Version) 9. Jane Getter Premonition - Anomolia 8. Jeremy Green - Standing Eight 7. Nad Sylvan - Spiritus Mundi 6. Agusa - En Annan Varld 5. Lyle Workman - Uncommon Measures 4. Coevality - Multiple Personalities 3. Pat Metheny - Side Eye NYC 2. Kick the Cat - Gurgle 1. Chick Corea Akoustic Band w/ John Patitucci & Dave Weckl - Live George's picks: 10. Benjamin Croft - Far and Distant Things 9. Jeremy Green - Standing Eight 8. Quadratum - Loud Playing Workshop 7. Fernando Molinari - Reaching Inside 6. Terra Odium - Ne Plus Ultra 5. Lyle Workman - Uncommon Measures 4. Marriage Material - s/t 3. Cameron Graves - Seven 2. Kick the Cat - Gurgle 1. Dream Theater - A View From the Top of the World Ken's picks: 10 Accordi Dei Contrari “UR-“ 9 Liquid Tension Experiment “Liquid Tension Experiment 3” 8 Cynic “Ascension Codes” 7 Fragile “Beyond” 6 Big Big Train “Common Ground” 5 Asia Minor “Points Of Libration” 4 Shamblemaths “Shamblemaths 2” 3 Steve Hackett “Surrender Of Silence” 2 Agusa “en Annan Varld” 1 Third Eye “Sound Cycles” Steven's picks: 1. Steven Wilson - The Future Bites 2. Caligonaut - Magnified As Giants 3. Frost* - Day And Age 4. Aeon Zen - Transversal 5. Crown Lands - White Buffalo 6. Agusa - En Annan Varld 7. Styx - Crash Of The Crown 8. Cyan - For King And Country 8. Scaramanga Six - Worthless Music 9. Dennis DeYoung - 26 East Vol 2 10. Lee Abraham - Only Human Pete's picks: Styx-Crash of the Crown Dream Theater-A View From the Top of the World Transatlantic-The Absolute Universe Neal Morse Band-Innocence & Danger Agusa-En Annan Varld Liquid Tension Experiment-3 Caligonaut-Magnified as Giants Cynic-Ascension Codes Glass Hammer-Skallagrim: Into the Breach Robby Steinhardt-Not in Kansas Anymore: A Prog Opera
Some great picks but a little shocked that my top pick Hasse Froberg & Musical Companion/We Are The Truth didn't make anyone's list, a total shutout = zero for 60. Somewhat related band Transatlantic made it onto a couple of lists & that's probably my #2 for 2021. In my opinion a major miss, I wonder if any of the panelists have heard it & what they thought of it? The Kick The Cat release was also very good, with Neal Morse Band & Big Big Train coming in just a bit below that one. Some of these like Pat Metheny's & Chick Corea Akoustic Band's albums to me are straight-up jazz
Thank you Pete.I just received today Mogul Thrash in the mail.Absolutely great prog.They remind me of early Chicago,Ides of March and Blood Sweat andTears.Couldn't take it off.Couldn't get enough.Thanks again Peter and Merry Christmas
Gents, thanks for taking time to do this episode as have really been looking forward to hearing all of your choices. Also, thanks for the 2021 In The Prog Seat episodes. All of you and other co-captains have brought a lot of excellent music to our attention [though also really enjoyed the episode you did on albums you did not care for too much or at all.] Once more, thanks for listing everyone's picks. That allows those of us wanting it to enjoy the episode more rather than be concerned with copious notetaking. My top pick for the year may be the recently discussed En Annan Varld by Agusa. Tracked down a copy and have been listening to it quite a bit since it arrived in the mailbox and it is headed into the car for the coming road trip. Thanks again and happy holiday, whichever one you may celebrate.
John, again, thank you for watching! I always love reading your comments, and suggestions. 4 of us picked Agusa on the panel, that stood out. Glad you are enjoying the CD. Look forward to hearing more from you in 2022. Thanks so much for sharing your thoughts!
Thanks JMW. Always a pleasure to read your comments. Thanks for all the support this year. I can't wait to continue the music discussion in 2022. Happy holidays - and happy listening!
Great show as always. My top 4 are as follows: 1. Michal Łapaj - Are You There (from Riverside) 2. Steven Wilson - The Future Bites 3.RPWL- God Has Failed 4. Ray Wilson - The Weights of Man Just to add Steven Reid mentioned he brought a new amp. Maybe one show you could show and tell your systems to the viewers? Even show your Collection of music. Just a thought
Good list Matt. I need to catch up with that Łapaj album! My system isn't all that exciting/expensive. A Marantz 6007 amp, a matching Marantz 6007 CD player, Project Debut Carbon Evo record deck and Sony TC-KE400S cassette deck that sees use about once every two or three years! The music collection would take longer to describe... but it is all listed!
@@TranquilityFireReid So glad you like them Steven. I noticed they also figured highly on your Fireworks magazine play list. Rock music on a whole is so underground these days we must keep spreading the word. Merry Christmas to you and yours and I look forward to listening and reading your very entertaining contributions to the music we love in 2022! 👍
@@shaunsmith3538 Thanks Shaun and yes, we must keep fighting the good fight. Rock ain't dead! Thanks for all your support this year. Have a Merry Christmas and a rockin' 2022!
Lifesigns - Altitude Mostly Autumn - Graveyard Star Dream Theater - A View From The Top of The World Styx - Crash of the Crown Teramaze - Sorella Minori The Paradox Twin - Silence from Symbols Transatlantic - The Absolute Universe Frost - Day and Age Steve Hackett - Surrender of Silence Iron Maiden - Senjutsu HM: This Winter Machine - Kites
RE: the Transatlantic discussion - remember they had a live album called "More Is Never Enough"... I loved that The Monkees had alternate versions of some of their songs with different lead vocalists.
I'm an absolute freak for anything that Roine plays (and especially also sings) on but gotta be honest that I only really liked the track "The Whirlwind" from More Is Never Enough. Not that everything else doesn't sound good but I already had live versions of the vast majority of these tracks that were at least as good as what was on this album. If you're a Transatlantic fan who doesn't already own their other live albums (Live In America/Europe/London) then yeah, I could easily see you buying this one & loving it
@@wolf1977 Oddly enough this is the only TA live album I don't have, and it's only because it was the SECOND live album they released for that tour and I had already bought the first one.
Thanks for the fun show again! The Absolute Universe is one of the top albums for me too in 2021. Have that blu-ray version, in which music is also visualized very beatufifully & tastefully...
Great show as always guys. Got to agree with Ken about the Fragile album - absolutely loved that. Top 5 for me this year were the releases from: Fragile, Transatlantic, Glass Hammer, Mostly Autumn and Agusa.
1- SKE : Insolubilia (by far THE BEST prog album of the year) 2- French TV : All our failures are behind us 3- Alco Frisbass : Le mystère du gué pucelle 4- Magma : Eskahl (live) 5- Vola : Witness
My Top 10 Prog List 1. Mastodon: Hushed and Grim 2. Frost*: Day and Age 3. Caligonaut: Magnified as Giants 4. Gojira: Fortitude 5. Rivers of Nihil: The Work 6. Between the Buried and Me: Colors II 7. Dvne: Etemen Ænka 8. black midi: Cavalcade 9. Soen: Imperial 10. Transatlantic: The Absolute Universe Some honorable mentions: • Neal Morse Band: Innocence & Danger • Liquid Tension Experiment: LTE3 • Terra Odium: Ne Plus Ultra • Leprous: Aphelion • Big Big Train: Common Ground • Cynic: Ascension Codes Thanks for introducing me to so many great albums!
Good mix of the familiar and the Unknown-to-me. My top 10: 1. Amorphous Androgynous - We Persuade Ourselves 2. Kosmogon - Massan 3. Elephant9 - Arrival of the New Elders 4. Diagonal - Diagonal 4 5. GY!BE - G_d's Pee... 6. Isuldurs Bane - In Disequilibrium 7. Big Big Train - Common Ground 8. Transatlantic - The Absolute Universe 9. Dream Theater - A View.... 10. Gojira -Fortitude
It’s difficult to know all music and I’m always looking for new stuff. I only discovered Transatlantic this year through the Absolute Universe. Great stuff and opened the door to all of their other music as well as Neal Morse etc. i have really enjoyed discovering all the music. The Jeremy Green is great as well. If you listen to these songs on TH-cam you get slightly different mixes. No horns etc. interesting to listen to the subtle differences. Great show
Well, George once again hit the 'obscure one' button and Quadratum!!! Pete is time for u to get into more popular japanese bands today, like, Unlucky Morpheus, Lightbringer and Lovebites and we wait from u, ranking the albums for this bands.
Here we are again. First of all, thanks for recommendations throughout the year. Benjamin Croft, Discipline and many more. Jane Getter Premonition is a great album. Got it the Cynic one last week, it could make my top. 1. Dream Theater - View from the top of the world. 2. Transatlantic - The absolute universe 3. A Dying Planet - When the skies are grey 4. FROST* - Day and age 5. Cyan - For the king and country 6 Lee Abraham - Only human 7. Neal Morse Band - Innocence and danger 8. Leprous - Aphelion 9. Liquid Tension Experiment - 3 10. Steve Hackett - Surrender to silence
Great show guys! "Hushed and Grim", "A View from the Top" and "Fortitude" are my Top 3. I would probably also want to include Enslaved with "Caravans to the Outer Worlds", of course it's an EP, but proggy! I plan to check out Benjamin Croft, Lee Abraham, Fernando Molinari and Coevality - a quick listen to these struck a chord for me. 👍
I've always wanted to stay current on new rock, and since commercial radio hasn't served for a long time now, the only place to go, as far as radio is concerned, is college radio. You can still hear excellent new rock music to this day. But even college radio has not been very supportive of new Progressive rock, so I appreciate videos like this one. I would otherwise never have heard of most of these bands! When I first came across S of T here on TH-cam I thought "What a bunch of nerds!" Now I am a Prog Seat fan.
My Top 10 Prog/Fusion/Jazz Albums of 2021 (In No Order) Dream Theater - A View From The Top Of The World Liquid Tension Experiment - LTE 3 Cynic - Ascension Codes Transatlantic - The Absolute Universe Kick the Cat - Gurgle Check Corea Akoustic Band w/ John Patitucci & Dave Weckl - Live A Dying Planet - When the Skies Are Grey Agusa - En annan varld Caligonaut - Magnified as Giants Jones/Skolnick/Grohowski/Motzer - PAKT
Haven't had enough time with most 2021 albums to rank them, but I have to mention Rachel Flowers - Bigger On The Inside. Keith Emerson is smiling in the ether. This brought me to tears for multiple reasons. Kudos to Rachel. More, please.
Great show. I can always count on Steven to cover my favorite prog (British) so thanks for mentioning Lee Abraham and Frost*. Surprised noone mentioned The Paradox Twin and personally loved the 2021 albums by Dec Burke and Cosmograf. George covers my progmetal side in general and Terra Odium my favorite album of the year overall. Tips for George check out my numbers 2 and 3 as well Paranorm and Iotunn.
My favourite prog albums of the year: 10. Need - A Song For The End 09. Altesia - Embryo 08. Mastodon - Hushed And Grim 07. Dessiderium - Aria 06. Illuminae - Dark Horizons 05. Wheel - Resident Human 04. Dream Theater - A View From The Top Of The World 03. Acolyte - Entropy 02. Alustrium - A Moment To Silence 01. Between The Buried And Me - Colors II
I love all of his other solo albums, so I will keep trying with this one. I don't dislike it, it just hasn't captured me yet. To the Bone didn't really hit me until I bought the vinyl this year, so I am patient.
Currently listening to Multiple Personalities by Coevality.... AMAZING record! They remind me a little bit of Animals as Leaders ( a little less complex and more melodic) and Plini. Thanks for the tip Eric!
Thanks Chris. As we always say on the channel, - rank them how you like them. I knew no one else on the show would agree with my pick, but also knew the comments would be good natured. One of the many reasons why it's so much fun being involved.
@@TranquilityFireReid we like what we like! Sometimes our expectations of what an artist will do often overrides our enjoyment when they try something different. I will be revisiting The Future Bites. Merry Christmas Steven
@@ericporter344 agree with every word of that Eric. Merry Christmas to you and all the Prog Seat members and viewers. Being involved with the show and getting the chance to talk music with you all has been one of the highlights of my year!
Great show! And some real good selections all worthy of being in the top ten. I would like to offer "Unseen World" from BAND-MAID as a worthy top ten pick. This Band has come into its own starting from a traditional Heavy Rock/Metal sound evolving to a progressive slant over 8 years and 130 studio album tracks. The current album 'Unseen World' has landed in the category of being a full-blown progressive Rock/Metal/Punk/Funk offering. It would be criminal if this album is not taken under consideration. This band should not be slept on.
Great episode guys, I really like the Nine Skies “5.20” album, listened to it last night and the Tomahawk Luis mentioned is good as is that Cynic album, Caligonaut, Big Big Train, Agusa, Leprus and Aziola Cry. Fernando Molinari is well known here in Brazil amongst the jazz fusion geeks. Now I have to check out Jane Getter Premonition, Jeremy Green, Lee Abraham, Unlucky Morpheus, Cyan, The Scaramanga Six and many more. Lol.
Thanks ssp Nine Skies was on my list, but I had to have Chick & Pat (my 2 mulligans) in my top 10. Hope you enjoy the Jeremy Green, I love it. Can't wait to hear the Molinari disc
@@ericporter344 I can understand that for sure, I have to check out the new Metheny, I haven’t listened to him in years, I kind of fell out with a lot of jazz fusion stuff for a long time, but I’m getting back into it a bit, there are so many new things to discover from this episode, so it’s great to get new recommendations.
@@sspbrazil wish I could listen to everything, but it's great to have so much good music being made. Hope people will take the leap and check some of these out, definitely a bunch from tonight I will be grabbing.
This is great because there is almost too much to absorb, and as a result there is PLENTY to explore. I've heard some Transatlantic that made me want to hear more, but currently AGUSA is really hitting the spot (as time goes on I find myself wanting to hear more FLUTE in the rock I am listening to).
If you liked the new Transatlantic then you HAVE to check out the new Hasse Froberg & Musical Companion/We Are The Truth album, it's really really good. My top pick for 2021 prog album
@@ericporter344 Yes I was tempted to say that Agusa was the winning band in this episode! I listened for a couple of hours the other day and I find that you hardly notice that no one SANG for the past hour!
My picks : Drifting Sun- Forsaken Innocence Dave Bainbridge- To the Far Away Mostly Autumn- Graveyard Star Cyan-King & Country 2021 Michal Lapaj- Are You There (Riverside keyboardist) Three Colours Dark- Love ‘s Lost Property The Emerald Dawn- To Touch the Sky The Adekaem- The Great Lie Lee Abraham- Only Human Lifesigns- Altitude 22 Layers- Isotope (ESP offshoot) Illuminae- Dark Horizons Nodo Gordiano- Hex Sylvan- Zero One The Cyberiam - Connected
I just checked out Glass Hammer Anthem To Andorath, I'm Hooked! I can't believe I missed Pete's review. gonna watch that next and add to my list of purchases!
1. Neal Morse Band: Innocence & Danger 2. Transatlantic: The Absolute Universe (extended) 3. HFMC (Hasse Froberg & Musical Companion): We Are the Truth 4. Dream Theater: A View From the Top of the World 5. Mostly Autumn: Graveyard Star 6. Steve Hackett: Surrender of Silence 7. Styx: Crash of the Crown 8. Ciccada: Harvest 9. Caligonaut: Magnified as Giants 10. Agusa: En Annan Varld Honorable Mentions Focus: 50 - Live in Rio Nektar: Live 2004 Tour Kansas: Point of Know Return - Live & Beyond Ambigram: Ambigram
It will be difficult to put top 10 list, but Henki by Richard Dawson & Circle is definitely my favourite prog album of the year (probably album of the year period). Reminds me of Robert Wyatt a little bit. And some other prog albums I really liked this year: black midi - Cavalcade Caligonaut - Magnified as Giants Cynic - Ascension Codes Drifting Sun - Forsaken Innocence Frost* - Day and Age Mastodon - Hushed and Grim Needlepoint - Walking Up That Valley Shamblemaths - Shamblemaths 2
Kudos to Steven for defending The Future bites. Pop and electronica have been a part of Porcupine Tree and Wilson's solo career for ages. The album is consistent with his discography, even though it obviously went bolder with pop.
Here are a few Evership - The Uncrowned King: Act 1 King Buffalo - The Burden Of Restlessness and Acheron Motorpsycho - Kingdom Of Oblivion The Night Flight Orchestra - Aeromantic II
I always get the boxset of Transatlantic.Mainly because I know it's always going to be good with these musicians you can't lose.But I usually put on the bluray and I can listen to whatever I want,but I also can enjoy the great graphics with it
I don't think I am too picky about vocals but I had to take a long break from Yes, because Jon Anderson's voice was wearing on me. Taken in shorter doses I can listen contentedly. Shrill vocals have their place for sure, but I don't want to hear it all the time (Budgie, Rush) But The description of Glass Hammer's vocals as similar to Jon Anderson's was enough to deter me from that band, so to hear about this change with the new Glass Hammer album, and seeing the promotional video for it, I think you have guided me to something I am really going to like, so thank you!
Kudos to the panel for recognizing Agusa ( with hints of Camel ) and to Eric for recognizing the new ned Sylvan disc . But my greatest praise goes to Steven for promoting tremendous( yet vastly underacknowledged ) Lee Abraham . The Abraham disc ( featuring Pete Jones of Tiger Moth Lilies ) includes great guitar runs and would make Andy Latimer proud ! Also praise for standing up for the new Steven Wilson disc . A so so Wilson disc is still miles beyond most other artists . Now Steven , if you have an ear for melody and both good guitar as well as outstanding female vocals , I highly recommend you give the British band Mostly Autumn's latest " Graveyard Star " as well as their previous disc . Thanks to tonights recommendations , as i now have 7 discs to investigate , and thats excluding prog metal or fusion , which I do not enjoy .
I've really got to buy Robbie Steinhardt's album, if for no other reason than as a tribute to a terrific musician & vocalist. As fine as Rags is, Kansas has never been the same since the original 6 members and the composition, orchestration, and lyrics of "The Maestro," Kerry Livgren. Speaking of which, I've never heard Proto-Kaw mentioned on this program through the year. Great prog.
I went full on with the Transatlantic and bought the deluxe vinyl box set with CDs and Blu Ray. it is almost too much music lol. The Blu Ray has Mike Portnoy's mix of the tracks making it a longer album again
Translatlantic- The Absolute Universe Dream Theater- A View from the Top of the World LTE- LTE3 Yes- The Quest Styx- Crash of the Moon Steve Wilson- The Future Bites
Had to laugh when I saw that Ken put "(the Samurai of Prog)" after Bernard and Porsti in the Lasers Edge listing for that Robinson Crusoe CD. He's determined to sell that album, despite artist objections. For what it's worth, Ken, I just bought that Samurai of Prog Omnibus volume 2 set from you, about 3 weeks ago. Good stuff.
This list wasn't easy to put together as there has been so much fantastic music that's come out in 2021 and i've loved listening to everyone's top ten favourites. Here is my list 1. Transatlantic: The Breath Of Life (Abridged Version) 2. Neal Morse Band: Innocence & Danger 3. Liquid Tension Experiment 3 4. Dream Theater: A View From The Top Of The World 5. Erik Laan: Chain Reaktor 6. Mostly Autumn: Graveyard Star 7.Yes: The Quest 8. Steve Hackett: Surrender Of Silence 9. Frost: Day And Age 10. Cynic: Ascension Codes
Fantastic stuff guys! Really love the variety. Personally luis' choices resonated with me the most as I gravitated to the metal side of prog the most this year. I still have to check some of the fusion releases, new liquid tension experiment, subterranean masquerade, altesia etc. These would be my picks Mastodon-hushed and grim Between the buried and me-colours II Floating points and Pharoah Sanders-promises Obscura-a valediction (technical/progressive death metal) Thy catafalque-vadak (progressive/industrial black metal) Vola-witness White void-anti Rivers of nihil-the work Wheel-resident human Cynic-ascension codes Honorable mentions Turbulence-frontal Needlepoint-waking up that valley Iotunn-access all worlds Gojira-fortitude Be'lakor-coherance (progressive/melodic death metal)
Fun show. I have a couple more to check out now. My list of ten goes to eleven. Right. But it goes to eleven. 1. Cyan - For King and Country 2. Mostly Autumn - Graveyard Star 3. Transatlantic - The Absolute Universe (pick your version) 4. Lee Abraham - Only Human 5. Agusa - En Annan Varld 6. Big Big Train - Common Ground 7. Styx - Crash of the Crown 8. Neil Morse Band - Innocence and Danger 9. Anthony Kalugin - Chameleon Shapeshifter 10. Caligonaut - Magnified As Giants 11. Lyle Workman - Uncommon Measures Of course my list could and probably will change tomorrow. And I have a few on order that have yet to arrive that I suspect might threaten to make the list: Lifesigns’ Altitude; Robby Steinhardt’s Not In Kansas Anymore; This Winter Machine’s Kites. Seems like it was a very good year.
@@TranquilityFireReid Live albums were specifically excluded? I included them personally, I know they're almost always composed of previously released material but if the live record came out during the period in question then why not include it?
@@wolf1977 Not excluded as such, but we do like to make the distinction between completely new music for the year and new releases, even if Eric did bend the rules! lol!! I'd say it's pretty standard across most end of year polls, but hey, if you like an album, it shouldn't matter either way.
@@TranquilityFireReid I agree, my overall #1 pick was a live record that I couldn't possibly exclude from my list (Layla Revisited - Live At Lockn' 2019 by Tedeschi Trucks Band) it was that good. I guess you could have the same approach for archival records released this year but containing prior/older recordings (as my #1 pick also was)
@@TranquilityFireReid They were meant to play London in 2020, then (for obvious reasons) postponed to this year, and now have it set for November 2022. *Think* that was their only UK date but come on down, assuming '3rd time lucky' comes into play!
@@actorJSB Yeah, London seems to be their only ever stop off point in the UK. Not always easy getting the time to make trips down, but if I want to see them at some point I doubt I'll have much choice!
@@TranquilityFireReid Well I'll keep my fingers crossed that I spot you furtively across a crowded room (was gonna say see you there for a chat or even a pint, but actual social interaction is unlikely, so you should be safe, ha!).
@@TranquilityFireReid I love Kaye's work in Yes (more than Wakeman's) & honestly don't know much about his solo work so I'll have to check those out. Just listened to a bit of End of Innocence & that definitely sounds like prog to me (and pretty good too)...Looks like he's got at least two live records with Billy Sherwood (Live In Japan 1 & 2) which I do have & are very good (also prog), plus the Tony Kaye Trio/Boredom Is The Devil's Tool from 2014 which my download service has filed under Blues...
Not in any order. Transatlantic "The Absolute Universe" I have both versions. NMB "Innocence & Danger", Frost, "Day & Age", LTE 3, Marillion, Fugazi Super Deluxe", The Winter Machine "Kites". NFO, "Aeromantic II". My album of the year would be Styx "Crash Of The Crown".
Key take away from the episode is that the In The Prog Seat on air talent get their musical recommendations from In The Prog Seat, which is kind of a mind fuck if you think about it. Also, the phrase "Fucking Tony Levin" will now require audience members to drink. All great picks. Please check out releases by Michael Lapaj who is the keyboard player from Riverside. His record is called Are You There. Also for the folks who like Progressive Death Metal a record from earlier in the year by Iotunn is amazing. That one is called Access All Worlds. Cheers!
Fair play Steven, TFB is a truly great album. It is not for everyone, and it's certainly not like SW's previous solo albums, but it is a truly great album. Being progressive is not making the sane album over and over, and SW certainly doesn't do that!
I've given the Dream Theatre album so many tries this year. It's as competent as one would expect but bar the first track I it still fails to hook me. Will give more listens.....
Prog or not The Future Bites is also my #1 album of the year; I've liked each of SWs solo albums more than the one before it and the last 4 have all been great. Styx have always been a band I've liked rather than loved but The Mission was excellent and Crash of the Crown is ten times as good, a real unexpected purple patch form a bunch of veterans. With Transatlantic, sounds like I made the same mistake as most people by getting the 90 minute version, I do enjoy it while it's on, but can't remember a thing about it once it's done, should have got the 60 minute version but not going to bother now! Maybe it doesn't count as prog (but I think it does) or if folk just don't care for it, but one missing here was Downes Braide Association's Halcyon Hymns. Definitely the best album Geoff Downes put out this year, (okay, the competition is not high) and while I find Roger Dean a bit overrated his artwork for the album is perfect, the album sounds exactly like the artwork looks, so have a glance and you should know straight away whether or not you'll like the album!
I agree regarding Wilson (obviously!). I've heard a previous DBA album and was pretty underwhelmed, and on that basis have let the new one pass me by, which was maybe a mistake, Have you heard the This Oceanic Feeling album Universal Mind from 2015 featuring Braides, Lee Pomeroy and Ash Soan? It's excellent! I adore the song "I Play Debussy".
@@TranquilityFireReid I'd somehow managed to not know DBA was a thing before this album so haven't gone back to the previous 3 yet, hoping they stack up for me - haven't heard (or heard of) the TOF album so thanks for the heads up, will check that out! Any predictions on which slot Marillion will nab this time next year...?
@@actorJSB I prefer the TOF album to the debut DAB by quite some way. Very melodic and very catchy. Well... let's just say that I already have the inside scoop on the Marillion album and it's really rather excellent - for those who like modern Marillion! I can say no more for now!!
@@TranquilityFireReid Haha, well you've just made March feel a very long way off! Not sure if we'll get to see you and/or Mr Bray revisit the year as a while but thanks for the entertainment and recommendations this year - great stuff. :D
@@actorJSB No, I think Simon is now in hibernation ready to then meet the new year like a fresh little cherub! (He'll slap me if he reads this...), but the pleasure has genuinely been ours. It's so much fun doing the shows and long may it continue!
That's probably fair comment Tanis, but Wilson is seen as a prog artist so I included it on this list. It isn't actually my overall number one album of the year, but what is really wasn't right for this show - my full list will be on the SoT webzine alongside the other writers' soon.
@@TranquilityFireReid I'm a huge fan of Prog Rock, but also i like a lot of other type of music Trip hop, indie rock, brit pop, on your webzine you are much more musically inclusive and Bands like The Gathering who invented a style with a magnificent singer (Anneke) and a band like Radiohead which in my opinion made the best album of the 90s and it's a Prog album (ok Computer) too bad some guest and Pete remain in everything that comes close to the hard rock or Prog category.
Thanks guys. I have a question. I'm always interested in prog rock. I watch your prog seat episodes i read PROG magazine but i don't like much of the albums that are discussed. I just don't like the typical prog tropes. The bombastic singing and melodies, great instrumental techniques taking over the music etc. I like my prog more straightforward and maybe somewhat mild. I'm a big Rush fan, like Porcupine Tree a lot and more recently the last Wobbler is fantastic, i like both Astra albums and the Crownlands ep . I just can't enjoy a whole album of yes, king crimson, dream theater or genesis. And i give up on bands like liquid tension and transatlantic pretty quickly. Does anyone has any recommendations for a mild prog rock fan like me? Thanks
@@TranquilityFireReid thanks. i've tried riverside years ago when i just discovered Porcupine Tree. Good sounding band but i think it was too emo for me. probably the singer. i'm just too difficult. at the moment i mostly listen to classic, stoner, psychedelic/space rock/metal. but like lots of other genres.
@@daanthing6002 Some suggestions (based on you liking Porcupine Tree): The Pineapple Thief, Steven Wilson solo (beware I like PT too but got tired of his solo stuff), Blackfield (some nice melodic stuff), Djam Karet (might be a bit of a reach), Anathema...Based on Wobbler: Thank You Scientist, The Tangent, Beardfish...It's tough because you liking Wobbler would to me automatically mean you'd like Big Big Train which you don't, plus I really don't connect Wobbler & Porcupine Tree that much (although I also like both). Anyway you can try some of those & see what you think, a lot of their music is posted to the internet
Being only a metal prog guy I would rank the latest Dream Theater, Mastedon and BTBAM in my top 10 of the year. Speaking of Cynic, I am a big fan of Focus since the day it came out but I cannot stand Paul's vox since then. To be they made their best album with Death with Human.
Ashes in Sapphire - From Twilight to Light Blacksmith Tales - The Dark Presence Cast - Vigesimus Chromatic Aberration - The Trial of the King Ciccada - Harvest Cirkus - Page 12 on the Right Crack The Sky - Tribes Deafening Opera - Driftwood Department of Revenge - Shut up and pay the bill Evership - The Uncrowned King Act 1 Frost - Day And Age Fufluns - Refuse Galaad - Paradis Posthumes Galactic Cowboy Orchestra - Flirting with Chaos Godspeed You! Black Emperor - G_d's Pee at State's End! John Holden - Circles in Time Jordsjø - Pastoralia JPL - Sapiens Chapitre 2-3 Deus ex Machina K'Mono - Return To The 'E' Liquid Tension Experiment - LTE3 Meer - Playing House Nine Skies - 5.20 Noisy Diners - The Princess of the Allen Keys (The History of Manto) Perfect Storm - No Air Permian Incident - All The Things No Tomorrow Brings Relayer - Broken Branches Resistor - The 5th Season Ske - Insolubilia Sylvan - One To Zero The Far Cry - If Only... The Samurai of Prog - The Lady And The Lion Transatlantic - The Absolute Universe - Forevermore Umphrey's McGee - You Walked Up Shaking In Your Boots But You Stood Tall And Left A Raging Bull Various Artists - Still Wish You Were Here - A Tribute to Pink Floyd
In this order. 1. Dream Theater - A View From The Top Of The World 2. Rivers of Nihil - The Work 3. Neal Morse Band - Innocence & Danger 4. Transatlantic - The Absolute Universe 5. Between the Buried and Me - Colors II 6. Mastodon - Hushed and Grim 7. Cynic - Ascension Codes 8. Gojira - Fortitude 9. Evergrey - Escape of the Phoenix 10. Leprous - Aphelion
I really like when this show dips into more modern Progressive Metal. I resonate more with Luis' choices. (Maybe consider one dedicated episode in a future In The Prog Seat). My one album relevant to this video is: Wheel - Resident Human. Excellent 2021 release.
I just found this on one of my music streaming services: Kosmodome/Self-Titled. Released less than 2 weeks ago & not even shipping until Feb 2022...Sounds pretty good to me, this is what Bandcamp has to say: "The brainchild of the two Sandvik brothers, Sturle on guitars and vocals, and Severin on drums, Kosmodome’s music is riff-based rock with stoner elements all of which are placed within a progressive universe to great effect. Together, the duo bridges the gap between the explosive drive of bands such as Mastodon with melodic magic and retrospective, clever songwriting"...I like at least 6 of the 8 tracks here, the only ones I skipped were "Hypersonic" & "Orbit"
Hi Pete would you be listing the picks pls ? Yes Steve ...just don't like SW-TFB album . I think he's past his prime 😂👍.only 53 ? You didn't include the SW remixes ? 😂
@@TranquilityFireReid indeed it is, I gave that album a fair shake and I’m a huge Steven Wilson fan, but this album and “To The Bone” are albums I don’t find myself going back to listen to often as much as the others, I think as soon as he got married his music became tepid. 😂
@@sspbrazil I have to agree, I do have a bunch of Wilson's prior records plus stuff from his other bands but over time there was something about his music that left me feeling like I was listening to the same thing over & over somehow. Hard to put a finger on it exactly but that's how I feel about his material, I'm now on a temporary (permanent?) Steven Wilson hiatus...Doesn't help either that he's trying to remaster/remix every classic album ever recorded which is keeping him in the spotlight even when he's not recording new albums. Steven, sometimes less is more...
I'll just name my #1 overall favorite prog release (and it's not even really close): Hasse Froberg & Musical Companion/We Are The Truth...Just downloaded it the other day, very good-to-great album. I like just about every single track & that's pretty rare, especially for a newer album released after 1979. It was released at the end of November. I also have their prior albums Powerplay, Hfmc, Parallel Life & Future Past. This is a very good band, really consistently good. They haven't released a bad album yet. This one is no exception, I'd give it like a 4.2 out of 5. Probably the highest rated/best album I've heard this year in terms of prog (and for non-prog it's easily Layla Revisited - Live At Lockn' 2019 by Tedeschi Trucks Band, recorded in 2019 but released earlier this year in July). They sound a lot like Flower Kings so fans of that band almost have to own these records. The epic 13 minute "Other Eyes" has it all, again very evocative of The Flower Kings. "Rise Up" is fantastic, great uptempo prog that could be at home on any recent Flower Kings album. When I saw the title "Yoko" to the 5th track I was momentarily afraid this would be a bunch of whale noises a la you-know-who but it's not, another very solid prog number. "A Spiritual Change" may be my favorite track but honestly it could also be 3 or 4 other ones too. Their lead guitarist Anton Lindsjö is almost at a Roine Stolt level & that's saying A LOT (I love Roine, my fave singer/guitar player active right now). The web site Spirit Of Progressive Rock has a nice overview of the band's prior albums & a short review of this new one, plus Bandcamp has the entire album posted. Destined to be a future classic prog album. At least a 4.5 out of 5 & could easily be higher to be honest
Really looking forward to getting the new HFMC. So far I only have Future Past, but it is a great album, with excellent songwriting and so much power. Best part, though, is an entire album with lead vocals by HF, an absolutely incredible singer.
@@danaaronmusic Agreed he's really good, almost as good a singer as Roine Stolt (who I absolutely love). This reminds me SO MUCH of Flower Kings it's not even funny (and that's a very good thing). You also need to get Hfmc & Parallel Life, as well as Power Play & We Are The Truth. They honestly haven't made a bad record yet
@@wolf1977 Interesting. I'm actually a huge fan of Stolt as a songwriter and guitarist. But for vocals, I prefer Froberg. As for those other albums, I plan to get them all, right along with completing my Flower Kings collection. The main thing that inspired me to get into HFMC in the first place was Magic Pie off Flower Power, one of the highlights of a great album.
@@danaaronmusic Yes that's a great track, one of many. My fave all time FK track might well be "I Am The Sun" (from Space Revolver), I usually play that one multiple times whenever it comes up in the rotation, what a powerful song. either that one or "The Flower King" from that self-titled album. There's something about his voice that I really like a lot...I think I have all of the FK albums now plus all of Stolt's solo stuff, along with his albums with Agents Of Mercy, Anderson/Stolt (great stuff), Kaipa, The Sea within, Swedish Family, 3rd World Electric & The Tangent. And of course all of the Transatlantic albums. My Stolt playlist (incl the FK albums) is something like 400 tracks deep now
@@wolf1977 OK, wow. You're way ahead of me. I've got seven Flower Kings, two Transatlantics (I'm also a big Neal Morse fan) and Anderson/Stolt. Jon Anderson is one of my favorite humans. So far, I like everything and plan to keep collecting.
@@ericporter344 I'm actually not a huge Neal Morse fan (especially his more recent religious solo albums, fortunately his latest is more secular music) although I do like him, especially his vocals (live in particular) that can at times sound strained. Spock's Beard is another classic prog band & given your like of Morse you may like them more...Roine Stolt to me is a much better singer & should sing more of TA's songs. He is a very good songwriter & keyboard player, and better than average on guitar (I think he plays drums too on some of his solo records & probably bass as well)...To me FK is one of the best prog bands ever, but a lot of that obviously is based on my major like for Roine Stolt's playing/singing/writing. To me the best singer/guitar player actively recording today...I don't want to come off as too negative of Morse, it's just that when you're in the same prog band with Roine Stolt the comparisons between the two are bound to be made
I also didn’t understand the dig at Kevin Shirley. He didn’t work on the Astonishing. I also don’t have a problem with his work with Iron Maiden but I have also noticed snide little digs at him from different music commenters on other channels too. Is it because he gets lucrative gigs? Nothing wrong production-wise with any of the albums he has worked on, imo.
@Laser CD, I’ll acknowledge that you are certainly not the only person who has said that. If I heard a different mix and could compare it to Shirley’s, its the only way I could possibly tell you. I just don’t have a problem with the Iron Maiden albums he has worked on.
@Laser CD, if his voice is low in the mix I wonder if that might be to hide some deficiencies in Bruce’s vocals these days? I don’t mind how Bruce sounds on Senjutsu though. I like the - at times- murky atmospheric feel....
Luis' picks:
10. Dying Planet
9. Accordo Dei Contrari - UR, 8. Tomahawk - Tonic Immobility, 7. LTE 3, 6. Aziola Cry - The Ironic Divide, 5. Leprous - Aphelion, 4. Gojira - Fortitude, 3. Mastodon - Hushed and grim, 2. SKE - Solubilia, 1. Between The Buried And Me - Colors II
Eric's picks:
10. Transatlantic - Breath of Life (Abridged Version)
9. Jane Getter Premonition - Anomolia
8. Jeremy Green - Standing Eight
7. Nad Sylvan - Spiritus Mundi
6. Agusa - En Annan Varld
5. Lyle Workman - Uncommon Measures
4. Coevality - Multiple Personalities
3. Pat Metheny - Side Eye NYC
2. Kick the Cat - Gurgle
1. Chick Corea Akoustic Band w/ John Patitucci & Dave Weckl - Live
George's picks:
10. Benjamin Croft - Far and Distant Things
9. Jeremy Green - Standing Eight
8. Quadratum - Loud Playing Workshop
7. Fernando Molinari - Reaching Inside
6. Terra Odium - Ne Plus Ultra
5. Lyle Workman - Uncommon Measures
4. Marriage Material - s/t
3. Cameron Graves - Seven
2. Kick the Cat - Gurgle
1. Dream Theater - A View From the Top of the World
Ken's picks:
10 Accordi Dei Contrari “UR-“
9 Liquid Tension Experiment “Liquid Tension Experiment 3”
8 Cynic “Ascension Codes”
7 Fragile “Beyond”
6 Big Big Train “Common Ground”
5 Asia Minor “Points Of Libration”
4 Shamblemaths “Shamblemaths 2”
3 Steve Hackett “Surrender Of Silence”
2 Agusa “en Annan Varld”
1 Third Eye “Sound Cycles”
Steven's picks:
1. Steven Wilson - The Future Bites
2. Caligonaut - Magnified As Giants
3. Frost* - Day And Age
4. Aeon Zen - Transversal
5. Crown Lands - White Buffalo
6. Agusa - En Annan Varld
7. Styx - Crash Of The Crown
8. Cyan - For King And Country
8. Scaramanga Six - Worthless Music
9. Dennis DeYoung - 26 East Vol 2
10. Lee Abraham - Only Human
Pete's picks:
Styx-Crash of the Crown
Dream Theater-A View From the Top of the World
Transatlantic-The Absolute Universe
Neal Morse Band-Innocence & Danger
Agusa-En Annan Varld
Liquid Tension Experiment-3
Caligonaut-Magnified as Giants
Cynic-Ascension Codes
Glass Hammer-Skallagrim: Into the Breach
Robby Steinhardt-Not in Kansas Anymore: A Prog Opera
Thank you Peter for this convenient list, good looking out for us
Nobody listening to Oranssi Pazuzu albums on this channel??
Love this comment! Please include this anytime you can.
Some great picks but a little shocked that my top pick Hasse Froberg & Musical Companion/We Are The Truth didn't make anyone's list, a total shutout = zero for 60. Somewhat related band Transatlantic made it onto a couple of lists & that's probably my #2 for 2021. In my opinion a major miss, I wonder if any of the panelists have heard it & what they thought of it? The Kick The Cat release was also very good, with Neal Morse Band & Big Big Train coming in just a bit below that one. Some of these like Pat Metheny's & Chick Corea Akoustic Band's albums to me are straight-up jazz
Thx for posting a summary of all the picks
Dear, George! Thanks so much for the mention!!
Thanks George for choosing my album!!
Thanks for making it! Very nice piece of work. Looking forward to another from you.
@@georgelamie7001 Will hopefully be back in the studio middle of next year to record another!
My taste in music is definitely most alligned with Luis Nasser and Steven Reid on this one. Great show guys.
Agreed. I always look forward to what those guys have to say.
Holy Cow!!! Quadratum is KILLER! first thing I saw was the violin cover of Eruption... I'm Speechless! A Must Buy! thanks George!
I'm with you 100% what a stunning recommendation that is!
@@TranquilityFireReid Glad you're enjoying it, Steven!!
I have no idea where George finds these bands…
@@lasercd7851 No, neither do I, but am glad he does, this one is excellent!
Eruption was the first thing I saw or heard from it, Drew. I was happy to see it wasn't a one off track, and that there was a whole album there.
Hi Steven. Hi Eric. I always look forward to seeing you guys. Have a wonderful Christmas and New Year, and let's hope for some great prog in 2022!
And to you Janice. Thanks for watching!
Thanks Janice. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you! Thanks so much for watching, look forward to more music discussions with you!
The missus has just let me watch this all in one go, thanks very much everybody.
Thank you Pete.I just received today Mogul Thrash in the mail.Absolutely great prog.They remind me of early Chicago,Ides of March and Blood Sweat andTears.Couldn't take it off.Couldn't get enough.Thanks again Peter and Merry Christmas
Gents, thanks for taking time to do this episode as have really been looking forward to hearing all of your choices. Also, thanks for the 2021 In The Prog Seat episodes. All of you and other co-captains have brought a lot of excellent music to our attention [though also really enjoyed the episode you did on albums you did not care for too much or at all.] Once more, thanks for listing everyone's picks. That allows those of us wanting it to enjoy the episode more rather than be concerned with copious notetaking. My top pick for the year may be the recently discussed En Annan Varld by Agusa. Tracked down a copy and have been listening to it quite a bit since it arrived in the mailbox and it is headed into the car for the coming road trip. Thanks again and happy holiday, whichever one you may celebrate.
John, again, thank you for watching! I always love reading your comments, and suggestions. 4 of us picked Agusa on the panel, that stood out. Glad you are enjoying the CD.
Look forward to hearing more from you in 2022. Thanks so much for sharing your thoughts!
Thanks JMW. Always a pleasure to read your comments. Thanks for all the support this year. I can't wait to continue the music discussion in 2022. Happy holidays - and happy listening!
That's the album that intrigued me the most to check out!
Great show as always. My top 4 are as follows:
1. Michal Łapaj - Are You There (from Riverside)
2. Steven Wilson - The Future Bites
3.RPWL- God Has Failed
4. Ray Wilson - The Weights of Man
Just to add Steven Reid mentioned he brought a new amp. Maybe one show you could show and tell your systems to the viewers? Even show your Collection of music. Just a thought
Good list Matt. I need to catch up with that Łapaj album! My system isn't all that exciting/expensive. A Marantz 6007 amp, a matching Marantz 6007 CD player, Project Debut Carbon Evo record deck and Sony TC-KE400S cassette deck that sees use about once every two or three years! The music collection would take longer to describe... but it is all listed!
I know you like Riverside so I believe you will like this album. Your system sounds very good,
@@mattwhite6291 Thanks Matt - The Lapaj album is top of my January catch up list now. Thanks!!
Great show Pete. STEVEN REID!!!! Glad you found the time to check out Crown Lands! I thought you might like them 😊👍
A superb recommendation! I've been extolling their virtues to anyone who'll listen ever since!
@@TranquilityFireReid So glad you like them Steven. I noticed they also figured highly on your Fireworks magazine play list. Rock music on a whole is so underground these days we must keep spreading the word. Merry Christmas to you and yours and I look forward to listening and reading your very entertaining contributions to the music we love in 2022! 👍
@@shaunsmith3538 Thanks Shaun and yes, we must keep fighting the good fight. Rock ain't dead!
Thanks for all your support this year. Have a Merry Christmas and a rockin' 2022!
Lifesigns - Altitude
Mostly Autumn - Graveyard Star
Dream Theater - A View From The Top of The World
Styx - Crash of the Crown
Teramaze - Sorella Minori
The Paradox Twin - Silence from Symbols
Transatlantic - The Absolute Universe
Frost - Day and Age
Steve Hackett - Surrender of Silence
Iron Maiden - Senjutsu
HM: This Winter Machine - Kites
RE: the Transatlantic discussion - remember they had a live album called "More Is Never Enough"... I loved that The Monkees had alternate versions of some of their songs with different lead vocalists.
I'm an absolute freak for anything that Roine plays (and especially also sings) on but gotta be honest that I only really liked the track "The Whirlwind" from More Is Never Enough. Not that everything else doesn't sound good but I already had live versions of the vast majority of these tracks that were at least as good as what was on this album. If you're a Transatlantic fan who doesn't already own their other live albums (Live In America/Europe/London) then yeah, I could easily see you buying this one & loving it
@@wolf1977 Oddly enough this is the only TA live album I don't have, and it's only because it was the SECOND live album they released for that tour and I had already bought the first one.
Thanks for the fun show again! The Absolute Universe is one of the top albums for me too in 2021. Have that blu-ray version, in which music is also visualized very beatufifully & tastefully...
Great show as always guys. Got to agree with Ken about the Fragile album - absolutely loved that.
Top 5 for me this year were the releases from: Fragile, Transatlantic, Glass Hammer, Mostly Autumn and Agusa.
Thanks guys. This was/is enlightening.
Thanks for watching!
1. Caligonaut - "Magnified As Giants"
2. Ciccada- "Harvest"
3. smalltape- "The Hungry Heart"
4. Frost* - "Day and Age"
5. Hands of the Heron- " 13 Moons"
6. Shamblemaths - "Shamblemaths II"
7. Ske - "Insolubilia"
8. Leprous - "Aphelion"
9. Needlepoint - "Walking Up That Valley"
10. The Emerald Dawn- "To Touch The Sky"
A great 2021 prog record that nobody talks about : FRENCH TV " All Our Failures Are Behind Us". Fantastic album.
1- SKE : Insolubilia (by far THE BEST prog album of the year)
2- French TV : All our failures are behind us
3- Alco Frisbass : Le mystère du gué pucelle
4- Magma : Eskahl (live)
5- Vola : Witness
My Top 10 Prog List
1. Mastodon: Hushed and Grim
2. Frost*: Day and Age
3. Caligonaut: Magnified as Giants
4. Gojira: Fortitude
5. Rivers of Nihil: The Work
6. Between the Buried and Me: Colors II
7. Dvne: Etemen Ænka
8. black midi: Cavalcade
9. Soen: Imperial
10. Transatlantic: The Absolute Universe
Some honorable mentions:
• Neal Morse Band: Innocence & Danger
• Liquid Tension Experiment: LTE3
• Terra Odium: Ne Plus Ultra
• Leprous: Aphelion
• Big Big Train: Common Ground
• Cynic: Ascension Codes
Thanks for introducing me to so many great albums!
Thanks for watching Jakob!
Good mix of the familiar and the Unknown-to-me. My top 10:
1. Amorphous Androgynous - We Persuade Ourselves
2. Kosmogon - Massan
3. Elephant9 - Arrival of the New Elders
4. Diagonal - Diagonal 4
5. GY!BE - G_d's Pee...
6. Isuldurs Bane - In Disequilibrium
7. Big Big Train - Common Ground
8. Transatlantic - The Absolute Universe
9. Dream Theater - A View....
10. Gojira -Fortitude
It’s difficult to know all music and I’m always looking for new stuff. I only discovered Transatlantic this year through the Absolute Universe. Great stuff and opened the door to all of their other music as well as Neal Morse etc. i have really enjoyed discovering all the music.
The Jeremy Green is great as well. If you listen to these songs on TH-cam you get slightly different mixes. No horns etc. interesting to listen to the subtle differences. Great show
Only horns on two tracks of the Green; Ain't no Chevy, and Michael and Me.
Well, George once again hit the 'obscure one' button and Quadratum!!! Pete is time for u to get into more popular japanese bands today, like, Unlucky Morpheus, Lightbringer and Lovebites and we wait from u, ranking the albums for this bands.
I am thinking Band Maid "Unseen World".
Good episode, I would like to see a list of the albums per person in the description. Happy holidays guys
Happy Holidays Bert, Pete will be posting a list in the comments.
It's pinned to the top now Bert. Thanks for watching!
Here we are again. First of all, thanks for recommendations throughout the year. Benjamin Croft, Discipline and many more.
Jane Getter Premonition is a great album. Got it the Cynic one last week, it could make my top.
1. Dream Theater - View from the top of the world.
2. Transatlantic - The absolute universe
3. A Dying Planet - When the skies are grey
4. FROST* - Day and age
5. Cyan - For the king and country
6 Lee Abraham - Only human
7. Neal Morse Band - Innocence and danger
8. Leprous - Aphelion
9. Liquid Tension Experiment - 3
10. Steve Hackett - Surrender to silence
Thanks for watching Lazaros! Nice list
Great show guys! "Hushed and Grim", "A View from the Top" and "Fortitude" are my Top 3. I would probably also want to include Enslaved with "Caravans to the Outer Worlds", of course it's an EP, but proggy! I plan to check out Benjamin Croft, Lee Abraham, Fernando Molinari and Coevality - a quick listen to these struck a chord for me. 👍
Thanks for checking out some of our favorites, I'll be doing the same! Some things I have not heard that were mentioned tonight.
I've always wanted to stay current on new rock, and since commercial radio hasn't served for a long time now, the only place to go, as far as radio is concerned, is college radio. You can still hear excellent new rock music to this day. But even college radio has not been very supportive of new Progressive rock, so I appreciate videos like this one. I would otherwise never have heard of most of these bands! When I first came across S of T here on TH-cam I thought "What a bunch of nerds!" Now I am a Prog Seat fan.
1) Yes - The Quest
2) Ciccada - Harvest
3) Frost - Day & Age
4) Relayer - Broken Branches
5) John Holden - Circles In Time
As a Swede, your pronunciations of Agusa's album "En Annan Värld" is pretty good. It means "another world", by the way
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My Top 10 Prog/Fusion/Jazz Albums of 2021 (In No Order)
Dream Theater - A View From The Top Of The World
Liquid Tension Experiment - LTE 3
Cynic - Ascension Codes
Transatlantic - The Absolute Universe
Kick the Cat - Gurgle
Check Corea Akoustic Band w/ John Patitucci & Dave Weckl - Live
A Dying Planet - When the Skies Are Grey
Agusa - En annan varld
Caligonaut - Magnified as Giants
Jones/Skolnick/Grohowski/Motzer - PAKT
Haven't had enough time with most 2021 albums to rank them, but I have to mention Rachel Flowers - Bigger On The Inside. Keith Emerson is smiling in the ether. This brought me to tears for multiple reasons. Kudos to Rachel. More, please.
Great show. I can always count on Steven to cover my favorite prog (British) so thanks for mentioning Lee Abraham and Frost*. Surprised noone mentioned The Paradox Twin and personally loved the 2021 albums by Dec Burke and Cosmograf. George covers my progmetal side in general and Terra Odium my favorite album of the year overall. Tips for George check out my numbers 2 and 3 as well Paranorm and Iotunn.
The Paradox Twin would have been an honourable mention for me had we not already talked for 2-plus hours! lol!! Thanks for watching Erik!
@@TranquilityFireReid What you don't wanna talk for 3 hours...?🤷♂️
@@wolf1977 Well, yes, but not necessarily when we start at midnight my time! lol!! Not sure how many views we'd get for 3 hour chows either!!
@@TranquilityFireReid TBH I wouldn't watch the full 3 hour show either!
My favourite prog albums of the year:
10. Need - A Song For The End
09. Altesia - Embryo
08. Mastodon - Hushed And Grim
07. Dessiderium - Aria
06. Illuminae - Dark Horizons
05. Wheel - Resident Human
04. Dream Theater - A View From The Top Of The World
03. Acolyte - Entropy
02. Alustrium - A Moment To Silence
01. Between The Buried And Me - Colors II
I also loved TheFutureBites. I have been hit or miss with the rest of his stuff, solo or PT. As Steven said, you like what you like.
Good stuff O_A. Thanks for watching!
@@TranquilityFireReid Sorry...that album bites and i LOVE steven's stuff Enjoy...somebody has to...
I like TFB very much too, one of the top albums for me in 2021!
@@snowdog87 I certainly will! Thanks for watching!
I love all of his other solo albums, so I will keep trying with this one. I don't dislike it, it just hasn't captured me yet. To the Bone didn't really hit me until I bought the vinyl this year, so I am patient.
Currently listening to Multiple Personalities by Coevality.... AMAZING record!
They remind me a little bit of Animals as Leaders ( a little less complex and more melodic) and Plini. Thanks for the tip Eric!
So glad you are liking Arnaud! Thanks for checking them out!
Put me down in the plus column for Future Bites. Good (and ballsy, with this group) pick, Steven!
Thanks Chris. As we always say on the channel, - rank them how you like them. I knew no one else on the show would agree with my pick, but also knew the comments would be good natured. One of the many reasons why it's so much fun being involved.
@@TranquilityFireReid we like what we like! Sometimes our expectations of what an artist will do often overrides our enjoyment when they try something different. I will be revisiting The Future Bites.
Merry Christmas Steven
@@ericporter344 agree with every word of that Eric.
Merry Christmas to you and all the Prog Seat members and viewers. Being involved with the show and getting the chance to talk music with you all has been one of the highlights of my year!
@@TranquilityFireReid Cheers my friend. Talking music on the Prog Seat is definitely a high point for me. You guys are the best!
@@TranquilityFireReid right on! Merry Christmas to you both!
Great show! And some real good selections all worthy of being in the top ten. I would like to offer "Unseen World" from BAND-MAID as a worthy top ten pick. This Band has come into its own starting from a traditional Heavy Rock/Metal sound evolving to a progressive slant over 8 years and 130 studio album tracks. The current album 'Unseen World' has landed in the category of being a full-blown progressive Rock/Metal/Punk/Funk offering. It would be criminal if this album is not taken under consideration. This band should not be slept on.
Great episode guys, I really like the Nine Skies “5.20” album, listened to it last night and the Tomahawk Luis mentioned is good as is that Cynic album, Caligonaut, Big Big Train, Agusa, Leprus and Aziola Cry.
Fernando Molinari is well known here in Brazil amongst the jazz fusion geeks.
Now I have to check out Jane Getter Premonition, Jeremy Green, Lee Abraham, Unlucky Morpheus, Cyan, The Scaramanga Six and many more. Lol.
Thanks ssp Nine Skies was on my list, but I had to have Chick & Pat (my 2 mulligans) in my top 10.
Hope you enjoy the Jeremy Green, I love it. Can't wait to hear the Molinari disc
@@ericporter344 I can understand that for sure, I have to check out the new Metheny, I haven’t listened to him in years, I kind of fell out with a lot of jazz fusion stuff for a long time, but I’m getting back into it a bit, there are so many new things to discover from this episode, so it’s great to get new recommendations.
@@sspbrazil wish I could listen to everything, but it's great to have so much good music being made. Hope people will take the leap and check some of these out, definitely a bunch from tonight I will be grabbing.
Thanks for watching ssp. Lots of great listening ahead by the looks of it!
@@TranquilityFireReid there sure is, listening to some of it now! Thanks Steven.
Good show
This is great because there is almost too much to absorb, and as a result there is PLENTY to explore. I've heard some Transatlantic that made me want to hear more, but currently AGUSA is really hitting the spot (as time goes on I find myself wanting to hear more FLUTE in the rock I am listening to).
Thanks Kevin, with 4 of us (I think) picking the Agusa CD, I'd say that's a ringing endorsement. 😀
Thanks so much for watching!
If you liked the new Transatlantic then you HAVE to check out the new Hasse Froberg & Musical Companion/We Are The Truth album, it's really really good. My top pick for 2021 prog album
@@ericporter344 Yes I was tempted to say that Agusa was the winning band in this episode! I listened for a couple of hours the other day and I find that you hardly notice that no one SANG for the past hour!
@@wolf1977 Ah, ok thanks I will check them out, too!
I was thinking exactly that same thought just the other day regarding the flute Kevin. Thanks for watching!
My picks :
Drifting Sun- Forsaken Innocence
Dave Bainbridge- To the Far Away
Mostly Autumn- Graveyard Star
Cyan-King & Country 2021
Michal Lapaj- Are You There (Riverside keyboardist)
Three Colours Dark- Love ‘s Lost Property
The Emerald Dawn- To Touch the Sky
The Adekaem- The Great Lie
Lee Abraham- Only Human
Lifesigns- Altitude
22 Layers- Isotope (ESP offshoot)
Illuminae- Dark Horizons
Nodo Gordiano- Hex
Sylvan- Zero One
The Cyberiam - Connected
I just checked out Glass Hammer Anthem To Andorath, I'm Hooked! I can't believe I missed Pete's review. gonna watch that next and add to my list of purchases!
Looks like I've got homework to do, lol.
Can someone post the url to kens website ? Thanks
Finally, somebody realizes that Fernando Molinari's Reaching Inside is a great album, lol. Well done, George!
Thanks! It's fantastic, as are his other 2, for that matter.
1. Neal Morse Band: Innocence & Danger
2. Transatlantic: The Absolute Universe (extended)
3. HFMC (Hasse Froberg & Musical Companion): We Are the Truth
4. Dream Theater: A View From the Top of the World
5. Mostly Autumn: Graveyard Star
6. Steve Hackett: Surrender of Silence
7. Styx: Crash of the Crown
8. Ciccada: Harvest
9. Caligonaut: Magnified as Giants
10. Agusa: En Annan Varld
Honorable Mentions
Focus: 50 - Live in Rio
Nektar: Live 2004 Tour
Kansas: Point of Know Return - Live & Beyond
Ambigram: Ambigram
It will be difficult to put top 10 list, but Henki by Richard Dawson & Circle is definitely my favourite prog album of the year (probably album of the year period). Reminds me of Robert Wyatt a little bit.
And some other prog albums I really liked this year:
black midi - Cavalcade
Caligonaut - Magnified as Giants
Cynic - Ascension Codes
Drifting Sun - Forsaken Innocence
Frost* - Day and Age
Mastodon - Hushed and Grim
Needlepoint - Walking Up That Valley
Shamblemaths - Shamblemaths 2
dude some great choices, loved Cavalcade and Dawson’s album was amazing
Seriously, why don't these guys talk about black midi?
Kudos to Steven for defending The Future bites. Pop and electronica have been a part of Porcupine Tree and Wilson's solo career for ages. The album is consistent with his discography, even though it obviously went bolder with pop.
Here are a few
Evership - The Uncrowned King: Act 1
King Buffalo - The Burden Of Restlessness and Acheron
Motorpsycho - Kingdom Of Oblivion
The Night Flight Orchestra - Aeromantic II
mostly autumn. Graveyard Star hands down best prog rock album 2021
I always get the boxset of Transatlantic.Mainly because I know it's always going to be good with these musicians you can't lose.But I usually put on the bluray and I can listen to whatever I want,but I also can enjoy the great graphics with it
I don't think I am too picky about vocals but I had to take a long break from Yes, because Jon Anderson's voice was wearing on me. Taken in shorter doses I can listen contentedly. Shrill vocals have their place for sure, but I don't want to hear it all the time (Budgie, Rush) But The description of Glass Hammer's vocals as similar to Jon Anderson's was enough to deter me from that band, so to hear about this change with the new Glass Hammer album, and seeing the promotional video for it, I think you have guided me to something I am really going to like, so thank you!
Kudos to the panel for recognizing Agusa ( with hints of Camel ) and to Eric for recognizing the new ned Sylvan disc . But my greatest praise goes to Steven for promoting tremendous( yet vastly underacknowledged ) Lee Abraham . The Abraham disc ( featuring Pete Jones of Tiger Moth Lilies ) includes great guitar runs and would make Andy Latimer proud ! Also praise for standing up for the new Steven Wilson disc . A so so Wilson disc is still miles beyond most other artists . Now Steven , if you have an ear for melody and both good guitar as well as outstanding female vocals , I highly recommend you give the British band Mostly Autumn's latest " Graveyard Star " as well as their previous disc . Thanks to tonights recommendations , as i now have 7 discs to investigate , and thats excluding prog metal or fusion , which I do not enjoy .
Thanks Kevin
I've really got to buy Robbie Steinhardt's album, if for no other reason than as a tribute to a terrific musician & vocalist. As fine as Rags is, Kansas has never been the same since the original 6 members and the composition, orchestration, and lyrics of "The Maestro," Kerry Livgren.
Speaking of which, I've never heard Proto-Kaw mentioned on this program through the year. Great prog.
I went full on with the Transatlantic and bought the deluxe vinyl box set with CDs and Blu Ray. it is almost too much music lol. The Blu Ray has Mike Portnoy's mix of the tracks making it a longer album again
How does Portnoy's mix stand up to the other two? That's the only one I haven't heard yet.
That Agusa album is real standout for me.
Translatlantic- The Absolute Universe
Dream Theater- A View from the Top of the World
LTE- LTE3
Yes- The Quest
Styx- Crash of the Moon
Steve Wilson- The Future Bites
Transatlantic- The Absolute Universe is a great record. I think I'm done with Steven Wilson though, at least for a while
The Scarmanga Six now one of my new favorites. Now how to get their stuff in the USA?!?!
I had never heard of A Dying Planet until this. Sampled. Dug it. Ordered.
Had to laugh when I saw that Ken put "(the Samurai of Prog)" after Bernard and Porsti in the Lasers Edge listing for that Robinson Crusoe CD. He's determined to sell that album, despite artist objections. For what it's worth, Ken, I just bought that Samurai of Prog Omnibus volume 2 set from you, about 3 weeks ago. Good stuff.
Thanks! A man’s gotta do what a man’s gotta do.
This list wasn't easy to put together as there has been so much fantastic music that's come out in 2021 and i've loved listening to everyone's top ten favourites. Here is my list
1. Transatlantic: The Breath Of Life (Abridged Version)
2. Neal Morse Band: Innocence & Danger
3. Liquid Tension Experiment 3
4. Dream Theater: A View From The Top Of The World
5. Erik Laan: Chain Reaktor
6. Mostly Autumn: Graveyard Star
7.Yes: The Quest
8. Steve Hackett: Surrender Of Silence
9. Frost: Day And Age
10. Cynic: Ascension Codes
Fantastic stuff guys! Really love the variety. Personally luis' choices resonated with me the most as I gravitated to the metal side of prog the most this year. I still have to check some of the fusion releases, new liquid tension experiment, subterranean masquerade, altesia etc.
These would be my picks
Mastodon-hushed and grim
Between the buried and me-colours II
Floating points and Pharoah Sanders-promises
Obscura-a valediction (technical/progressive death metal)
Thy catafalque-vadak (progressive/industrial black metal)
Vola-witness
White void-anti
Rivers of nihil-the work
Wheel-resident human
Cynic-ascension codes
Honorable mentions
Turbulence-frontal
Needlepoint-waking up that valley
Iotunn-access all worlds
Gojira-fortitude
Be'lakor-coherance (progressive/melodic death metal)
Fun show. I have a couple more to check out now.
My list of ten goes to eleven. Right. But it goes to eleven.
1. Cyan - For King and Country
2. Mostly Autumn - Graveyard Star
3. Transatlantic - The Absolute Universe (pick your version)
4. Lee Abraham - Only Human
5. Agusa - En Annan Varld
6. Big Big Train - Common Ground
7. Styx - Crash of the Crown
8. Neil Morse Band - Innocence and Danger
9. Anthony Kalugin - Chameleon Shapeshifter
10. Caligonaut - Magnified As Giants
11. Lyle Workman - Uncommon Measures
Of course my list could and probably will change tomorrow.
And I have a few on order that have yet to arrive that I suspect might threaten to make the list: Lifesigns’ Altitude; Robby Steinhardt’s Not In Kansas Anymore; This Winter Machine’s Kites.
Seems like it was a very good year.
Loved chatting with you last night Molly! Thanks for sharing your list! Happy Holidays to you
@@ericporter344 Likewise. Thank YOU! And wishing a super solstice season to you too!
I miss "Nothing But The Truth" by Pineapple Thief in all the lists. Guess because it is a live album
That's the only reason it wasn't on my list Bert.
@@TranquilityFireReid Live albums were specifically excluded? I included them personally, I know they're almost always composed of previously released material but if the live record came out during the period in question then why not include it?
@@wolf1977 Not excluded as such, but we do like to make the distinction between completely new music for the year and new releases, even if Eric did bend the rules! lol!! I'd say it's pretty standard across most end of year polls, but hey, if you like an album, it shouldn't matter either way.
@@TranquilityFireReid I agree, my overall #1 pick was a live record that I couldn't possibly exclude from my list (Layla Revisited - Live At Lockn' 2019 by Tedeschi Trucks Band) it was that good. I guess you could have the same approach for archival records released this year but containing prior/older recordings (as my #1 pick also was)
For Steven, Kansas is playing Europe in 2022, I'm going to see them in Berlin in november.
I'll need to check for some UK dates - fingers crossed!
@@TranquilityFireReid They were meant to play London in 2020, then (for obvious reasons) postponed to this year, and now have it set for November 2022. *Think* that was their only UK date but come on down, assuming '3rd time lucky' comes into play!
@@actorJSB Yeah, London seems to be their only ever stop off point in the UK. Not always easy getting the time to make trips down, but if I want to see them at some point I doubt I'll have much choice!
@@TranquilityFireReid Well I'll keep my fingers crossed that I spot you furtively across a crowded room (was gonna say see you there for a chat or even a pint, but actual social interaction is unlikely, so you should be safe, ha!).
@@actorJSB I'll be wearing the full, disguise on, facemark! Although that said, for a pint I'll agree to pretty much anything!
I think Steve Hackett has the money to hire a producer and I agree, he has a lot of great ideas still, he just needs a producer to sort them out.
I agree, plenty left in the tank for more really good albums
My absolute No. 1 of 2021 is Smalltape - The Hungry Heart
Skallagrim by Glass Hammer is my number one, hands down.
Hi guys should we send you a download number 2 in the Prog Readers Poll so you might like it :-)
Is it prog? But I liked Tony Kaye End of Innocence. Does Fugazi Marrillion Duluxe edition count.
The Tony Kaye falls into the prog category for me. Excellent album! Thanks for watching!
@@TranquilityFireReid I love Kaye's work in Yes (more than Wakeman's) & honestly don't know much about his solo work so I'll have to check those out. Just listened to a bit of End of Innocence & that definitely sounds like prog to me (and pretty good too)...Looks like he's got at least two live records with Billy Sherwood (Live In Japan 1 & 2) which I do have & are very good (also prog), plus the Tony Kaye Trio/Boredom Is The Devil's Tool from 2014 which my download service has filed under Blues...
Not in any order. Transatlantic "The Absolute Universe" I have both versions. NMB "Innocence & Danger", Frost, "Day & Age", LTE 3, Marillion, Fugazi Super Deluxe", The Winter Machine "Kites". NFO, "Aeromantic II". My album of the year would be Styx "Crash Of The Crown".
Great stuff there I K!
Transatlantic, Kerr's Pink, Lifesigns, This Winter Machine, The Paradox Twin
Yes George Quadratum From Unlucky Morpheus brilliant violinist gave me goosebumps
Ken has struck gold with Third Eye Sound cycles heard 11minutes and 45 seconds of track on YT, sounds excellent, needs a cd release for sure.
It checks all the boxes for me. I have more copies on the way.
Kornmo "Fimbulvinter" is wonderful.
Key take away from the episode is that the In The Prog Seat on air talent get their musical recommendations from In The Prog Seat, which is kind of a mind fuck if you think about it. Also, the phrase "Fucking Tony Levin" will now require audience members to drink.
All great picks. Please check out releases by Michael Lapaj who is the keyboard player from Riverside. His record is called Are You There. Also for the folks who like Progressive Death Metal a record from earlier in the year by Iotunn is amazing. That one is called Access All Worlds. Cheers!
Fair play Steven, TFB is a truly great album. It is not for everyone, and it's certainly not like SW's previous solo albums, but it is a truly great album. Being progressive is not making the sane album over and over, and SW certainly doesn't do that!
I've given the Dream Theatre album so many tries this year. It's as competent as one would expect but bar the first track I it still fails to hook me. Will give more listens.....
Who's Death Rotel?
😃👍👍
Prog or not The Future Bites is also my #1 album of the year; I've liked each of SWs solo albums more than the one before it and the last 4 have all been great. Styx have always been a band I've liked rather than loved but The Mission was excellent and Crash of the Crown is ten times as good, a real unexpected purple patch form a bunch of veterans. With Transatlantic, sounds like I made the same mistake as most people by getting the 90 minute version, I do enjoy it while it's on, but can't remember a thing about it once it's done, should have got the 60 minute version but not going to bother now! Maybe it doesn't count as prog (but I think it does) or if folk just don't care for it, but one missing here was Downes Braide Association's Halcyon Hymns. Definitely the best album Geoff Downes put out this year, (okay, the competition is not high) and while I find Roger Dean a bit overrated his artwork for the album is perfect, the album sounds exactly like the artwork looks, so have a glance and you should know straight away whether or not you'll like the album!
I agree regarding Wilson (obviously!). I've heard a previous DBA album and was pretty underwhelmed, and on that basis have let the new one pass me by, which was maybe a mistake, Have you heard the This Oceanic Feeling album Universal Mind from 2015 featuring Braides, Lee Pomeroy and Ash Soan? It's excellent! I adore the song "I Play Debussy".
@@TranquilityFireReid I'd somehow managed to not know DBA was a thing before this album so haven't gone back to the previous 3 yet, hoping they stack up for me - haven't heard (or heard of) the TOF album so thanks for the heads up, will check that out! Any predictions on which slot Marillion will nab this time next year...?
@@actorJSB I prefer the TOF album to the debut DAB by quite some way. Very melodic and very catchy. Well... let's just say that I already have the inside scoop on the Marillion album and it's really rather excellent - for those who like modern Marillion! I can say no more for now!!
@@TranquilityFireReid Haha, well you've just made March feel a very long way off! Not sure if we'll get to see you and/or Mr Bray revisit the year as a while but thanks for the entertainment and recommendations this year - great stuff. :D
@@actorJSB No, I think Simon is now in hibernation ready to then meet the new year like a fresh little cherub! (He'll slap me if he reads this...), but the pleasure has genuinely been ours. It's so much fun doing the shows and long may it continue!
Ken’s Styx and county fair comment: crickets. Get a lot of that crap on the Styx DDY Facebook page.
The Future Bites it’s a freaking good album but not a prog album, it’s to electro pop for me, my number one Styx crash of the crown.
That's probably fair comment Tanis, but Wilson is seen as a prog artist so I included it on this list. It isn't actually my overall number one album of the year, but what is really wasn't right for this show - my full list will be on the SoT webzine alongside the other writers' soon.
@@TranquilityFireReid I'm a huge fan of Prog Rock, but also i like a lot of other type of music Trip hop, indie rock, brit pop, on your webzine you are much more musically inclusive and Bands like The Gathering who invented a style with a magnificent singer (Anneke) and a band like Radiohead which in my opinion made the best album of the 90s and it's a Prog album (ok Computer) too bad some guest and Pete remain in everything that comes close to the hard rock or Prog category.
Thanks guys. I have a question. I'm always interested in prog rock. I watch your prog seat episodes i read PROG magazine but i don't like much of the albums that are discussed. I just don't like the typical prog tropes. The bombastic singing and melodies, great instrumental techniques taking over the music etc. I like my prog more straightforward and maybe somewhat mild. I'm a big Rush fan, like Porcupine Tree a lot and more recently the last Wobbler is fantastic, i like both Astra albums and the Crownlands ep . I just can't enjoy a whole album of yes, king crimson, dream theater or genesis. And i give up on bands like liquid tension and transatlantic pretty quickly. Does anyone has any recommendations for a mild prog rock fan like me? Thanks
Have you tried Riverside? Great atmospherics in what they do.
You sound a bit like me, a bit of a prog lite fan. Check out some Lee Abraham (very AORish); Big Big Train; or Mostly Autumn.
@@TranquilityFireReid thanks. i've tried riverside years ago when i just discovered Porcupine Tree. Good sounding band but i think it was too emo for me. probably the singer. i'm just too difficult. at the moment i mostly listen to classic, stoner, psychedelic/space rock/metal. but like lots of other genres.
@@dangerdolls thanks. big big train wasn't my cup of tea. i'll give the other two a listen 👍
@@daanthing6002 Some suggestions (based on you liking Porcupine Tree): The Pineapple Thief, Steven Wilson solo (beware I like PT too but got tired of his solo stuff), Blackfield (some nice melodic stuff), Djam Karet (might be a bit of a reach), Anathema...Based on Wobbler: Thank You Scientist, The Tangent, Beardfish...It's tough because you liking Wobbler would to me automatically mean you'd like Big Big Train which you don't, plus I really don't connect Wobbler & Porcupine Tree that much (although I also like both). Anyway you can try some of those & see what you think, a lot of their music is posted to the internet
Being only a metal prog guy I would rank the latest Dream Theater, Mastedon and BTBAM in my top 10 of the year. Speaking of Cynic, I am a big fan of Focus since the day it came out but I cannot stand Paul's vox since then. To be they made their best album with Death with Human.
Ashes in Sapphire - From Twilight to Light
Blacksmith Tales - The Dark Presence
Cast - Vigesimus
Chromatic Aberration - The Trial of the King
Ciccada - Harvest
Cirkus - Page 12 on the Right
Crack The Sky - Tribes
Deafening Opera - Driftwood
Department of Revenge - Shut up and pay the bill
Evership - The Uncrowned King Act 1
Frost - Day And Age
Fufluns - Refuse
Galaad - Paradis Posthumes
Galactic Cowboy Orchestra - Flirting with Chaos
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - G_d's Pee at State's End!
John Holden - Circles in Time
Jordsjø - Pastoralia
JPL - Sapiens Chapitre 2-3 Deus ex Machina
K'Mono - Return To The 'E'
Liquid Tension Experiment - LTE3
Meer - Playing House
Nine Skies - 5.20
Noisy Diners - The Princess of the Allen Keys (The History of Manto)
Perfect Storm - No Air
Permian Incident - All The Things No Tomorrow Brings
Relayer - Broken Branches
Resistor - The 5th Season
Ske - Insolubilia
Sylvan - One To Zero
The Far Cry - If Only...
The Samurai of Prog - The Lady And The Lion
Transatlantic - The Absolute Universe - Forevermore
Umphrey's McGee - You Walked Up Shaking In Your Boots But You Stood Tall And Left A Raging Bull
Various Artists - Still Wish You Were Here - A Tribute to Pink Floyd
In this order.
1. Dream Theater - A View From The Top Of The World
2. Rivers of Nihil - The Work
3. Neal Morse Band - Innocence & Danger
4. Transatlantic - The Absolute Universe
5. Between the Buried and Me - Colors II
6. Mastodon - Hushed and Grim
7. Cynic - Ascension Codes
8. Gojira - Fortitude
9. Evergrey - Escape of the Phoenix
10. Leprous - Aphelion
That Rivers Of Nihil album is great but i prefer Where Owls cus it was more Death metal !
'a strong flavour of camel - good shit!'
I really like when this show dips into more modern Progressive Metal. I resonate more with Luis' choices. (Maybe consider one dedicated episode in a future In The Prog Seat).
My one album relevant to this video is: Wheel - Resident Human. Excellent 2021 release.
I just found this on one of my music streaming services: Kosmodome/Self-Titled. Released less than 2 weeks ago & not even shipping until Feb 2022...Sounds pretty good to me, this is what Bandcamp has to say: "The brainchild of the two Sandvik brothers, Sturle on guitars and vocals, and Severin on drums, Kosmodome’s music is riff-based rock with stoner elements all of which are placed within a progressive universe to great effect. Together, the duo bridges the gap between the explosive drive of bands such as Mastodon with melodic magic and retrospective, clever songwriting"...I like at least 6 of the 8 tracks here, the only ones I skipped were "Hypersonic" & "Orbit"
En annan värld means ”A Diffrent World” in Swedish.
Thanks Pontus!
Just looked for the album to get a CD or LP, but it seems to be only available in a different world. :-)
@@monsieurlehigh4912 Go to their lable Motljud. They have everything.
@@monsieurlehigh4912 It’s a play on the Swedish word for backlight (motljus) Reads like backsound :)
Hi Pete would you be listing the picks pls ? Yes Steve ...just don't like SW-TFB album . I think he's past his prime 😂👍.only 53 ? You didn't include the SW remixes ? 😂
I agree with Luis about “Future Bites”, the lyrics are really good, but the music doesn’t really carry them very well save for a few tracks.
I couldn't disagree more ssp, but that's the beauty of music! 👍
@@TranquilityFireReid indeed it is, I gave that album a fair shake and I’m a huge Steven Wilson fan, but this album and “To The Bone” are albums I don’t find myself going back to listen to often as much as the others, I think as soon as he got married his music became tepid. 😂
@@sspbrazil I have to agree, I do have a bunch of Wilson's prior records plus stuff from his other bands but over time there was something about his music that left me feeling like I was listening to the same thing over & over somehow. Hard to put a finger on it exactly but that's how I feel about his material, I'm now on a temporary (permanent?) Steven Wilson hiatus...Doesn't help either that he's trying to remaster/remix every classic album ever recorded which is keeping him in the spotlight even when he's not recording new albums. Steven, sometimes less is more...
@@wolf1977 he devoted a greater portion of his life to music, then he got married and has step kids, so he has has slowed down a bit.
@@sspbrazil Hard to believe that this is him in "slow" mode, when does he sleep? And I thought Portnoy worked a lot...🤷♂️
I have to say I was really disappointed with that sticks album the previous one I thought was pretty awesome but this one is a dud for me
I'll just name my #1 overall favorite prog release (and it's not even really close): Hasse Froberg & Musical Companion/We Are The Truth...Just downloaded it the other day, very good-to-great album. I like just about every single track & that's pretty rare, especially for a newer album released after 1979. It was released at the end of November. I also have their prior albums Powerplay, Hfmc, Parallel Life & Future Past. This is a very good band, really consistently good. They haven't released a bad album yet. This one is no exception, I'd give it like a 4.2 out of 5. Probably the highest rated/best album I've heard this year in terms of prog (and for non-prog it's easily Layla Revisited - Live At Lockn' 2019 by Tedeschi Trucks Band, recorded in 2019 but released earlier this year in July).
They sound a lot like Flower Kings so fans of that band almost have to own these records. The epic 13 minute "Other Eyes" has it all, again very evocative of The Flower Kings. "Rise Up" is fantastic, great uptempo prog that could be at home on any recent Flower Kings album. When I saw the title "Yoko" to the 5th track I was momentarily afraid this would be a bunch of whale noises a la you-know-who but it's not, another very solid prog number. "A Spiritual Change" may be my favorite track but honestly it could also be 3 or 4 other ones too. Their lead guitarist Anton Lindsjö is almost at a Roine Stolt level & that's saying A LOT (I love Roine, my fave singer/guitar player active right now). The web site Spirit Of Progressive Rock has a nice overview of the band's prior albums & a short review of this new one, plus Bandcamp has the entire album posted. Destined to be a future classic prog album. At least a 4.5 out of 5 & could easily be higher to be honest
Really looking forward to getting the new HFMC. So far I only have Future Past, but it is a great album, with excellent songwriting and so much power. Best part, though, is an entire album with lead vocals by HF, an absolutely incredible singer.
@@danaaronmusic Agreed he's really good, almost as good a singer as Roine Stolt (who I absolutely love). This reminds me SO MUCH of Flower Kings it's not even funny (and that's a very good thing). You also need to get Hfmc & Parallel Life, as well as Power Play & We Are The Truth. They honestly haven't made a bad record yet
@@wolf1977 Interesting. I'm actually a huge fan of Stolt as a songwriter and guitarist. But for vocals, I prefer Froberg. As for those other albums, I plan to get them all, right along with completing my Flower Kings collection. The main thing that inspired me to get into HFMC in the first place was Magic Pie off Flower Power, one of the highlights of a great album.
@@danaaronmusic Yes that's a great track, one of many. My fave all time FK track might well be "I Am The Sun" (from Space Revolver), I usually play that one multiple times whenever it comes up in the rotation, what a powerful song. either that one or "The Flower King" from that self-titled album. There's something about his voice that I really like a lot...I think I have all of the FK albums now plus all of Stolt's solo stuff, along with his albums with Agents Of Mercy, Anderson/Stolt (great stuff), Kaipa, The Sea within, Swedish Family, 3rd World Electric & The Tangent. And of course all of the Transatlantic albums. My Stolt playlist (incl the FK albums) is something like 400 tracks deep now
@@wolf1977 OK, wow. You're way ahead of me. I've got seven Flower Kings, two Transatlantics (I'm also a big Neal Morse fan) and Anderson/Stolt. Jon Anderson is one of my favorite humans. So far, I like everything and plan to keep collecting.
Steven doesn't like The Flower Kings, he doesn't really like Neal Morse, but he likes Transatlantic?!
Yes it's strange, maybe the first person I've ever heard say that they don't like FK but do like Transatlantic. So I guess it's possible...🤷♂️
@@wolf1977 I'm not a big FK, I have 4 CDs, excellent musicians, but the songs don't grab me.
However, I do love Neal Morse & Transatlantic
@@ericporter344 I'm actually not a huge Neal Morse fan (especially his more recent religious solo albums, fortunately his latest is more secular music) although I do like him, especially his vocals (live in particular) that can at times sound strained. Spock's Beard is another classic prog band & given your like of Morse you may like them more...Roine Stolt to me is a much better singer & should sing more of TA's songs. He is a very good songwriter & keyboard player, and better than average on guitar (I think he plays drums too on some of his solo records & probably bass as well)...To me FK is one of the best prog bands ever, but a lot of that obviously is based on my major like for Roine Stolt's playing/singing/writing. To me the best singer/guitar player actively recording today...I don't want to come off as too negative of Morse, it's just that when you're in the same prog band with Roine Stolt the comparisons between the two are bound to be made
Not one of the guys picked a single album from the outstanding Norwegian prog-rock band Wobbler. Amazing, just amazing. 👎
Wobbler didn't release an album in 2021
@@matthewsoper8628 Boo-hoo, it came out in October 2020, that is just as good as 2021, nit-picker.
You shouldn't use CDs to display the albums use only the LPs!!!!!!!!!!!
Absolutely correct the CDs are too hard to see they're too darn small.
THE ASTONISHING IS NOT A TURD
I also didn’t understand the dig at Kevin Shirley.
He didn’t work on the Astonishing.
I also don’t have a problem with his work with Iron Maiden but I have also noticed snide little digs at him from different music commenters on other channels too. Is it because he gets lucrative gigs? Nothing wrong production-wise with any of the albums he has worked on, imo.
The mix on Senjutsu is horrendous. I’ve not heard one album he’s produced/mixed that I’ve found impressive.
@Laser CD, I’ll acknowledge that you are certainly not the only person who has said that. If I heard a different mix and could compare it to Shirley’s, its the only way I could possibly tell you. I just don’t have a problem with the Iron Maiden albums he has worked on.
@@jimmycampbell78 Do you like where Bruce’s vocals sit in the mix of Senjutsu?
@Laser CD, if his voice is low in the mix I wonder if that might be to hide some deficiencies in Bruce’s vocals these days? I don’t mind how Bruce sounds on Senjutsu though. I like the - at times- murky atmospheric feel....