Prog Rock Album of the Year 2017

[Purgatory Brite]

There may well be other contenders but for me this album stands above the rest.

[Neil Jung]

I can’t say I’ve heard much new Prog this year but I’d expect my most played to be the outtakes CD from Steven Wilson’s To The Bone, or the extras disc from Radiohead’s OK Computer. If that counts.
Will check out Lifesigns.

[Walk In My Shadow]

I don't think I've heard anything new in 2017.

But then I'm stuck with Carlsson. In 1984.

[trans-chigley express]

I don't think I've heard anything new in 2017.

But then I'm stuck with Carlsson. In 1984.

Wow, good to see that Carlsson's progressed from 1974

[trans-chigley express]

I’d expect my most played to be the outtakes CD from Steven Wilson’s To The Bone,

I really need to get that. I just bought the single CD version.

Similarly, one of my most played has been the bonus CD album from Pineapple Thief's Your Wilderness which is superior to the main album.

[Fonz]

‘Emperor of Sand’
Mastodon

[never/ever]

It feels to me that I am listening far less and less to true prog but get more into symphonic rock- rock music with bloated arrangements. Steven Wilson, Anathema and their ilk have been doing that for some time now. They are very enjoyable but are steering further away from what I would call pure prog.
I was quite taken with Nick Beggs' Mute Gods-imprint and their album Tardigrades Will Inherit The Earth. Lunatic Soul is still one very underrated project by Mariusz Duda and his new album Fractured is really entertaining and good, I certainly prefer it over Riverside.
My favourite prog-album is Sky Architect's Nomad- channeling Zappa and Focus in an energetic hybrid of prog and psych.