Number Five: The Ranch – Together to Get Here to Get Here Together VIDEO
Number Four: King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard – Explorations into Microtonal Tunings, Volume 3: LW VIDEO Explorations into Microtonal Tunings series, LW is by far my favourite. Microtonal Flying Banana was cool but way too repetitive for my tastes, and KG just missed something, I was not drawn to it. With LW , however, nothing is to be desired: the riffs, the melodies, the harmonic progressions, everything is on point! On top of that, the album gets pretty heavy near the end!
Number Three: Seims – Four VIDEO Four is probably their best work to date; it’s creative, varied, complex, layered, and impressive on all aspects. A marvel.
Number Two: Voronoi – The Last Three Seconds VIDEO The Last Three Seconds . It’s filled with great synth sounds, mind-bending riffs, and thoughtful songwriting. Definitely the best instrumental prog rock album of the year!
Number One: Rhizone – Metropolis, or, In Search of the Black Water, Act Ⅰ: Timelines VIDEO
Notable Releases Hover over foreign scripts for pronunciation and romanization.
Tuesday, 5 January Emme Phyzema – Shorts Are Comfy and Easy to Wear! 33:11Columbus, Ohio
Read our review.
Tracklist (click to display) 1. Reminiscent Hippie [01:59]
2. Animal Bones [01:05]
3. Thievery [01:00]
4. Isolation [01:35]
5. Fewl Mewn [01:38]
6. Gallivanting [04:17]
7. Pure Metal [02:02]
8. Prednisone [02:04]
9. A Bicycle Ride in the Tundra [00:48]
10. Blues [01:50]
11. Benevolent Colloquialism [02:49]
12. Shades [01:07]
13. Candlemouth [05:07]
14. Brooding [00:46]
15. Stomping and Hemorrhaging [00:57]
16. Tied [04:07]
Friday, 29 Needlepoint – Walking Up That Valley 43:37Oslo, Norway
Tracklist (click to display) 1. Rules of a Mad Man [05:11]
2. I Offered You the Moon [07:51]
3. Web of Worry [03:34]
4. So Far Away [03:11]
5. Where the Ocean Meets the Sky [04:25]
6. Carry Me Away [03:56]
7. Another Day [04:45]
8. Walking Up That Valley [10:44]
Rostro del Sol – Rostro del Sol 32:44Mexico
Tracklist (click to display) 1. Effect Of Creation [08:53]
2. Solar Flare [02:51]
3. Backyard’s Blues [06:28]
4. Bop C Sketches [07:08]
5. Tales… I-III [07:24]
Friday, 5 February Transatlantic – The Absolute Universe: Forevermore 90:08Los Angeles, California
Tracklist (click to display)
1. Overture [0:08:11]
2. Heart Like a Whirlwind [0:05:11]
3. Higher Than the Morning [0:05:29]
4. The Darkness in the Light [0:05:43]
5. Swing High, Swing Low [0:03:48]
6. Bully [0:02:11]
7. Rainbow Sky [0:03:19]
8. Looking for the Light [0:03:59]
9. The World We Used to Know [0:09:21]
10. The Sun Comes Up Today [0:05:38]
11. Love Made a Way (Prelude) [0:01:25]
12. Owl Howl [0:07:05]
13. Solitude [0:05:41]
14. Belong [0:02:49]
15. Lonesome Rebel [0:02:53]
16. Looking for the Light (Reprise) [0:05:12]
17. The Greatest Story Never Ends [0:04:17]
18. Love Made a Way [0:08:02]
Transatlantic – The Absolute Universe: The Breath of Life 64:07Los Angeles, California
Tracklist (click to display)
1. Overture [0:05:52]
2. Reaching for the Sky [0:05:40]
3. Higher Than the Morning [0:04:31]
4. The Darkness in the Light [0:05:43]
5. Take Now My Soul [0:03:31]
6. Looking for the Light [0:04:04]
7. Love Made a Way (Prelude) [0:02:13]
8. Owl Howl [0:05:27]
9. Solitude [0:04:23]
10. Belong [0:02:22]
11. Can You Feel It [0:03:17]
12. Looking for the Light (Reprise) [0:04:56]
13. The Greatest Story Never Ends [0:02:57]
14. Love Made a Way [0:09:16]
Saturday, 6 Toboggan – Première Descente 60:12Clermont Ferrand, France
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Tracklist (click to display) 1. Carburature [10:04]
2. Impro Ambiant [01:46]
3. Zouloulouzou [14:22]
4. Impro Jazz [00:59]
5. TanpYoupY [10:46]
6. Impro Harmonic [01:56]
7. Rezzz [09:12]
8. Impro Noise [02:06]
9. Blanchetta Cavayo [09:01]
Friday, 26 February King Gizard and the Lizard Wizard – Explorations into Microtonal Tunings, Volume 3: LW 42:06Melbourne, Australia
Tracklist (click to display) 1. If Not Now, Then When? [03:50]
2. O.N.E. [03:40]
3. Pleura [04:11]
4. Supreme Ascendancy [03:39]
5. Static Electricity [05:49]
6. East West Link [03:08]
7. Ataraxia [05:17]
8. See Me [04:04]
9. K.G.L.W. [08:28]
Saturday, 20 March 秋葉龍 – Swans Dance, Roses Bloom like Mad 31:55Tokyo, Japan
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Tracklist (click to display) 1. Prelude: Chicks And Buds [01:53]
2. Lost In The Green [05:46]
3. Blitish Casquede [05:54]
4. Brigid’s Hut [03:01]
5. The Man Who Lost His Bagpipe [03:21]
6. A Host Of Heroes Rising In The East (With Torches Of Glory In Their Hands) [09:09]
7. Out In The Green [02:51]
Friday, 26 Astral Bazaar – A Sudden Realization 48:39Helsinki, Finland
Tracklist (click to display) 1. Food for Thought [06:21]
2. Lungs of Modern Times [03:58]
3. Vincent’s Dream [01:31]
4. The Y10K Problem [04:26]
5. The Girl with the Purple Hair [05:23]
6. Cops & Thieves [03:42]
7. Dwellin’ in the Apocalypse [05:21]
8. Embrace the Reverb [06:11]
9. Behind the Narrow Door [11:46]
Genghis Tron – Dream Weapon 45:31Poughkeepsie, New York
Tracklist (click to display) 1. Exit Perfect Mind [01:11]
2. Pyrocene [06:13]
3. Dream Weapon [05:13]
4. Desert Stairs [02:05]
5. Alone In The Heart Of The Light [07:07]
6. Ritual Circle [10:21]
7. Single Black Point [04:23]
8. Great Mother [08:58]
Friday, 2 April Spine Readers – The Hook and the Snake 46:47Bellingham, Washington
Tracklist (click to display) 1. The Hook and The Snake [46:47]
Thursday, 22 April Caio Csizmar – Decriptas 50:54Bragança Paulista, Brazil
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Tracklist (click to display) 1. Asno de Buridan [08:14]
2. Fio de Ariadne [13:05]
3. Nó Górdio [13:58]
4. Ovo de Colombo [06:51]
5. Ponto de Arquimedes [08:46]
Wednesday, 5 May Voronoi – The Last Three Seconds 48:51Leeds, UK
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Tracklist (click to display) 1. Interstellar Something [03:33]
2. Gamma Signals [03:11]
3. The Nauseator [10:12]
4. Robots As Pathos / Robots As Menace [03:12]
5. Darker The Night [04:33]
6. The Last Three Seconds [05:19]
7. The Outsider and The Priest [12:27]
8. Home Could Be Lightyears Away [06:24]
Thursday, 6 Sun Colored Chair – Seated 54:33United States
Tracklist (click to display) 1. Nocturnal Blue [01:57]
2. Leave [02:23]
3. Buddy’s Bone [02:52]
4. Distilled Neutrality [04:00]
5. Sun Bubble [02:08]
6. Seated [02:59]
7. Feet Honey [04:23]
8. Mystic Woe [03:35]
9. Bovine [01:11]
10. Lordlegs [02:59]
11. Eye [03:39]
12. Harmless [01:14]
13. Die Cycle [02:25]
14. Colorless Streak [07:17]
15. Sunsnap [07:35]
16. Daunting Abyss [03:56]
Friday, 7 Sketchshow – Waves 39:18Southampton, UK
Tracklist (click to display) 1. Awake [01:46]
2. Conscious [04:36]
3. Delight [03:56]
4. Delighted [00:50]
5. Trust (Isn’t Easy) [05:20]
6. Smoke [04:37]
7. Chrysalis [04:47]
8. Empty Without You [03:58]
9. Innsæi [04:06]
10. Good News [05:35]
Friday, 14 May Rhododendron – Protozoan Battle Hymns 66:47Portland, Oregon
Tracklist (click to display) 1. Technicolor Incision [07:30]
2. Dennis Hopper ’93 [01:31]
3. Planeswalker [06:04]
4. Last of the Painted Hills [10:39]
5. Ornimegalonyx [01:55]
6. Garden of Earthly Delights [15:18]
7. Somnolence [02:29]
8. Moloch Whose Eyes are a Thousand Blind Windows [12:23]
9. Judecca [08:58]
Friday, 4 June Giant Sky – Giant Sky 48:38Oslo, Norway
Tracklist (click to display) 1. The Further We Go The Deeper It Gets Pt. 1-6 [12:04]
2. Broken Stone [09:45]
3. Interlude (I Don’t Know What You Think Of Me But It’s Wrong) [01:31]
4. No Cancelling This [05:47]
5. Out Of Swords [08:42]
6. The Further We Go The Deeper It Gets Pt. 7 [02:54]
7. Breaking Patterns [07:55]
Friday, 11 June Azure – Of Brine and Angel’s Beaks 63:15Brighton, UK
Tracklist (click to display) 1. A Night Of Superlunary Gazing [01:08]
2. Self-Crucifixion [03:56]
3. Ameotoko I – The Curse [09:03]
4. The Jester Who Cheated Death [03:03]
5. Lustre: Siphon Of Umbra [06:15]
6. Outrun God [03:04]
7. Mercy [06:33]
8. Of Brine And Angel’s Beaks [04:55]
9. A Sailor Will Learn [07:44]
10. Cup Of Poison [07:32]
11. The Jellyfish [02:50]
12. Ameotoko II – Cloudburst [07:22]
Friday, 13 August Дикажи – Forget-Me-Nots 54:39Saint Petersburg, Russia
Tracklist (click to display) 1. Forest [05:07]
2. Lily Of The Valley (feat. João Filipe) [05:57]
3. Millions Of Flashes [06:38]
4. River Rite [07:13]
5. Dead Garden (feat. Guillaume Bernard) [04:10]
6. Misery [02:32]
7. Scriptwriter [03:11]
8. Glorious Beautiful Magical [05:40]
9. Gloomy Flowers Blooming (feat. Fiona Rüggeberg) [08:16]
10. Something Mystique (feat. Andreas Ulvo) [05:55]
Friday, 27 August The Neal Morse Band – Innocence & Danger 99:21California
Tracklist (click to display)
1. Do It All Again [0:08:53]
2. Bird on a Wire [0:07:22]
3. Your Place in the Sun [0:04:12]
4. Another Story to Tell [0:04:50]
5. The Way It Had to Be [0:07:14]
6. Emergence [0:03:12]
7. Not Afraid, Pt. 1 [0:04:53]
8. Bridge over Troubled Water [0:08:08]
9. Not Afraid, Pt. 2 [0:19:30]
10. Beyond the Years [0:31:22]
Tuesday, 31 August The Ranch – Together to Get Here to Get Here Together 50:57Malta
Tracklist (click to display) 1. Penguins Of The Caribbean [03:36]
2. Cannonball [04:25]
3. Party Island [04:17]
4. Child [04:41]
5. Molly [04:24]
6. We Are Who We Are [06:15]
7. Mysterious Star [05:05]
8. The Storm [04:27]
9. May Contain Nuts [04:06]
10. Red Sky [05:39]
11. Once Again For The Very First Time [04:02]
Friday, 10 September Agusa – En annan värld 46:13Malmö, Sweden
Tracklist (click to display) 1. Sagobrus [25:01]
2. Uppenbarelser [21:12]
Friday, 8 October Rhizone – Metropolis, or, In Search of the Black Water, Act Ⅰ: Timelines 69:20Vienna, Austria
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Tracklist (click to display) 1. Sonata // Quit Zero // [06:35]
2. High Noon [11:03]
3. God Hell [09:02]
4. Big City Son [04:39]
5. The Little Dots In Life [04:13]
6. Cut My Throat [08:05]
7. Kuŝi [08:34]
8. The Glass Man [17:09]
Friday, 22 Seims – Four 44:00Sydney, Australia
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Tracklist (click to display) 1. The Mountain’s Lullaby [02:00]
2. The Pursuit Of Intermediate Happiness [03:56]
3. Showdown Without A Victim [05:58]
4. Shouting At A Brick Wall [04:18]
5. Stranded. Isolated. [05:54]
6. Elegance Over Confidence [04:03]
7. Biting Tongues [05:06]
8. Nuance Lost In Translation [04:22]
9. Understatement [02:01]
10. The Mountain’s Scream [06:22]
Shamblemaths – 2 46:31Trondheim, Norway
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Tracklist (click to display) 1. Måneskygge [01:04]
2. Knucklecog [09:56]
3. D.S.C.H. (8th String Quartet in Cm, Op. 110, mvts 1 & 2) [06:23]
4. Lat Kvar Jordisk Skapning Teia pts 1-4 [06:36]
5. Lat Kvar Jordisk Skapning Teia pt 5 [05:38]
6. Lat Kvar Jordisk Skapning Teia pts 6-8 [03:43]
7. Lat Kvar Jordisk Skapning Teia pt 9 [02:17]
8. Been and Gone [02:12]
9. This River [09:04]
Friday, 5 November Moana – Feet in the Ground, Eyes to the Sky 31:21Perth, Australia
Tracklist (click to display) 1. I (Kingdom) [08:11]
2. II (Temple) [06:31]
3. A Rose In The Darkness [05:32]
4. The Cry Of The Banshee [04:30]
5. Immortal [06:37]
Friday, 19 Ross Jennings – A Shadow of My Future Self 78:17UK
Tracklist (click to display)
1. Better Times [0:04:08]
2. Words We Can’t Unsay [0:05:04]
3. Violet [0:05:29]
4. The Apologist [0:04:55]
5. Rocket Science [0:04:15]
6. Catcher In The Rye [0:05:18]
7. Since That Day [0:03:25]
8. Young At Heart [0:08:13]
9. Feelings [0:04:56]
10. Third Degree [0:04:34]
11. Phoenix [0:11:50]
12. Grounded [0:08:02]
13. Year [0:04:55]
14. Be The One (Bonus Track) [0:03:25]
Thank You Scientist – Plague Accommodations 20:18Rochelle Park, New Jersey
Tracklist (click to display) 1. Gigglebutton [01:55]
2. Creature Comfort [05:30]
3. Soul Diver [06:51]
4. Plague Accommodations [06:02]
Tuesday, 23 November Grand Discovery – Proceed 29:57Helsinki, Finland
Tracklist (click to display) 1. Rediscovery [04:29]
2. MUTANTOS [03:31]
3. Ambivalent [05:06]
4. Medicine [02:54]
5. HACKER32 [03:16]
6. Battery5% [03:15]
7. Tribes [03:05]
8. Steel Sensei [04:21]
Friday, 26 November Richard Dawson & Circle – Henki 55:48Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK
Tracklist (click to display) 1. Cooksonia [06:30]
2. Ivy [08:57]
3. Silphium [12:07]
4. Silene [07:16]
5. Methuselah [08:26]
6. Lily [05:56]
7. Pitcher [06:36]
Friday, 3 December 3 Primates – 3 Primates 55:41Pau, France
Tracklist (click to display) 1. Leon [05:16]
2. Cèrvi [07:53]
3. Fènix [09:39]
4. Olifan [07:51]
5. Pantera [08:59]
6. Trigressa [06:48]
7. Ors [06:31]
Plastic Woods – Dragonfruit 32:45Antequera, Spain
Tracklist (click to display) 1. Dragonfruit [04:10]
2. The Calling [07:27]
3. Dreamland [04:29]
4. Storm [02:49]
5. Close to the Void [03:33]
6. Sulayr [10:17]
Friday, 10 Asthma Choir – Spent My Life in Sugar Town 34:41Berlin, Germany
Tracklist (click to display) 1. Ach Weh [04:42]
2. Dive In Together, Rinse All Over [10:09]
3. Time Takes The Time Time Takes [03:11]
4. Knife Teaser [04:43]
5. Make Instances Real [06:28]
6. Tragic Air [05:28]
Kosmodome – Kosmodome 44:39Bergen, Norway
Tracklist (click to display) 1. Enter the Dome [01:13]
2. Retrograde [06:33]
3. Hypersonic [03:39]
4. Deadbeat [07:00]
5. Waver I [04:48]
6. Waver II [06:10]
7. The 1% [06:27]
8. Orbit [08:49]
Friday, 17 December Consider the Source – Hybrid, Volume 1: Such as a Mule 54:50New York, New York
Tracklist (click to display) 1. I Am Inevitable [06:47]
2. Rock, Flag & Eagle [02:37]
3. There Are Four Lights [05:49]
4. A Clash Of Faces [03:25]
5. There Was Time Now [04:45]
6. This Is The Way [06:03]
7. Abdurehim [05:02]
8. This Guy’s The Limit [06:35]
9. Song For Robert [06:52]
10. Objects In Motion, Objects At Rest [06:55]
Wild Rumpus – Vestige 65:40San Francisco, California
Tracklist (click to display) 1. Adrogué [11:58]
2. Incite! [07:54]
3. Spectral Fields in Time [13:13]
4. Weird Fishes/Arpeggi [06:59]
5. Solis Overture [09:33]
6. Reflect Reflect Respond Respond (Echo and Narcissus in Reverse) [16:03]
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