01/07/2025
So happy The Prog Doctor recognized many of my friend's awesome 2024 projects. "Favorite" status was bestowed upon Randy McStine and The Madrigal Project. "Honorable Mention" status to Jane Getter Premonition, The Cyberiam, and Mile Marker Zero. Congrats to all!
But someone needs to get copies of Trifecta - Blundell, Holzman, Beggs "The New Normal" and Before the Calm "Live at Alphawave" to the good doctor. If he'd heard them, they would be included on his list, I am sure!😂
THE WAITING ROOM'S FAVORITE PROGRESSIVE ROCK RELEASES OF 2024
This is not meant to be a “best of” list, but more of a favorites list from the year's prog releases. I reserve the right to add releases that may have been missed or forgotten. I would like to list the HONORABLE MENTIONS first this year as many of them are incredible releases as well and they deserve equal attention to the top 20 albums listed below.
HONORABLE MENTIONS
in no particular order
Ebb – The Management of Consequences
Ellesmere – Stranger Skies
Karfagen – Messages From Afar
Kyros – Mannequin
The Samurai of Prog – A Quiet Town
The Samurai of Prog – The Time Machine
The Smile – Wall of Eyes
The Pineapple Thief – It Leads To This
The Aristocrats – Duck
Jane Getter Premonition – Division World
SiX By SiX – Beyond Shadowland
The Prophets of Zarquon – Floodplain
Dario and the Clear – Banquet of Noise
Sonus Umbra – Whiteout
Karl Eisenhart – Lessons
Funhouse Mirrors – Red Bird
John Holden – Proximity & Chance
Kaipa – Sommargryningslus
The Cyberiam – Unobtainium
Marco Gluhman – A Fragile Present
Hasse Froberg & Musical Companion – Eternal Snapshots
Ritual – The Story of Mr Bogd Part 1
Mile Marker Zero – Coming of Age
Marjana Semkina – Sirin
The Windmill – Mindscapes
Oddleaf – Where Ideal and Denial Collide
Jadis – More Questions Than Answers
Long Earth – An Ordinary Life
Circe Link and Christian Nesmith – Arcana
Kingcrow – Hopium
Jon Anderson and the Band Geeks – True
Beardfish – Songs from Beating Hearts
Bill Bressler – A Second Past
Huis – Into the Face of the Unknown
Blind Ego – Hunting Party
John Wilkinson – Imposter Syndrome
Ruby Dawn – Blood on Water
Timelock – Atomic Swap
Days Between Stations – Perpetual Motion Machines
Believe – The Wyrding Way
John Greenwood – The Boy
The Bardic Depths – What We Really Like in Stories
GOLEM – Gathering of the Legendary Elephant Monsters
Mangrove – Bridge to Fiction
Stuckfish – IV
Von Hertzen Brothers – In Murmuration
THE WAITING ROOM'S FAVORITE RELEASES OF 2024
1. Izz – Collapse The Wave
2. Dead Heroes Club – Hero
3. Frost* - A Life in the Wires
4. Joe Deninzon & Stratospheerius – Impostor!
5. Big Big Train – The Likes of Us
6. Meer – Wheels Within Wheels
7. Herin – Hiding in Plain Sight
8. Jordan Rudess – Permission to Fly
9. willow – empathogen
10. Circuline – C.O.R.E.
11. Randy McStine – Mutual Hallucinations
12. Tony Patterson and Doug Melbourne – We've Been Expecting You
13. Lesoir – Push Back the Horizon
14. Kaos Moon – The Goldfish
15. Gabriel Keller – Hope Despite Everything
16. Barock Project - Time Voyager
17. Amarok – Hope
18. Emerald City Council – Motion Carries
19. The Madrigal Project - 11th Hour
20. Blacksmith Tales – Pathways to Hamet's Mill
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