Best Prog Albums of 2022 - The Prog Report

The Prog Report team discuss their top prog rock albums for 2022.
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[@dangerdolls]

Nice to hear what you guys liked. And it gives me a chance to toss my top twenty list out there. A few from your lists made mine too. Full disclosure I'm not really into prog metal so I don't listen to much of that. 1. Kaprekar's Constant - The Murder Wall 2. JPL - Sapiens Chapitre 3/3: Actum 3. Jonas Lindberg & The Other Side - Miles From Nowhere 4. Lalu - Paint The Sky 5. Kite Parade - The Way Home 6.Naxatras - IV 7. Arena - The Theory of Molecular Inheritance 8. Mysteries of the Revolution - Longing For The Dawn 9. Red Bazar - Inverted Reality 10. Last Flight To Pluto - Random Karma, Fate And Destiny 11. Phoenix Again - Vision 12. mobiUS - Make The Promise 13. Dave Cureton - State Of Mind 14. Robert Reed - The Ringmaster Part Two 15. Rosalie Cunningham - Two Piece Puzzle 16. Rick Miller - Old Souls 17. Jalayan - Floating Islands 18. Birth - Born 19. Marillion - An Hour Before It's Dark 20. Karfagen - Land of Green and Gold HM: Bjorn Riis - Everything To Everyone Comedy of Errors - Time Machine The Tangent - songs from the hard shoulder Kaipa - Urskog Ben Craven - Monsters From The Id Lobate Scarp - You Have It All Ryo Okumoto - The Myth of the Mostrophus Jethro Tull - The Zealot Gene Devin Townsend - Lightwork The Flower Kings - By Royal Decree Porcupine Tree - Closure/Continuation Six By Six - self-titled Big Big Train - Welcome To The Planet LOL So yeah. Clearly I thought it was a pretty deep year.

[@FranticDav]

Great list guys! Here's 10 albums you might've missed: - Aquae Furtivae - Road to Square One - District 97 - Many New Things - Flummox - Rephlummoxed - Gonemage - Master of Disgust - Head First - Head First - Major Parkinson - Valesa - Chapter I: Velvet Prison - STABSCOTCH - Prison Jar - The Arkitecht - Heart Failure - Umphrey's McGee - Asking for a Friend - Yaatri - Lucid

[@5ammy13]

In Delirium by Ethyrfield.

[@ScottAMedina]

A great year, great choices. 👏My Top 20 has many other picks, too: Cosmograf - Heroic Materials Jonas Lindberg and The Other Side - Miles From Nowhere Lalu - Paint the Sky Pattern-Seeking Animals - Only Passing Through Porcupine Tree - Closure/Continuation Big Big Train - Welcome to the Planet Dave Kerzner - The Traveler Ryo Okumoto - The Myth of the Mostrophus Tiger Moth Tales - A Song of Spring
 Red Bazar - Inverted Reality Esthesis - Watching Worlds Collide Oceans of Slumber - Starlight and Ash Lobate Scarp - You Have It All Ali Ferguson - The Contemplative Power of Water Arena - The Theory of Molecular Inheritance Marillion - An Hour Before It’s Dark The Flower Kings - By Royal Decree Dave Brons - Return to Arda Kite Parade - The Way Home O.R.k. - Screamnasium

[@dangerdolls]

Nice list. Aligns quite a bit with my own. I'll have to come back and check into the few on your list I have not heard.

[@Audiojunkabus]

the best session of this type to date IMHO .. that was fantastic! / hats off to all

[@progreport]

Thanks!!

[@seancheek6196]

Elder "Innate Passage", is hands down one of the best of 2022.

[@KyleFagala]

It made my list of top songs for this year.

[@dangerdolls]

Still waiting for my copy of that one to arrive darn it!

[@the_real_schopenhauer985]

Agreed, Innate Passage is the best. As for the Porcupine Tree return.... well, it's a solid album, let's put it that way.....

[@TheProgCorner]

Awesome work, guys!!!

[@larrycass3198]

Couldn’t agree more PT Closure/Continuation the Best Album for 2022!!!

[@AllMediaReviewsPodcast]

Gospel - The Loser Dirt Poor Robins - Queen of the Night Toehider - I Have Little to No Memory of These Memories. The Dear Hunter and Tears for Fears were also on my AOTY list/video on my channel.

[@AngryCalvin]

Looking back almost a year after I watched this video. It was a year where I heard quite a bit of the albums mentioned. Tears for Fears and Porcupine Tree still favorites. Epic comeback for both bands who are favorites of mine. Both phenomenonal crossover Prog-Pop legends. I'm still listening to these 2 albums and probably will will for the rest of my life.

[@conman90125]

Kaipa's new album is by far my album of the year, with PT as a close second. Good stuff guys

[@deanwolfechannel]

I like the debates in the comments. Prog is an interesting musical art form, that's how i think of it. Truly infinite approaches to it....something for everyone. Rarely an album appeals near universally like close to the edge.

[@adamjj85]

Prog Nick was spot on. Jonas Lindberg came out of nowhere and delivered the album of the year for me!

[@tmc1054]

Digital Noise Alliance - Queensryche, The Testament - Seventh Wonder, Illusions - Borealis, Halo - Amorphis and A Heartless Portrait - Evergrey were the outstanding releases for me.

[@RickMacDonald19]

Opeth's In Cauda Venenum will eventually rise to top 50 prog albums. 1. Dark Side 2. Joe's Garage 3. 2112 4. In Cauda Venenum 5. Crime of the Century

[@glennschupner6493]

Artefactron - Artefactron Big Big Train - Welcome to the Planet Bjorn Riis - Everything To Everyone Collage - Over And Out Derek Sherinian - Vortex Framauro - My World Is Ending Fromuz - The Asymmetric Rules Genie Cries - The Limits of Deviation Glass Hammer - At the Gate Hats Off Gentlemen It's Adequate - The Confidence Trick Jethro Tull - The Zealot Gene Jonas Lindberg & The Other Side - Miles From Nowhere Kaipa - Urskog Karfagen - Land of Green and Gold Laughing Stock - Zero Acts 3 & 4 Kerry Livgren - Q.A.R Lobate Scarp - You Have It All Mad Fellaz - Road To Planet Circus Marillion - An Hour Before It's Dark Pattern-Seeking Animals - Only Passing Through Porcupine Tree - Closure Continuation Pure Reason Revolution - Above Cirrus Relayer - Waiting Retreat from Moscow - The World as We Knew It Russian Circles - Gnosis Siiilk - Eemynor Steve Vai - Inviolate Temple Of Switches - Four The Flower Kings - By Royal Decree The Prog Collective - Songs We Were Taught The Samurai of Prog - The Spaghetti Epic 4 The Samurai of Prog - Anthem To The Phoenix Star The Tangent - Songs From The Hard Shoulder Time Horizon - Power Of Three Verbal Delirium - Conundrum

[@jeffscalise5927]

Anybody hear the Big Big Train live single?

[@Progger11]

God, I'm so glad I got out of my prog snob phase. So many same-sounding records that are mostly trying to imitate better music from decades ago. Just sad. The truly progressive music of today lies mostly in post-punk, hip-hop, modern classical, minimalist, and electronic.

[@progreport]

Then you might be on the wrong channel. No post-punk or hip-hop here.

[@oehrlireisa]

To say that albums like this one don't necessarily reinvent the genre is not very accurate. Threshold are not a new band on the prog market, which is why they have been making their musical mark for a long time. It feels like it takes me 3 seconds to recognize a new Threshold song. That alone means that they fill their niche precisely and unmistakably. No band that has stood their ground for so long still has the need to prove anything to anyone.

[@jeffscalise5927]

Random comment: does anyone know what’s going on with Anathema?

[@progreport]

they are no longer together

[@Beardfish.]

Anathema was something else. Can’t think of many other bands that can reach the levels of emotion and atmosphere that Anathema could. I’ll miss them!

[@AllMediaReviewsPodcast]

there are or were plans to release music under the "Weather Systems" name, but that seems to be in limbo. Danny Cavanagh also was working on a new solo album titled "Cellar Door," but there also hasn't been much about that or Weather Systems in the last 6 months.

[@gleissoncardozo2820]

Lula 13 🚩

[@stuartraybould6433]

I'm in my 60s now and prog rock originally was progressive, that was the point and now it's become a style, very sad. All this stuff is very generic and it's all been done before and it's become very boring because of that. There is nothing new here with the possible exception of Elder's album, which is good. The rest is all a bit of a snores fest. PT's album is very average and that about sums up this year and the previous 5 or 6 yrs actually. Prog rock is no longer progressive anymore and new music in general bores me lately, very sad. It is all becoming very generic, everybody doing the same old, same old, just listen to your own descriptions, this sounds like this, this sounds like this, it all sounds the same. Boring, boring, boring, very sad. A very bad period we're going through.

[@progreport]

You're right. Only listening to music made 40 years ago is much more progressive. We'll stop the podcast now.

[@stuartraybould6433]

@@progreport That's not what I'm saying. There is still great stuff out there. Two albums this year by Future Sound of London, Elder, Black Midi, Klaus Schulze, Cult of Luna and a few others. All very Progressive with a capital P but none of them are generic Prog Rock. Don't presume, just because I'm in my 60s doesn't mean I'm stuck in the 70s. Progressive music changed and I didn't stop listening to progressive music, just most of what is now so called prog rock. Most prog rock is NOT progressive these days. Not all of it but most of it. Your list is generic style prog rock and that's all been done, it all sounds the same, it's boring. Argue against me, prove me wrong but you can't, so you come back with, not an educated argument but a generic misrepresentation you presume because of my age. Listen to Andy Edwards KZbin, I'm not the only person who feels like this. Prove me wrong, please. Argue your point, if you can!

[@progreport]

@@stuartraybould6433 But the counter is that just being different doesn't making something good. There is a lot of great music out there and something for everybody. Forget the label and just enjoy the music.

[@stuartraybould6433]

@@progreport Totally agree, the label does not matter but in describing music, labels are used and unfortunately Prog Rock as become a fixed style, it wasn't that originally and the style has become stuck. The bands in that style which most of the ones on your list are, are just repeating what's been done and that doesn't make it good, it makes it boring. There is plenty of good music out there, just none of it is Prog rock anymore, that's my argument. You have failed, as of yet, to prove me wrong.

[@progreport]

@@stuartraybould6433 there is no need to prove you wrong. The label "prog rock" has far expanded what it once was and that is a good thing. You have your taste in what you like and you're entitled. Again, the point is, it doesn't make what "you" don't find interesting, bad or boring. Anyway, good debate and all in good fun.

[@billnole2188]

Sorry to add a 2nd comment but the honorable mentions even missed a great return to form from Arena, which introduced Damien Wilson as the new singer. Great album.

[@billnole2188]

Great show. I don't agree with all the choices but have 3 comments: 1. Nobody ever remembers that John Wesley was an official member of PT for the last 4 albums. Nothing short of missed by me from the band. 2. Jonas Lindbergh's 1st album was even better than #2. 3. Pattern Seeking Animals 2nd album was better than 3rd.

[@progreport]

Thanks Bill. Actually John Wesley was a member of the touring band. Not officially a member on the albums.

[@billnole2188]

@@progreport John was on all albums beginning with In Absentia.

[@MrGnb123]

@@billnole2188 Except … John Wesley played “additional guitars” on Blackest Eyes, sang backing vocals on In Absentia and FOBP. He didn’t appear on Deadwing or The Incident. Which explains why nobody ever remembers it

[@billnole2188]

@@MrGnb123 I'm just going by what he told me. We have had several conversations and hung out at a few venues over the years. So it's his words, not mine.