Cross posted from "Beyond Cakewalk".  Some of my favorite Albums released in 2017, in no particular order.
 

• On Her Journey to the Sun - Rikard Sloblom's Gungfly. I love this one from BBT guitarist and ex Beardfish frontman Rikard.
• Skyscraper Souls - Downs Braide Association. Geoff Downs and Chris Braide, with contributions from Andy Partridge (XTC), Dave Longdon (BBT) and Marc Almond among others. The poppier end of the prog spectrum.
• The Ferrymans Curse - The Strawbs. Septuagenarian Dave Cousins is back and his lyrics are as poignant as ever.
• Recovery is Learning – An excellent return from illness for ex Touchstone vocalist Kim Seviour.
• We are Legend – Magenta, Welsh prog!
• Grimspound – Big Big Train, an excellent follow up to Folklore. They also released “The Second Brightest Star”which is nice but it’s more of a “bonus tracks” release of alternative versions and songs that did not make Folklore.
• Sight of Day – Mostly Autumn, and epic album by any standard.
• Screens, Live in London – Panic Room. No new material but an excellent capture of a fantastic live band preforming some of their best material. (Also on DVD)

Bat's Brew, "Trouble"
 
LOL
except i aint gonna have it ready til 2018,
oh well!!
 
sneak preview:
a photo of the half finished album art

ok, ok, i'll play...
 

 

 

 

 

 
 
 
 

Bought a few;
 
Elbow - Little Fictions
Black Country Communion - BCCIV
Big Big Train - Grimspound
Steve Tilling - CIRCU5
Jane Weaver - Modern Cosmology
Black Star Riders - Heavy Fire
Mike Oldfield - Return to Ommadawn
The Unthanks - Songs & Poems of Molly Drake
Thunder - Rip it Up

Greta Van Fleet

jamesg1213
The Unthanks - Songs & Poems of Molly Drake

Thanks for the reminder, I meant to check them out after hearing some tracks on the radio.
 
Not on the album but I am loving "Starless" A folk group with a brass band covering King Crimson - Priceless! https://soundcloud.com/the-unthanks/starless
 


 

Glyn Barnes

jamesg1213
The Unthanks - Songs & Poems of Molly Drake

Thanks for the reminder, I meant to check them out after hearing some tracks on the radio.
 
Not on the album but I am loving "Starless" A folk group with a brass band covering King Crimson - Priceless! https://soundcloud.com/the-unthanks/starless
 

 
I bought the album after hearing them on the 'Detectorists' soundtrack, very nice stuff.

Glyn Barnes
      The Ferrymans Curse - The Strawbs. Septuagenarian Dave Cousins is back and his lyrics are as poignant as ever.
      Sight of Day – Mostly Autumn, and epic album by any standard.

Thanks for both of these.  I didn't know anything about the new Strawbs release - went to amazon immediately and placed my order.  I never knew of Mostly Autumn - ordered Sight of Day as well after hearing just two of the example clips.
 
My best of the year: 
 
FEAR by Marilion - not that anybody needs to be alerted about that one.
 
To the Bone by Steven Wilson - I liked Hand.Cannot.Erase a little better, but this one is damn fine as well.  Adam Holzman is arguably the finest prog rock keyboard player out there right now, and anything he's on, I want.
 
and for a change of pace ...
 
Jeff Tweedy's Together at Last.

Not a complete list, but take most of Glyn's, add dmbaer's plus a bunch of others (like Metric and Deep Purple's Infinte)...

dmbaer
To the Bone by Steven Wilson - I liked Hand.Cannot.Erase a little better, but this one is damn fine as well.  Adam Holzman is arguably the finest prog rock keyboard player out there right now, and anything he's on, I want.

Ditto.  HCE and the Raven have the edge overall, but To the Bone has some awesome tracks if you delete 'Permanating'.  Albert Hall gig in March...