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Yes — Relayer [Duo Review], Yes — Going For The One [Duo Review plus guest reviewer Theo Travis], Yes — Tormato [Duo Review], Yes — Drama [Duo Review plus guest reviewers Luca Scherani and Rob Reed], Yes — 90125 [Duo Review plus guest reviewer Adam Holzman], Yes — Big Generator [Duo Review], Yes — Union, Yes — Talk, Yes — Keys To Ascension Pt.1
Yes — Yes [Duo Review plus guest reviewer Andy Tillison], Yes — Time And A Word [Duo Review], Yes — The Yes Album [Duo Review plus guest reviewer David Elliott], Yes — Fragile [Duo Review plus guest reviewers Richard Henshall and Arjen Lucassen], Yes — Close To The Edge [Duo Review plus guest reviewers Andy Tillison and Jeff Green], Yes — Close To The Edge (Steven Wilson 5.1 Surround Remix) [Duo Review], Yes — Tales From Topographic Oceans [Duo Review plus guest reviewer Roine Stolt]
Anta — Centurionaut, Bertoni, Alessandro — Keystone, Budjana, Dewa — Joged Kahvangan, Circle of Illusion — Jeremias: Foreshadow of Forgotten Realms, Irvine, John Band — Next Stop, Dusan Jevtovic — Am I Walking Wrong?, Osada Vida — Particles, The Psychedelic Ensemble — The Tale of the Golden King, Reptiel — Violent Sagas of the Ancient, Yeti Rain — Stars Fall Darkly
Various artists — Progstravaganza 14: Timeshift
Also Eden — [REDACTED], Circadian Pulse — In The Blink Of An Eye [EP], Doracor — La vita che cade, Early Cross — Pathfinder, Steve Hackett — Genesis Revisited: Live At Hammersmith [Duo Review], miRthkon — Snack(s), Three Wise Monkeys — Perihelion, TUGS — Europa Minor, Tusmørke — Underjordisk Tusmørke
Brown, Pete & Ryan, Phil — Ardours of the Lost Rake/Coals To Jerusalem, The Climax Blues Band — Sense of Direction, The Climax Blues Band — Stamp Album, The Climax Blues Band — Gold Plated, Bob Downes — Deep Down Heavy, Gordon Giltrap — Visionary, Gordon Giltrap — Perilous Journey, Gordon Giltrap — Fear of the Dark, Steve Hackett & Friends — The Tokyo Tapes [2CD/DVD]
The Samurai Of Prog — Secrets of Disguise [Round Table Review]
Bony, Fabrice — Inner Lands, Chris — Days of Summer Gone, Clannad — Nádúr, In The Silence [Review 2] — A Fair Dream Gone Mad, Rhys Marsh — Suspended In A Weightless Wind [EP], Mavara — Forgotten Inside, Mavara — Season of Salvation, simakDialog — The 6th Story
Various artists — Progstravaganza 13
Ayreon — The Theory of Everything [Round Table Review]
Manning — The Blood, The Leaf & The Bone [Round Table Review]
The Flower Kings — Desolation Rose [Round Table Review]
Martin Barre — Away With Words, PBII — 1000 Wishes [DVD], Project 7 — Paradigm Shift, Soma White — Soma White, The Worm Ouroboros — Of Things That Never Were, Robert Wyatt — '68
The Tangent — L'Étagère du Travail [Round Table Review]
Blackmore's Night — Dancer and the Moon, Kevin Kastning & Carl Clements — Nowhere, Now Here, Fierce And The Dead, The — Spooky Action, Fromuz — Sodom and Gomorrah, I Know You Well Miss Clara — Chapter One, Lantinor — Ensign of Fairies, Book 1, Vespero — Droga, Votum — Harvest Moon
CCS — Tap Turns On The Water: The CCS Story, Nektar — Remember The Future: 40th Anniversary Edition, Bill Nelson's Orchestra Arcana — Iconography, Quatermass — Quatermass [Repertoire Edition], Quatermass — Quatermass [Esoteric Edition], Royal Hunt — 20th Anniversary: Special Edition, Sphincter Ensemble — Harrodian Event #1
Dream Theater — Dream Theater [Duo Review]
John Lees' Barclay James Harvest — North [Round Table Review]
Azure Agony — India, Crystal Palace — The System of Events, Lazuli — Live @ l'Abeille Rôde [DVD], Moogg — Le ore i giorni gli anni, Oxhuitza — Oxhuitza, Parhelia — The Precipice of Change, Ulver — Messe I.X-IV.X, Various artists — Tales from the Edge - A Tribute to the Music of Yes
Aeon Zen — Enigma, Dead End Space — Distortion Of Senses, Factory Of Dreamsg — Some Kind of Poetic Destruction, Fates Warning — Darkness In A Different Light, Maestrick — Unpuzzle!, Memento Waltz — Division By Zero, Standing Ovation — The Antikythera Mechanism, Subsignal — Paraiso, Tellus Requiem — Invictus (The 11th Hour), Tempul — All the Windows of the World, Transcend — The Mind, Until Rain — Anthem To Creation
Cyril — Gone Through Years, Derek Trotson — Threads, Harper, Roy — Man & Myth, The National Orchestra Of The United Kingdom Of Goats — Vaaya and the Sea, Pinhas, Richard — Desolation Row, Symbolon Obscura — Symbolon Obscura
Disperse — Living Mirrors, Fiore, Dino — Fleur Folia, Fish — A Feast Of Consequences, Garden — Garden [EP], Sound Of Contact — Dimensionaut, Verbal Delirium — From The Small Hours Of Weakness
Believe — Hope To See Another Day (Reissue), Burnin' Red Ivanhoe — Canal Trip 1969-1974, Gazpacho — Night (Reissue), Alan Hull — Squire, Man — The Welsh Connection, Mats/Morgan Band — Radio Da Da/The Teenage Tapes
Magenta — The Twenty Seven Club [Round Table Review]
Dodson And Fogg — Sounds of Day and Night, God Is An Astronaut — Origins, Hanspal, Chanan — Ephemeral Morph, Némo — Le Ver dans le Fruit, Roz Vitalis — Patience of Hope, Thieves Kitchen — One For Sorrow, Two For Joy
Haken — The Mountain [Round Table Review]
Audio Cologne Project — 2911, Ekos — Luz Interna, Homunculus Res — Limiti aa'eguaglianza della Partecon il Tutto, Keneally, Mike — You Must Be This Tall, McKechnie, Simon — Clocks and Dark Clouds
BSI — Clevarity, La Coscienza di Zeno — La Coscienza di Zeno, La Coscienza di Zeno — Sensitività, Rick Miller — Immortal Remains, Opus Symbiosis — Nature's Choir, Rhùn — Ïh, Sailor Free — Spiritual Revolution, Violent Silence — A Broken Truce, Ysma — Vagrant
The Aristocrats — Culture Clash, Earthling Society — ZodiaK, Inner Road, The — Visions, Inner Road, The — Ascension, Jupiter Society — From Endangered To Extinct, LoreWeaveR — Italic, Moon Safari — Himlabacken Vol.1, Purson — The Circle and the Blue Door, Gianluca Silvestri — In My Universe
Maschine — Rubidium [Round Table Review]
Cochise — Velvet Mountain - An Anthology 1970 - 1972, Dark — Round the Edges, Ginhouse — Ginhouse, Juicy Lucy — Get A Whiff A This, Henry Lowther Band — Child Song, Moody Blues, The — Timeless Flight, Mountain — Go For Your Life, Vanilla Fudge — Rock & Roll
Chest Rockwell — ...Weep and You Weep Alone [EP], Dialeto — The Last Tribe, Long Distance Calling — The Flood Inside, Methexis — The Fall of Bliss, Morild — Aves, Mother Black Cap — Energy, Phi — Years of Breathing, Pymlico — Directions
Brother Ape — Force Majeure, Gizmo — Gizmo, KingBathmat — Overcoming the Monster [Duo Review], Leafblade — The Kiss of Spirit and Flesh, Moonlight Banquet — Moonlight Banquet, Nem-Q — 301.81, Not A Good Sign — Not A Good Sign
LaBrie, James — Impermanent Resonance [Round Table Review]
Arena — Rapture [DVD], Carpet — Elysian Pleasures, Ilydaen — Digressions, IOEarth — Live in the USA, Little Atlas — Automatic Day, Luna Rossa — Sleeping Pills and Lullabies, Savanna — Aurora [EP], The Wrong Object — After the Exhibition
Apple Pie — The Gates of Never, Cartographer — Cartographer [EP], The Custodian — Necessary Wasted Time, Djam Karet — The Trip [Duo Review], Bertrand Loreau — Nostalgic Steps, Shineback — Rise Up Forgotten, Return Destroyed, Soniq Theater — Stardust Memories, Zayn — Medeia [EP]
The Tangent — Le Sacre du Travail [Round Table Review]
Big (drum&bass) — Apokálupsis, Blacklands — A New Dawn, IfSounds — Red Apple, Kharmina Buranna — Seres Humanos, Mastercastle — On Fire, Tangerine Dream & Brian May — Starmus: Sonic Universe, Sanguine Hum — The Weight of the World, Vitriol — Into the Silence I Sink
Bulbs — On, Combat Astronomy — Kundalini Apocalypse, Elephants of Scotland — Home Away from Home, Haiku Funeral — Nightmare Painting, Haze — The Last Battle, Morph — Sintrinity, Nosound — Afterthoughts, Primitive Instinct — One Man's Refuge, Science NV — Last Album Before the End of Time, William Gray — Silentio
The Climax Blues Band — Tightly Knit, The Climax Blues Band — Rich Man, The Climax Blues Band — FM/Live, FM — Black Noise, FM — Direct to Disc, FM — Surveillance, FM — City of Fear, Pavlov's Dog — Pampered Menial, Pavlov's Dog — At the Sound of the Bell
Anima Mundi — The Lamplighter, Downes Braide Association (DBA) — Pictures of You, Flying Circus — Ones and Zeros [EP] [Duo Review], The Green Violinist — More Thrill & Never Ending Blessings, Rhys Marsh and the Autumn Ghost — Trio, Maze Of Time — Masquerade Show, Psychic For Radio — Standing Wave [Duo Review], Resistor — Live At ROSfest, Klaus Schulze — Shadowlands
Comedy Of Errors — Fanfare & Fantasy, Experimental Quintet — Atlantis, Inner Light Orchestra — Pearl Moon, Majestic — V.O.Z. [Duo Review], Nolan, Clive — Alchemy, Poor Genetic Material — A Day in June, T — Psychoanorexia, TumbleTown — Done With the Coldness, Unreal City — La Crudelta Di Aprile, Zenit — The Chandrasekhar Limit
Leprous — Coal [Round Table Review]
Autumnal Blossom — Against the Fear of Death, Coarbegh — The Colour of Happiness, Flicker — How Much Are You Willing To forget?, Humble Grumble — Guzzle It Up!, Il Giardino Onirico — Perigeo, Karjalainen, Elmo — Unintelligent Designs, Lafuente, Victor — Inside, Taipuva Luotisuora — 8
After Tea — Joint House Blues, Anyone's Daughter — Anyone's Daughter, Anyone's Daughter — In Blau, Anyone's Daughter — Neue Sterne, Anyone's Daughter — Live, Chicken Shack — Imagination Lady (Review #2), Chicken Shack — Unlucky Boy, Chicken Shack — Goodbye, Finch — Vitus Dominica, Jump — Home Songs
Geoff Barone — Conversation Piece, Five-Storey Ensemble — Not That City, Gordon Giltrap & Oliver Wakeman — Ravens & Lullabies [Duo Review], Clay Green - Polysorbate Masquerade Band — Chronicles of Bubbledroid, Hallebeek Project, Richard — RHP II: Pain in the Jazz, Illumion — The Waves, Jeseter — Proměna, Living, The — The Jungle Is Dark But Full Of Diamonds, Martin Webb — Anjar
Camelias Garden — You Have A Chance, Days Between Stations — In Extremis, Demetra Sine Die — A Quiet Land of Fear, Colin Edwin & Jon Durant — Burnt Relief, Hidden Lands — In Our Time, Logic Mess — Element of the Grid, New Eden Orchestra — Vikings, Pendragon — Out Of Order Comes Chaos, Second Culture — Flying Potion, The Devin Townsend Project — Epicloud
Brislin, Tom — Hurry Up and Smell the Roses, Dianoya — Lidocaine, Half Past Four — Good Things, Krampl, Gerald — Wonder Way, Necromonkey — Necroplex, PBII — 1000 Wishes, Phlox — Vali, Cristiano Roversi — AntiQua, Star FK Radium — Solitude Rotation, Johnny Unicorn — Sadness and Companionship
Alex Torres — The Fifties Child: A Social History Through the Songs of Barclay James Harvest[Book]
Arachnes — The Goddess Temple, Arachnes — Apocalypse, Avatar — Essence, Engine — Superholic, Forces At Work — Straight, Freak Kitchen — Dead Soulmen, Freak Kitchen — Move, Heartbeat Parade — Hora de Los Hornos, Kamelot — Epica, Morifade — Imaginarium, My Soliloquy — The Interpreter, Pyramid — The Immaculate Lie, Pyramid — Gaudi's Legacy, Retrospective — Lost In Perception, Semantic Saturation — Solipsistic, Silent Voices — Chapters Of Tragedy, Stealing Axion — Moments, Stonehenge — Angelo Salutante, Time Grid — Life, Time Requiem — Time Requiem, Tunnelvision — Tomorrow, Roel Van Helden — RvH
Alquin — The Marks Sessions, Gnidrolog — In Spite of Harry's Toenail, Gnidrolog — Lady Lake, Kayak — Royal Bed Bouncer, Marillion — Radiation 2013, Solution — Mythology, Spriguns — Revel Weird and Wild, Spriguns — Time Will Pass, Wigwam — Tombstone Valentine
Colossus Project (Various artists) — The Stories of H.P. Lovecraft - A SyNphonic Collection [Round Table Review]
Arilyn — Shadows Of The Past, Baron — Columns, Flower Flesh — Duck in the Box, Michal Mierzejewski — Symphonic Theater Of Dreams, The Pineapple Thief — Build A World [EP], Soft Machine Legacy — Burden Of Proof, SoulenginE — Mind Colours, Symphonika — Symphonika, Venturia — Dawn Of a New Era
Budjana, Dewa — Dawai In Paradise, The Curator — Inside the Whale and Other Songs, Dodson And Fogg — Derring-Do, Jake Nielsen — Perspectives, Flying Circus — Ones and Zeros [EP], Phobos Corporation — Felicity [EP], Psychic For Radio — Standing Wave, Zauss — Notturno/Leise Im Wind
Spock's Beard — Brief Nocturnes and Dreamless Sleep [Round Table Review]
Love De Vice — Silesian Night 11.11.11 [DVD], Mangrove — More or Less...An Acoustic Evening [DVD], Erik Norlander — The Galactic Collective [DVD], Osada Vida — Where The Devils Live [DVD], PBII — PBII@Boerderij.org [DVD], Syzygy — A Glorious Disturbance [DVD], Devin Townsend — By A Thread: Live in London 2011 [DVD]
Miles Davis — The Complete Columbia Album Collection
Boyce — Boyce, Cleveland, Barry — Mythos, Henry Fool — Men Singing, Jorn — Symphonic, Marbin — Last Chapter of Dreaming, Red Bazar — After the Ice Storm EP, Sombre Reptile — Timeless Island, Tucana — Tucana
Australasia — Sin4tr4 EP, Ballo delle Castagne — Surpassing All Other Kings, La Maschera di Cera — Le Porte del Domani, La Maschera di Cera — The Gates of Tomorrow, Le Orme — Felona e Sorona (Deluxe Edition), Marchesi Scamorza — La Sposa del Tempo, Psycho Praxis — Echoes From the Deep, Alberto Rigoni — Three Wise Monkeys, Tristema — Dove Tutto è Possible
Argos — Cruel Symmetry, Echoe — Echoe, Far Arden — Songs Of Intuition, Jadis — See Right Through You, Keep It Deep — Hatching, Lake, Greg — Songs Of A Lifetime, Tim Morse — Faithscience, The Pineapple Thief — What We Have Sown, Taylor's Universe — Worn Out, Unwritten Pages — Pt.1: Noah, Unwritten Pages — Fringe Kitchen
Barclay James Harvest — Eyes Of The Universe, Barclay James Harvest — Turn Of The Tide, The Climax Blues Band — Plays On, The Climax Chicago Blues Band — The Climax Chicago Blues Band, The Climax Chicago Blues Band — A Lot Of Bottle, The Gods — Genesis, The Gods — To Samuel A Son, Keith Tippett — You Are Here...I Am There, Keith Tippett — Dedicated To You, But You Weren't Listening
Brock, Dave — Looking For Love In The Lost Land Of Dreams, Cosmograf — The Man Left In Space, Guapo — History Of The Visitation, Hawkwind Light Orchestra — Stellar Variations, Jolly — The Audio Guide To Happiness (Part Two), Lickerish, Francis — Far And Forgot, From The Lost Lands, The Minstrel's Ghost — The Road To Avalon, When Mary — 7Summers7Winters
Big Big Train — English Electric (Part Two) [Round Table Review]
Amplifier — Echo Street [Duo Review], Fafard, Antoine — Solus Operandi, Herd Of Instinct — Conjure, Lucid Fly — The Escape Stage, Phi Yaan-Zek — Deeper With The Anima, Relevant Discord — The Days Of Deferment & The Refrain EP, Session 606 — No Zeros
Aparecidos — Palito Bombón Helado, Backyards — Horizon, Charmanis, Spyros — Wound, Charon, A-J — Humouring Gods, Hekz — Tabula Rasa, Hipgnosis — Relusion, Luley, Johannes — Tales From Sheepfather's Grove, Lyrian — The Tongues of Men and Angels, Toyz — The Infinite Road, Wallpaper Poets — The Other Side of Maybe
Acelsia — Don't Go Where I Can't Follow, ARZ — Turn Of The Tide, Crowned In Earth — A Vortex Of Earthly Chimes, Fire On Dawson — 7 Billion and a Nameless Somebody, Fish On Friday — Airborne, Laramee, Pete — 7 String Cinematoid, Lest — Odysseus, Magnum — On The 13th Day, My Sleeping Karma — Soma, Panzerpappa — Astromalist, Sumo Elevator — Breakfast, Various artists — Dutch Exposure
Finch — Mythology, The Greatest Show On Earth — Horizons, The Greatest Show On Earth — The Going's Easy, Matthews, Ian — If You Saw Thro' My Eyes, Matthews, Ian — Tigers Will Survive, Matthews Southern Comfort — Kind Of New / Kind Of Live, Odyssice — Impression, Spontaneous Combustion — Spontaneous Combustion, Spontaneous Combustion — Triad
Steven Wilson — The Raven That Refused To Sing (And Other Stories) [Round Table Review]
Barock Project — Coffee In Neukölln, Marcus Eaton — As If You Had Wings, Lord Of Mushrooms — Perspectives, Mountain Mirrors — Asylum Acres, Oblivion Sun — The High Places, The Room — Open Fire, Seven Waters — Pathfinder, Toon Martens Project — TMP, Unit Wail — Pangaea Proxima, Unitopia — Covered Mirror Vol.1: Smooth As Silk, Yugen — Mirrors
Glass Hammer — Perilous [Round Table Review]
Colour Haze — She Said, Farmers Market — Slav To The Rhythm, Jeremy — From The Dust To The Stars, Lifesigns — Lifesigns [Duo Review], Metaphysics — Beyond The Nightfall, Anthony Phillips — Private Parts & Pieces XI: City Of Dreams, Shadow Circus — On A Dark And Stormy Night [Duo Review], Syd Arthur — On And On
Brainstorm — Planetfall, Centric Jones — The Antikythera Method, Dodson And Fogg — Dodson And Fogg, Ines — Hunting The Fox, Ines — Eastern Dawning, Kotebel — Concerto for Piano and Electric Ensemble, Nosound — At The Pier [EP], Status Minor — Ouroboros, Thumpermonkey — Sleep Furiously, Travis & Fripp — Follow, Zylver — Van Verre
Consortium Project III — Terra Incognito, Consortium Project IV — Children Of Tomorrow, The Dædalus Spirit Orchestra — Tabula Rasa, Diagonal — Second Mechanism, Didbo — Global Pictures, InVertigo — Veritas, Jastreb — Jastreb, Morse Portnoy George — Cover2Cover, Vincenzo Ricca — The Roma Pro(g)ject, Skyfox 8 — It's Time To Be Inside Now
A Lonely Crowd — User Hostile, Apogee feat. Gerald Heimann — Die Gläserne Wand & Schleifen, Ashent — Inheritance, Boxer — Below The Belt, Boxer — Bloodletting, The Enid — Invicta [Duo Review], Godsticks — The Envisage Conundrum [Duo Review], Kingcrow — In Crescendo [Duo Review], Mind:Soul — Patterns 1.5 [EP], Bill Nelson — Trial By Intimacy (The Book Of Splendours), Syndone — The Beauty Is The Beast, Tír na nÓg — Tír na nÓg, Tír na nÓg — A Tear And A Smile, Tír na nÓg — Strong In The Sun
Cressida — Cressida, Cressida — Asylum, Cressida — Trapped In The New Real [Duo Review], Cressida — The Vertigo Years Anthology 1969-1971 [Duo Review]
Absinthe Junk — Living Ghosts, Amarok — Gouevia, Amber Spyglass — Breathing in Essence [EP], Cryptic Vision — Of Infinite Possibilities, DouBt — Mercy, Pity, Peace and Love, Lucassen, Arjen Anthony — Lost In The New Real, Nine Stones Close — One Eye On The Sunset, Procosmian Fannyfiddlers — Interference Number 9, Rayburn — Your Mind, Stormy Atmosphere — Colorblind, String Driven Thing — The Machine That Cried, Transbohêm — Déserts, Various artists — Breaking The Layers 2012 [DVD]
IQ — Tales from the Lush Attic (30th Anniversary Collector's Edition) [Round Table Review]
Riverside — Shrine Of New Generation Slaves [Round Table Review]
Census Of Hallucinations — Dragonian Days, Chantry — Crystal, The Fusion Syndicate — The Fusion Syndicate, Hawkwind — 1991-2012, Magma — Trilogy, Manring, Michael & Kastning, Kevin — In Winter, Moon Safari — Lover's End Pt. III: Skellefteå Serenade, Phi — The Deflowering Of Reality [EP], The Reasoning — Adventures In Neverland, Semistereo — Semistereo, Shadow Of The Sun — Monument, Rick Wakeman — Journey to the Centre of the Earth, Calvin Weston — Of Alien Feelings
Aranis — Made In Belgium, Cargo — Cargo, Circus Maximus — Cargo, Cochrane, Steve — La La La: Variations On A Happy Song, InFictions — Maps of Revenge and Forgiveness, Intersphere, The — Hold On, Liberty!, Kompendium — Beneath The Waves [Duo Review], Layton, Trevor — The Endless Dream, Low ID — Discoverock, Mahogany Frog — Senna, Mars Hollow — Mars Hollow, Pitts Minnemann Project, The — 2 L 8 2 B Normal, Dylan Seeger — Readers & Reporters, Wolfspring — Cargo