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▶️ Day 2️⃣0️⃣
🎶 "How Was Your Ride?"
🎤 Blackfield
💿 Blackfield V
📆 10 February 2017

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The perfect closure to this year’s playlist. Thanks for following along — and now, I simply ask:

How was your ride?

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▶️ Day 1️⃣9️⃣
🎶 "Bartok of the Universe"
🎤 Motorpsycho
💿 The Tower
📆 8 September 2017

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Motorpsycho kept their streak of stellar heavy psych/prog going. The intro to this song was so good, it became my ringtone for a while

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▶️ Day 1️⃣8️⃣
🎶 "Can’t Let Go"
🎤 Anathema
💿 The Optimist
📆 9 June 2017

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In hindsight, a sad irony — released just a few years before Anathema’s hiatus, a bittersweet echo of hope and loss from one of prog’s most emotional bands

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▶️ Day 1️⃣7️⃣
🎶 "No Distraction"
🎤 Beck
💿 Colors
📆 13 October 2017

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After the folky calm of Morning Phase, Beck flipped the script with Colors — slick, poppy, and effortlessly cool, showcasing his Bowie-like chameleon nature

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▶️ Day 1️⃣6️⃣
🎶 "Brave Captain"
🎤 Big Big Train
💿 Grimspound
📆 28 April 2017

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Following previous year’s Folklore, BBT originally planned to release an EP called Skylon — but ended up delivering a full LP instead with Grimspound

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▶️ Day 1️⃣5️⃣
🎶 "Frozen Butterflies"
🎤 Von Hertzen Brothers
💿 War Is Over
📆 3 November 2017

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The power-pop song of an album that's proggier than it's predecessors. But for songs like this is that I enjoy VHB

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▶️ Day 1️⃣4️⃣
🎶 "Chocolate Song"
🎤 Tori Amos
💿 Native Invader
📆 8 September 2017

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Apparently this isn’t a fan favorite among Tori devotees — maybe being an occasional listener has its perks, because I adore it.

#nowplaying: A Deeper Understanding by The War On Drugs (2017)

#dinocds #besteveralbums #thewarondrugs #2017music #albums #musicsky 🎧🎵

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▶️ Day 1️⃣3️⃣
🎶 "Sigma"
🎤 Lonely Robot
💿 The Big Dream
📆 28 April 2017

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John Mitchell, of Frost*, It Bites, and Arena, is the mastermind behind Lonely Robot — crafting melodic, accessible, and radio-friendly prog.

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▶️ Day 1️⃣2️⃣
🎶 "From the Flame"
🎤 Leprous
💿 Malina
📆 25 August 2017

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The song sees the Norwegian prog metal band's evolution towards a more melodic and accessible art-rock

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▶️ Day 1️⃣1️⃣
🎶 "Early Warning"
🎤 The Mute Gods
💿 Tardigrades Will Inherit the Earth
📆 24 February 2017

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This supergroup was formed by Nick Beggs, Marco Minnemann (both worked together with Steven Wilson) and Roger King

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▶️ Day 🔟
🎶 "Going Backwards"
🎤 Depeche Mode
💿 Spirit
📆 17 March 2017

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This was the final Depeche Mode studio album to feature co-founder and keyboardist Andy Fletcher before his death on 26 May 2022

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▶️ Day 9️⃣
🎶 "Stars and Satellites"
🎤 Threshold
💿 Legends of the Shires
📆 8 September 2017

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Their first album since 1994 to feature Glynn Morgan on vocals, it soars with epic choruses and melodic prog-metal energy

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▶️ Day 8️⃣
🎶 "Song of Unborn"
🎤 Steven Wilson
💿 To the Bone
📆 18 Aug 2017

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SW is a master of modern prog and sonic perfectionism. The album closer is a slow-burning, emotional piece that feels like hope emerging from sorrow.

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▶️ Day 7️⃣
🎶 "The Fourth Colour"
🎤 King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard
💿 Polygondwanaland
📆 17 Nov 2017

music.youtube.com/watch?v=8dG4...

Only recently I started listening to these nuts. They’ve released 27 albums in 13 years — this is among their highest rated

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▶️ Day 6️⃣
🎶 "Lucidity"
🎤 Soen
💿 Lykaia
📆 3 February 2017

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Known for their Tool-esque brand of prog metal, Soen surprise here with a ballad that leans more toward a Gilmour-like sound

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▶️ Day 5️⃣
🎶 "So Falls the World"
🎤 Ulver
💿 The Assassination of Julius Caesar
📆 7 April 2017

www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nOC...

After exploring black metal and dark ambient/experimental sounds, Ulver enter a new phase here, sounding closer to Depeche Mode

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▶️ Day 4
🎶 "Kosmos (Grooves Of Triumph)"
🎤 Amplifier
💿 Trippin' with Dr. Faustus
📆 30 June 2017

www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLVD...

Manchester’s Amplifier dive into heavy, semi-psychedelic grooves, balancing riff-driven power with a trippy prog edge.

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▶️ Day 3
🎶 "A Thousand Shards of Heaven"
🎤 Lunatic Soul
💿 Fractured
📆 6 October 2017

www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyX2...

LS is the solo project of Mariusz Duda, singer/bassist of Riverside. This epic blends acoustic textures with orchestra and electronica

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▶️ Day 2
🎶 "Getaway"
🎤 Bjørn Riis
💿 Forever Comes to an End
📆 19 May 2017

Known from Norwegian prog band Airbag, Bjørn delivers an instrumental full of 80s-inspired energy on an otherwise moody, atmospheric album

www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLOq...

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▶️ Day 1
🎶 "Hard Times"
🎤 Paramore
💿 After Laughter
📆 12 May 2017

Paramore reinvented themselves, bringing 80s new wave vibes and energy. I was never interested in their work, but this song’s new direction drew me in

www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEB6...

From the album Together At Last by Jeff Tweedy (2017)

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From the album A Deeper Understanding by The War On Drugs (2017)

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‘16 Psyche’ by Chelsea Wolfe @chelseawolfe.bsky.social

🤘A searing collision of doom, noise and ethereal power feat. Troy Van Leeuwen on lead guitar. Intense, raw and unforgettable.

#DoomMetal #GothicRock #DarkFolk #USMusic #2017Music #ListenMusic #MusicSky

www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sb5...

The Growlers – Monotonia (Official Music Video)

A psychedelic garage rock gem recorded in 2014 and released as a single in 2017.

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www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSzl...

🤪🤦🏽‍♀️ “Mad As Hell” by U.S. Girls

“an inventive anti-war song that combines outré smarts with utter catchiness.“ @pitchfork.com

#Disco #ArtPop #PoliticalPop #USGirls #MadAsHell #2017Music #CanadaMusic #MusicSky #ListenMusic

www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtGb...

🐎🌄 “Big Enough” by Kirin J. Callinan (feat. Alex Cameron, Molly Lewis & Jimmy Barnes)

Genre-blending track.

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www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvrZ...

🗣️😊 “Say Something Loving” by The xx

This 2017 single is from their third studio album.

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www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rh2u...

🎶🌍 “Bambro Koyo Ganda” by Bonobo (feat. Innov Gnawa)

Released on 13 January 2017, the track features the Moroccan musical collective Innov Gnawa.

#Electronic #WorldFusion #Bonobo #BambroKoyoGanda #Migration #2017Music #UKMusic #MusicSky #ListenMusic

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ArWQ...

🌍😩 ‘The End of the World’ by Sharon Van Etten

Featured on ‘Resistance Radio: The Man in the High Castle Album’ soundtrack. 

#IndieRock #Folk #SharonVanEtten #TheEndOfTheWorld #ResistanceRadio #2017Music #USMusic #MusicSky #ListenMusic

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