Prog Lists: My 60 Favorite Prog Albums of the Naughties

These are my 60 favorite prog-related albums of the 2000s: They're not all pure prog but all have contributed greatly to the forms and sounds that has became known as "progressive rock music."

1. ODYSSEY: "The Greatest Tale" (2005)

2. DOVES Lost Souls (2000)

3. IONA Open Sky (2000)

4. BJÖRK Vespertine (2001)

5. BIG BIG TRAIN The Difference Machine (2005)

6. MAUDLIN OF THE WELL Part the Second (2009)

7. NIL Nil Novo Sol (2005)

8. ULVER Shadows of the Sun (2007)

9. PROGHMA-C Bar-do Travel (2009)

10. MOTORPSYCHO Phanerothyme (2001)

11. PÄATOS Timeloss (2002)

12. OCEANSIZE Everyone Into Position (2005)

13. FAUN Renaissance (2005)

14. DOVES The Last Broadcast (2002)

15. KARDA ESTRA Eve (2000)

16. PURE REASON REVOLUTION The Dark Third (2006)

17. SYLVAN Posthumous Silence (2006)

18. BARK PSYCHOSIS Code Name: DustSucker (2004)

19. RIVERSIDE Second Life Syndrome (2005)

20. JANNICK TOP Infernal Machina (2008)

21. KOTEBEL Omphalos (2006)

22. THE FLAMING LIPS Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots (2002)

23. THE GATHERING If_then_else (2000)

24. AIRBAG Identity (2009)

25. GA'AN - Ga'an (2009)

26. MAGENTA Seven (2004)

27. MAGMA Ëmëhntëhtt-Ré (2009)

28. QUIDAM The Time Beneath the Sky (2002)

29. NOSOUND LightDark (2008)

30. MAUDLIN OF THE WELL Leaving Your Bodymap (2001)

31. MAD CRAYON Preda (2009)

32. BOX Le horla de Montpassant (2009)

33. AISLES In Sudden Walks (2009)

34. KBB Lost and Found (2000)

35. STEREOLAB Sound-Dust (2001)

36. ANTIQUE SEEKING NUNS Mild Profundities (2003)

37. PORCUPINE TREE Fear of a Blank Planet (2007)

38. HIROMI’S SONICBLOOM (HIROMI UEHARA) Time Control (2007)

39. MOTH VELLUM Moth Vellum (2007)

40. SIGUR RÓS ( ) (2002)

 

41. KLAUS SCHULZE Kontinuum (2007)

42. KARDA ESTRA Constellations (2003)

43. MAUDLIN OF THE WELL Bath (2001)

44. KATE BUSH Aerial (2005)

45. THORK Wê-ila (2004)

46. BONDAGE FRUIT V - Skin (2002)

47. DUNGEN 4 (2008)

48. THORK Nula Jedan (2007)

49. CORDE OBLIQUE The Stones of Naples (2009)

50. FIELDS OF THE NEPHILIM Mourning Sun (2005)

51. MAGYAR POSSE Random Avenger (2006)

52. VIOLETA DE OUTONO Volume 7 (2007)

53. IONA The Circling Hour (2006)
54. FROST* Milliontown (2006)

55. ESPERS II (2006)

56. UZVA Uomo (2006)

57. OOIOO TAIGA (2006)

58. ELECTRIC ORANGE Morbus (2007)

59. GAZPACHO Night (2007)

60. MAGMA K.A. (2004)

Honorable Mentions:

MONO You Are There 
VIIMA Ajatuksia Maailman Laidalta

YVES POTIN Elsewhere
iNFiNiEN How to Accept
PAATOS Silence of Another Kind
MAGISTER DIXIT Cellules de Crises

KARDA ESTRA The Age of Science and Enlightenment

RADIOHEAD In Rainbows