I am by no means an expert in the field, but below you will find a list of my top-rated Neo Prog album releases from the 21st Century (according to my "objective" metric ratings system).
The
MASTERPIECES
of 21st Century Neo Prog
EDISON’S CHILDREN The Final Breath Before November (2013) = 95.0
AIRBAG The Greatest Show on Earth (2013) = 95.0
SYLVAN Posthumous
Silence (2006) * = 94.0
THE PSYCHEDELIC ENSEMBLE The Dream of the Magic Jongleur (2011) = 93.91
PENDRAGON Love over Fear (2020) = 93.44
TIGER MOTH
TALES Cocoon (2014) = 93.15
VITRAL Entre as Estrelas (2017)
= 93.08
WOBBLER From Silence to Somewhere (2017) = 93.06
BELIEVE Seven Widows (2017) * = 92.50
THE
MINOR MASTERPIECES
SEVEN STEPS TO THE GREEN DOOR The? Lie (2019) = 92.31
WOBBLER Rites at Dawn (2011) = 92.11
MANTRA VEGA The Illusion’s Reckoning (2016) = 92.0
THE PSYCHEDELIC ENSEMBLE Sunstone (2015) =
91.80
SYLVAN Home (2015) * = 91.67
THE PSYCHEDELIC ENSEMBLE Mother's Rhymes (2019) = 91.52
TONY PATTERSON Equations of Meaning (2016) = 91.43
GALAHAD Seas of Change (2018) = 91.05
THE PSYCHEDELIC ENSEMBLE The Tale of the Golden King (2013) = 91.03
KARFAGEN Echoes
from Within Dragon Island (2019) = 90.91
L'ESTATE DI SAN MARTINO Talsete di Marsantino (2012) =
90.83
SIIILK Endless Mystery (2017)
= 90.75
NINE STONES CLOSE Frozen Moment (2012) = 90.38
THE FLOWER KINGS Flower
Power (1999) = 90.26
SYLVAN Sceneries
(2012) * 90.14
MAGENTA Metamorphosis (2008) = 90.0
LIFESIGNS Lifesigns (2013) = 90.0
GALASPHERE 347 Galasphere 347 (2018)
= 90.0
WOBBLER Afterglow (2009) = 90.0
ELLESMERE II - From Sea and
Beyond (2018) = 90.0
VIOLETA DE OUTONO Volume 7 (2007)
= 90.0
THENCE We Are Left With A Song (2016) * (90.0)
EXCELLENT NEO PROG ALBUMS
MODERN-ROCK ENSEMBLE Night Dreams &
Wishes (2019) = 89.92
LA
MASCHERA DI CERA Il Grande Labirinto (2003) = 89.61
MAGENTA Seven (2004) = 89.52
MYSTERY One
Among the Living (2010) = 89.42
MARGIN Psychedelic Teatime (2014) = 89.35
MYSTERY World Is A Game (2012) = 89.09
I AND THOU Speak (2012) = 89.09
GRIOT Gerald (2016) = 89.0
UNITED PROGRESSIVE FRATERNITY Planetary
Overload, Part 1 - Loss (2019) = 88.59
PENDRAGON Pure (2008) = 88.59
ELLESMERE Wyrd (2020) = 88.53
FROST* Milliontown (2006) = 88.48
QUIDAM Alone Together (2007) = 88.33
CELL 15 River Utopia (2018) 88.16
CIRRUS BAY The Search for Joy (2014) = 88.08
WOBBLER Dwellers of the Deep (2020) = 88.0
ESP PROJECT Phenomena (2020) = 87.89
AIRBAG Identity (2009) = 87.86
K2 Black Garden (2010) = 87.75
PENDRAGON Passion (2011)
= 87.62
JOHN HOLDEN Capture Light (2018) = 87.38
MR. GIL Skellig (2010) = 87.22
YUKA & THE CHRONOSHIP Ship (2018) = 87.19
JOHN HOLDEN Rise and Fall (2020) = 87.14
IOEARTH Aura (2020) = 87.04
SILHOUETTE The World Is Flat and Other Alternative Facts (2017) - 87.0
THE ANCESTRY PROGRAM Tomorrow (2019) = 86.98
THE FLOWER KINGS Unfold The Future (2002) = 86.98
MOTH VELLUM Moth Vellum (2007) = 86.96
KARFAGEN Birds of Passage (2020) = 86.90
IQ Resistance (2019) = 86.833
IQ The Road of Bones (2014) = 86.82
MYSTERY Delusion Rain (2015) = 86.67
KNIGHT AREA Under a New Sign (2007) = 86.67
ELLESMERE Les Château de la Loire (2015) = 4.0
VERY GOOD NEO PROG
ETERNAL WANDERERS The Mystery of the Cosmic Sorrow (2016) = 86.57
MILLENIUM Exist (2008) - 86.43
UNITOPIA The Garden (2008) = 86.34
PALLAS The Cross & The Crucible (2001) - 86.25
WILLOWGLASS Willowglass (2005) = 86.25
THE WATCH Ghost (2001) = 86.125
SANHEDRIN Ever After (2011) = 86.0
SHAMALL Continuation (2016) = 85.91
SATELLITE Into the Night (2007) = 85.56
LA
MASCHERA DI CERA La Maschera di Cera (2002)
= 85.29
BAROCK PROJECT Detachment (2017) = 84.84
MYSTERY Lies and Butterflies (2018) = 84.81
SATELLITE A Street Between Sunrise and Sunset (2003) = 84.30
BJØRN RIIS Lullabies in a Car Crash (2014) =
THE QUIET EARTH ORCHESTRA The Quiet Earth Orchestra (2008) = 84.25
CIRRUS BAY The Art of Vanishing (2019) = 84.13
DAVE KERZNER New World (2014) - 84.0
HUIS Neither in Heaven (2016) =
EDISON’S CHILDREN In the Last Waking Moments (2011) = 83.57
BELIEVE The Warmest Sun in Winter (2013) = 83.53
GOOD NEO PROG
CIRRUS BAY A Step into Elsewhere (2009) = 83.33
THE DEAR HUNTER Act V: Hymns with
the Devil in Confessional (2016) = 83.0
WILLOWGLASS The Dream Harbour (2013) = 82.86
LOGOS L'enigma Della Vita
(2014) = 82.75
ALEX CARPANI 4 Destinies (2014) = 82.5
KAPRECKER'S CONSTANT Fate Outsmarts
Desire (2017) = 82.5
ARLEKIN Disguise Serenades (2014)
= 82.5
MOONGARDEN Round Midnight (2003) = 82.22
SPOCK’S BEARD Snow
(2002) = 82.16
WILLOWGLASS Book of Hours (2008) = 81.84
HÖSTSONATEN Summereve (2011) = 81.84
COMEDY OF ERRORS Fanfare and Fantasy (2013) = 81.79
AIRBAG Disconnected (2016)
= 81.67
SILHOUETTE Across the Rubicon (2012) = 81.52
KAIPA Children of the Sounds (2017) = 81.5
CELLAR NOISE Alight (2017) = 81.43
GALAHAD Beyond the Realms of Euphoria (2012) = 81.39
THE FLOWER KINGS Space Revolver (2000) = 81.33
DRIFTING SUN Twilight (2017)
= 81.25
MODERN-ROCK ENSEMBLE Touch the Mystery (2016)
= 81.0
KARFAGEN Messages from Afar: First Contact (2017) = 80.55
IOEARTH New World (2015) – 3 stars
KNIGHT AREA The Sun Also Rises (2004) – 3 stars
A SECRET RIVER Colours of Solitude (2014) – 3 stars
SPOCK’S BEARD the Oblivion Particle (2015) - 3 stars
THE DEAR HUNTER Act IV: Rebirth and
Reprise (2015) 3 stars
GRAND TOUR Heavy on the Beach (2015) - 3 stars
SECONDS BEFORE LANDING Cosmonaut (2020) - 3 stars
2.5 STAR NEO PROG
TIGER MOTH TALES Story Tellers, Part One (2015) – 2.5 stars
DRIFTING SUN Trip the Light Fantastic (2015) – 2.5 stars
BAROCK PROJECT Skyline (2015) – 2.5 stars
MARILLION Marbles (2004) – 2.5 stars
THE GOURISHANKAR The World Unreal (2016) = 80.0
LUCY IN BLUE Lucy in Blue (2016) = 80.0
IQ Dark Matter (2004) = 79.52
IQ The Seventh House (2000) - 79.35
FREDDEGREDDE Brighter Skies (2014) - 78.60
STATE URGE Confrontation (2015) – 2.5 stars
GRAND STAND Tricks of Time (2002) – 2.5 stars
LOONYPARK Perpetual (2016) = 77.78
LEAP DAY From the Days of Deucalion, Chapter 2 (2015) = 77.22
MACHINES DREAM Black Science (2017) = 77.14
FAIR
to MIDDLING
AIRBAG All
Rights Removed (2011) = 76.42
NINE STONES CLOSE Leaves (2016) = 75.65
MONARCH TRAIL Sand (2017) = 74.28
RED BAZAAR Tales from the Bookcase (2016) = 73.75
POOR NEO PROG
ORION Le survivant (2017) = 71.25
COMEDY OF ERRORS House of the Mind (2017)
= 70.50
CIRKUS Wild Dogs (2017) = 2 stars
* Indicates - "may qualify for another subgenre/may not be Neo Prog"
