The best progressive-rock albums of 2024 (so far)

As we passed into the second half of 2024, we invited 14 of the prog-scribes at DPRP.net to select their Top 5 albums of the year so far. This is the list of each reviewer's selections.

Scroll down to see what your favourite reviewers have selected, and to see how many of your top albums have made their lists!

To help you sample some of the great albums listed here, we've added the link to the DPRP review, where available. This will have videos and samples for the album. Happy listening.

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JAN BUDDENBERG (Netherlands)

1. THE SAMURAI OF PROG - A Quiet Town (Read the full DPRP review here)

2. EVERYTHING OSCILLATING - The Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are (Read the full DPRP review here)

3. EMERALD CITY COUNCIL - Motion Carries (Read the full DPRP review here)

4. LEGACY PILOTS - THRU THE LENS (Album on Bandcamp - review pending)

5. VIIMA - Väistyy Mielen Yö (Read the full DPRP review here)

GREG CUMMINS (Australia)

1. BENJAMIN CROFT - We Are Here To Help (Read the full DPRP review here)

2. TWA - The Hunted (Read the full DPRP review here)

3. JOHN GREENWOOD - Dark Blue (Read the full DPRP review here)

4. MONARCH TRAIL - Four Sides (Read the full DPRP review here)

=5. CALIGULA'S HORSE - Charcoal Grace (Read the full DPRP review here)

=5. RICK MILLER - One Of The Many (Read the full DPRP review here)

THOMAS OTTEN (Germany)

1. THE SAMURAI OF PROG - A Quiet Town (Read the full DPRP review here)

2. BENJAMIN CROFT - We Are Here To Help (Read the full DPRP review here)

3. TUMBLE TOWN - On The Highwire (Read the full DPRP review here)

4. EMERALD CITY COUNCIL - Motion Carries (Read the full DPRP review here)

5. VIIMA - Väistyy Mielen Yö (Read the full DPRP review here)

OWEN DAVIES (Scotland)

1. ANTOINE FAFARD & GAVIN HARRISON - Perpetual Motions (Read the full DPRP review here)

2. TOM PENAGUIN - Tom Penaguin (Album on Bandcamp)

3. LUNOPHONE - Surroundings (Album on Bandcamp)

4. MORGAN/HUSBAND/FERAUD - A Soul In Time (Album on Bandcamp)

5. ELEPHANT 9 - Mythical River (Album on Bandcamp)

IGNACIO BERNAOLA (Spain)

1. ALCEST - Les Chants De L'Aurore (Official video)

2. HIPPOTRAKTOR - Stasis (Album on Bandcamp)

3. IZZ - Collapse The Wave (album on Bandcamp)

4. AMAROK - Hope (Read the full DPRP review here)

5. VANDEN PLAS - The Empyrean Equation Of The Long Lost Things (Read the full DPRP review here)

MARTIN BURNS (England)

1.BIG BIG TRAIN - The Likes Of Us (Read the full DPRP review here)

2.UBERMODO - So Very Far From Home (Read the full DPRP review here)

3.THE PINEAPPLE THIEF - It Leads To This (Read the full DPRP review here)

4.LAST ARK OUT - Lift(Read the full DPRP review here)

5.FINAL COIL - The World We Inherited (Read the full DPRP review here)

MARK HUGHES (England)

1. MEER - Wheels Within Wheels (Read the full review on DPRP)

2. JADIS - More Questions Than Answers (Read the full DPRP review here)

3. WANG WEN - The 25th Anniversary Live Collection (Album on Bandcamp)

4. BETH GIBBONS - Lives Outgrown (official video)

5. RICHARD THOMPSON - Ship To Shore (Album on Bandcamp)

EDWIN ROOSJEN (Netherlands)

MAGORIA - Hollingsworth Mansion (Read the full DPRP review here)
AMAROK - Hope (Read the full DPRP review here)
THE ARISTOCRATS - Duck (Album on Bandcamp)
BAROCK PROJECT - Time Voyager (Official video - review pending)
EMERALD CITY COUNCIL - Motion Carries (Read the full DPRP review here)

SERGEY NIKULICHEV (Russia)

1. BORKNAGAR - Fall (Official video)

2. EVERGREY - Theories of Emptiness (Official video)

3. CALIGULA'S HORSE - Charcoal Grace (Read the full DPRP review here)

4. ECHO SPLINTER - The Last Stand (Read the full DPRP review here)

5. PATCHWORK CACOPHONY - Hourglass (Read the full DPRP review here)

PATRICK McAFEE (USA)

1. BIG BIG TRAIN - The Likes of Us (Read the full DPRP review here)

2. MARCO GLUHMANN - A Fragile Present (Read the full DPRP review here)

3. JADIS - More Questions Than Answers (Read the full DPRP review here)

4. PINEAPPLE THIEF - It Leads To This (Read the full DPRP review here)

5. ANDY PARTRIDGE (XTC) & CHRIS BRAIDE (DBA) - Queen of the Planet Wow! (Official video)

ANDY READ (France)

1. WHOM GODS DESTROY - Insanium (Read the full DPRP review here)

2. SUNBURST - Manifesto (Listen on Bandcamp)

3. FOR ALL WE KNOW - By Design Or By Disaster (Read the full DPRP review here)

4. SHUMAUN - Opposing Mirrors (Read the full DPRP review here)

5. KINGCROW - Hopium (Official video - review pending)

JERRY VAN KOOTEN (Sweden)

1. TUMBLETOWN - On the Highwire (Read the full DPRP review here)

2. PALLAS - The Messenger (Read the full DPRP review here)

3. SKRAECKOEDLAN - Vermillion Sky (Read the full DPRP review here)

4. SO FAR AS I KNOW - Awe (Read the full DPRP review here)

5. NEKTAR - Mission to Mars (Official video)

BRUCE WARREN (USA)

1. SUNBURNED HAND OF THE MAN - Nimbus (album on Bandcamp)

2. IZZ - Catch The Wave (album on Bandcamp)

3. THE PNEUMATIC TRANSIT - Forbidden Trinkets (Read the full DPRP review here)

4. REZN - Burden (Album on Bandcamp)

5. SLIFT - Ilion (Album on Bandcamp)

HECTOR GOMEZ (Spain)

1. ZOMBI - Direct Inject (Album on Bandcamp)

2. AIRBAG - The Century of the Self (Read the full DPRP review here)

3. BIG BIG TRAIN - The Likes of Us (Read the full DPRP review here)

4. THE TANGENT - To Follow Polaris (Read the full DPRP review here)

5. BRUCE DICKINSON - Afterglow of Ragnarok (Official video)

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(For any pedants out there: the albums are mostly releases from the first six months of the year - there are a few from late 2023 - but it's all great music, so who cares!)