Emancipator - Safe In The Steep Cliffs (2010)
Organic, tasteful instrumental trip-hop from one of the genre's newest innovators. What a nice way to start off the year!
Ultra - S/T (1975-1977)
Extremely awesome, rare Texan hard rock compiled and remastered in sixteen cuts on one disk, featuring some of the best dual lead guitar I've heard in a lonnnnng time.
Big Big Train - Gathering Speed (2004)
The Underfall Yard was my favorite album of 2009, so I decided to take a few steps back into these modern U.K. proggers' discography. This 2004 release sounds more of a cross between Brit-pop/alternative rock and Genesis circa
A Trick of the Tail than TUY, but so far this is a pleasantly lush and emotional listening experience, and better by far than the majority of what gets labeled "neo-prog" these days.