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| Colin MacIntyre (UK) | |
| The Water (2008) REVIEW (***) | |
| Mad Men & English Dogs (UK) | |
| Mad Men & English Dogs (2001) REVIEW (***) | |
| Magenta (UK, neo-progressive) | |
| Revolutions (2001) REVIEW (**½) Seven (2004) REVIEW (**) Home (2005) REVIEW (**½) New York Suite (2006) REVIEW (**½) |
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| Magenta (Norway) | |
| Little Girl Lost (2002) REVIEW (**½) | |
| Magnus (Belgium) | |
| The Body Gave You Everything (2004) REVIEW (**½) | |
| Nick Magnus (UK, progressive) | |
| Inhaling Green (1999) REVIEW (***½) Hexameron (2004) REVIEW (***½) Children of Another God (2010) REVIEW (****) |
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| Duncan Maitland (Ireland) | |
| Lullabies for the 21st Century (2010) REVIEW (****) | |
| Major Parkinson (Norway) | |
| Songs From a Solitary Home (2010) REVIEW (***½) | |
| Mamiffer (US) | |
| Hirror Enniffer (2008) REVIEW (***) | |
| Mammoth Volume (Sweden, hard rock) | |
| A Single Book of Songs (2001) REVIEW (***) | |
| Mangala Vallis (Italy, neo-progressive) | |
| Lycanthrope (2005) REVIEW (***) | |
| Mangrove (Netherlands, neo-progressive) | |
| Touch Wood (2004) REVIEW (**½) Facing the Sunset (2005) REVIEW (**½) Coming Back to Live (2006) Beyond Reality (2009) REVIEW (**) |
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| Manic Street Preachers (UK) | |
| This is My Truth Tell Me Yours (1998) REVIEW (***) | |
| Aimee Mann (US) | |
| Live at St. Anne's Warehouse (2004) REVIEW (****) | |
| Manna (Finland) | |
| Sister (2007) REVIEW (***) | |
| Manning (UK, progressive) | |
| Tall Stories for Small Children (1999) [as Guy Manning] REVIEW (***) The Cure (2000) REVIEW (***) Cascade (2001) REVIEW (**½) The Ragged Curtain (2002) REVIEW (**½) The View From My Window (2003) REVIEW (**½) A Matter of Life & Death (The Journal of Abel Mann) (2004) REVIEW (**½) One Small Step... (2005) REVIEW (**½) Anser's Tree (2006) REVIEW (***) Songs From the Bilston House (2007) REVIEW (***) Number Ten (2009) REVIEW (***) Charlestown (2010) REVIEW (**½) |
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| Marbles (US) | |
| Expo (2005) REVIEW (**½) | |
| Marcelina (Poland) | |
| Marcelina (2011) REVIEW (**) | |
| Márcia (Portugal) | |
| Dá (2010) REVIEW (**½) | |
| Marillion (UK, neo-progressive) | |
| Brave (1994) REVIEW (**½) This Strange Engine (1997) REVIEW (**½) Radiation (1998) REVIEW (***) |
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| Marlene Kuntz (Italy) | |
| Che Cosa Vedi (2000) REVIEW (**½) | |
| J J Marsh (Sweden) | |
| Music From Planet Marsh (2005) REVIEW (***½) | |
| Jasun Martz (US, progressive/classical) | |
| The Pillory/The Battle (2005) REVIEW (***½) | |
| La Maschera di Cera (Italy, progressive) | |
| In Concerto (2004) REVIEW (****) | |
| Master Musicians of Bukkake (US) | |
| Totem One (2009) REVIEW (***) | |
| Masters of Reality (US, hard rock) | |
| Welcome to the Western Lodge (1999) REVIEW (***½) Deep in the Hole (2001) REVIEW (***½) |
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| Mélia (Québec, folk/progressive) | |
| Certitudes (2005) REVIEW (***) | |
| Mellow (France) | |
| Perfect Colours (2004) REVIEW (***) | |
| Memorials (US) | |
| The Memorials (2010) REVIEW (*½) | |
| Mercury Rev (US) | |
| Deserter's Songs (1998) REVIEW (****) All is Dream (2001) REVIEW (****) |
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| Metaphor (US, progressive) | |
| Starfooted (2000) REVIEW (***½) | |
| Robert Miles (Italy) | |
| Organik Remixes (2003) REVIEW (**½) | |
| Rick Miller (Canada) | |
| Dreamtigers (2004) REVIEW (**½) | |
| David Minasian (US) | |
| Random Acts of Beauty (2010) REVIEW (**½) | |
| Mindspiral (US, electronic) | |
| It's Come 2 This (2006) | |
| Minotaur Shock (US) | |
| Maritime (2005) REVIEW (***) | |
| Holly Miranda (US) | |
| The Magician's Private Library (2010) REVIEW (**½) | |
| Mission of Burma (US) | |
| The Obliterati (2008) REVIEW (***) | |
| Mizukagami (Japan, progressive) | |
| Mizukagami (2003) REVIEW (***) | |
| Mojobone (Sweden) | |
| Tales From the Bone (1999) REVIEW (***½) | |
| Mona Lisa (France, progressive) | |
| De l'Ombre à la Lumière (1998) REVIEW (***½) | |
| Mono (Japan) | |
| You Are There (2006) REVIEW (***) | |
| Mono Puff (US) | |
| Unsupervised (1996) REVIEW (***) | |
| Moon Safari (Sweden, progressive) | |
| A Doorway to Summer (2005) REVIEW (***) Blomljud (2008) REVIEW (**½) Lover's End (2010) REVIEW (**) |
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| Moongarden (Italy, neo-progressive) | |
| Brainstorm of Emptyness (1995) REVIEW (**½) The Gates of Omega (2001) REVIEW (**) RoundMidnight (2003) REVIEW (**) Songs From the Lighthouse (2008) REVIEW (**½) A Vulgar Display of Prog (2009) REVIEW (***) |
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| Jim Moray (UK) | |
| Sweet England (2003) | |
| Morning Benders (US) | |
| Big Echo (2010) REVIEW (**½) | |
| Alan Morse (US) | |
| Four O'Clock & Hysteria (2007) REVIEW (***) | |
| Neal Morse (US, Christian progressive) | |
| Neal Morse (1999) REVIEW (***) It's Not Too Late (2001) REVIEW (**½) Testimony (2003) REVIEW (***½) One (2004) REVIEW (***½) ? (2005) REVIEW (***) Sola Scriptura (2007) REVIEW (***) ? - Live (2007) REVIEW (**½) Lifeline (2008) REVIEW (**½) Testimony 2 (2011) REVIEW (***) |
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| Motis (France, progressive) | |
| Prince des Hauteurs (2004) REVIEW (****) L'Homme-Loup (2007) REVIEW (****) |
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| Motorpsycho (Norway, psych/prog/hard rock) | |
| Phanerothyme (2001) REVIEW (****) Serpentine (2002 EP) REVIEW (***½) It's a Love Cult (2002) REVIEW (***½) |
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| Richard Moult (UK) | |
| Celestial King for a Year (2011) REVIEW (***) | |
| Peter Murray (Canada) | |
| Ants & Angels (2006) | |
| Musée Mécanique (US) | |
| Hold This Ghost (2008) REVIEW (**½) | |
| Mushroom (US, psych) | |
| Hydrogen Jukebox (1999) REVIEW (***) Analog Hi-Fi Surprise (1999) REVIEW (***) Leni Riefenstahl (2000) REVIEW (***½) Really Don't Mind if You Sit This One Out (2006) |
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| My Morning Jacket (US) | |
| It Still Moves (2003) REVIEW (***½) Z (2005) REVIEW (***) |
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| Myracle Brah (US) | |
| Bleeder (2002) REVIEW (**½) | |
| Paul Nagle (UK, electronic) | |
| Skyrider (1995) | |
| Naikaku (Japan, progressive) | |
| Shell (2003) REVIEW (****) | |
| Pete Namlook & Klaus Schulze (US/Germany, electronic) | |
| Dark Side of the Moog 5 (1996) REVIEW (***½) | |
| Nautilus (UK) | |
| What Colours the Sky in Your World (2004) REVIEW (****) Fathom (2009) REVIEW (***½) |
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| Ian Neal (UK) | |
| All in the Golden Afternoon... (2009) | |
| Nebelnest (France, progressive) | |
| Nebelnest (1999) REVIEW (****) | |
| Paolo "Apollo" Negri (Italy) | |
| A Bigger Tomorrow (2007) REVIEW (***) | |
| Nektar (UK, progressive) | |
| Evolution (2004) REVIEW (***) | |
| Nemesis (Finland) | |
| Sky Archeology (2000) | |
| Nemo (France, progressive) | |
| Si Partie 1 (2006) REVIEW (****) | |
| Neverending White Lights (Canada) | |
| Act 1: Goodbye Friends of the Heavenly Bodies (2005) REVIEW (*½) | |
| Night Watch (Italy, progressive) | |
| Twilight (1997) REVIEW (****) | |
| Nightmare of You (US) | |
| Nightmare of You (2005) REVIEW (**½) | |
| Nil (France, progressive) | |
| Nove Sub Sole (2005) REVIEW (****½) | |
| No-Man (UK) | |
| Returning Jesus (2001) REVIEW (***) Schoolyard Ghosts (2008) REVIEW (***) |
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| Noekk (Germany, progressive) | |
| The Water Sprite (2005) REVIEW (****) The Grimalkin (2006) REVIEW (***½) The Minstrel's Curse (2008) REVIEW (***½) |
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| Nood (Norway) | |
| Shaped Like a Taco (2000) REVIEW (**½) | |
| Nordagust (Norway) | |
| In the Mist of Morning (2010) REVIEW (**½) | |
| Eric Norlander (US, progressive) | |
| Stars Rain Down (2004) REVIEW (**½) | |
| NoSound (Italy, progressive) | |
| Sol29 (2005) REVIEW (**½) The World is Outside (2006) |
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| Nost (Ireland, techno) | |
| Statuesque (2004) | |
| Novox (Netherlands, progressive) | |
| Novox (2005) REVIEW (***½) | |
| Nuno (US, hard rock) | |
| Schizophonic (1997) REVIEW (**½) | |
| Katharina Nuttall (Norway) | |
| This is How I Feel (2007) REVIEW (***) Cherry Flavour Substitute (2008) REVIEW (***) |
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| Nuvole di Paglia (Italy, progressive) | |
| And Then... (1994) REVIEW (***) | |
| Bobby O (US) | |
| Outside the Inside (2005) REVIEW (***) | |
| Odyssice (Netherlands) | |
| Impression (2000) REVIEW (**½) | |
| Of Montreal (US) | |
| Sunlandic Twins (2005) REVIEW (***½) Skeletal Lamping (2008) REVIEW (***) |
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| Ryo Okumoto (Japan, progressive) | |
| Coming Through (2002) REVIEW (***) | |
| Chris Olley (UK) | |
| A Streetcar Named Disaster (2009) REVIEW (***) | |
| Ome (US) | |
| Tired Birds (2010) REVIEW (**½) | |
| Omega Synicate (UK, electronic) | |
| Analogue Waves (2004) Escape Velocity (2004) Sequences, Chords & Leeds (2005) Apocalypse (2006) REVIEW (***) Horsemen on the Horizon (2006) |
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| Josh One (US) | |
| Narrow Path (2004) REVIEW (**) | |
| One Ton (Québec) | |
| Abnormal Pleasures (2002) REVIEW (**) | |
| Opeth (Sweden, progressive metal) | |
| Deliverance (2002) REVIEW (***½) Damnation (2003) REVIEW (****) Ghost Reveries (2005) REVIEW (****) Watershed (2008) REVIEW (****) Burden (2008 EP) REVIEW (***½) |
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| Orchestra Noir (UK) | |
| What if... (2010) REVIEW (***) | |
| Martin Orford (UK, neo-progressive) | |
| The Old Road (2008) REVIEW (****) | |
| Orne (Finland) | |
| The Tree of Life (2011) REVIEW (***½) | |
| Osanna (Italy, progressive) | |
| Taka Boom (2001) Osanna & David Jackson - Prog Family (2009) REVIEW (****) |
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| Outer Limits (Japan, progressive) | |
| Stromatolite (2007) REVIEW (***½) | |
| Owl Watches (US) | |
| Tales From The Inflatable Forest (2002) REVIEW (***) Ghost of a Train (2006) REVIEW (***½) Guaranteed to Be 100% Free of Hit Singles (2007) The Complete Radio Free Antarctica Tapes (2010) |
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| P-Model (Japan) | |
| Fune (1995) REVIEW (**½) | |
| Paatos (Sweden) | |
| Sensors (2008) REVIEW (****½) Breathing (2011) REVIEW (***½) |
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| Pain of Salvation (Sweden) | |
| Road Salt One (2010) REVIEW (***) | |
| Pangée (Québec, progressive) | |
| Hymnemonde (1995) REVIEW (***½) | |
| Pantommind (Bulgaria) | |
| Shade of Fate (2005) REVIEW (**½) | |
| Stefano Panunzi (Italy) | |
| Timelines (2005) | |
| Parallel Worlds (Greece, electronic) | |
| Far Away Light (2005) | |
| Pattern is Movement (US) | |
| The (Im)possibility of Longing (2004) REVIEW (***) | |
| Pawa Up First (Québec) | |
| Scenario (2006) REVIEW (**½) | |
| Peixe: Avião (Portugal) | |
| 40.02 (2008) REVIEW (**) | |
| Phideaux (US) | |
| Chupacabras (2005) REVIEW (***½) 313 (2006) REVIEW (***) Doomsday Afternoon (2007) REVIEW (***½) Number Seven (2009) REVIEW (***) |
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| Britta Phillips & Dean Wareham (US) | |
| L'Avventura (2003) REVIEW (**½) He's Coming Home (2007 single) [as Dean & Britta with Sonic Boom] REVIEW (**½) |
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| An Pierlé (Belgium) | |
| An Pierlé & White Velvet (2006) | |
| Pigeonhed (US) | |
| The Full Sentence (1997) REVIEW (**) | |
| Pigface (UK/US) | |
| A New High in Low (1997) REVIEW (**½) | |
| Pilate (Canada) | |
| Sell Control for Life's Speed (2006) [a.k.a. Into the West, by Pilot Speed] REVIEW (**½) | |
| Pilgrym (UK, progressive) | |
| Pilgrimage (2004) REVIEW (***) | |
| Pilot Balloon (Germany) | |
| Ghastly Good Cheer (2004) REVIEW (**½) | |
| Pineapple Thief (UK, progressive) | |
| 137 (2001) REVIEW (****) Variations on a Dream (2003) REVIEW (****) 12 Stories Down (2005) [reissued, remixed, as 10 Stories Down] REVIEW (**½) Little Man (2006) REVIEW (**½) What We Have Sown (2007) REVIEW (***) Tightly Unwound (2008) REVIEW (**½) |
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| Plackband (Netherlands, progressive) | |
| After the Battle (2002) REVIEW (**½) | |
| Plastic Overlords (US) | |
| Plastic Overlords (2000) | |
| Plasticsoul (US) | |
| Peacock Swagger (2009) REVIEW (***½) | |
| Platinum Weird (UK) | |
| Make Believe (2006) REVIEW (**½) | |
| Mike Plume Band (Canada) | |
| Song & Dance, Man (1997) REVIEW (***½) | |
| Polytechnic (UK) | |
| Down Til Dawn (2007) REVIEW (**½) | |
| Porcupine Tree (UK, progressive/psych) | |
| Signify (1996) REVIEW (****½) Stupid Dream (1999) REVIEW (*****) Lightbulb Sun (2000) REVIEW (****½) Recordings (2001, recorded 1999-2001) REVIEW (***½) In Absentia (2002) REVIEW (****½) Deadwing (2005) REVIEW (****) Fear of a Blank Planet (2007) REVIEW (***½) The Incident (2009) REVIEW (***) |
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| Doug Powell (US) | |
| The Lost Chord (2002) REVIEW (****) | |
| Power 13 (US) | |
| Soon (2002) | |
| The Prayers & Tears of Arthur Digby Sellers (US) | |
| The Mother of Love Emulates The Shapes of Cynthia (2005) REVIEW (**) | |
| Premiata Forneria Marconi (Italy, progressive) | |
| Piazza del Campo (2005) [as PFM + Pagani] REVIEW (****) | |
| Presence of Soul (Japan) | |
| Blinds (2008) REVIEW (**½) | |
| Andrea Priori (Italy, electronic) | |
| Beyond My Ice (1999) | |
| Procosmian Fannyfiddlers (Norway) | |
| Return of the Sweaty Owl (2003) | |
| Proscriptor (US) | |
| The Venus Bellona (1995) REVIEW (**½) | |
| The Provenance (Sweden, progressive) | |
| How Would You Like to Be Spat at (2005) REVIEW (**½) Red Flags (2006) REVIEW (**) |
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| Providence (Japan, progressive) | |
| And I'll Recite an Old Myth From... (1989) REVIEW (***½) There Once Was a Night of "Choko-Muro" the Paradise (1996) REVIEW (***½) |
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| Prowlers (Italy, progressive) | |
| Sweet Metamorfosi (1997) | |
| Pugwash (Ireland) | |
| Almanac (2002) REVIEW (****½) This Could Be Good (2005 EP) REVIEW (****) |
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| Puppet Show (US, neo-progressive) | |
| Traumatized (1998) REVIEW (**½) The Tale of Woe (2006) REVIEW (***) |
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| Purple Overdose (Greece, psych) | |
| Reborn (1999) REVIEW (***½) The Salmon's Trip - Live [CD version] (2000) REVIEW (***) The Salmon's Trip - Live [LP version] (2000) REVIEW (***½) |
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| Pip Pyle (UK) | |
| 7 Year Itch (1998) REVIEW (***) | |
| Quad (UK, psych) | |
| Quad II (1997) REVIEW (***) | |
| RPWL (Germany, progressive) | |
| Trying to Kiss the Sun (2002) REVIEW (***½) Stock (2003) REVIEW (***) World Through My Eyes (2005) REVIEW (**½) The RPWL Experience (2008) REVIEW (**½) |
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| John Ralston (US) | |
| Sorry Vampire (2007) REVIEW (**½) | |
| Ramp (Germany, electronic) | |
| Nodular (1998) REVIEW (***) | |
| Dizzee Rascal (UK) | |
| Tongue n'Cheek (2009) REVIEW (***) | |
| Ratatat (US) | |
| LP4 (2010) REVIEW (***) | |
| Gemma Ray (UK) | |
| Lights out Zoltar! (2009) REVIEW (***) | |
| Real Tuesday Weld (UK) | |
| I, Lucifer (2004) REVIEW (***) The London Book of the Dead (2008) REVIEW (***) |
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| Red Masque (US) | |
| Feathers for Flesh (2004) REVIEW (****) | |
| Red Sand (Québec, neo-progressive) | |
| Mirror of Insanity (2004) REVIEW (**½) Gentry (2005) REVIEW (**) Human Trafficking (2007) REVIEW (**) Music for Sharks (2009) REVIEW (**½) |
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| Redshift (UK, electronic) | |
| Redshift (1996) REVIEW (***½) Down Time (1999) REVIEW (****) |
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| Redwalls (US) | |
| De Nova (2005) REVIEW (***) | |
| ReGenesis (UK, progressive) | |
| ReGenesis Live (1997) REVIEW (***½) Here it Comes Again... (1998) REVIEW (****) Lamb for Supper - Live 2001 (2001) REVIEW (****) Official Bootleg (2002) |
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| Jim Reilley (US) | |
| The Return of Buddy Cruel (2003) | |
| Remy (Netherlands, electronic) | |
| Different Shade of Dust (2004) REVIEW (****) Sense (2006) REVIEW (***½) |
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| Retroheads (Norway, progressive) | |
| Retrospective (2004) REVIEW (**½) Introspective (2006) REVIEW (***) |
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| Reuter/Boddy (Germany/UK, electronic) | |
| Pure (2004) REVIEW (***) | |
| Reverend & the Makers (UK) | |
| A French Kiss in the Chaos (2009) REVIEW (**½) | |
| Jeremy Riddle (US, CCM) | |
| Full Attention (2007) REVIEW (*) | |
| Ritual (Sweden, folk/progressive) | |
| Ritual (1995) REVIEW (***½) Did I Go Wrong (1999 EP) Think Like a Mountain (2003) REVIEW (***½) Live (2006) REVIEW (****) |
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| Janet Robbins (US) | |
| Carrying the Bag of Hearts, Interpreting the Birth of Stars, Vol.I (2004 EP) | |
| Rockabye Baby! (US) | |
| Lullaby Renditions of... (series) REVIEW (***) | |
| Rocket Scientists (US, progressive) | |
| Earth Below & Sky Above (1998) | |
| Paul Roland (UK, psych) | |
| Re-Animator (2007) REVIEW (****) Nevermore (2008) REVIEW (***½) |
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| David Lee Roth (US, hard rock) | |
| Diamond Dave (2003) REVIEW (***½) | |
| Cristiano Roversi (Italy, progressive) | |
| The Park (2004) REVIEW (****) | |