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| S.E.T.I. (Chile) | |
| Discoveries (2010) REVIEW (**½) | |
| St. Johnny (US) | |
| Let it Come Down (1995) REVIEW (**½) | |
| St Vincent (US) | |
| Actor (2009) REVIEW (**½) | |
| Motoi Sakuraba (Japan, progressive) | |
| Beyond the Beyond: Original Game Soundtrack (1996) REVIEW (***½) Shining the Holy Ark (1996) REVIEW (****) |
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| Samba (Germany) | |
| Aus den Kolonien (2004) REVIEW (**) | |
| Santa Sprees (UK) | |
| Keep Still (2001) | |
| Saws (US) | |
| Saws (2005) | |
| Peter Schaefer (Germany, electronic) | |
| Liquid Spaces (1997) | |
| Luca Scherani (Italy, progressive) | |
| Everyday's Life (2007) REVIEW (***½) | |
| Klaus Schulze (Germany, electronic) | |
| Moondawn (1976) [CD remix only] REVIEW (****½) | |
| Schwarz (Spain, psych) | |
| Hard Listening (2000) REVIEW (***) Cheesy (2002) REVIEW (**½) |
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| Scorfina/Nickeson (US, AOR) | |
| Wag (2009) REVIEW (**½) | |
| Marianne Segal & Circulus (UK, folk rock) | |
| The Gathering (2007) REVIEW (***½) | |
| Semente (Brazil, progressive) | |
| Semente (1999) REVIEW (***) | |
| Sense (Québec, neo-progressive) | |
| Madness (2002) REVIEW (**½) Out of Range (2004) REVIEW (**½) Stone in the Sky (2005) REVIEW (**) Going Home (2007) REVIEW (**½) |
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| Frank Serafine (US, progressive metal) | |
| Dream Imagery (2007) | |
| Serena-Maneesh (Norway) | |
| Serena-Maneesh (2005) REVIEW (**) #2: Abyss in B Minor (2010) REVIEW (*½) |
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| Serpent Throne (US, hard rock) | |
| Ride Satan Ride (2007) REVIEW (***½) The Battle of Old Crow (2009) REVIEW (***½) |
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| Shakary (Switzerland, neo-progressive) | |
| The Last Summer (2002) REVIEW (***) | |
| Silver Sunshine (US, psych) | |
| Silver Sunshine (2004) REVIEW (****) A Small Pocket of Pure Spirit (2005 EP) REVIEW (****) |
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| Silverstein (Canada) | |
| Discovering the Waterfront (2005) REVIEW (**½) | |
| Alan Simon (France) | |
| Excalibur II: The Celtic Ring (2007) REVIEW (**½) | |
| Simon Says (Sweden, progressive) | |
| Paradise Square (2002) REVIEW (***½) Tardigrade (2008) REVIEW (***) |
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| Sithonia (Italy, progressive) | |
| Confine (1995) REVIEW (****) | |
| Sky Picnic (US, psych) | |
| Farther in This Fairy Tale (2010) REVIEW (****) Lost is Found (2010 single) REVIEW (***½) |
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| Slow Electric (UK) | |
| Slow Electric (2011) REVIEW (***) | |
| Slychosis (US, neo-progressive) | |
| Slychosis (2006) REVIEW (**½) | |
| Meaghan Smith (Canada) | |
| The Cricket's Orchestra (2009) REVIEW (***) | |
| Smokie (UK, pop/rock) | |
| Take a Minute (2010) REVIEW (**½) | |
| Snowglobe (US) | |
| Doing the Distance (2004) REVIEW (***) | |
| Social Code (Canada) | |
| A Year at the Movies (2004) REVIEW (*½) | |
| Social Tension (Japan, progressive) | |
| Macbethia (1989) REVIEW (***½) It Remainds Me of Those Days (1990) |
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| Maria Solheim (Norway, singer-songwriter) | |
| Frail (2004) REVIEW (***) | |
| Ben Sollee & Daniel Martin Moore (US) | |
| Dear Companion (2010) REVIEW (***) | |
| Something Completely Different (Germany, electronic) | |
| Megacatz (2001) | |
| Sore (Indonesia) | |
| Ports of Lima (2008) REVIEW (**½) | |
| Wim Soutaer (Belgium) | |
| Een Nieuw Begin (2003) REVIEW (**) | |
| Speedmarket Avenue (Sweden) | |
| Way Better Now (2008) REVIEW (**½) | |
| Spice & the RJ Band (Sweden) | |
| The Will (2007) REVIEW (***½) | |
| Spider (US) | |
| The Way to Bitter Lake (2006) REVIEW (***) | |
| Spirits Burning (US, space-rock) | |
| Earth Born (2008) [as Spirits Burning & Bridget Wishart] REVIEW (***) | |
| Spiritual Beggars (Sweden, hard rock) | |
| Mantra III (1998) REVIEW (***½) Ad Astra (2000) REVIEW (***½) On Fire (2002) REVIEW (****) Demons (2005) REVIEW (***½) Return to Zero (2010) REVIEW (***½) |
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| Spock's Beard (US, progressive) | |
| Don't Try This at Home (2000) REVIEW (***½) V (2000) REVIEW (****) Don't Try This @ Home Either! (2000) REVIEW (****) There & Here (2001) Gluttons for Punishment: Live in '05 (2005) REVIEW (***½) Live (2008) REVIEW (****) |
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| Spyra (Germany, electronic) | |
| Etherlands (1999) REVIEW (***) | |
| De Staat (Netherlands) | |
| Machinery (2011) REVIEW (**½) | |
| Stackridge (UK, progressive) | |
| Something for the Weekend (1998) REVIEW (****) | |
| Doru Stănculescu (Romania) | |
| De-Alaltăieri... Şi Până Ieri Vol.II (2005) REVIEW (***) | |
| Star One (Netherlands, progressive metal) | |
| Space Metal (2002) REVIEW (**) Live on Earth (2003) REVIEW (**½) Victims of the Modern Age (2010) REVIEW (**½) |
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| Starofash (Norway) | |
| The Thread (2008) REVIEW (***) | |
| Steel Prophet (US, metal) | |
| Dark Hallucinations (1999) REVIEW (**) Book of the Dead (2001) REVIEW (**½) |
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| Still (US) | |
| Always Almost (1997) REVIEW (***) | |
| Roine Stolt (Sweden, progressive) | |
| The Flower King (1994) REVIEW (***½) Hydrophonia (1998) REVIEW (***½) Wall Street Voodoo (2005) REVIEW (**) |
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| Kelley Stoltz (US) | |
| Below the Branches (2006) REVIEW (***) | |
| Strawbs (UK, progressive folk/rock) | |
| Blue Angel (2003) REVIEW (***½) Déjà Fou (2004) REVIEW (****) |
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| Stroppy (US) | |
| Pipi & Margo Go to the Graveyard (2007) | |
| Submarine Silence (Italy, progressive) | |
| Submarine Silence (2001) REVIEW (****) | |
| Sula Bassana (Germany, psych) | |
| Dreamer (20002) REVIEW (****) Sula Bassana & the Nasoni Pop Art Experimental Band Vol.1 (2006) REVIEW (***½) |
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| Sum 41 (Canada) | |
| Chuck (2004) REVIEW (**½) | |
| Sunny Day Real Estate (US) | |
| The Rising Tide (2000) REVIEW (**) | |
| Sunshine Fix (US) | |
| Age of the Sun (2002) REVIEW (***½) Green Imagination (2004) REVIEW (***) |
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| Susanna (Norway) | |
| Sonata Mix Dwarf Cosmos (2007) REVIEW (**½) | |
| Syn (UK) | |
| Soundwave Traveller (2002) REVIEW (***½) Thru the Syngate (2003) REVIEW (***½) Synphära (2003) REVIEW (****) Sonus (2004) REVIEW (***½) Skyline (2005) REVIEW (***½) The Glass Bridge (2006) REVIEW (****) 61 Cygnus-Alpha (2007) |
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| Syndromeda (Belgium, electronic) | |
| Last Days on Earth (2006) | |
| TCP (US, progressive) | |
| The Way (2009) REVIEW (***½) | |
| TM Network (Japan) | |
| Major Turn-Round (2000) REVIEW (***½) | |
| Craig Taborn (US) | |
| Junk Magic (2004) REVIEW (***) | |
| The Tangent (UK, progressive) | |
| The Music That Died Alone (2003) REVIEW (***½) The World That We Drive Through (2004) REVIEW (****) Pyramids & Stars (2005) REVIEW (***½) A Place in the Queue (2006) REVIEW (***) Going Off on One (2007) REVIEW (***½) Not as Good as the Book (2008) REVIEW (***) Down & Out in Paris & London (2009) REVIEW (***½) COMM (2011) REVIEW (****) |
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| Taras Bulba (Germany) | |
| Sketches of Babel (1993) REVIEW (***) | |
| Tea Party (Canada) | |
| The Interzone Mantras (2001) REVIEW (****½) | |
| Teeth of the Hydra (US) | |
| Greenland (2006) REVIEW (***) | |
| Telestrion (US, psych/hard rock) | |
| Telestrion (2007) REVIEW (****) | |
| Sébastien Tellier (France) | |
| L'Incroyable Vérité (2001) REVIEW (***) | |
| Tempio delle Clessidre (Italy, progressive) | |
| Il Tempio delle Clessidre (2010) REVIEW (***½) | |
| Thee American Revolution (US) | |
| Buddha Electrostorm (2009) REVIEW (***) | |
| Thee Oh Sees (US, psych) | |
| Castlemania (2011) REVIEW (**½) | |
| Thieves Kitchen (UK, progressive) | |
| Head (2000) REVIEW (***½) Argot (2001) REVIEW (****) Shibboleth (2003) REVIEW (***½) |
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| Sandi Thom (UK, pop) | |
| Smile...it Confuses People (2006) REVIEW (**) | |
| Tilion (Italy, progressive) | |
| Suoni (2000 demo) Insolitariamente (2003) REVIEW (***½) |
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| Time's Forgotten (Costa Rica) | |
| Dandelion (2009) REVIEW (**½) | |
| Toadies (US) | |
| Hell Below/Stars Above (2001) REVIEW (**) | |
| TobyMac (US) | |
| Renovating→Diverse City (2005) REVIEW (*½) | |
| Tories (US) | |
| Wonderful Life (1997) REVIEW (***½) | |
| Transatlantic (US/UK/Sweden, progressive) | |
| SMPTe (2000) REVIEW (****½) Live in America (2001) (2001) REVIEW (***½) Bridge Across Forever (2001) REVIEW (***) Live in Europe (2003) (2001) REVIEW (***) SMPTe (The Roine Stolt Mixes) (2003) (2001) REVIEW (**½) Whirlwind (2009) (2001) REVIEW (**) Whirld Tour 2010: Live From Shepherd's Bush Empire, London (2010) (2001) REVIEW (**) More Never is Enough: Live in Manchester & Tilburg 2010 (2011) |
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| Transience (US, neo-progressive) | |
| Sliding (1999) REVIEW (**) Primordial (2003) REVIEW (**½) |
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| Travis (UK) | |
| The Invisible Band (2001) REVIEW (*) | |
| Trion (Netherlands, progressive) | |
| Tortoise (2003) REVIEW (***½) Pilgrim (2007) REVIEW (***) |
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| Triosphere (Norway) | |
| Onwards (2006) REVIEW (***) The Road Less Travelled (2010) REVIEW (***) |
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| True Illusion (Brazil) | |
| True Illusion II (2000) REVIEW (**½) | |
| Twin Age (Sweden, progressive) | |
| Lialim High (1997) REVIEW (***½) | |
| Judie Tzuke (UK) | |
| Under the Angels (1996) | |
| U I Blue (US, progressive) | |
| Songbird's Cry (2004) REVIEW (**½) | |
| U2 (Ireland) | |
| All That You Can't Leave Behind (2000) REVIEW (**½) | |
| Union Line (US) | |
| Cernido Sonidos (2010 EP) REVIEW (**) | |
| Univers Zero (Belgium) | |
| Implosion (2004) REVIEW (***½) | |
| Unwound (US) | |
| Leaves Turn Inside You (2001) REVIEW (****) | |
| Uookasz (Poland) | |
| A Few of Autumn (2006 EP) REVIEW (**½) | |
| David Usher (Canada) | |
| Little Songs (1998) REVIEW (*½) | |
| Vaka (Sweden, metal) | |
| Kappa Delta Phi (2009) REVIEW (***) | |
| Valinors Tree (Sweden, progressive) | |
| Kingdom of Sadness (1998) REVIEW (***) | |
| Vampire Weekend (US, indie) | |
| Vampire Weekend (2008) REVIEW (**½) Contra (2010) REVIEW (**) |
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| Vandaveer (US) | |
| Divide & Conquer (2003) REVIEW (**½) Dig Down Deep (2011) REVIEW (**½) |
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| Vermilion Sands (Japan) | |
| Water Blue (1989) [Expanded ed. only] REVIEW (***) | |
| Versus X (Germany, progressive) | |
| Disturbance (1996) REVIEW (***) The Turbulent Zone (2000) REVIEW (***½) Live at the Spirit (2002) REVIEW (***) Primordial Ocean (2008) REVIEW (***) |
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| Vertigo Go (Spain) | |
| Vertigo Go (1999) REVIEW (**) | |
| Veruca Salt (US) | |
| Eight Arms to Hold You (1997) REVIEW (***) IV (2006) REVIEW (**½) |
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| Vespero (Russia, psych) | |
| By the Waters of Tomorrow (2010) REVIEW (***½) | |
| Vibravoid (Germany) | |
| The Politics of Ecstasy (2008) REVIEW (***½) Distortions (2009) REVIEW (***½) Minddrugs (2011) REVIEW (**½) |
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| Vietgrove (UK, progressive) | |
| The Little Apocrypha (2003) | |
| Viima (Finland, progressive) | |
| Ajatuksia Maailman Laidalta (2006) REVIEW (***) | |
| Vintersorg (Norway) | |
| Solens Rötter (2007) REVIEW (**½) | |
| Violet Burning (US) | |
| Drop-Dead (2006) REVIEW (**) | |
| Violet Sedan Chair (US) | |
| Seven Suns (2010) REVIEW (***½) | |
| Viva Voce (US) | |
| Lovers, Lead the Way! (2003) REVIEW (**) The Heat Can Melt Your Brain (2004) REVIEW (**) |
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| Volt (UK, electronic) | |
| Through the Rings (2005) REVIEW (***½) | |
| Rick Wakeman (UK, progressive) | |
| The Six Wives of Henry VIII: Live at Hampton Court Palace (2009) REVIEW (***) | |
| Ian Wallace (UK) | |
| Happiness With Minimal Side Effects (2003) REVIEW (***½) | |
| Washington (Norway) | |
| A New Order Rising (2004) REVIEW (**½) | |
| The Watch (Italy, progressive) | |
| Vacuum (2004) REVIEW (***½) | |
| Waterclime (Norway) | |
| The Astral Factor (2006) REVIEW (***) Imaginative (2007) REVIEW (**½) |
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| Ween (US) | |
| The Mollusk (1997) REVIEW (***½) White Pepper (2000) REVIEW (***½) Quebec (2003) REVIEW (***) |
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| Weird Weeds (US) | |
| Hold Me (2004) REVIEW (**½) | |
| Well Wishers (US) | |
| Twenty-Four Seven (2004) REVIEW (***½) | |
| Andy Wells (UK) | |
| Lost the Will to Play (2002) | |
| Wendy & Lisa (US) | |
| White Flags of Winter Chimneys (2008) REVIEW (***) | |
| John Wesley (US) | |
| Under the Red & White Sky (1994) REVIEW (**) | |
| A Whisper in the Noise (US) | |
| As the Bluebird Sings (2006) REVIEW (***) Dry Land (2007) REVIEW (***) |
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| Jim White (US) | |
| Drill a Hole in That Substrate & Tell Me What You See (2004) REVIEW (***) | |
| White Birch (Norway) | |
| People Now Human Beings (2005) REVIEW (**) | |
| White Hills (US, space rock) | |
| H-p1 (2011) REVIEW (***) | |
| Wicked Minds (Italy, psych) | |
| Crazy Technicolor Delirium Garden (2003) REVIEW (****) Witchflower (2006) REVIEW (***½) |
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| Willowglass (UK, progressive) | |
| Willowglass (2005) REVIEW (***½) Book of Hours (2008) REVIEW (***½) |
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| Steven Wilson (UK, progressive) | |
| Insurgentes (2009) REVIEW (***) Grace for Drowning (2011) REVIEW (***½) |
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| Winters (UK) | |
| Black Clouds in Twin Galaxies (2008) REVIEW (****) | |
| Hailey Wojcik (US) | |
| Diorama (2009) REVIEW (***) | |
| Wounded Kings (UK) | |
| An Introduction to the Black Arts With Cough & The Wounded Kings (2010 EP) REVIEW (**½) | |
| Wrong Object (Belgium) | |
| Stories From the Shed (2008) | |
| Wyzards (US, progressive hard rock) | |
| The Final Catastrophe (1997) REVIEW (***½) | |
| XTC (UK) | |
| Apple Box (2005, recorded 1999-2000) [download track only] | |
| Yes (UK, progressive) | |
| The Ladder (1999) REVIEW (***½) Fly From Here (2011) REVIEW (**½) |
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| Yesterdays (Romania, progressive) | |
| Holdfénykert (2006) REVIEW (****) | |
| Yoko Absorbing (Russia, avant-garde) | |
| Kruchenykh-125 (2011) REVIEW (***) | |
| Kate York (US) | |
| Sadlylove (2006) REVIEW (**½) | |
| Otomo Yoshihide Invisible Songs (Japan, avant) | |
| Sora (2007) | |
| Yugen (Italy, progressive) | |
| Labirinto d'Acqua (2006) REVIEW (****) Yugen Plays Leddi - Uova Fatali (2008) REVIEW (***) Iridule (2010) REVIEW (***½) |
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| Zen Rock'n'Roll (US, progressive) | |
| End of the Age (2002) REVIEW (***½) The Birthright Circle (2004) REVIEW (***) Undone (2011) REVIEW (***) |
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| Zita Swoon (Belgium) | |
| I Paint Pictures on a Wedding Dress (1998) REVIEW (***½) | |
| Zombi (US, progressive) | |
| Surface to Air (2006) (2003) REVIEW (****) Digitalis (2006 EP) REVIEW (****) Spirit Animal (2009) (2003) REVIEW (***½) |
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| Zone Six (Germany, psych) | |
| Zone Six (1997) REVIEW (***) | |
| Fabio Zuffanti & Victoria Heward (Italy/UK, progressive) | |
| Merlin: The Rock Opera (2000) REVIEW (***) | |
| 21st Century Schizoid Band (UK, progressive) | |
| In the Wake of Schizoid Men (2003) REVIEW (****½) Live in Japan (2003) REVIEW (****) Live in Italy (2003) REVIEW (****) Pictures of a City: Live in New York (2006) REVIEW (****½) |
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| Original Soundtracks | |
| Stay (2005) REVIEW (***) | |
| Various | |
| Camel Tribute: Harbour of Joy (1996) REVIEW (***½) Canossa: A Rock Opera (2006) REVIEW (***) Dreamwatchers' Tales (2001) E-Progeny (1999) E-Day 2010 (2010) A Fair Forgery of Pink Floyd (2003) REVIEW (***½) For a Few Guitars More: A Tribute to Morricone's Spaghetti Western Themes (2002) REVIEW (***½) Give the People What We Want: Songs of the Kinks (2001) The Late Great Daniel Johnston: Discovered Covered (2004) REVIEW (***) Leader of the Starry Skies: A Tribute to Tim Smith: Songbook 1 (2010) REVIEW (****½) The Lotus Eaters: A Tribute to Dead Can Dance (2004) REVIEW (***½) Odyssey: The Greatest Tale (2005) REVIEW (***) The Spaghetti Epic: Six Modern Prog Bands For Six '70s Prog Suites (2004) REVIEW (***) The Spaghetti Epic 3: The Great Silence (2008) REVIEW (****) Stairway to Heaven: A Tribute to Led Zeppelin (1997) REVIEW (**½) TF100 (2011) To Canterbury & Beyond: a Tribute to the Canterbury Scene (1999) Treasure Island (2007) REVIEW (***½) The 7 Samurai: The Ultimate Epic (2006) REVIEW (***) |
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