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Vote now in the 2019 Progressive Music Awards

By Prog Magazine

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published 4 June 2019

Have your say at the eighth annual Progressive Music Awards

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Album Of The Year

Introduction
Limelight Award
Event Of The Year
Video Of The Year
Album Cover Of The Year
Best International Band/Artist
Reissue Of The Year
Album Of The Year
UK Band/Artist Of The Year

Last year’s winner: Steven Wilson: To The Bone

In a packed year of excellence, these are the ten albums that managed to better the rest.

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