Vote now in the 2019 Progressive Music Awards

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Have your say at the eighth annual Progressive Music Awards

Vote for the Album 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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