The Critics’ Choice

What did the Prog Magazine writers decree the best releases of 2020? Find out here!

So here we are once more! It’s that time of year to take stock and make the call for what’s progged our world. 2020 might not be a year many of us want to remember for obvious reasons, but the music still continued, and for that I think we’re all extremely thankful. This is what Prog Magazine’s writers thought were the best releases of the year…

“I feel highly honoured and privileged to be given this weighty accolade from fellow professionals and journalists I have worked with and respected throughout my many years

in the music business, and in particular from a magazine I hold in great and fond regard. It’s been sad in some ways to say goodbye with the Weltschmerz album to an industry that has given me so much on so many levels but I’m glad and proud that I achieved what I set out to do, which was to end my career with what I wanted to be one of my finest ever

albums. It’s been a ‘lang sair fecht’ to deliver this project in such difficult times and circumstances for everyone concerned. On behalf of everyone involved in its creation and in particular my main co-writer and producers Steve Vantsis and Calum Malcolm and my longtime artist Mark Wilkinson, I want to offer a sincere huge thanks to everyone at Prog Magazine for giving Weltschmerz the recognition I’d always hoped it would get and for

putting a huge grin on this big Scottish face. Take care, stay alive.”

Fish