DIS 2021 album of the year - THE RESULTS

In the end it wasn’t that close for the winner - Self Esteem takes it. She had more than 30 points more than the album in second position and follows up her third place in 2019. A well-deserved winner!

01 Self Esteem - Prioritise Please (112 points)
02 Low - Hey What (78)
03 Cassandra Jenkins - An Overview of Phenomenal Nature (76)
04 Mogwai: As The Love Continues (73)
=05 Dry Cleaning - New Long Leg (70)
=05 Floating Points & Pharoah Sanders - Promises (70)
=05 Little Simz - Sometimes I Might Be An Introvert (70)
=08 Black Country New Road - For The First Time (50)
=08 Halsey - If I Can’t Have Love (50)
10 Turnstile - GLOW ON (39)
11 Japanese Breakfast - Jubilee (38)
12 Liars - The Apple Drop (32)
13 The Armed: ULTRAPOP (27)
14 Tyler the Creator - Call Me If You Get Lost (26)
=15 Arab Strap - As Days Get Dark
=15 Shame - Drunk Tank Pink
17 Nala Sinephro - Space 1.8
18 Wolf Alice - Blue Weekend
=19 Lucy Dacus - Home movie
=19 Saint Etienne - I’ve Been Trying To Tell You
=21 Big Brave - Vital
=21 Elori Saxl - The Blue Of Distance
23 Fightmilk - Contender
=24 Bicep - Isles
=24 For Those I Love - For Those I Love
=24 Loraine James - Reflection
=27 The War on Drugs - I Don’t Live Here Anymore
=27 Tirzah - Colourgrade
=29 black midi - Cavalcade
=29 TORRES - Thirstier
=31 Dvne - Etemen Aenka
=31 Lana del Ray - chemtrails over the country club
=31 Nick Cave and Warren Ellis - Carnage
=31 Richard Dawson & Circle - Henki
=31 Space Afrika - Honest Labour
=36 Armand Hammer - Haram
=36 Deafheaven - infinite granite
38 Lost Girls - Menneskekollektivet
=39 Grouper - Shade
=39 Mach Hommy - Pray for Haiti
=39 Orla Gartland - Woman on the Internet
=39 The World Is A Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid To Die - Illusory Walls
=43 Dean Blunt - Black Metal 2
=43 The Bug - Fire
=43 The staves - good woman
=46 Gazelle Twin & NYX - Deep England
=46 Genesis Owusu - Smiling Without Teeth
=46 L’Rain - Fatigue
=46 Skee Mask - Pool
=46 Squid - Bright Green Field
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Thanks for all the votes, we had 160 voters this year (I think this is a new record - it was less than 150 last year). A total of 326 albums were nominated.

The above table is assigning 5 points for a 1st place, 4 points for a 2nd place etc.

In previous years I have also provided a table of the number of times an album appears in anyone’s list. I’ll do the same again here, for completeness. Although there is surprisingly little flux in the list when compared to the main league table; certainly less than in previous years. There’s a few different names towards the bottom of the list but Cassandra Jenkins dropping from 3rd to 6th probably my main takeaway here - so either less people have heard it (or more people have heard it but deemed it less worthy of finding their list).

1 in 5 people had Self Esteem somewhere in their list.

01 Self Esteem - Prioritise Please (32 mentions)
02 Low - Hey What (24)
=03 Mogwai: As The Love Continues (22)
=03 Dry Cleaning - New Long Leg (22)
=03 Little Simz - Sometimes I Might Be An Introvert (22)
=06 Cassandra Jenkins - An Overview of Phenomenal Nature (19)
=06 Floating Points & Pharoah Sanders - Promises (19)
08 Black Country New Road - For The First Time (15)
=09 Halsey - If I Can’t Have Love (14)
=09 Turnstile - GLOW ON (14)
11 Japanese Breakfast - Jubilee (11)
=12 The Armed: ULTRAPOP
=12 Tyler the Creator - Call Me If You Get Lost
=12 Wolf Alice - Blue Weekend
15 Liars - The Apple Drop
=16 Arab Strap - As Days Get Dark
=16 Lucy Dacus - Home movie
=16 Bicep - Isles
=19 Shame - Drunk Tank Pink
=19 Saint Etienne - I’ve Been Trying To Tell You
=19 Elori Saxl - The Blue Of Distance
=19 For Those I Love - For Those I Love
=19 Loraine James - Reflection
=19 black midi - Cavalcade
=19 Grouper - Shade
=26 Nala Sinephro - Space 1.
=26 Big Brave - Vital
=26 Fightmilk - Contender
=26 The War on Drugs - I Don’t Live Here Anymore
=26 Tirzah - Colourgrade
=26 TORRES - Thirstier
=26 Dvne - Etemen Aenka
=26 Nick Cave and Warren Ellis - Carnage
=26 Richard Dawson & Circle - Henki
=26 Space Afrika - Honest Labour
=26 Deafheaven - infinite granite
=26 The World Is A Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid To Die - Illusory Walls
=26 The Bug - Fire
=39 Lana del Ray - chemtrails over the country club
=39 Lost Girls - Menneskekollektivet
=39 Mach Hommy - Pray for Haiti
=39 Orla Gartland - Woman on the Internet
=39 Genesis Owusu - Smiling Without Teeth
=39 Skee Mask - Pool
=39 IDLES - Crawler
=39 Pom Poko: Cheater
=39 Godspeed You! Black Emperor - G_d’s Pee AT STATE’S END!
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EDIT - Nevermind

And now it’s time for the average score of a record.

This is my favourite list as it shows me what I may have missed outside of the bigger records.

From out of nowhere Nala Sinephro takes this one with 4 x 1st places and 1 x 3rd place from the four people who voted for her album. And so she also takes the highly coveted Adebishi Shank award for the album which is like a lot by a small number of people.

Very honourable mentions to Armand Hammer and Shame, who had scores which would have taken the award in previous years. And Cassandra Jenkins’ score is also a very credible one given so many people voted for her.

(Only records with at least 3 mentions are included in this list).

01 Nala Sinephro - Space 1.8 (4.6 points)
02 Armand Hammer - Haram (4.3)
03 Shame - Drunk Tank Pink (4.2)
=04 Cassandra Jenkins - An Overview of Phenomenal Nature (4.0)
=04 Liars - The Apple Drop (4.0)
=04 Big Brave - Vital (4.0)
07 Fightmilk - Contender (3.8)
08 Floating Points & Pharoah Sanders - Promises (3.7)
=09 Dean Blunt - Black Metal 2 (3.7)
=09 The staves - good woman (3.7)
=11 Halsey - If I Can’t Have Love (3.6)
=11 Arab Strap - As Days Get Dark (3.6)
=13 Self Esteem - Prioritise Please (3.5)
=13 Saint Etienne - I’ve Been Trying To Tell You (3.5)
=13 Lana del Ray - chemtrails over the country club (3.5)
16 Japanese Breakfast - Jubilee (3.5)
=17 Black Country New Road - For The First Time (3.3)
=17 Elori Saxl - The Blue Of Distance (3.3)
=17 Gazelle Twin & NYX - Deep England (3.3)
=17 Squid - Bright Green Field (3.3)
21 Mogwai: As The Love Continues (3.3)
=22 Low - Hey What (3.3)
=22 Lost Girls - Menneskekollektivet (3.3)
=24 The War on Drugs - I Don’t Live Here Anymore (3.2)
=24 Tirzah - Colourgrade (3.2)
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That’s me done, but as ever happy to answer any burning questions, if I can.

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This is a good list but (most importantly) some totally excellent posting.

A very big round of :clap: for @Prob500

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That came out in 1991

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The album is called Prioritise Pleasure :grinning:

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Prioritisure Please

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no worries if not

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No Emma Jean Thackray? For shame

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100%

The Nala Sinephro album is superb, but I think EJT’s album is the best jazz album of the year.

@Prob500 you are a living legend!

If you have these numbers to hand:

How many voters were there and how many unique albums were voted for?
How many points were needed to make the top 50?
How many albums received only one vote but as top of someone’s list?

We should really be doing lists in the rolling jazz thread. I’m still working on mine but Chelsea Carmichael, Charles Lloyd, Muriel Grossman, the Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio and Vijay Iyer all up there for me this year.

I thought I did. Apparently I didn’t haha.

Gonna do that in a bit.

Surprising and cool that Shame beat out the shiny new Speedy Wundergrounders in terms of average score - I’ll have to listen

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326 albums/160 voters

The albums at the bottom of the list had 10 points each

The number of albums that appeared only once in any list is surprisingly high (201). Of those, 28 were the top of a persons list. Only one album was top of two people’s list and only appeared in those two lists, which was enough to make the top 50 (L’Rain - which if I remember rightly was number one in The Wire magazine).

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Two third place votes only, I’m afraid.

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I’ve never heard it! Rectifying that now. Thanks for all your efforts.

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