The highs aren’t as good as last month but could easily do a top 10 again for April, some absolutely great stuff. Also the fact that my top 5 might feature none of the albums mentioned so far is good for diversity!
I hadn’t heard of him before but it really took me by surprise!
Steve Hadfield - Unreality.
Dawnwalker - Crestfallen
Sugar Horse - Drugs
Midwife (but only because there’s nothing else I want to vote for)
Sugar Horse - Drugs
Elephant Tree - Habits
Enter Shikari - Nothing Is True
Elder - Omens
Local H - Lifers
- Fiona Apple - Fetch the Bolt Cutters
- Shabazz Palaces - Don of Diamond Dreams
- NNAMDI - Brat
- Plone - Puzzlewood
- KeiyaA - Forever, Ya Girl
… - Thundercat- It Is What It Is
Classy month.
Soela - Genuine Silk
Fiona Apple - Fetch the Bolt Cutters
Yaeji - What We Drew
Andrea - Ritorno
DJ Python - Mas Able
Clear top 5 for me this month, though the order is a little arbitrary as they are all roughly on a level. BC Camplight, Moor Jewelry, Clarice Jensen, Quelle Chris and Yves Tumor also enjoyed to some extent.
Updating this because I’ve only just listened to the Nathan Fake album and it is absolutely stunning. No idea how it has gone so under the radar:
- The Strokes - The New Abnormal
- Nathan Fake - Blizzards
- Shabazz Palaces - The Don of Diamond Dreams
- Yves Tumor - Heaven to a Tortured Mind
1 Like
- Fiona Apple - Fetch the Bolt Cutters
- Laura Marling - Song for our Daughter
- Lucinda Williams - Good Souls Better Angels
- BC Camplight - Shortly After Takeoff
- Thundercat - It is What it Is
Couple of big disappointments: loved the Flat Worms debut by this was just a bit… Flat. Found the Hamilton Leithauser a bit dull
Hamilton Leithauser
3 Likes
- Laura Marling - Song for our Daughter
- Hamilton Leithauser - The Loves Of Your Life
- The Strokes - The New Abnormal
I have a feeling the Hamilton Leithauser album will grow on me more over the year
- The Strokes - The New Abnormal
- Nathan Fake - Blizzards
- K-LONE - Cape Cira
- Minor Science - Second Language
- DJ Python - Mas Amable
2 Likes
- Fiona Apple
- Laura Marling
- BC Camplight
- Flatworms
Special extra mentions for the Do Nothing EP and new Everything Everything track which have also been on repeat this month
1 Like
The Do Nothing EP is brilliant. Hadn’t heard of them before this EP. A mix between stripped back The Fall meets Art Brut, sort of, but it’s great.
1 Like
- Fiona Apple by a long way.
- Anna Burch - If you’re dreaming
- Yves Tumour - Heaven to a Tortured Mind
- Thundercat
It really is. LeBron James might be my favourite track of the year so far. Like the Art Brut comparison - there are definitely a few influences at play.
Think I mentioned in another thread that to me the lead singer has a bit of a James Murphy style to him, and musically I think there are some early Strokes similarities. Great fun - am excited for an album when it arrives
Haven’t really listened to much this month?
- Fiona Apple - FTB
- Yves Tumor
- Rina Sawayama
- Dawnwalker
Very good month
- Hamilton Leithauser - The Loves of Your Life
- Oranssi Pazuzu - Mestarin Kynsi
- Sugar Horse - Drugs
- Other Lives - For Their Love
- Martin Grech - Hush Mortal Core
Hons: Bad History Month, Junk Drawer, EoB, Flat Worms, Mystery Jets, The Lovely Eggs, Pigs x7, Dawnwalker
- Fiona Apple
- The Strokes
- Laura Marling
- Hamilton Leithauser
- Laura Marling - Song for Our Daughter
- Wilma Archer - A Western Circular
- Fiona Apple - Fetch The Bolt Cutters
- The Lowest Pair - The Perfect Plan
- Lucinda Williams - Good Souls Better Angels
- Brendan Benson -Dear Life
- The Lovely Eggs - I Am Moron
- The Mountain Goats - Song for Pierre Chuvin
The Brendan Benson Album is a return back to his more off kilter power pop . After a few albums of going Alt Country that I didn’t really care for.
I Am Moron is the second lovely eggs album produced by David Friedman. The first This is Eggland was good but this goes a step further .
Songs for Pierre Chuvin is TMG dusting of the old Panasonic boombox. First TMG boombox album.since 2002.