#21
  1. Art d’Ecco - In Standard Definition
  2. Girl In Red - If I Could Make it Go Quiet
  3. Alan Vega - Mutator
  4. Veik - Surrounding Structures
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#22
  1. dawn richard
1 Like
#23
  1. Drongo
  2. Arooj Aftab
  3. Leon Vynehall
  4. Corey Hanson
  5. Dry Cleaning
HM

The Armed
Beachy Head
Dinosaur Jr.
Facta
The Juan Maclean

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#24
  1. Dinosaur Jr - Sweep It Into Space
  2. Beachy Head - Beachy Head
  3. Flying Lotus - Yasuke
  4. London Grammar - Californian Soil
  5. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - G_d’s Pee At STATE’S End!

Didn’t expect to enjoy a new Dinosaur Jr album in 2021 as much as I did, but it’s a blast. Beachy Head are the only newcomers on a list of otherwise familiar faces.

FlyLo sounds good on the first couple of listens and looking forward to giving the series a go.

The London Grammar record is aesthetically pleasing, but too lyrically bland to be elevated much beyond pleasant.

Overall, lots of underwhelming releases this month though, and I still find that Godspeed title intensely irritating.

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#25

Just a heads up that I’ll count the votes up tomorrow at around noon-ish. It’s true, oh it’s damn true.

#26

ended up being a pretty great month!

  1. Drongo - 1
  2. Charlie Martin - Imaginary People
  3. Rosie Tucker - Sucker Supreme
  4. Hooveriii - Water for the Frogs
  5. SPIRIT OF THE BEEHIVE - ENTERTAINMENT, DEATH

Best of the rest:

Summary

Low Island
Violet Mist
Ryley Walker
Fog Lake
Remember Sports
Oh the Humanity!
Field Music
The Reds, Pinks and Purples
Damon Locks
Beachy Head

Dry Cleaning were sounding good but only clicked with me this week, so will need to give them a few more spins

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#27

  1. The Coral - Coral Island (!)

  2. Dry Cleaning

  3. Jeff Rosenstock - Ska Dream

  4. Godspeed

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#28

Amazing month :heart:

  1. The Armed - Ultrapop
  2. Arooj Aftab - Vulture Prince
  3. GOJIRA - Fortitude
  4. Flock of Dimes - Head of Roses
  5. Howie Lee - Birdy Island
Honourable Mentions
  1. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Something About Pee
  2. Dry Cleaning - New Long Leg
  3. Toumani Diabaté & LSO - Kôrôlén
  4. Low Island - If You Could Have it All Again
  5. Lord Apex - Smoke Sessions 3
  6. Ryley Walker - Course in Fable
  7. Julia Stone - Sixty Summers
  8. Ochre - An Eye to Windward
  9. Dawn Richard - Second Line
  10. Rata Negra - Una Vida Vulgar
  11. Gotham (Talib Kweli & Diamond D) - Gotham
  12. Balmorhea - The Wind
  13. Hooveriii - Water For The Frogs
  14. Khalab & M’berra Ensemble - M’berra
  15. Field Music - Flat White Moon
  16. Roger Fakhr - Fine Anyway
  17. Zahara - PUTA
  18. Myd - Born a Loser
2 Likes
#29
  1. Devil Sold His Soul - Loss
  2. Dinosaur Jr - Sweep It Into Space
  3. Gojira - Fortitude
  4. While She Sleeps - Sleeps Society
  5. C R O W N - The End Of All Things
  1. The Offspring - Let The Bad Times Roll
  2. Holding Absence - The Greatest Mistake Of My Life
  3. The Blips - The Blips
  4. Wode - Burn In Many Mirrors
  5. Royal Blood - Typhoons
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#30

Not really sure which order to put my top five in (other than I’ve bought the top four), which are all very good, but I don’t think the order will matter that much anyway!

  1. Liance - This Painting Doesn’t Dry
  2. Fog Lake - Tragedy Real
  3. Elephant Micah - Vague Tidings
  4. Adrian Crowley - The Watchful Eye Of The Stars
  5. Katrine Stochholm - Verden Bestar af Samlinger af Stykker

Crumb, Promise and the Monster, Maria Reis, Francoiz Breut, Bruno Pernadas, Departure Lounge

#31

Nice to see this up on your list

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#32

It seems to have disappeared from Spotify for whatever reason, but maybe that’s temporary. At least I’ve downloaded it from Bandcamp anyhow!

#33
  1. Leon Vynehall - Rare, Forever
  2. Raf Rundell - O.M. Days
  3. French 70 - The Unreal Story Of Lou Reed
  4. Flock Of Dimes - Head Of Roses
  5. Tor - Oasis Sky
#34

Devil Sold His Soul - Loss
Gojira - Fortitude
The Lion’s Daughter - Skin Show
Kauan - Ice Fleet
Manchester Orchestra - The Million Masks of God

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#35

Oh yeah, that’s a shame. I wonder why that is. Still, was a very good album

#36

That Tor album is really good.

#37

Found this a really hard month to keep up with because there’s just been so much good stuff out. Top 6 cities really have gone in any order, then there have been about 50 albums I’ve enjoyed after that, so very few of them have even been played twice, resorted to shuffling the playlist and picking out highlights to help me order them.

  1. Khalab & M’berra Ensemble - M’berra
  2. Kaidi & NK-OK - The Sounds of Afrotronica
  3. Vijay Iyer, Linda Oh & Tyshawn Sorey - Uneasy
  4. Rhiannon Gidddens & Francesco Turrisi - They’re Calling Me Home
  5. Dawn Richard - Second Line
6-30
  1. Bruno Pernadas - Private Reasons
  2. Howie Lee - Birdy Island
  3. Flying Lotus - Yasuke
  4. Myele Manzana - Crisis and Opportunity Vol. 1 - London
  5. Modeselektor - Extended
  6. Arooj Aftab - Vulture Prince
  7. BROCKHAMPTON - ROADRUNNER: NEW LIGHT, NEW MACHINE
  8. Ayuune Sule - Putoo Katare Yire
  9. Leon Vynehall - Rare, Forever
  10. The Alchemist - This Thing of Ours
  11. KAUAN - Ice Fleet
  12. Christine Ott - Time to Die
  13. Alfa Mist - Bring Backs
  14. Dinosaur Jr. - Sweep it Into Space
  15. Natural Information Society & Roy Nathanson - descension (Out of Our Constrictions)
  16. Samba Touré - Binga
  17. Rob Frye - Exoplanet
  18. Simon Goff - Vale
  19. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - G_d’s Pee AT STATE’S END!
  20. Andy Stott - Never The Right Time
  21. Ballaké Sissoko - Djourou
  22. Dry Cleaning - New Long Leg
  23. Thomas Fehlmann - Boser Herbst
  24. Matthew E. White & Lonnie Holley - Broken Mirror: A Selfie Reflection
  25. Peggy Seeger - First Farewell
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#38
  1. Alan Vega - Mutator
  2. Dry Cleaning - New Long Leg
  3. Arooj Aftab - Vulture Prince
  4. Flying Lotus - Yasuke
  5. Cory Hanson - Pale Horse Rider

An absolutely ridiculous month for releases tbh. Was also really into the Satomimagae,
Godspeed, Brockhampton, Field Music, The Alchemist and Big Brave albums.

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#39

Yeah I’d not heard of him until he was mentioned on here. I think this album may stand up to a lot of repeat plays.

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#40

Shocked at how few votes Dry Cleaning have had so far. Felt like half the boards were in the dedicated thread. Big surprise.