VOTE FOR YOUR TOP FIVE ALBUMS!!
Vote for your favourite five albums. Make your selections clear please as it makes tallying up the scores easier. If you list a whole bunch of albums without making your selections clear I’ll take the first five mentioned as 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th. No joint positions please. Sorry to be a pedant.
Your album of the month will get five points, 2nd placed album four points, 3rd placed album three points, 4th placed album two points and 5th one point. If you name only one album I’ll give that five points. If you name two albums I’ll score them with five and four points etc. You get the message.
My choices:
1. Julien Baker & TORRES - Send A Prayer My Way
2. Valerie June - Owls, Omens and Oracles
3. Ribbon Skirt - Bite Down
4. Penelope Trappes - A Requiem
5th ? Samia - Bloodless
I loved the Julien Baker and TORRES album. Some brilliant tunes and lyrically it’s great too. I saw them performing last month at Rough Trade East which was fantastic. I got to say a quick hello and thank you and I got the album print signed which I later framed but yet to hang up because I’m lazy. I like their signatures; good writing skills and their autographs complement the font on the album.
Baker is probably the bigger artist of the pair but I’ve been a TORRES fan for over a decade and Don’t Go Puttin’ Wishes In My Head was hands down my single of the year in 2021. It was great meeting them and a lovely night overall.
The Valerie June album is brilliant. Her album The Order Of Time was my top pick of 2017 and the new one doesn’t disappoint.
I like the 90s feel of Ribbon Skirt and Penelope Trappes’ album is impressive too but probably not as strong as her album called Three.
I really like the tracks released on the Samia album to be released tomorrow and so have put it provisionally as 5th place. I’m seeing her live next Thursday and so I definitely will have a number of listens through between its release tomorrow and the gig. Her previous album was my AOTM a few years ago.
My most listened to album of April is Sharp Pins - Radio DDR who I hadn’t heard of until their Best New Album on Pitchfork a few weeks ago. I’ve been listening to this album endlessly this month but its release date varies looking it up. Anyone enjoying this too?
Always a lot of great recommendations from you guys about albums that I’ve missed or overlooked. Not sure what’s out tomorrow. I’ll see what you guys are listening to.
Please forgive any shameless bumps of this thread during the week. I’ll keep this thread open until Sunday 4th May and so you’ll have over a week to listen to tomorrow’s releases if there’s anything out before choosing.
Vote now!! (Or later in the week) but make your choices clear please.