DiS Users' August 2017 Album Of The Month

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I don’t think my selections are going to ‘trouble the judges’ particularly this month, but this is what I have enjoyed most in August FWIIW:

  1. UNKLE - The Road, Pt. 1. Enjoyable return to form which (largely) works.
  2. Widowspeak - Expect the Best. New band to me; sounding more like Mazzy Star than, well, Mazzy Star. Nice vibe.
  3. Ghostpoet - Dark Days & Canapes. Enjoyed GP’s first couple of albums, and this feels like a nice progression - so long as you enjoy Obaro’s ‘distinctive’ vocal style (I do).

This turned out to be a great month for new releases (thanks to the last couple of weeks) - almost as much so as March. Also really enjoyed Nadine Shah’s Holiday Destination, which has grown on me and deserves accolades for its lyrical content, but Iron & Wine and Jack Cooper disappointed a little.

September is looking pretty tasty too …

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  1. EMA - Exile In The Outer Ring
  2. Queens of the Stone Age - Villians
  3. Grizzly Bear - Painted Ruins
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With a pretty big gap in between each:

  1. Brand New - Science Fiction
  2. Queens of the Stone Age - Villains
  3. Grizzly Bear - Painted Ruins

I haven’t gotten to listen to the new Hammock one enough, so that has potential to break through eventually.

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  1. Everything Everything - A Fever Dream
  2. Girl Ray - Earl Grey
  3. Warm Digits - Wireless World
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  1. Everything Everything - A Fever Dream
  2. EMA - Exile in the Outer Ring
  3. The War on Drugs - A Deeper Understanding
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I’m way behind this month, having been away.

I’ll give a couple of votes to

  1. EMA
  2. Girlray

But I’ve still got loads of stuff to catch up on including Hammock, Oh Sees, Grizzly Bear.

Difficult to catch up with so much good stuff coming out in September.

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  1. Everything Everything
  2. Grizzly Bear
  3. Action Bronson
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  1. Grizzly Bear - Painted Ruins
  2. Wiki - No Mountains in Manhattan
  3. Brand New - Science Fiction

Also very much enjoyed Cloakroom, EMA, Milo, Everything Everything, Liars, War on Drugs and Oneohtrix.

Euphonious month.

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  1. Oh Sees - Orc
  2. Liars - TFCF
  3. Guided by Voices - How Do You Spell Heaven
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  1. Grizzly Bear - Painted Ruins
  2. Oh Sees - Orc
  3. Liars - TFCF
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  1. Brand New
  2. The Districts
  3. Everything Everything
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I’ll do the counting tomorrow if anyone else wants to vote.

Not too many replies this month here. Odd, as it’s a very strong month. (Anyway, less work for me when I tally up the votes.)

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Grizzly Bear, Liars and Dead Cross for me please!

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brilliant month, I was close to not replying this month as was so hard to choose, anyway here goes…

1 Brand New
2 The Districts
3 Grizzly Bear

4 Cribs
5 Hammock
6 Soccer Mommy

feel bad seeing Hammock and Soccer Mommy so low, great records but not listened as much as I should have given the other releases this month

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QOTSA- Villians
Cribs - 24/7
GBV - How do you spell

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  1. Apanhador Só - Meio que tudo é um - amazing modern freaky bossa! Free on their website too.
  2. King Gizz/Mild High Club - Sketches of Brunswick East - so glad they’ve returned to the Papier Mache Dream Balloon sound, I admire their frantic prog stuff but find this has much more replay value
  3. War On Drugs - Deeper Understanding - expecting this to grow on me more, it’s pretty long and detailed and I feel like I’m only just getting to know it
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I agree that this month was particularly tough - most other months Hammock, Liars and QOTSA would have made a very strong top three for me, but didn’t even feature thanks to other releases…

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The next one will be easier, I’m betting, if another thread is anything to go by. Won’t even need to count the votes:

  1. LCD Soundsystem
  2. Daylight
  3. Daylight
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1 Everything Everything - A Fever Dream
2 Sannhet - So Numb
3 Oneohtrix Point Never - Good Time OST

… 4 First half of QOTSA - Villains

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vs The National and Protomartyr? Wouldn’t be so sure!