#53

Rapsody
Lillie May
BROCKHAMPTON
Young Thug
Ezra Thurman

In that order please

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#54

Hard to rank this month.

  1. Palm Haze - Reve Blue
  2. Tropical Fuck Storm - Braindrops
  3. The Murder Capital - When I Have Fears
  4. Sleater-Kinney - The Center Won’t Hold
  5. Tool - Fear Innoculum

Strongest runner up: Modern Nature - How to Live (the first half isn’t doing much for me yet, but the second half is great. Sometimes it reminds me of a mixture of Beak> and Grizzly Bear maybe?)

2-4 might be better as a whole than my number one, but big chunks of the Palm Haze album are by far the most exciting release for me. Wildflower is already one of my favorite songs of the decade (9 minutes of fast, depressing, tense shoegaze), and Drop In reminds me a bit of Carnavas-era Silversun Pickups without the sadness. It has a great tempo change too that I wish went on forever. The next album has a chance to be really special.

The Tropical Fuck Storm album is fantastic as expected, and like the debut it’s bleak and catchy at the same time. I love the lyric style so much, I have no idea how they come up with all of that.

Big thanks to everyone voting for The Murder Capital, I’d never heard of them before and took a chance on it based on how much it was showing up. It’s great.

The Sleater-Kinney album exceeded my expectations, it’s already comfortably ahead of No Cities to Love and One Beat for me.

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#55

1.The Murder Capital
2.Jay Som
3.Blanca Mass
4.Press Club
5.Friendly Fires

#56

Not sure what time I’ll do the counting up. Let’s call the cut off around 3pm.

#57
  1. Cultdreams - Things That Hurt
  2. Blanck Mass - Animated Violence Mild
  3. The Murder Capital - When I Have Fears
  4. Press Club - Wasted Energy
  5. Sleater-Kinney - The Center Won’t Hold
  6. Palm Haze - Reve Bleu

Tool
Slipknot
Feeder
Pijn & Conjurer

Can’t remember who recommended Cultdreams (formerly Kamikaze Girls) but it is a fantastic record. Haven’t spent enough time with Slipknot or Tool albums to rank them honestly, but they could both be anywhere in the top 5. Special mention to Feeder. It’s a really good album which reminds me of their album Echo Park. I haven’t given it a place though as it’s really nothing new despite being enjoyable.

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#58

It was @aboynamedgoo

Great album!

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#59

Think press club and Blanck Mass are walking this :sunglasses:

#60

Pretty great month, I like all of my top 5 a lot and have plenty more to check out based on these lists!

  1. Press Club
  2. Hold Steady
  3. Bon Iver
  4. Possible Humans (more people try this out please! The Thumps and Born Stoned are two of the best indie rock jams of the year)
  5. Oso Oso

Jay Som was a very good runner-up and I think I’ll have to really look into LDR, Murder Capital and Palm Haze at least.

#61

Why no mentions of Why?(?)

  1. Why? - AOKOHIO
  2. Glasbird - Kaldsar
  3. Cousin Tony’s Brand New Firebird - New Romancer
  4. Zooni - Zooni EP
  5. Rachel Sermanni - So It Turns
#62
  1. HTRK - Venus in Leo (have become rather obsessed with these lot, thanks DiS)
  2. Clairo - Immunity
  3. Jay Som - Anak Ko
  4. Loscil - Equivalents

As always, so much to catch up on.

#63

THE RESULTS

  1. The Murder Capital - When I Have Fears 61 points
  2. Blanck Mass - Animated Violence Mild 50 points
  3. Press Club - Wasted Energy 40 points.
  4. Lana Del Rey - Norman Fucking Rockwell 32 points
  5. Rapsody - Eve 26 points
  6. Sleater Kinney - The Center Won’t Hold 24 points
  7. Jay Som - Anak Ko 22 points
  8. The Hold Steady - Thrashing Thu The Passion 20 points
  9. Tropical Fuck Storm - Braindrops 18 points
  10. Bon Iver - i,i 16 points

The Murder Capital had the best album out in August. Oh it’s true, it’s damn true.

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#64

Bollocks, too late.

My votes, which would not have affected the results:

  1. Oh Sees
  2. Murder Capital
  3. King Gizzard
  4. Tool
  5. Blanck Mass

I enjoy the rock music. Great month.

#65

Is that the first debut to top a monthly poll this year?

#66

The year so far:

January 2019

1st The Twilight Sad - It Won/t Be Like This All The Time
2nd Sharon Van Etten - Remind Me Tomorrow
3rd Better Oblivion Community Centre - S/T
4th Deerhunter - Why Hasn’t Everything Already Disappeared?
5th Mailibu Ken - S/T
6th Press Club - Late Teens
7th James Blake - Assume Form
8th A.A. Williams - S/T
Joint 9th. Julia Kent - Temporal
Angelo De Augustine - Tomb

Februrary 2019
1st Julia Jacklin - Crushing
2nd The Spielbergs - This Is Not The End
3rd Desperate Journalist - In Search Of The Miraculous
4th Pye Corner Audio - Hollow Earth
5th Beirut - Gallipoli
6th Teeth Of The Sea - Wraith
Joint 7th Bob Mould - Sunshine Rock
Savage Mansion - Revisions Ballads
9th Nivhek - After Its Own Death / Walking In A Spiral Towards The House
Joint 10th.
Ladytron - Ladytron
Panda Bear - Buoys
Theon Cross - Fyah

March 2019

1st Helado Negro - This Is How You Smile
2nd Self Esteem - Compliments Please
3rd These New Puritans - Inside The Rose
4th Little Simz - Grey Area
5th Sasami - Sasami
6th The Comet Is Coming - Trust In The Lifeforce Of The Deep Mystery
7th Solange - When I Get Home
8th CHAI - Punk
9th American Football - LP3
10th Foals - Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost Part 1

April 2019

1st The Chemical Brothers - No Geography
Joint 2nd. Aldous Harding - Designer
Fontaines DC - Dogrel
4th Weyes Blood - Titanic Rising
5th Kelsey Lu - Blood
6th Waste Of Space Orchestra - Syntheosis
Joint 7th. Heather Woods Broderick - Invitation
PUP - Morbid Stuff
9th. WH Lung - Incidental Music
10th. Rozi Plain - What A Boost

May 2019

1st Big Thief - U.F.O.F.
2nd The National - I’m Easy To Find
3rd Tyler, The Creator - Igor
4th Holly Herndon - PROTO
5th Vampire Weekend - Father Of The Bride
6th Carly Rae Jepson - Dedicated
7th Madonnatron - Musica Alla Puttanessca
8th Cate Le Bon - Reward
Joint 9th Hayden Thorpe - Diviner and
Petrels - The Dusk Loom

June 2019
1st Thom Yorke - ANIMA
2nd Black Midi - Schlagenheim
3rd Freddie Gibbs and Madlib - Bandana
4th Hot Chip - A Bath Full of Ecstasy
Joint 5th Hatchie - Keepsake
Mannequin Pussy - Patience .
7th The St. Pierre Snake Invasion - Caprice Enchanté
Joint 8th Rafael Anton Irisarri - Solastalgia
Bruce Springsteen - Western Stars
10th Bill Callahan - Shepherd in a Sheepskin Vest
Claire Cronin- Big Dread Moon
Vanishing Twin - The Age of Immunology

July 2019
1st Florist - Emily Alone
2nd Purple Mountains - S/T
Joint 3rd Bobby Krlic - Midsommar OST
Stranger Ranger - Remembering The Rockets
5th Jesca Hoop - Stonechild
6th Trash Kit - Horizon
7th Sarathy Korwar - More Arriving
8th Various - Tiny Changes: Frightened Rabbit Tribute
9th Wreck and Reference - Absolute Still Life
Joint 10th Ada Lea - What We Say In Private
Felicia Atkinson - The Flower And The Vessel
Penelope Isles - Until The Tide Creeps In

#67

i was gonna vote Oh Sees and Ty Segall but didn’t get round to working out the rest of my 5. surprisingly little love for either of those though

#68

March wins month of the year for me clive

#69

Probably August for me. I never gave the Lana Del Rey album a listen until a few days ago. It’s a very strong album. Such a grower with each listen. I should have changed my votes. Too late now.

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#70

Comet is coming and little simz both aoty contenders for me and billie Eilish was March too butinexplicably didn’t make the album of the month cut(29th of March which might explain it?)

#71

I hadn’t listened to the new Ty Segall. I have since I posted this, and it’s great.

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#72

I’m not sure it’s an album with much longevity tbh. Loved it on first few listens, but now feel like I’m getting less each time.