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. Fake Fruit - Mucho Mistrust
2. Personal Trainer - Still Willing
3. Cloud Cult - Alchemy Creek
4. Jack White - No Name
5. New Starts - More Break Up Songs
The Fake Fruit album is pretty good 90s type stuff and perhaps hints of The Fall there now and again. I liked the new Personal Trainer album but not as much as their previous but they were great live earlier this month. Cloud Cult’s was a good Modest Mouse-y styled album. Probably the best Jack White for me and one for pub quizzers but he was in The White Stripes y’know. Always good to have the OTC Darren Hayman back and the New Starts album is good fun.
I enjoyed Smoke & Fiction and The Softies new albums 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 8th September 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.
Hoping to find more, but just want to plug the new ones from The Smashing Pumpkins and Wishy in case anyone missed them. Both are outstanding.
The Pumpkins’ album is full of riffy, hazy, summer doom. I think they knocked it out of the park.
The Wishy album is just so nice. A perfect blend of indie rock (think Yuck), dream pop, shoegaze, and crunching riffs. The melodies and overall tightness of the songs are kind of reminiscent of late 90s radio rock.
Decent month. Not the strongest this year but a few really good records.
1: Loidis - One Day
2: Rosie Lowe - Lover, Other
3: Tristwch Y Fenywod - Tristwch Y Fenywod
4: Body Meat - Starchris
5: Google Earth - Street View
Summary
Feel like I’ve been waiting for the Loidis album for about 15 years, reminds me so much of those mid-late 00’s techno-y albums that do a lot with a little. It’s not the most inventive thing in the world, but it’s been a joy to listen to, had it on repeat all month. Speaking of things that remind me of things, Herbert’s ‘Bodily Functions’ is one of my favourite albums of all time, and although they sound little alike, the Rosie Lowe album feels made from fragments of it’s DNA. The voice and loungey ‘vibe’ are the biggest factor - but not the only one - there’s a real playfulness to ‘Lover, Other’, and how it retains a mood whilst doing some quite odd things, that reminds me of Herbert too. New to Tristwch Y Fenywod, but mighty impressed. It’s like a world unto itself, and again, just sounds so good I really want to just get lost into it. Body Meat isn’t something I’d normally be into, but the sound design and the way it uses it’s loud / quiet dynamics to draw you closer and push you away is really fascinating. I’m not sure it’s a great record, but it’s a really interesting one. 21 year old me would be shouting about it to anyone who’d listen (and anyone who wouldn’t). And then the Ungoogleable Google Earth… well, they sound a bit like The Postal Service don’t they? Not as bold or hooky, but it’s there in the construction and the atmosphere. Not reinventing the wheel (in fact it’s probably regressing it 15 years) but I’ve really enjoyed it, it’s really grown on me. Funny how a lot of this month reminds me of 20 years ago…
