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.
I’ve got nothing this month. I’ll do this one for completion and it’ll be open until Sunday 9th January.
The Cradle - Half A Double Life
Gabriels - Bloodline EP
San Fermin - In This House EP
Ekin Fil - Feelings
Odd Nosdam & Rayon - From Nowhere To North EP
Gyda Valtysdottir - Ox
Alice Phoebe Lou - Child’s Play
Mario Batkovic - Introspecto
Nancy Kerr - The Poor Shall Wear the Crown: Songs by Leon Rosselson
Mario Batkovic - Introspectio
Samia - Before The Baby
Penelope Trappes - Penelope Three (Mother’s Blood Edition)
Jeffrey Lewis - 2021 Tapes (Suddenly It’s Been Too Late for a Long Time)
Also good stuff from Deep Throat Choir, Christian Fitness, Team Dreams, Kathryn Williams, Meitei, EERA and the Analog Africa Essiebons Special Ghana one.
I’ve not really listened to much from December yet as I’ve been doing a really deep dive into the releases from every month in 2021 since the start of December and I’m still in May.
So for now, my votes would be:
Mario Batkovic - Introspectio
Arca - iii
Mach-Hommy - Balens Cho (Hot Candles)
Spell Songs - Spell Songs II: Let the Light In
GAS - Der Lange Marsch
I’m expecting to like a few of Boldy James & The Alchemist, Meitei, Jeff Parker, Jamire Williams, Milan Ring, Majid Soula, Big Boi, Chief Keef, Nas, Vic Spencer and that’s just what I had on my radar, haven’t been through other people’s suggestions yet. But I can’t expect you to keep the thread open until April when I might reach them, so I’ll stick with the five above!