#66

Just ordered the second press of that album on gold :open_mouth: vinyl. Not shipping until April 5th :slightly_frowning_face:

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#67
  1. Mogwai - As The Love Continues
  2. 36 & awakened souls - The Other Side Of Darkness
  3. Steve Hadfield - The Silly Baby LP
  4. A Winged Victory For The Sullen - Invisible Cities
  5. John Carpenter - Lost Themes III: Alive After Death

Haven’t heard Blanck Mass or Cave & Ellis yet.

#68

I’m sure it’ll be worth the wait :+1:

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#69

I forgot Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan - Interim Report, March 1979 but that’s because I haven’t bought it yet.

#70
  1. Black Country, New Road - For the first time
  2. Gabriel Rios - Flore
  3. Nick Cave & Warren Ellis - CARNAGE
  4. Danny L Harle - Harlecore
  5. The Weather Station - Ignorance
#71
  1. Mogwai
  2. Virginia Wing
  3. Black Country new road
  4. Cloud Nothings
  5. Sun June
#72
  1. The Hold Steady - Open Door Policy
  2. Julien Baker - Little Oblivions
  3. Mogwai - As the Love Continues
  4. Sun June - Somewhere
  5. Nick Cave and Warren Ellis - Carnage

Would not have expected in advance to be loving a hold steady album this much in 2021 and to have it as my number 1 given other releases but it’s brilliant fun and I can’t get enough of it.

Need to spend more time with Nick Cave plus Maximo Park and Cassandra Jenkins which I’ve also enjoyed but not listened to enough yet.

Very good month

#73

Another excellent month

  1. The Staves - Good Woman
  2. Smerz - Believer
  3. Cassandra Jenkins - An Overview…
  4. Ghetts - Conflict of Interest
  5. Cloud Nothings - The Shadow I Remember
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#74
  1. Mogwai
  2. Black Country New Road
  3. Osees
  4. Karima Walker
  5. Nick Cave
#75
  1. Black Country, New Road - For the First Time
  2. Mogwai - As The Love Continues
  3. Naked Days - My Head Hz
  4. Indigo Sparke - Echo
  5. TV Priest - Uppers

Only listened to Julien Baker once but it’s sounding great. If I had another day to give it a couple more spins I reckon it could be challenging top 3

Hons: Psychedelic Porn Crumpets, Peace Chord, Lael Neale, Meril Wubslin, The Weather Station and Django Django

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#76

Mostly listened to hip-hop this month + Cassandra Jenkins and Sun June (the latter two based on recommendations here, so thanks again DiS)

  1. DJ Muggs and Rome Streetz - Death of a Magician
  2. SmooVth and Giallo - Amongst the Wolves
  3. Cassandra Jenkins - An Overview of Phenomenal Nature
  4. Your Old Droog, Tha God Fahim - Tha YOD Fahim
  5. Sun June - Somewhere

My favourite two releases this month were EPs from MAVI and Gabe ‘Nandez. Obviously won’t bend the rules by including them (although I did vote for Jazmine Sullivan as no.1 in Jan and apparently she also considers that an EP), but would definitely recommend checking them out.

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#77
  1. Roy Montgomery - Island of Lost Souls
  2. Julien Baker - Little Oblivions
  3. Cassandra Jenkins - An Overview…
  4. Mogwai - As the Love Continues
  5. Nick Cave / Warren Ellis - Carnage

Honorable Mentions:
Pauline Anna Strom
Psychedelic P0rn Crumpets
The Fleshtones
Mt. Mountain
Valley Maker
Camera
AWVFTS

Great month.

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#78
  1. The Staves - Good Woman
    I’m in love with this record, as I’ve already gone on about…
  1. Slowthai - TYRON
    Come for the bangers, stay for the introspections.
  2. Mogwai - As The Love Continues
    A slow burner but I’m really enjoying it. A few tracks I’m not keen on but otherwise…
  3. Black Country, New Road - for the first time
    I think I admire and respect this album more than I actually like it. I can’t see myself returning to it though.
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#79

Other thoughts…

  • Brijean - Feelings - I’m going to reserve judgement on this one until the summer as it’s probably better suited to that weather. It’s washing over me at the moment.
  • Ghetts - Conflict of Interest - Quality control badly needed on this album. Every track on here feels at least a minute too long. It opens well but then hits ‘Autobiography’ and that run from ‘Good Hearts’ to ‘Proud Family’ kills the momentum stone dead.
  • Nick Cave & Warren Ellis - Carnage - I’ve only listened to this twice so I didn’t feel it was fair to include it but I’ve enjoyed my couple of listens so far.
  • Puma Blue - In Praise of Shadows - My opinion of this record has been clouded by my disappointment at what this project has become. His music used to be like a sleazier version of King Krule - jazzy and fuzzy. There’s signs of that on this album, e.g. ‘Oil Slick’, but there’s too much wishy washy lo-fi R&B for my taste.
  • The Weather Station - Ignorance - Perfectly decent background/coffee table music but it’s so one note, it’s unreal. I can’t recall how any tracks sound after the first three singles.
#80

Been meaning to thank you for that earlier post recommending The Staves in the weekly releases thread. Made me go away and listen to it immediately and it’s been on heavy rotation since.

I think the Haim comparison is a good one even if I’d struggle to pick two songs between the two albums that I’d say sound similar. But there’s definitely a similar tone and “feel”.

So thank you!

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#81

THE RESULTS:

1st Mogwai - As The Love Continues 109 points
2nd Cassandra Jenkins - An Overview On Phenomenal Nature 65 points
3rd Nick Cave & Warren Ellis - CARNAGE 61 points

4th Black Country, New Road - For The First Time (46)

Joint 5th Julien Baker - Little Oblivions
The Weather Station - Ignorance (both on 27 points)

7th Sun June - Somewhere (25)

8th The Hold Steady - Open Door Policy (18)

9th Blanck Mass - In Ferneaux (16)

10th Virginia Wing - Private Life (14)

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#82

The year so far:

January 2021

1st Bicep - Isles
2nd Shame - Drunk Tank Pink
3rd Madlib - Sound Ancestors
4th Pom Poko - Cheater
5th R.A.P. Ferriera - Bob’s Son
6th The Besnard Lakes - Are The Last Great…
Joint 7th Black Swan - Repetition Hyman and
The Notwist - Vertigo Days
9th Jazmine Sullivan - Heaux Tales
Joint 10th Kiwi Jr - Cooler Returns and
Weezer - Ok Human

#83

Mogwai number 1 in the UK charts and Number 1 here?
What a year for the boys :heart_eyes:

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#84

They’ll be partying all night when they hear of the outcome of this thread.

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#85

The Cassandra Jenkins album being second was an interesting and deserved placing.

Not sure how many people had heard of her (including me) before the positive posts on the new album releases thread that week.

I guess word of mouth rightly works well if she was second place mainly due to that reason.