DiS Users' February 2025 Album Of The Month - The Results

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VOTE FOR YOUR TOP FIVE ALBUMS!!

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. The Limiñanas - Faded

2. Horsegirl - Phonetics On and On

3. The Delines - Mr Luck and Ms Doom

4. Drop Nineteens - 19

5. Oklou - choke enough

I went to see Du Blonde, Half Waif and Brigid Mae Power this month and did my usual of getting reacquainted with their stuff before the gigs and so I haven’t heard too much new stuff.

The Limiñanas is far away the best of the month for me. The various guest vocalists/musicians give the album a great varied feel. Jon Spencer is on two tracks. The one I’ve posted is probably the best thing he’s done since his Acme album. That is the penultimate track on the album and after Spencer does his thing, the album finishes off with a beautiful Françoise Hardy cover; yep a very varied and a great album.

The Limiñanas were great live as usual last night at Rough Trade East and I got to use my GCSE French during the signing too.

I liked Horsegirl but need more time with it. The same with The Delines who I’ve been a fan of for around a decade or so.

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 9th March 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.

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could easily do a top 20 so far, plus still have tomorrow to go

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  1. Havukruunu - Tavastland
  2. Grima - Nightside
  3. Abduction - Existentialismus
  4. Unreqvited - A Pathway To The Moon
  5. Ofnus - Valediction
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  1. Jules Reidy - Ghost/Spirit
  2. Saya Gray - SAYA
  3. Oklou - choke enough
  4. May Leitz - A Touch of Grace
  5. Ralph Heidel - anyways.onto better things
and then

Dyan - Midwest
Elliot Galvin - The Ruin
Wallners - End of Circles
Kylie Dailey - Way Past Taken
Ichiko Aoba - Luminescent Creatures
Cornelia Murr - Run to the Center
Cloakroom - Last Leg of the Human Table
Kristin Daelyn - Beyond the Break
Le Motel - Odd Numbers / Số Lẻ
Drop Nineteens - 1991
Foxlane - I’ll Be Your Mirror
Richard Dawson - End of the Middle

I’d say the first two are definite year end material for me, 3-4 are contenders too. 5-10 are all pretty tightly packed.

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Yeah, crazy strong month

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In the four years of writing my blog, this is the first time I’ve skipped February cause there was nothing I liked enough to bother reviewing. :face_with_peeking_eye:

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  1. Richard Dawson - End of the Middle
  2. Heartworms - Glutton for Punishment
  3. Squid - Cowards
  4. Deep Sea Diver - Billboard Heart
  5. Saor - Amidst the Ruins

Dawson and Heartworms both tussling for the top, think both are amazing after many listens.

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  1. Adwaith - Solas
  2. Richard Dawson - End Of The Middle
  3. Ichiko Aoba - Luminescent Creatures
  4. Sharon Van Etten - Sharon Van Etten & The Attachment Theory
  5. Anxious - Bambi

Pretty sure 1 and 2 will be AOTY contenders.

Others of note:

Cici Arthur - Way Through
Drop Nineteens - 1991
Iosounocane - Lyrica Ucraina
Manic Street Preachers - Critical Thinking
Rats On Rafts - Deep Below

On the list of things not yet played:

Black Milk
Marshall Allen
Maud The Moth
Rapt

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  1. Klein - Thirteen Sense
  2. Ichiko Aoba - Luminescent Creatures
  3. Marie Davidson - City of Clowns
  4. Black Milk & Fat Ray - Food from the Gods
  5. Fantastic Twins - Suite of Rooms
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Jules Reidy is going to be placed fairly high on my list. Love the tones in the tunes, both guitar and treated vocals, and every song has got lots of interesting stuff going on. Nice pick!

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  1. Marie Davidson - City of Clowns
  2. John Glacier - Like a Ribbon
  3. Sharon Van Etten -SVE and the Attachment Theory
  4. Sam Fender - People Watching
  5. Heartworms - Glutton for Punishment
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1: John Glacier: Like A Ribbon
2: Skaiwater: mia
3: Dj Blackpower: Dr Grabba II
4: Oklou: Choke Enough
5: Raven: Gnosis

Could have chosen another 5 easily, and maybe Richard Dawson & Saya Gray (plus Darkside is actually really, really good) will be up there come year end, but found these to kinda fit my month. Bit off centre, bit low key, bit imperfect, but with some massive moments. Just kept returning to them and finding new pieces that are super interesting and unique. Anyway. Great month.

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  1. Ginnels - The Picturesque
  2. Richard Dawson - End of the Middle
  3. John Glacier - Like a Ribbon
  4. The Murder Capital – Blindness
  5. Califone – The Villager’s Companion

6-15 and HMs:

Summary
  1. Joshua Burnside – Teeth of Time
  2. Soft Blue Shimmer – They Will Leave Us With Nothing
  3. Antony Szmierek – Service Station at the End of the Universe
  4. Horsegirl - Phonetics On and On
  5. Black Milk - Food from the Gods
  6. Albertine Sarges – Girl Missing
  7. Mandrake Handshake – Earth-Sized Worlds
  8. Vulture Feather – It Will Be Like Now
  9. Guided By Voices - Universe Room
  10. Cloakroom – Last Leg of the Human Table

CATHEDRALE, Youth Lagoon, Maze Overlay, The Illness, Zement, Faerbabyy, Biig Piig, ODDLY, Future Living, bdrmm, DARKSIDE, The Moles, Pit Pony, The Men, Squid, SVE …

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  1. Richard Dawson - End of the Middle
  2. Joshua Burnside - Teeth of Time
  3. Saya Gray - SAYA
  4. Sleeper’s Bell - Clover
  5. Albertine Sarges - Girl Missing

absolutely LOADS i love this month though

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  1. Jim Ghedi - Wasteland
  2. Edith Frost - In Space
  3. Sleeper’s Bell - Clover
  4. Ginnels - The Picturesque
  5. Jules Reidy - Ghost/Spirit
    Bubbling under: Califone, Ichiko Aoba, Richard Dawson, Doves, Park Jiha, Adrian Crowley
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  1. Sharon Van Etten - Sharon Van Etten & The Attachment Theory
  2. Joshua Burnside - Teeth of Time
  3. Drop Nineteens - 1991
  4. Sam Fender - People Watching
  5. Panda Bear - Sinister Grift

HMs: Doves, Charles Wesley Godwin (would have been top five if an album rather than an EP), Justin Wells, The Delines, JD Clayton, Califone & HONESTY

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  1. The Murder Capital
  2. Horsegirl
  3. Doves

Need to listen to SVE

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  1. Saya Gray
  2. Roller Derby
  3. Darkside
  4. Bdrmm
  5. Horsegirl
HM

FACS
Youth Lagoon
HONESTY
Cloakroom

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Quiet one this month after the stacked January…

  1. Moses Yoofee Trio - MYT
  2. Oklou - choke enough
  3. Tommaso Cappellato - Anti-planeting
  4. James Brandon Lewis - Apple Cores
  5. Brother Ali - Satisfied Soul
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no Black Milk?