This thread now into its 4th year. Always a lot of great recommendations from you guys about albums that I’ve missed or overlooked.
Vote for your favourite album and also your second and third choices. 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 three mentioned as 1st, 2nd and 3rd places. No joint positions please. Sorry to be a pedant.
Your album of the month will get three points, 2nd placed album two points and 3rd placed album one point. If you name only one album I’ll give that three points. If you name two albums I’ll score them with three and two points accordingly.
My choices:
Austra - Future Politics
Cherry Glazerr - Apocalipstick
Bonobo - Migration
My choices might change after listening to the new Cloud Nothings and Allison Crutchfield albums but I thought I’d get the ball rolling with this thread.
Please forgive any shameless bumps of this thread during the week. I’ll keep this thread open until Sunday 5th February and so you’ll have over a week to listen to tomorrow’s releases before choosing.
Vote now!! (Or later in the week) but make your choices clear please.
I’m really looking forward to what people say here, I’ve found this January really thin for stuff that’s interested me. I’m also you know, a sheep. So there’s that too.
thanks again for doing this, always discover some great stuff in these threads, early favourite this month is Julie Byrne, but going to hold of voting until I’ve checked out Japandroids, Cloud Nothings, Fred Thomas and Allison Crutchfield
Different strokes, different folks. I feel the opposite about Austra. I thought their first two albums are good but not brilliant. Really loving this current one. I had it on my headphones on the way to the train to Gatwick and then on the plane to Madrid and so was in a great mood on first listens. Still enjoying it back in cold dreary London.
I’d never heard of him/them before that album. I’ve very dull conservative tastes. The album just made my journey to and from work a tad better when listening on my headphones. It was just a really easy to listen to album. Hopefully, you’ll like it too. Let us know.
Anyone heard the Allison Crutchfield album yet? It sounds excellent. Sounds more like her sister’s Waxahatchee than Swearin’. Hopefully, she’ll be big enough for a UK tour on the back of this album.
listening now, and agree definitely hear the likeness to Waxahatchee. Really enjoying the instrumentation and 50’s vibe on a few of the tracks, has a similar feel to side A of Angel Olsens Woman from last year
Also really like what I’ve heard of the Elinor Rose Dougall album. Rambled about Austra in the intro to my weekly alternative to NewMusicFriday if anyone is looking for a way to keep up with new releases (tracks as well as albums out in the previous 7 days) http://independentmusicmonday.tumblr.com