Welcome to the longest running monthly episodic thread in Drowned In Sound history. This thread is now in its 10th year. I clearly have nothing better to do than to count up your favourite albums each month for a decade now.
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. Ladytron - Time’s Arrow
2. Belle and Sebastian - Late Developers
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A quiet month for me and was hoping for a big January. I’ve probably missed a lot of album releases and have spent a lot of time revisiting and checking out music by bands that I’ve tickets for in January and early February rather than January releases themselves.
Enjoyed the Ladytron and Belle and Sebastian albums but will admit they’re not amongst their best. The Samia released tomorrow has had some great reviews and I’ll give that a go. The big one for me would be the new Meg Baird album. Her Dear Companion album was stunning as were The Luminaire shows she did there in the late 00s. Saw her once around 2015 at The Lexington but looking forward to that and hoping she’ll play The UK soon again.
Always a lot of great recommendations from you guys about albums that I’ve missed or overlooked. Not sure what else is out tomorrow so I’ll see what you guys come up with.
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 if there’s anything out before choosing.
Vote now!! (Or later in the week) but make your choices clear please.
Is there anything this week? You normally get one standout in January but there has been absolutley nowt that has excited me (unless Nite Mode Vol. 2 is released today).
Still need to spend more time with Meg Baird, Gaz Coombes, Billy Nomates, Murder Capital, Rozi Plain, Ryuichi Sakamoto, and Ladytron. And a few others already mentioned in this thread.
I really enjoyed the Samia album especially the title track Honey. Unfortunately the Meg Baird didn’t grip me as much as I’d hoped. It’s not too bad though.
James Yorkston, Nina Persson and The Second Hand Orchestra - The Great White Sea Eagle
Gaz Coombes - Turn The Car Around
Margo Price - Strays
The Murder Capital - Gigi’s Recovery
Molly - Picturesque
Special mention too for Kali Malone, John Cale, and Belle and Sebastian
I like January because there are fewer releases and you get to spend more time with them. Surprised that people are struggling to find anything this month as I think there have already been a few releases that I would expect to rank high at the end of the year.
