The Jordsvingninger comp is so good, and I really like that Kathryn Mohr LP, good start to 2025.
Been a good month, some heavy stuff.
January’s blog.
pink siifu - Black’!Antique
Phatness - FillerKiller
Waldo’s Gift - Malcolm’s Law
Ditz - Never Exhale
Fines Double - Espejismo
Doseone & Steel Tipped Dove - All Portrait, No Chorus
The Pro-Teens - MF TEEN: Your Concurrence In The Above Is Assumed
OMA - MF DOOM (Live at The Hip-Hop Chip Shop 2023)
I remember January last year being baron for new releases for me. This year is the opposite! Sure i’ve missed something too.
Same top 2 as @Bandy. Some good albums but few outstanding, typical January tbh
Swapped out Ghais for Mac as the latter is undeniably superior
Damn, three number 1’s in a row for MIKE. Deserved.
who’d have thought Benjamin Booker would have done a top, top album in 2025.
All the women for me this month. I discovered the Camille Schmidt album after its release week, but I keep going back to it. Lovely alt-pop.
Have also liked Diane Cluck, Jasmine.4.t, Tunng, Canty, Minor Conflict, Saartje Van Camp Flora Hibberd, Lots Of Hands, Blue Lake, Velours Velours.
Maribou State - Hallucinating Love
FKA twigs - EUSEXUA
Kathryn Mohr - Waiting Room
Ela Minus - DÍA
Jasmine.4.t - You Are The Morning
Laura Cahen – De l’Autre Côté
Little Oso - How Lucky To Be Somebody
Saba Alizadeh - Temple Of Hope
Lou-Adriane Cassidy - Journal d’un Loup-Garou
DOVS - Psychic Geography
Rosa Bordallo - Isidro
Ludovico Einaudi - The Summer Portraits
Laurent Petitgand, Robin Rimbaud alias Scanner & Geins’t Naït - Vitio
Zzzahara - Spiral Your Way Out
NAHreally - Secret Pancake
Strong January. Only one album that I previously had on the calendar and was looking forward to (Lambrini Girls); everything else a lovely surprise. Tough choosing between my top 3. Dax Riggs’ terrific voice with this swampy bluesy rock make for a very compelling (if quite short) album, Katie McTigue (Pacing) made an even shorter album (13 minutes) which scratches that anti-folk Kimya Dawson-esque itch for me, but the Nottingham sisters ALT BLK ERA have put together a collection of rock-infused ebullient pop songs that are just so darned catchy and so take the top spot.
I really love the new Brigid Mae Power album and have that as my top album now and have moved the others down one.
The deadline for this is Sunday at noon.
I’ll count it up sometime after when I’ve time but will have noon as the deadline.
Thanks.
Totally missed this thread, only found it now after searching for an artist. Might cram in a couple new listens Saturday before I make a list.
1: Bad Bunny: DeBI TiRAR MaS FOTos
2: Vanessa Amara: Cafe Life
3: Blacksea Nao Maya: Despartar
4: Mike: Showbiz!
5: Voice Actor & Squu: Lust 1
Amazing month for Jan. Bad Bunny is superb, borderline genius pop record. Know little about Puerto Rican music, but such an interesting way of interpolating it into the vocabulary of such a large audience, exactly what mega pop stars should be doing, IMO. Vanessa Amara is a new one on me, actually a Danish duo, it’s a sort of electro pop record, weird and appealing at the same time - can’t stop playing it. Blacksea is another home run for Principe, enjoying the grungy influence in parts of it - they just go from strength to strength. Finally seeing the appeal of Mike, low key but proper depth & feeling & the production is mega. Slow burn but a great record. And Voice Actor is everything I hoped, twisted, weird, uncomfortable, hypnotic. Need to spend some time with it on headphones.
Sad to leave out Dean Blunt & Elias Ronnenfelt. It’s mega. But need bit more time, only just come onto streaming. It’s a great combo!