DiS Users' July 2023 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. Claud - Supermodels

2. Palehound - Eye On The Bat

3. Julie Byrne - The Greater Wings

4. Lifeguard - Dressed In Trenches

5. Grouplove - I Want It All Right Now

  1. PJ Harvey - I Inside The Old Year Dying.

Another quiet month for me so far and the above is probably all the new stuff I’ve heard. Really like the bedroom pop feel of Claud’s new album. The debut, Super Monster, was ok but this is a great record.

My positions 2 to 5 are fairly arbitrary. I just couldn’t get on with the new PJ Harvey album. I heard a song on 6 Music before the album came out and it was obvious that it was going to be a quiet moody album. The tunes haven’t clicked for me and so neither has the album. I’ll give it a lot of more listens purely due to the fact that I’ve a pricey ticket for one of her Roundhouse gigs.

Always a lot of great recommendations from you guys about albums that I’ve missed or overlooked. There seems to be a few new ones of interest for me tomorrow with releases from Georgia, Dexy’s Midnight Runners (yes, really!) and the debut from Best Coast’s Bethany Cosentino…although I’m expecting the words fun and sun to feature heavily on that one.

Please forgive any shameless bumps of this thread during the week. I’ll keep this thread open until Sunday 6th August 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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Too early for a final list as the new Jessy Lanza isn’t released until tomorrow.

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draft before tomorrow’s releases:

  1. Alaska Reid - Disenchanter
  2. Meursault - Meursault
  3. Sunshine Convention - The Sunshine Convention
  4. Guided By Voices - Welshpool Frillies
  5. AJ Suede - Ark Flashington

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Summary

Palehound - Eyes on the Bat
Upper Wilds - Jupiter
Julie Byrne - The Greater Wings
Far Caspian - The Last Remaining Light
Kitba - Kitba

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Not been a vintage month so far. I’ve got Sanam, Your Heart Breaks, Dorotheo, Molly Tuttle and Current Affairs as my provisional top 5 but with some moves expected tomorrow, where I’m hoping for good things from Dot Allison, Beverly Glenn-Copeland, Locate S,1, Susanna, Bethany Cosentino and El Kontessa.

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  1. Death Index - Civilized by a Lie

Others are EPs or haven’t clicked for me (PJ).

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Have this on my wishlist to remind me to come back to it.

No Cure for Madness is some serious Sisters of Mercy, yeah?

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  1. ANOHNI - My Back Was A Bridge For You To Cross
  2. AJ Suede - Ark Flashington
  3. Julie Byrne - The Greater Wings
  4. Upper Wilds - Jupiter
  5. African Head Charge - A Trip to Bolgatanga

Not a vintage month. Almost everything I tried outside these five just made me grumpy. The ANOHNI record is terrific though - an AOTY contender.

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Decent enough month

  1. Allegra Krieger - I Keep My Feet on the Fragile Plane
  2. Julie Byrne - The Greater Wings
  3. Alice Phoebe Lou - Shelter
  4. Kitba - Kitba
  5. Palehound - Eye on the Bat
6-10
  1. MooseCreek Park - I Hope This Clears Things Up
  2. Snõõper - Super Snõõper
  3. Swiss Portrait - The Crippling Pain of Happiness
  4. Firestations - Thick Terrain
  5. Hyll - Sŵn o’r Stafell Arall
More, in no order really

PJ Harvey - I Inside The Old Year Dying
Anhoni - My Back Was a Bridge For You to Cross
Mersault - Mersault
Western Jaguar - Oblivion
Marlboro - Sleep Better Push Death
Far Caspian - The Last Remaining Light
Being Dead - When Horses Would Run
Jaye Jayle - Don’t Let Your Love Live Get You Down
Sam Burton - Deer Departed
The Penske File - Half Glow
Paris Texas - MID AIR
Andrew Bird - Outside Problems
Locate S,1- Wicked Jaw
Madeline Kenny - A New Reality Mind
Darlingside - Everything Is Alive
Current Affairs - Off the Tongue
Squint - Feel It Wash Away

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To be open and transparent, I’ll change my top pick to the new Dexy’s album and moves the others down one.

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  1. Being Dead - When Horses Would Run

I fucking love this album, so much fun

  1. Disclosure - Alchemy
  2. Parks, Squares and Alleys - Zero Division Error
  3. Strange Ranger - Pure Music
  4. Far Caspian - The Last Remaining Light
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New blog.

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  1. Sanam - Aykathani Malakon
  2. PJ Harvey - I Inside the Old Year Dying
  3. Your Heart Breaks - The Wrack Line
  4. Locate S,1 - Wicked Jaw
  5. Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway - City of Gold

Honourable mentions to Beverly Glenn-Copeland, Dorotheo, Current Affairs, El Kontessa, Brenda.

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I’ll bump this up.

I’ll call the cut off at noon on Sunday.

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  1. Julie Byrne - The Greater Wings
  2. Allegra Krieger - I Keep My Feet on the Fragile Plane
  3. Kitba - Kitba
  4. Madeline Kenny - A New Reality Mind
  5. Sam Burton - Dear Departed
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That’s a pretty list

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  1. Julie Byrne - The Greater Wing
  2. ANOHNI and the Johnsons - My Back Was A Bridge For You To Cross
  3. Mondo Tempo - Freak Heat Waves
  4. Jessy Lanza - Love Hallucination
  5. J Hus - Beautiful And Brutal Yard
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  1. Blur - The Ballad of Darren
  2. PJ Harvey - I inside the old year dying
  3. Carly Rae Jepsen - The Loveliest time
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  1. Night Beats - Rajan
  2. Swiss Portrait - The Crippling Pain of Happiness
  3. Pia Fraus - Evening Colours
  4. Madeline Kenney - A New Reality Mind
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  1. Julie Byrne - The Greater Wings
  2. Jessy Lanza - Love Hallucination
  3. LANDOWNER - Escape The Compund
  4. Snooper - Super Snooper
  5. Freak Heat Waves - Mondo Tempo

Julie Byrne was always going to steal this month. The Greater Wings is truly a special listen. Late entries and fantastic new efforts from Jessy Lanza and LANDOWNER ended up pushing out AJ Suede and Alice Phoebe Lou which is a shame as those records are ace too!

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  1. Julie Byrne - The Greater Wings
  2. Ana Roxanne & DJ Python - Natural Wonder Beauty Concept

Not listened to too much in July but wanted to support these two.

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