DiS Users July 2024 Album Of The Month

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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. Cassandra Jenkins - My Light, My Destroyer

2. Remi Wolf - Big Ideas

3. Los Campesinos - All Hell

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 4th 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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  1. Arx Atrata - A Reckoning
  2. Alburnum - The Withered Roots Of Reality
  3. Wormwitch - s/t
  4. Piah Mater - Under The Shadow Of A Foreign Sun
  5. Seth - La France Des Maudits
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  1. Cassandra Jenkins - My Light, My Destroyer
  2. Kiasmos - II
  3. Domains - Extended Play
  4. Lava La Rue - Starface
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  1. Jack White - No Name
  2. Julie - Sophie - Forgive To Slow
  3. Wand - Vertigo
  4. Soft Play - Heavy Jelly

At this point I’m literally on my knees begging for the Jack White album to get a proper release

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  1. Johnny Blue Skies (Sturgill Simpson) - Passage Du Desir
  2. Cassandra Jenkins - My Light, My Destroyer
  3. Nathan Bowles Trio - Are Possible
  4. fabric presents The Street
  5. Qwalia - Abbreviations

Slim pickings for me this month. Looking forward to see what shakes out in this thread.

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  1. Molly Nilsson - Un-American Activities
  2. GUM, Ambrose Kenny-Smith - Ill Times
  3. Antonina Nowacka - Sylphine Soperifera
  4. Nathan Bowles Trio - Are Possible
  5. Shugo Tokamaru - Song Symbiosis

also good - CLAMM ep, Jake Xerxes Fussell

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  1. Klein - Marked
  2. Denzel Curry - King of the Mischievous South vol 2

Edit: 3. fabric presents the Streets. Forgot this, thanks @Pale-eyedBadger

I’ve had a stinker for new stuff this month. Looking forward to some recommendations on here.

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draft from the hasty catching up I’ve done (haven’t got to Los Camp yet)

  1. Oneida – Expensive Air
  2. Molly Nilsson – Un-American Activities
  3. Jake Xerxes Fussell – When I’m Called
  4. Nightshift – Homosapien
  5. Buffet Lunch – For Display Purposes Only

HMs: Maze Overlay, Cassandra Jenkins, Jessica Boudreaux, Lesser Halves, Julia-Sophie

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  1. Wand - Vertigo
  2. Cassandra Jenkins - My Light, My Destroyer
  3. Linda Sikhakhane - iLadi
  4. KOKOKO! - BUTU
  5. Clairo - Charm
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  1. Joe Goddard - Harmonics
  2. Blu & Evidence - Los Angeles
  3. Julie-Sophie - forgive too slow
  4. Lakecia Benjamin - Phoenix Reimagined
  5. Chris Cohen - Paint A Room
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  1. Childish Gambino - Bando Stone & The New World

:ok_hand:t3:

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  1. Los Campesinos! - All Hell
  2. KASHIWA Daisuke - Ice
  3. Julie-Sophie - forgive too slow
  4. Throwing Snow- Isthmus

Was always going to like LC but it really resonates with me emotionally, so its jumped to love quite quickly.

The others were a pleasant surprise.

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In a month where I was excited about pretty much nothing, and I spent most of listening to the Mica Levi single and FKA Boursin EP on a loop, actually found 5 remarkable albums… SML is a tiny cheat, came out 28th June, but wasn’t on streaming until mid July.

1: Total Blue: Total Blue
2: Xylitol: Anemones
3: SML: Small Medium Large
4: Zuli: Lambada
5: Antonina Nowacka: Sylphide Soporifera

Summary

Just fallen in love with the Total Blue record. The kind of tasteful thing I’d normally baulk at, but it’s so well done and just perfect summer haze music. Gorgeous. Xylitol is… not gorgeous - although it kinda is in it’s own way - reminds me a lot of Aphex Twin in it’s brutal / beautiful machine contrasts. Really goes but doesn’t leave a tune behind for long. FFO Skee Mask too. SML is the first Jeremiah Chiu record I’ve really clicked with, but had it on loop - taken from live recordings then cut up in really interesting ways and stitched back together as if the electronics are another member of the band - feels like a really new, modern Jazz record, which I’m properly behind. Zuli, meanwhile, sounds hollowed out, warped, not what I expected from him, but really of it’s time. Great heat music in the opposite way to Total Blue, in that it’s agitating. And Antonina Nowacka is an etheral, beautiful thing… summer evening music. I don’t go on the ambient thread much, but most of this would be riiiiight at home on there. Stunners, the lot of them.

Oh - and here’s that FKA Boursin, which is my favourite thing this month. DJ Sprinkles-esque. So so good.

you just give in, giving it all to the wind | fka boursin | Accidental Meetings

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Not a vintage month but here are five I’m really enjoying:

  1. Cassandra Jenkins - My Light, My Destroyer
  2. Chris Cohen - Paint a Room
  3. Jake Xerxes Fussell – When I’m Called
  4. Beachwood Sparks - Across the River of Stars
  5. Alex Izenberg - Alex Izenberg & The Exiles
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  1. Terror Pigeon - Bat Out Of Heaven
  2. Wand - Vertigo
  3. Hannah Schneider - DET
  4. Brijean - Macro
  5. Hakushi Hasegawa - Mahogakko

Could give my top spot to any of the top three, but I think I’ve listened to Terror Pigeon the most.

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  1. Wand - Vertigo
  2. Molly Nilsson - Un-American Activities
  3. Cassandra Jenkins - My Light, My Destroyer
  4. Greg Foat - The Glass Frog
  5. Sababa 5 & Yurika Hanashima - Kokoro
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  1. Wand - Vertigo
  2. Los Campesinos! - All Hell
  3. Remi Wolf - Big Ideas
  4. Action Bronson - JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACHLAVA THE DOCTOR
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Solid month…

  1. KMRU - Natur
  2. Cassandra Jenkins - My Light, My Destroyer
  3. Tashi Wada - What Is Not Strange?
  4. Elori Saxl - Drifts and Surfaces
  5. Los Campesinos - All Hell
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  1. Soft Play - Heavy Jelly
  2. Remi Wolf - Big Ideas
  3. Speed - Only One Mode
  4. In Hearts Wake - Incarnation
  5. Graphic Nature - Who Are You When No One Is Watching?
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I’ll count these up sometime tomorrow. Might be later than usual, might not.

I’ll keep the deadline as noon tomorrow. Acknowledge this.

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Respire - Hiraeth
Immortal Nightbody - Passion Scale
Julia-Sophie - forgive too slow
Childish Gambino - Bando Stone
Cassandra Jenkins - My Light, my Destroyer

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