DiS Users' June 2023 Album Of The Month

Music
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  1. Tomorrow Syndicate - Higher Resolution
  2. Shizuka - III
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I’ll do that “Best Album Of The Year So Far” thing after Sunday where the choices are from the top 10s over the last six months.

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  1. Protomartyr - Formal Growth in the Desert
  2. Anna St Louis - In The Air
  3. Bonny Doon - Let There Be Music
  4. Jess Williamson - Time Ain’t Accidental
  5. This is the Kit - Careful of Your Keepers
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After the barren wasteland of May, June has been such a great month for new records:

  1. Beach Fossils - Bunny (perfect for all these warm sunny days we’ve been having, the production is immaculate).
  2. bdrmm - I Don’t Know
  3. Body Type - Expired Candy
  4. Militarie Gun - Life Under The Gun
  5. Cory Hanson - Western Cum
HM

feeble little horse
Protomartyr
Andy Stack & Jay Hammond
Home is Where
ETNOBOTANIKA
Anthony Naples
Bully
Mana

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  1. Joanna Sternberg - I’ve Got Me (This is so good, classic songwriting in the mould of Neil Young)
  2. King Gizzard and The Wizard Lizard - PetroDragonic Apocalypse
  3. Brdrmm - I Don’t Know
  4. Protomartyr - Formal Growth in The Desert
  5. Dream Wife - Social Lubrication
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  1. bdrmm - I Don’t Know
  2. V&Z - Suono Assente
  3. Lesne Duchy - ETNOBOTANIKA
  4. J Albert - Flat Earth
  5. Gacha Bakradze - Pancakes

HM - Indoor Voices / DJ Balduin / Jellyskin

Good month. The Bdrmm record is excellent as is the V&Z one

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I’ll bump this. Not many responses yet probably due to the server switch over…not complaining…less work for me :slightly_smiling_face:

I’ll keep the deadline as Sunday afternoon.

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  1. Laura Wolf - Shelf Life
  2. Youth Lagoon - Heaven Is A Junkyard
  3. J.E. Sunde - Alice, Gloria and Jon
  4. LYR - The Ultraviolet Age
  5. Lupen Crook - Wild Nature

Tenhi - Valkama
Charbel Haber & Fadi Tabbal - Enfin La Nuit
Olof Dreijer - Souvenir
Epic45 - Spring
Kamaniu Silelis - Ziureti i saule

Big thanks to @stickboy for informing me of the Laura Wolf - love this great orchestral alt-pop album.

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Will try and do mine tomorrow or Friday

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  1. Jason Isbell and The 400 Unit - Weathervanes
  2. Protomartyr - Formal Growth In The Desert
  3. Grian Chatten - Chaos For The Fly
  4. WITCH - Zango
  5. Anna St. Louis - In The Air
The bubbling under honorable mentions.....

Bully, Tommy Prine, Janelle Monte, King Krule, Divide And Dissolve, Lightning Dust, Aselefech Ashine & Geetenesh Kebret, Killer Mike

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  1. King Krule - Space Heavy
  2. Janelle Monáe - The Age of Pleasure
  3. McKinley Dixon - Beloved! Paradise! Jazz!?
  4. Yoni Mayraz - Dybbuk Tse!
  5. Baxter Dury - I Thought I Was Better Than You
Other good ish

Joe Armon-Jones & Maxwell Owin - Archetype
Meshell Ndegeocello - The Omnichord Real Book
BLK ODYSSY - DIAMONDS & FREAKS
Protomartyr - Formal Growth in the Desert

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Showing my age with a wistful country record at no. 1:

  1. Fust – Genevevie
  2. Home Is Where – The Whaler
  3. Toodles and the Hectic Pity – Hold onto the Happiness with Both Hands
  4. Bully – Lucky for You
  5. Feeble Little Horse – Girl with Fish
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Real good that Fust record

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Great month.

  1. Jellyskin - In Brine
  2. Etnobotanika - Le​ś​ne Duchy
  3. V/Z - Suono Assente
  4. a.s.o. - a​.​s​.​o.
  5. Klara Lewis & Nik Colk Void - Full​-​On

Dream Wife just missing the top 5. Really like all those 6 and they could have been in any order really. Other mentions in despatches:

Lorelle Meets the Obsolete - Datura
Estrella del Sol - Figura de Cristal
pardoner - Peace Loving People
Louise Post - Sleepwalker
Lloyd / Bean - Black Cat, Dark Horse
The Laura Cannell Echolocation one is a grower too I think.

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  1. Protomartyr - Formal Growth in the Desert
  2. King Krule - Space Heavy
  3. Caterina Barbieri - Myuthafoo
  4. WITCH - Zango
  5. Christine and The Queens - Paranoïa, Angels, True Love

Also enjoyed:
Anthony Naples - Orbs
Baxter Dury - I Thought I was Better Than You
McKinley Dixon - Beloved! Paradise! Jazz!?

Most of my month was spent obsessing over that top three which set a very high bar tbh. Just find myself playing them over and over again. That WITCH album is a total blast from start to finish. The Christine and The Queens latest is quite the epic but when it lands, there is some astonishingly beatiful moments on there. Felt the new Baxter Dury was a slight step down from his past couple but going to give it some more time to sink in.

Still need to check out the King Gizzard, Jess Williamson, Klara Lewis & Nik Colk Void, Cory Hanson, Decisive Pink and Janelle Monae albums.

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  1. Loma Prieta - Last
  2. Cory Hanson - Western Cum
  3. Hayden Pedigo - The Happiest Times I Ever Ignored
  4. Boldy James - Prisoner of Circumstance
  5. Militarie Gun - Life Under The Gun

That Protomartyr just hasn’t clicked for me yet

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Yeah, I think there’s an AOTM in there with pruning. I need to listen more, but as it is it’s way too long and though singing over Pachelbel’s Canon might support the narrative, it gives me the ick to listen to.

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  1. Joanna Sternberg - I’ve Got Me
  2. DARKSIDE - Live At Spiral House
  3. Michael J. Blood & Sockethead - Eating Late
  4. kinseyLloyd - Gemini
  5. feeble little horse - Girl With Fish
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Oh gosh yeah that makes me cringe a bit too :grimacing:

I mean I stuck it on whilst going for a walk the other day and found it to be quite dreamlike despite there being so much going on with like you said the whole narrative, the features and just the general length but tracks like To Be Honest, A Day In The Water, True Love and Tears Can Be Soft are just staggering. The album has really taken on the brooding gloom of Redcar and found some beauty amongst it all.

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  1. Baxter Dury - I Thought I Was Better Than You
  2. Various - Luke Una presents Soul Cultura vol 2
  3. Gacha Bakradze - Pancakes
  4. Creep Show - Yawning Abyss
  5. Bdrmm - I Don’t Know

Really like the Baxter Dury Album, but would much prefer a version that missed off the first 30 seconds, which make me cringe.
Quite an average month for me.

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