DiS Users' March 2017 Album Of The Month

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Just started listening to Blanck Mass on the strength of this thread. Sounds good, but the beginning of the first track really reminds me of:

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great month

  1. Jacaszek - Kwiaty

  2. Planning for Burial - Below the House

  3. David Bazan - Care

  4. Oisseux Tempete - Al-'AN!

  5. Saltland - A Common Truth

  6. Grandaddy - Last Place

I think i share a similar opinion on A Crow Looked at Me to to others here, itā€™s deep and beautiful, stunning even but itā€™s also a primal scream that itā€™s very hard to not be consumed by, and it leaves me to hollow to say I enjoy it or to want to repeat the experience.

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scratch oiseaux (correct sp) and it shouldnā€™t be in there itā€™s had a delayed release till april.

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Good to see Idles in abouts. Pretty sure Brutalismā€™s going to be my number one

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Almost silly how many albums Iā€™ve liked this month which means i really havenā€™t given enough time to assess properly - top 3 are really the ones Iā€™ve had most chance to listen to.

  1. Grandaddy - Last Place
  2. Sarah Davachi - All My Circles Run
  3. Kelly Lee Owens - S/T

Also really enjoyed:
Mount Eerie - A Crow Looked At Me
Anjou - Epithymia
Mario Batkovic - S/T

& have only given cursory listen to but looking forward to
Abul Mogard/Maurizio Bianchi - Nervous Hydra/All this has passed
Tape Loop orchestra - Held Against the light
Daniel Brandt - Eternal Something

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That French Press EP is great

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  1. Spoon
  2. Horsebeach
  3. Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever

Unlike some others I think this has been a disappointing month, although to be fair I havenā€™t got round to the Freddie Gibbs record yet and Iā€™m waiting for my (horribly expensive) vinyl copy of Mount Eerie.

Big disappointment for me was the Magnetic Fields. Fascinating concept but very few songs that work outside of that. Probably 6 or 7 really good songs out of the 50.

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  1. Onra - Chinoiseries Part 3
  2. Freddie Gibbs - You Only Live 2wice
  3. Charli XCX - Number One Angel

Perhaps Iā€™ve missed some things as I canā€™t remember listening to a lot this month (might just be a quiet listening month), but these three are probably the ones Iā€™ve enjoyed most.

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Grandaddy - Last Place

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Been really behind this month, so was catching up on loads of these records today. The Idles, Hater, Desperate Journalist & Valerie June albums were all fantastic!

Going to spend a bit more time with these whilst also checking out a few others already mentioned in this thread.

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Valerie Juneā€™s album is brilliant. It puts a smile on my face. That says a lot as Iā€™m otherwise a grumpy cynical old bastard.

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Her voice kinda reminds me of Karen Dalton or Cat Power and the albums pace nicely suited a Spring afternoon. And youā€™re not alone, it really put me in a great mood too!

Whatā€™s your favourite track? Are you familiar with the rest of her catalogue?

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I was just looking to see the new releases on my Google Play subscription a few weeks ago and I liked her album cover and so thought Iā€™d check her out. A lucky and chance discovery. I bought a ticket for her Scala gig in a few weeks but unfortunately canā€™t make her Rough Trade East gig due to work commitments.

Just In Time is a brilliant track and my favourite and Got Soul is a great finale to the album.

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Agree with you exactly about the magnetic fields album. Only listened once so far, but in my experience you either like a magnetic fields song or you donā€™t, they donā€™t do growers. So I donā€™t see my opinion shifting.

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  1. Laura Marling

First Laura Marling album Iā€™ve ever heard, like an album with a highfalutin concept, itā€™s very good

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The problem is that a lot of it only works if you listen to the whole thing together, and thatā€™s a big commitment in time. There are very few songs that work well enough for you to want to listen to on their own.

Itā€™s an impressive piece of work but I admire it a lot more than I like it.

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Yes, completely agree. 69 Love Songs worked because of the universality of it, whereas the specificity of the new album really bogs it down, apart from on a handful of tracks like you say

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  1. Soulwax
  2. Goldfrapp
  3. Blanck Mass
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  1. HURRAY FOR THE RIFF-RAFF - THE NAVIGATOR
  2. KELLY LEE OWENS - s/t
  3. REPUBLIQUE AMAZONE - LES AMAZONES Dā€™AFRIQUE
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  1. Blanck Mass - World Eater
  2. Idles - Brutalism
  3. Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever - The French Press

Hard to choose a top 3 this month.