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. Modern Woman - Johnny’s Dreamworld
2. Alela Diane - Who’s Keeping Time?
3. Broken Social Scene - Remember The Humans
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I’ve three albums this month but their quality is stunning. They’re all 8½/10 albums for me. They’re all joint top really but ranked them by putting the smaller and newer artist highest.
I hadn’t heard of Modern Woman’s music until I was just scrolling through DICE to see who was playing on an evening that I was free. Her Lexington show was sold out and was lucky in getting a resale ticket via their waiting list. A brilliantly varied album. Live she’s even better and has great stage presence. The album is really impressive (and I hope it’s not condescending but very mature) for a debut album.
Alela Diane’s The Pirate Gospel is usually my go to for her. The new one is just a beautifully tender piece of work and have a ticket for her show at the Rough Trade at Denmark Street later tonight. It’s a very small place and so I’ll enjoy listening to her from the back or sides as it’ll be near impossible to get much of a view. The signing should be fun as I’ll get to thank her for the new one I’ve loved listening to whilst walking around in the heatwave.
I hadn’t revisited any Broken Social Scene for years, maybe over a decade. The first time I saw them was at a not very busy gig at The ICA in 2004 (I think). I bought a ticket for their Rough Trade East album launch gig and so got reacquainted with their older stuff as well as the new. The new album is really strong but was great to hear them play Seventeen Girl Old Girl and Lover’s Spit at the gig after so long. Kevin is the nicest bloke. Apparently he chatted to those waiting in the queue before the gig. I tend to get there at 7:45pm and so unfortunately wasn’t part of the queue but I did bring my ticket from The Barfly in 2005 to sign. Kevin seemed genuinely shocked and happy to see the ticket and was waving it to the other band members too. I couldn’t find my ICA ticket; maybe they just did wristbands back then. Anyway, the Rough Trade show was great.
Always a lot of great recommendations from you guys about albums that I’ve missed or overlooked. Not sure what’s out tomorrow apart from Metric and Friko. I’ll see what you guys are listening to increase my new album listening this month.
Please forgive any shameless bumps of this thread during the week. I’ll keep this thread open until Sunday 7th June 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.
