DiS Users' October 2019 Album Of The Month - The Results

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VOTE FOR YOUR TOP FIVE ALBUMS!!
VOTE FOR YOUR TOP FIVE ALBUMS!!

I’ve often wanted to award points to my 4th and 5th favourites especially on strong months for releases and wasn’t able due to my own rules and they end up as honourable mentions.

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. that dog - Old LP
  2. Lisa Prank - Perfect Love Song
  3. Kim Gordon - No Home Record
  4. Carla Dal Forno - Look Up Sharp
  5. Jemma Freeman And The Cosmic Something - Oh really, what’s that then?

Great to have that dog back again after two decades. The first time I heard them was on a Volume 9 CD bought in 1994 the day before my A 'Level results came out. Loved the song One Summer Night on Volume 9 and their albums especially Retreat From The Sun. Their new one is a great return to form.

Lisa Prank is a fun power pop album. Kim Gordon’s album is better than any Thurston Moore that I’ve heard. Carla Dal Forno’s new one is her best yet and thank you to a few of you for mentioning Jemma Freeman. Never heard of her before and now glad that I have; great album.

Always a lot of great recommendations from you guys about albums that I’ve missed or overlooked.

Please forgive any shameless bumps of this thread during the week. I’ll keep this thread open until Sunday 3rd November so you’ll have over a week to listen to tomorrow’s releases before choosing.

Vote now!! (Or later in the week) but make your choices clear please.

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  1. Caroline Polachek - Pang
  2. Carla dal Forno - Look Up Sharp
  3. Chromatics - Closer To Grey
  4. Big Thief - Two Hands
  5. Blue Hawaii - Open Fixation Internal Reduction
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  1. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Ghosteen
  2. Richard Dawson -2020
  3. Big Thief - Two Hands
  4. Angel Olsen - All Mirrors
  5. Kim Gordon - No Home Record

Ridiculously strong month - the top two are my two AOTYs and Big Thief would have been my number one most months. Three of my top five records of the year released within seven days.

Slightly disappointed by the Angel Olsen record which is decent but feels slightly uninvolving compared with the Cave and Dawson records. I would perhaps have liked it more if it had been released at a different time of year.

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Haven’t listened to enough this month (again) because I keep listening to four or five songs on repeat…

  1. Caroline Polachek - Pang (absolute fucking rager throughout - So Hot You’re Hurting My Feelings!!!)
  2. Richard Dawson - 2020 (Black Triangle!!!)
  3. Danny Brown - uknowwhatimsayin¿ (if only for Dirty Laundry - belter)
  4. Big Thief - Two Hands (just for Not and Wolf - rest of it I barely notice, but Not is better than most records)
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Big Thief - Two Hands
DIIV - Deceiver
Hovvdy - Heavy Lifter
The Menzingers - Hello Exile

I’ve not listened to enough new music to make a 5. Soz.

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  1. Lightning Bolt
  2. Nick Cave

Alcest is out tomorrow so this could change

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Really wished I like that DIIV album more I love Oshin but, it’s doing nowt for me at the moment.

  1. Big Thief - Two Hands
  2. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Ghosteen
  3. Angel Olson - All Mirrors
  4. Floating Points - Crush
  5. Richard Dawson - 2020

That was ridiculously difficult to order that is even without Boreal Massif & Kim Gordon and I haven’t properly got into Danny Brown’s new one yet.

Glad fka twigs got delayed.

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  1. Nick Cave
  2. Angel Olsen
  3. Jemma Freeman & TCS (seriously everyone listen to this you foooooolls)
  4. Lightning Bolt
  5. Chromatics

Subject to change as tomorrow is Friday isnit

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  1. Nick Cave - Ghosteen
  2. CHROMATICS - Closer To Grey
  3. Jemma Freeman & TCS - Oh Really, What’s That Then?
  4. Hurtling - Future From Here
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I need to revisit Caroline Polachek’s album. I’ve just managed to get a ticket for her gig next week.

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  1. Nick Cave (AOTY)
  2. Big Thief
  3. Kim Gordon
  4. Wilco
  5. Floating Points

Honourable mentions to DIIV, Nils Frahm, Chromatics and Angel Olsen.
Great month.

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  1. Nick Cave - Ghosteen
  2. Danny Brown- Uknowhatimsayin
  3. Big Thief - Two Hands
  4. Kim Gordon - No Home Record
  5. Telefon Tel Aviv - Dreams Are Not Enough
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Angel Olsen
Big Thief
Richard Dawson

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  1. Chromatics - Closer to Grey
  2. Boreal Massif - We all have an impact
  3. Floating Points - Crush
  4. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Ghosteen
  5. Foals - Everything not saved…(Part 2)
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  1. Danny Brown - uknowhatimsayin
  2. Big Thief - Two Hands
  3. Beabadoobee - Space Cadet
  4. Portico Quartet - Memory Streams
  5. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Ghosteen

Still got to give more time to Richard Dawson, Yazz Ahmed, Led Bib, Trouble Books and probably Cavey boy too

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Really good month

Nick Cave
Richard Dawson
Floating Points
Kim Gordon
Swans

Honourable mentions for Big Thief, Gong Gong Gong, DIIV and Angel Olsen

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Big thief
Richard Dawson
Nick cave

Sunn o)))
Trouble books

Feel like the nick cave album might go up or down considerably when the vinyl arrives and I get to listen to it on my big speakers.

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  1. Nick Cave - Ghosteen
  2. Angel Olsen - All Mirrors
  3. Big Thief- Two Hands
  4. Caroline Polachek - Pang
  5. Anna Meredith - Fibs

Suchhhh a good month!

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Blut Aus Nord - Hallucinogen
Alcest - Spiritual Instinct
Gatecreeper - Deserted
Menzingers - Hello Exile
Jimmy Eat World - Surviving

I expected big things from Danny Brown and Big Thief but neither clicked with me like their previous albums did.

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  1. Nick Cave - Ghosteen
  2. Danny Brown - uknowhatimsayin
  3. Floating Points - Crush
  4. Angel Olsen - All Mirrors