Vote for your favourite 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.
Always a lot of great recommendations from you guys about albums that I’ve missed or overlooked.
My choices:
Bruce Springsteen - Letter To You
Touché Amoré - Lament
BLACKPINK - The Album
I could write a few long paragraphs about just how good the new Springsteen album is. I’ll keep it succinct and just say it’s a simply stunning album from one of the greats. I love it.
Never heard of the Touché Amoré before seeing the reviews for this one. A terrific album. Love to have seen them tour this album if times were normal.
The BLACKPINK album is just a fun feel good album.
Despite only picking three albums the top two have made it a very strong month and the Springsteen is a contender for AOTY for me and hopefully I get to use it as a celebratory album after next week’s election.
I’ll adjust/add to my choices after tomorrow’s releases maybe. Not sure what’s out tomorrow and I haven’t heard Elias’ Universal Truth album yet.
Please forgive any shameless bumps of this thread during the week. I’ll keep this thread open until Sunday 8th November and 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.
One of the few benefits to this fucked up half-life we’re living at the moment for me is the opportunity to have music on most of the day when WFH, listening to so much more new music than I think I ever have. As such, discovering so much that I enjoy which would have flown under my radar before.
Want to specifically big up the John Frusciante album as haven’t seen much hype for it, but it’s an excellent album of jungle/breakbeat tracks - not only heavily Aphex Twin influenced but I genuinely think it stands up well in comparison, which is no mean feat.
Kahil El’Zabar - Kahil El’Zabar’s America the Beautiful
John Frusciante - Maya
Theo Parrish - Wuddaji
Paradise Cinema - Paradise Cinema
Mary Lattimore - Silver Ladder
6-30
Machinedrum - A View of U
Call Super - Every Mouth Teeth Missing
Laura Veirs - My Echo
clipping - Visions of Bodies Being Burned
Autechre - PLUS
Ustaad Sami - Pakistan is for the Peaceful
Autechre - SIGN
Oliver Coates - skins n slime
Actress - Karma & Desire
Bruce Springsteen - Letter To You
Songhoy Blues - Optmisme
Delmer Darion - Morning Pageants
Rick Simpson - Everything All Of The Time: Kid A Revisited
Adrienne Lenker - Instrumentals
Ela Minus - acts of rebellion
Joachim Cooder - Over That Road I’m Bound
Natalie Schlabs - Don’t Look Too Close
Sturgill Simpson - Cuttin’ Grass Vol. 1
Loma - Don’t Shy Away
This Is The Kit - Off Off On
Paty Cantu - La Mexicana
Joel Ross - Who Are You?
Zenker Brothers - Cosmic Transmission
Catherine Anna Davies & Bernard Butler - In Memory of My Feelings
Autechre- Sign
Mountain Goats - Getting Into Knives
Loma - Don’t Shy Away
Annie - Dark Hearts
Reason - New Beginnings
Cracking month- best for ages for me. Fabulous ‘return to form’ albums from Autechre and Mountain Goats just when I thought I was falling out of love with both of them. Typically brilliant stuff from Annie and Loma and an excellent hip hop album from Reason. That’ll do me
Путь - Юдоль скорби (Pathway - Vale of Sorrow)
Russian black metal with accordion accompaniment which is pretty unique as far as I know. Would be in the list no doubt had I listened to it a bit more before now.
woah, Picture of My Dress is absolutely gorgeous. Feel like I’m going to end up with a similar reaction to this album/I should finally get back into his lo-fi back catalogue properly
There’s just so much of it that it’s frightening. I haven’t listened to all of it by any means but All Hail West Texas and The Coroner’s Gambit are both absolutely superb if you want to investigate the lo-fi stuff.
For the more hi-fi stuff Tallahassee, The Sunset Tree and The Life of the World are all great. Personally I’ve been a bit underwhelmed by the recent concept records - they’re clever but uninvolving somehow. The new is pretty back to basic and brilliant I think.
I got into him with All Eternal’s Deck, so yeah still plenty to explore!
Feel the same about the concept albums, I’m sure there’s a couple of stand-out tracks on every one but I never get to them as the rest of the songs seem to alike to motivate me
Even though he’s always been a ‘storyteller’ type songwriter I feel there is an emotional directness in his best stuff that goes missing when he’s writing to fit the concept. A lot of the songs feel like intellectual exercises which does nothing for me. The new record is very direct lyrically and beautifully orchestrated and played - I particularly love Tidal Wave, Harbor Me, The Last Place I Saw You Alive.
Good hip hop month, country magic shuffle EP from KV. Lenker’s still sinking in but good vibe.
Also enjoyed Songhoy Blues, Sam Amidon, Joachim Cooder, the Hayden Thorpe EP, and also the latest batch of Mac Demarco demos which seemed to have more of his old charm than the album proper
