DiS Users' October 2022 Album Of The Month - THE RESULTS

  1. Gilla Band - Most Normal
  2. Arctic Monkeys - The Car
  3. Angeline Morrison - The Sorrow Songs: Folk Songs Of Black British Experience
  4. Alvvays - Blue Rev
  5. Daphni - Cherry

Massive shoutout to the fantastic Dawuna EP1 which I would have as number 1 if I didn’t impose my own no EP rule on this.

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you got your 6-10 and 1-5 lists in the wrong order mate

easily done :wink:

It’s nice being wrong sometimes innit

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Another really great month…

  1. Gilla Band - Most Normal
  2. Bill Callahan - YTI⅃AƎЯ
  3. KMRU - epoch
  4. Clarice Jensen - Esthesis
  5. The Soft Pink Truth - Is It Going To Get Any Deeper Than This?

Gilla Band with their strongest LP yet, Bill’s back with my favourite of his since 2011, The Soft Pink Truth not hitting the same hieghts as their last LP but it’s really growing on me. Numbers 3-5 could easily have swapped with any of Mabe Fratti, Dry Cleaning, Rival Console, Lucrecia Dalt or Daphni. Lots I’ve not heard yet either.

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  1. Meat Wave - Malign Hex
  2. Birds in Row - Gris Klein
  3. Archers of Loaf - Reason in Decline
  4. Dry Cleaning - Stumpwork
  5. Hammered Hulls - Careening

Honourable mentions

Summary

Rival Consoles, Daphni, Babehoven, TVAM, Knifeplay, Bill Callahan

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Lots of music this month. Not really sure how to number any of these, but will most likely buy (or have already bought) my top 8 or so albums I think:

  1. Sara Parkman - Eros Agape Philia
  2. June McDoom - June McDoom
  3. Loke Rahbek - Together
  4. Sleep Party People - Heap Of Ashes
  5. Marble Sounds - Marble Sounds

Mi Mye - My Name’s Wimp
Kalabrese - Let Love Rumpel (Part 2)
Dez Mona - Loose Ends
Lucrecia Dalt - ¡Ay!
Logan Farmer - A Mold For The Bell
Nev Cottee - Madrid
Twain - Noon
Julia Sabra / FadinTabbal - Snakeskin
Mathias Kom & Toby Goodshank - Miller Time
Jessica O’Donoghue - Rise Up
Princess Chelsea - Everything Is Going To Be Alright
Oskar Schuster - Odesa
Nnamdi - Please Have A Seat
Wild Pink - ILYSM

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Honourable mention to Plastic Mermaids; I’ve been listening to their new album loads so it feels like an October one, but actually came out 30th September.

  1. The Bug Club - Green Dream in F#
  2. Martha - Please Don’t Take Me Back
  3. TSHA - Capricorn Sun
  4. The Big Moon - Here Is Everything
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gotta say i’m really surprised at the lack of love for Alvvays on here. Lots of great albums mentioned though, playing catch-up before I finalise my list

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  1. Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan - Districts, Roads, Open Space
  2. Nostalghia - Wounds
  3. WitcheR - Lélekharang
  4. Sun Do Silver - 3
  5. Abduction - Black Blood
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  1. Arctic Monkeys
  2. Dry Cleaning.

Been busy with a house move, had little time to be honest.

  1. Johanna Warren - Lessons for Mutants
  2. Lucrecia Dalt - ¡Ay!
  3. Sister Wives - Y Gawres
  4. Angeline Morrison - Sorrow Songs: Folk Songs of the Black British Experience
  5. TVAM - High Art Lite

A load of others that were close to the top 5: The Bobby Lees, Mabe Fratti, Loraine James, Scout Gillett, The Bug Club, Poster Paints, Rachael Dadd, La Feline, Liraz, Orielles, TSHA, Mathias Kom & Toby Goodshank, Jessica O’Donoghue.

Generally don’t include compilations in my album of the month reckonings but the Adrian Sherwood Dub No Frontiers album is great.

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Over 50 replies already. Might have to do a early intial count up to spread out the time I’d otherwise spend on Sunday.

EDIT. Poorly worded paragraph there. I meant that I’ll begin to count what people have chosen already as there’s been quite a few replies. But the final count up will be as usual on Sunday midday-ish.

Can we still vote until Sunday? I’ve barely scratched the surface on October!

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think i’ll be able to add to my 2 upthread as i’ve managed to spend a fair bit more time with other records of october

Yes, sorry. Poorly worded post by me.

Counting will close around midday on Sunday as usual.

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  1. Arctic Monkeys - The Car
  2. Bill Callahan - YTI⅃AƎЯ
  3. O’Flynn and Frazer Ray - Shimmer
  4. Taylor Swift - Midnights
  5. Hagop Tchaparian - Bolts

A really strong month for me. AMs has caught me by surprise as I didn’t expect to love it anywhere near as much as this.

In another month The Soft Pink Truth, CRJ, Gilla Band, Rivaldo Consoles, saaaz, Daphni or Nuage (EP) would have been top 5.

Well done, October.

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It’s a good typo tbf :grin:

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  1. Gilla Band - Most Normal
  2. Alvvays - Blue Rev
  3. Daphni - Cherry
  4. Lord Apex - Joga Bonito
  5. Goat - Oh Death

Honourable mentions: Open Mike Eagle and Mavi

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Not posted in one of these threads for awhile as I always lose track of which month albums are released in as I don’t stream stuff and like to pick new bits up on vinyl where possible which usually means there’s a time lag.

HOWEVER - felt like this month was quite a strong month so thought I’d get involved. Only to find…

Crap, didn’t know this was out :open_mouth:

Also…

Nuts, also didn’t know this was out :open_mouth:

Need to catch myself up. Going to do a top three and leave a placeholder for fourth/fifth in case I get round to listening to ^those two (other contenders are PVA and Rival Consoles)…

  1. Dead Cross II - Dead Cross
  2. Dry Cleaning - Stumpwork
  3. Gilla Band - Most Normal
  4. ???
  5. Profit