Vote for your favourite album and also your second and third choices. 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 three mentioned as 1st, 2nd and 3rd places. No joint positions please. Sorry to be a pedant.
Your album of the month will get three points, 2nd placed album two points and 3rd placed album one point. If you name only one album I’ll give that three points. If you name two albums I’ll score them with three and two points accordingly.
My choices (currently) : 1. Haiku Salut - There Is No Elsewhere 2. Suede - The Blue Hours 3. Dilly Dally - Heaven
Metric - Art Of Doubt
Gazelle Twin
Brilliant Haiku Salut album. I do most of my music listening whilst travelling and it soothed a lot of commutes to and from work after a shit day. Really looking forward to their lamp show next week. Occupy is a great track; do check them out if you haven’t heard their stuff.
A very good album from Suede. Saw them live a lot last week (four times in four days) and the album is a worthy follow up to NIght Thoughts. I gave it a 7/10 before but I’ll bump the score to a 8.1 Pitchfork score after further listens.
Please forgive any shameless bumps of this thread during the week. I’ll keep this thread open until Sunday 7th September and so you’ll have over a week to listen to todays’s releases before choosing.
Just currently listening to the new Joy Formidable whilst I type this. Sounds ok. It’ll be their year finally. I’ve downloaded the new Amber Arcades too for tomorrow morning’s commute to work. I’ll see if they make any changes in my top three. I look forward to your recommendations too.
Don’t see anything from today coming close, maybe Pigs x 7
Low - Double Negative
Haiku Salut - There is No Elsewhere
Emma Ruth Rundle - On Dark Horses
Top 2 were always going to be set like that. Amazing that Low can make an album that polarising 25yrs on, when most bands that age would stick to their formula. Absolutely love it.
Have loved Haiku Salut since day 1, and it’s lovely watching their progression. This album is lovely and looking forward to more time with this.
Chose Emma Ruth Rundle, but in all fairness that spot could have gone to Sauna Youth, Ryan Von Gonten, Beak>, The Field or Mountain Men. Strong month looking back.
Vennart is fantastic. Still need to listen to a bunch of other albums but Vennart will definitely be my number 1. Looking forward to the gig in November at the dome.
Heard a few others but those 4 are the ones to hear, Joy Formidable one I’ve only heard 3 or 4 times so it might end up passing the Vennart album. Metric’s album would’ve been fantastic if it was a bit shorter and more rock instrumentation than pop but it’s a return to being good either way. Suede’s album has some fantastic guitar-work on it, not enough hooks though.
Is no one else loving the Gazelle Twin album? I think it’s incredible. As does DiS apparently, as they gave it a rare 10/10:
(Usually The Field album would be a shoo-in for my top 3, but I felt like I couldn’t leave out Beak or Orbital, and Infinite Moment seems to be getting plenty of other votes in this thread already…)
Easily the best month of the year to my ears, full of so many great releases that I’m going to make a starting eleven from them:
Tim Hecker - Konoyo
Low - Double Negative
Sarah Davachi - Gave In Rest
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Noname - Room 25
The Field - Infinite Moment
Yves Tumor - Safe In The Hands of Love
Tashi Wada with Yoshi Wada and Friends - FRKWYS Vol. 14 - Nue
Oliver Coates - Shelley’s on Zenn-La
Rafael Anton Irisarri - El Ferrocarril Desvaneciente
Less Bells - Solifuge
Apex Twin - Collapse EP
Almost all these records would walk into my top 3s from this years previous months, and this is excluding Jlin, The Caretaker pt.5, Daughters of Time and the excellent Mount Eerie live album.