DiS Users' September 2021 Album Of The Month - THE RESULTS

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What the hell, let’s add Sleigh Bells — Texis at No.4.

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  1. Low - HEY WHAT
  2. Manic Street Preachers - The Ultra Vivid Lament
  3. Kinkajous - Being Waves
  4. We Were Promised Jetpacks - Enjoy The View
  5. Arvo Party - Corpus I

The Manics were a big surprise, but also a shout out to whoever mentioned the Kinkajous album on a new releases thread and mentioned it was FFO Floating Points’ Elaenia. Good call!

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  1. Low - HEY WHAT
  2. Little Simz - Sometimes I Might Be Introvert
  3. Riddy Arman - Riddy Arman
  4. The Beths - Auckland, New Zealand, 2020
  5. Nora Brown - Sidetrack My Engine

Tight stuff between numbers 1&2. Serious AOTY contenders.

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please update to

  1. Little Simz
  2. Petey
  3. Damu the Fudgemunk
  4. The Ophelias
  5. DJ Muggs & CRIMEAPPLE

Honourable mentions:

Summary

Motorists, Lukah, 10000 Russos, Run Logan Run, Solemn Brigham

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Been a great month.

Public Service Broadcasting
Bright Magic
dancy post rock? I have no idea what to call them any more.

A Talk in the Dark
Look to the Clouds
Post rock

Rivers of Nihil
The Work
Prog metal

Still
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Blackened Hardcore

LLNN
Unmaker
Hardcore

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  1. Low - HEY WHAT
  2. Sufjan Stevens and Angelo De Augustine - A Beginners Mind
  3. Ada Lea - one hand on the steering wheel the other sewing a garden
  4. Andy Shauf - Wilds
  5. The Orphelias - Crocus
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  1. Low - Hey What
  2. Moor Mother - Black Encyclopedia of the Air
  3. Spiers & Boden - Fallow Ground
  4. Nala Sinephro - Space 1.8
    5 Little Simz - Sometimes I Might Be Introvert
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  1. Little Simz - Sometimes I Might Be Introvert
  2. Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan - People & Industry
  3. Low - HEY WHAT
  4. Amyl & The Sniffers - Comfort To Me
  5. Public Service Broadcasting - Bright Magic

That Amyl & The Sniffers album is an absolute blast. Deserves higher than fourth, but strong competition this month.

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  1. Injury Reserve - Before I get to Phoenix
  2. Amyl & The Sniffers - Comfort to Me
  3. Moor Mother - Black Encyclopedia of the Air

And that’s all I’ve listened to… Really need to get around to the new Little Simz and Low records.

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  1. Baby Queen - The Yearbook
  2. Amyl & The Sniffers - Comfort To Me
  3. Little Simz - Sometimes I Might Be Introvert
  4. Low - HEY WHAT
  5. Ada Lea - one hand on the steering wheel…

Credit the OP for the top two. Good month.

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  1. Saint Etienne - I’ve Been Trying To Tell You
  2. Westside Gunn - Hitler Wears Hermes 8: Side B
  3. Little Simz - Sometimes I Might Be Introvert
  4. DJ Seinfeld - Mirrors
  5. Mansur Brown - Heiwa

Public Service Broadcasting at 6.

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Lil Nas X - Montero

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  1. Martina Topley-Bird - Forever I Wait
  2. Emel - Everywhere We Looked Was Burning (Live)
  3. Roxanne de Bastion - You & Me, We Are The Same
  4. Odd Beholder - Sunny Bay
  5. Liz Lawrence - The Avalanche

The Martina Topley-Bird album has really stayed with me and bears repeat listening - there’s a real haunting claustrophobic quality to it. Emel was a new artist to me and this album was so good, I immediately went back into the whole back catalogue. A Tunisian, one of Emel’s songs became an anthem of the Arab Spring. One for fans of Bjork, I think. Then some excellent art-pop from Roxanne de Bastion and Liz Lawrence and dream-pop from Odd Beholder. Good work as ever to contributors to the weekly new release threads which surface all these great records.

Honourable mentions to Saint Etienne, Ben Böhmer and Amyl & The Sniffers. Haven’t been feeling the Low album but it’s doing so well here I might have to persevere.

Thought it was a good month for EPs and I could easily have picked a strong top 5 with Cloud of I, Sans Soucis, Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith & Emile Mosseri, Cucina Povera and Jane Weaver.

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Another great month. Got about 30 possible AOTY’s at the moment.

1: Nala Sinephro - Space 1.8
2: Little Simz - Sometimes I Might Be Introvert
3: Low - Hey What
4: Quinn - Drive-By Lullabies
5: Mas Aya - Mascaras

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This month (September) has gone past so quick that a lot of this months releases have got muddled up with last months. Need to have a proper look at what specifically came out this month.

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  1. Amyl And The Sniffers - Comfort To Me
  2. The Wildhearts - 21st Century Love Songs
  3. Employed To Serve - Conquering
  4. Spiritbox - Eternal Blue
  5. Tremonti - Marching In Time
  6. Poppy - Flux

Other good stuff this month: Iron Maiden, Sleigh Bells, Martina Topley-Bird, Thrice, Angels & Airwaves, The Muslims, Carcass, Manics

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  1. A Talk in the Dark - Look to the Clouds
  2. MONO - Pilgrimage of the Soul
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I’ll do the count up tomorrow afternoon. Get your votes in by 2pm-ish.

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Hamish Hawk - Heavy Elevator (digital only, vinyl release expected Oct)

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  1. Gallowglas - I Dream I See You Hit The Water, I Dream I See You Change Your Mind
  2. Low - HEY WHAT
  3. Odd Beholder - Sunny Bay
  4. Sufjan Stevens and Angelo De Augustine - A Beginner’s Mind
  5. Malik Djoudi - Troie

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6. Pascal Babare - Cave Without A Name
7. Sans Souci - One Time For Her
8. DoomFolk StarterKit - SunFaded
9. The Ophelia’s - Crocus
10. Holy Hive - Holy Hive
11. Manu Delago - Environ Me
12. Japanese Breakfast - Sable

And a whole bunch of other albums also. Very strong month.

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