VOTE FOR YOUR TOP FIVE ALBUMS!!
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. Suede - Antidepressants
2. Wednesday - Bleeds
3. The Hidden Cameras - Bronto
4. the Wulongs - Videodrome
5. Jens Lekman - Songs For Other People’s Wedding
Please allow me some general rambling…
This month was somewhat Rough Trade East-centric. One of many highlights was that I enjoyed explaining who Strawberry Switchblade were to Jehnny Beth at the signing after her gig there as she’d spotted my t-shirt and was curious. Anyway…
I love the new Suede album. Their tenth in total, I looked it up. It’s probably my second favourite of their post reformation albums after Night Thoughts. A lot of my first half of the month was Suede related. I heard it constantly on repeat when released mainly due to the long commutes due to the tube strike. I also had tickets for both their gig and signing at Signature Brew, Walthamstow and their Saturday gig at The Royal Festival Hall.
The Signature Brew show was great fun and I hadn’t been to the venue or that very specific area before and I liked the brewery crawl me and my girlfriend did after the gig. Going off topic, I liked the IPAs at the Exale taproom but can’t see any cans of theirs on sale anywhere. Going back to music, I did have a chat with one of the bar staff there about Desperate Journalist.
The Royal Festival Hall gig was Suede at their best with Brett showing no signs of aging or slowing down. Shit loads of energy and loads of fun. We loved it again.
The only downside was on the way to the gig we had to walk through and past the patriotic flag wavers. Most of the South Bank seemed closed that evening directly/indirectly due to the pricks.
I hadn’t been too familiar or a big fan of Wednesday before Karly Hartzman’s solo show at Rough Trade East last month. The cheap entry gave me a good excuse to check out their previous stuff beforehand and I love Rat Saw God that didn’t click with me before as well as a lot of their others. The new one is just brilliant indie rock. A great album.
I haven’t heard too many albums and the rest of my choices I’ve liked but not loved hugely. The Hidden Cameras (or rather just Joel solo) was fun at Rough Trade East and so I’ll put him third. We did get far more oldies and songs from his debut than I was expecting which was great. I miss their hugely fun gigs of over 20s years ago with their balaclava wearing dancers stripping to their y-fronts and Doc Martens.
Always a lot of great recommendations from you guys about albums that I’ve missed or overlooked. Not sure what’s out tomorrow apart from Cate Le Bon who was fun live at Rough Trade on Monday. I’ll see what you guys are listening to.
Please forgive any shameless bumps of this thread during the week. I’ll keep this thread open until Sunday 5th October and so you’ll have over a week to listen to tomorrow’s releases if there’s anything out before choosing.
Vote now!! (Or later in the week) but make your choices clear please.