Ran out of time for a re-listen, so
Nyxy Nyx seems pretty good too.
The first half of the Die Spitz album is up there with my favorites of the year. While not quite the same, it has that Burning Brides spirit in there. It’s thunderous.
Sprints - All That Is Over
Sophie Ellis-Bextor - Perimenopop
Ciśnienie - [angry noises]
The Expert - Vivid Visions
Kojey Radical - Don’t Look Down
Kathryn Williams - Mystery Park
The Cords - The Cords
Saint Etienne - International
Kara-Lis Coverdale - A Series of Actions in a Sphere of Forever
Gruff Rhys - Dim Probs
Ha, I’ve not. To be honest, it’s only checking their discography now that I’ve seen they had another three albums before Rat Saw God. I’ll add them to my to listen to list!
Great month this. Still discovering gems this morning.
Fun fact: Ian Dury’s Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick was the first song I ever remember hearing on the radio. His son Baxter’s Allbarone is fantastic, lyrically obviously but the mashup of electro, post-punk and disco works so well too. The title track, Schadenfreude, Hapsburg and Return of the Sharp Heads all make me stop to listen.
Saint Etienne’s swansong is genuinely one of their best albums. I’ve been a fan since the start and thought I might be overrating this because it’s their last, but it’s stood up over the month. After a couple of albums of fairly low-key dabbling with ambient pop, the big tunes are back and so are the snippets between tunes.
Voting Closed
The Results:
1st Wednesday - Bleeds (62 points)
2nd Geese - Getting Killed (43 points)
3rd Lucrecia Dalt - A Danger To Ourselves (29 points)
4th Big Thief - Double Infinity (28)
5th Suede - Antidepressants (27)
6th Cate Le Bon - Michelangelo Dying (23)
Joint 7th Baxter Dury - Allbarone
Kieran Hebden and William Tyler - 41 Longfield Street Late 80s (both on 19 points)
9th Nyxy Nyx - Cult Classics Vol. I (18)
10th Joanne Robertson - Blurrr (16)
The year so far:
January 2025
1st Mogwai - The Bad Fire
2nd Ela Minus - DIA
3rd Ethel Cain - Perverts
4th MIKE - Showbiz!
5th jasmine.4.t - You Are The Morning
6th Lambrini Girls - Who Let The Dogs Out
7th Anna B Savage - You & i are Earth
8th Bad Bunny - Debí Tirar Más Fotos
Joint 9th Ditz - Never Exhale
FKA Twigs - EUSEXUA
February 2025
1st Richard Dawson - End of the Middle
2nd Horsegirl – Phonetics On and On
3rd Sharon Van Etten -SVE and the Attachment Theory
4th Panda Bear - Sinister Grift
Joint 5th Marie Davidson - City Of Clowns
Oklou - choke enough
7th Saya Gray - SAYA
8th John Glacier - Like a Ribbon
9th Jules Reidy - Ghost/Spirit
Joint 10th DARKSIDE - Nothing
Ginnels - The Picturesque
Michael J. Blood - Spaces In Between
The Murder Capital – Blindness
March 2025
1st Deafheaven - Lonely People With Power
2nd Lonnie Holley - Tonky
3rd The Tubs - Cotton Crown
4th Great Grandpa - Patience, Moonbeam
Joint 5th Clipping - Dead Channel Sky
The Horrors - Night Life
Joint 7th Divorce - Drive to Goldenhammer
Perfume Genius - Glory
9th Lisa Knapp & Gerry Diver - Hinterland
Joint 10th Cross Record - Crush Me
Greentea Peng – Tell Dem It’s Sunny
April 2025
1st Djrum - Under Tangled Silence
2nd Barker - Stochastic Drift
3rd Maria Somerville - Luster
4th Momma - Welcome to My Blue Sky
5th Emma-Jean Thackray - Weirdo
6th Viagra Boys - Viagr Aboys
7th Nazar - Demilitarize
Joint 8th Anika - Abyss
Craig Finn - Always Been
Florist - Jellywish
Valerie June - Owls, Omens & Oracles
May 2025
1st billy woods - GOLLIWOG
2nd Stereolab - Instant Holograms On Metal Film
3rd Kathryn Joseph - WE WERE MADE PREY
4th Mclusky - The world is still here and so are we
5th These New Puritans - Crooked Wing
Joint 6h Alan Sparhawk & Trampled By Turtles - Alan Sparhawk With Trampled By Turtles
Jenny Hval - Iris Silver Mist
Press Club – To All the Ones That I Love
9th Aesop Rock -.Black Hole Superette
10th Lael Neale - Altogether Stranger
June 2025
1st Turnstile - Never Enough
2nd Pulp - More
3rd S.G. Goodman - Planting by the Signs
4th McKinley Dixon - Magic, Alive!
5th Great Death - Die in Love
6th Lorde - Virgin
7th Hotline TNT - Raspberry Moon
8th Addison Rae - Addison
9th Lifeguard - Ripped and Torn
Joint 10th BC Camplight - A Sober Conversation
Jeremiah Chiu & Marta Sofia Honer - Different Rooms
Tropical Fuck Storm - Fairyland Codex
July 2025
1st Wet Leg - Moisturizer
2nd Ryan Davis & The Roadhouse Band - New Threats From The Soul
3rd Clipse - Let God Sort Em Out
4th Vines - I’ll Be Here
Joint 5th Alex G - Headlights and
Patricia Wolf - Hrafnamynd
Joint 7th GOON - Dream 3 and
Indigo De Souza - Precipice
9th Open Mike Eagle - Neighborhood Gods Unlimited
10th Poor Creature - All Smiles Tonight
August 2025
1st The Beths - Straight Line Was a Lie
2nd CMAT - EURO-COUNTRY
3rd Water From Your Eyes - It’s a Beautiful Place
4th Ethel Cain - Willoughby Tucker
5th Deftones - Private Music
6th Nourised by Time - The Passionate Ones
7th Pile – Sunshine and Balance Beams
8th Haley Williams - Ego Death At A Bachelorette Party
Joint 9th Dijon - Baby
Eve Adams - American Dust
You still create a monthly playlist? Wouldn’t mind checking out some of those
Geese and Wednesday added to ‘must listen before the end of the year’ list.
Checked out Wednesday based on this and was very impressed. The more mellower tracks passed me by a little as I don’t like country/americana/whatever it’s called. But when they get heavier? Ooof. Good shit.
Listen to Wednesday next week (on Wednesday, even)
Have tried various ways of cataloguing highlights from albums throughout the year, didn’t keep up the monthly playlist as had opted instead to create genre-specific playlists instead, but I feel behind with them by April.
Here’s a playlist for September to get me back on track. The Ciśnienie album isn’t on Spotify but Mariah Carey’s album just missed a place on that list so she makes it in as a reserve.
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6hS2P3kCmXYUIziLK5x5Cj?si=5wktwp6vT6-J5MMqZwWFjg&pi=RsPXSnSwTn6Ya
Sweet, cheers fella!
think this is the only mention i can see of Snuggle on the whole boards, just stumbled onto them because of the stupid algo being accurate and instantly a fan. Perfect early Soccer Mommy/Jay Som vibes