#165

What kind of weird fever dream is this AOTY list?

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#166

I had to CTRL+F Richard Dawson cause I assumed I’d missed it on the scan. It ain’t there though. Think you’ve been hacked mate.

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#167

Ask not what new music can do for you, but what you can do for new music
– Angela Merkel

#168

I’ve seen a lot of ropes in my time, but I’ve @Nagasena_Noose

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#169

*Almost Everything Everything

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#170

We’ve all got friends

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#171

prove it

#172

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#173

Identities hidden for friend purposes

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#174

great bunch of lads

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#175

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#176

:thinking:

#177

Both Valerie June albums are simply amazing. I saw her at The Scala and her Rough Trade East gig this year. I only got into her accidentally after thinking the new album cover is nice online and so I checked her music out. So glad I did.

I’m also an oldguy. You’re right. One of the best of the year. Easily in my top 5.

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#178

Such a wonderful record indeed and it would have totally gone under my radar if it hadn’t been for your album of the month threads! Thanks again for bringing it to my attention!

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#179

Thank you sincerely for the message.
I’m glad you like the album.

These forums do their “job”. A few years ago a use posted Desperate Journalist as one of their top albums of the month. Never heard of them but liked their band name. Love the band and all their releases.

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#180

i still like Post-Nothing a lot but the new one did very little for me tbh

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#181

A few years ago a user* posted Desperate Journalist

Thank you. They are my best British band.

These forums despite their faults and idiots and dull people (like me) posting on them do their job. Good music is introduced to those that are receptive.

#182

yeah this was a good 'un. saw them again at the start of this month and they’d been doing some recording that same day so hopefully they’re gonna keep up this album-per-year pace for a bit.

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#183

What else is there here?

#184

I’m not sure about Wolf Alice at #1. It’s a great album, yet I can’t help but think it’s seriously inferior to “My Love Is Cool”. I’m a fan of their previous singles, yes, but MLIC is twelve tracks of thematically consistent brilliance - not quite my #1 of 2015 thanks to Jenny Hval, but definitely one of my favourite albums this decade. VOAL? Some of the songs are magnificent (Heavenward, Don’t Delete The Kisses, Sky Musings and Visions Of A Life get my vote), but others are frankly mediocre - did they really have nothing better than Beautifully Unconventional and Sadboy to record? That, and as others here have alluded to, the record as a whole doesn’t hang together very well. The (not particularly extreme) genre-hopping on MLIC works magnificently; VOAL feels too disparate to me and sounds like a bunch of good yet unrelated songs chucked onto one disc, rather than a classic album. Still probably top 5-10 when I make my list, but hey (shrugs)