sparked by that stand-up poster @rich-t dropping me his list, got me thinking
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something roughly like this for me, though it leans a little heavy on old favs which isn’t the most inspiring. From that I’d say it’s a year without many true standouts but a lot of really really good stuff, had to knock off another 10 strong albums to get to this top 20
- Ratboys
- Morgan Nagler
- The Early Years
- Joshua Burnside
- Bibi Club
- Buck Meek
- Wiki
- DCFC
- Conscious Pilot
- Grace Ives
- Spacemoth (could be some strong recency bias though)
- Kim Gordon
- Modest Mouse
- MEMORIALS
- Broken Social Scene
- cootie catcher
- Charli xcx
- Avalon Emerson
- Miss Grit
- Langkamer
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Board of Canada
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Joshua Idehen - I Know You’re Hurting, Everyone Is Hurting, Everyone Is Trying, You Have Got to Try
YHWH Nailgun - Magazine
The only 2 so far that might make an album of the year list if I’m being brutal. Been some really good albums so far this year, been a good year so far in general for music. However, as always I’m in a holding pattern for what’s to come particularly the return of Space Afrika, that Rainy Miller x Bianca Scout x 2k88 x Lauren Duffus album, Blackhaine if he finally gets his shit together and stops doing the MIF show and if Microplastics put out some of the tracks which genuinely sound excellent
Forgot Twisted Teens - Blame The Clown excellent album
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in no order
Pan-American
Boards of Canada
Vince Staples
Meitei
MEMORIALS
Antropoceno
Yu Su
Dalek
Gorillaz
Loukeman
Grace Ives
Dagmar Zuniga
Portrayal of Guilt
Twisted Teens
Kim Gordon
Jump Source
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My list is quite meagre this year because I’ve been digging around in older stuff (which is new to me). But I have enjoyed these -
The Field
Midori Hirano - probably my favourite LP so far this year
Lucy Liyou
Rafael Anton Irisari
Spratleys
Anadol & Marie Klock
Tanya Donnelly & Chris Brokaw
Mary Hampton
Melvins & Napalm Death
No great records so far this year, but the ones that have stayed with me most have been Juni Habel, Future Islands, and, weirdly, Moby.
- Sluice
- mildred
- Boards of Canada
- Ratboys
- Thomas Dollbaum
- Hiding Places
- Charlotte Cornfield
- Styrofoam Winos
- Brown Horse
- vegas water taxi
- Tara Clerkin Trio
- Widowspeak
- Langkamer
- bobbie
- Red PK
- Remember Sports
- Kevin Morby
- Lande Hekt
- youbet
- Euphoria Again & Dogwood Tails
197 record listened to, 29 left on my lists to listen to.
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Boards of Canada
Mandy, Indiana
Craven Faults
This year I’m mostly going for bleeps AND bloops.
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Also-rans:
Gichard
Navy Blue
Charli XCX
Dry Cleaning
Haute and Freddy
Honey Dijon
Nathan Fake
Hannah Peel
Loraine James
Thundercat
Tara Clerkin Trio
Kim Gordon
Fcukers
Agnes
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oh yeah that Dry Cleaning album was grand
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if you haven’t listened to Morgan Nagler much yet, you should! feels so your thing
From best to… least best
- Boards of Canada - Inferno
- The Early Years - Modern Moonlight
- Muse - The Wow! Signal
- Spectacle - Melborn
- The Black Keys - Peaches!
- Calm - Ambient Jazz
- Ed O’Brien - Blue Morpho
- deary - Birding
- Lucid Express - Instant Comfort
- Tokyo Shoegazer - Remains
Nothing is topping BoC this year. Inferno went straight into my top 50 all time fav albums and there it’s staying.
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Really good year, I think probably KINACT and Sunn O))) my favourites so far?
Father Dionysios Tabakis
Iceage
K Wata
KINACT
Laurel Halo
Mabe Fratti and Bill Orcutt
Nondi
Robyn
Roc Marciano
Starker
Sunn O)))
Tara Clerkin Trio
Twisted Teens
Xavisphone
Xylitol
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- Slayyyter - WOR$T GIRL IN AMERICA
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Gonna keep it to ten and say
Gia Margaret - Singing
Heavenly - Highway to Heavenly
Irked - The Grievance
The Just Joans - Romantic Visions of Scotland
Katie Alice Greer - Perfect Woman Sound Machine, Vol 1
Lande Hekt - Lucky Now
Mandy, Indiana - Urgh
Ora Cogan - Hard Hearted Woman
Touch Girl Apple Blossom - Graceful
Yumi Zouma - No Love Lost to Kindness
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I have, but it probably got lost in the madness that was march
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I was thinking of starting a similar thread earlier. Stuck this on facebook this morning;
No order, except that Ultha is still in the running to be AOTY
Ultha - A Light So Dim
Craven Faults - Sidings
Fuath - III
Night of the Vampire - The Enchanting Winds of the Dreamweaving Masquerade
Tjaktjadálvve - Encompassing Nothingness
Hagetisse - To Wither Beneath Thy Radiance
Rafael Anton Irisarri - Points of Inaccessibility
Carpenter Brut - Leather Temple
Neurosis - An Undying Love For A Burning World
The Twilight Sad - It’s The Long Goodbye
Antrisch - Expedition III: Renitenzpfad
Crippled Black Phoenix - Sceaduhelm
Nine Inch Nails - Nine Inch Noize
Snowspire - Where the Sky Gleams with a Thousand Lights, I Know I Am Never Alone
A Forest Of Stars - Stack Overflow in Corpse Pile Interface
Celestial Deconstruction - Transcosmic Spillover
Boards of Canada - Inferno
36 - Night Language
Véhémence - Assiégé Pour l’Éternité
Junius - Sotera (bit early to include this as it’s only been out 24 hours but it’s good!)
Fodboldklub - Mangrove 71
Stormkeep - The Nocturnes of Iswylm
Drawn Into Descent - Onrust
Winterfylleth - The Unyielding Season
Yoth Iria - Gone With The Devil
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I like anime too but what’s that got to do with anything