#62

I can’t count

Also on my 2021 albums playlist so far
Fightmilk - Contender
Bicep - Isles

#63
  1. Mogwai - As the love
  2. Dvne - Etemen Ænka
  3. Bicep - Isles
  4. Genghis Tron - Dream Weapon
  5. Gary Numan - Intruder
#64
  1. DVNE - Etemen Ænka
  2. Bicep - Isles
  3. Hænesy - Garabontzia
  4. Elderwind - Fires
  5. Lake Haze - Sun Rising on Concrete Landscapes

honourable mentions -

Mare Cognitum - Solar Paroxysm
Mogwai - As The Love Continues
Wolvennest - Temple
Grima - Rotten Garden
Kauan - Ice Fleet
Noctule - Wretched Abyss

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#65

Tell me what I should like, ey?

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#66

Came up with six off the top of my head, so with Mogwai being the unlucky ones to miss out, I’ll go for (in no particular order) these:

“Scatterbrain” - The Chills
“New Long Leg” - Dry Cleaning
“Song Of Co-Aklan” - Cathal Coughlan
“As Days Get Dark” - Arab Strap
“Emphatically No” - Cheekface

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#67
  1. Christian Loffler - Parallels: Shellac Reworks
  2. Skee Mask - Pool
  3. Kessler - Ambivalent
  4. Bicep - Isles
  5. Lycoriscoris - Chiyu

I originally thought Gidge’s ‘New Light’ came out this year, but was apparently Nov 20.
Well worth a listen if you like electronic though.

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#68

Middle Kids came as a surprise for me, nothing we haven’t seen before but a bunch of really solidly written indie-pop tracks. Stacking Chairs is one of my songs of the year.

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#69

That Gidge album really is great. I though it came out in January though.

#70

Ctrl+F ‘Nick Cave’ - wow :astonished:

#71

If it was the best first half of albums then I think Carnage would be running away with this. I remember the immediate feedback on this forum being close to unanimous in loving the first half then being disappointed in the second half feeling like outtakes from Ghosteen.

I liked Ghosteen but was really deflated when Carnage which had started as a really exciting departure then whimpered out and felt like retreading recent musical ground.

#72

Agree with all of ^that. Just surprised that a big hitter on DiS, whose past two albums have been extremely well received here, wouldn’t feature on a single poster’s faves of the year :woman_shrugging:

That said, I’ve not listened to it myself since the week it came out. Might go revisit…

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#73
  1. The Dirty Nil - Fuck Art
  2. Manchester Orchestra - The Million Masks of God
  3. Teenage Wrist - Earth is a Black Hole
  4. Citizen - Life In Your Glass World
  5. Gojira - Fortitude

massive backlog of releases to catch up on, though.

#74
  1. Floating Points
  2. Black MIDI
  3. DJ Muggs
  4. Genesis Owusu
  5. Squid
#75

Alphabetical order

Antlers
Arab Strap
Manchester Orchestra
Mogwai
Roddy Woomble

(Fleet Foxes for physical release date :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes:)

#76

The Guardian joining in. The music coverage is so sparse now that these sort of lists always seem very random to me.

#77

I don’t know if this explains things for other Dissers but, for me, cos the vinyl isn’t yet in my hand it doesn’t feel like it’s properly out yet. I think I’ll only be able to judge how good it is once I’ve given it a proper spin on my turntable of an evening with a glass of something.

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#78

That is definitely a factor for me :+1:

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#79

Of course they have the Weather Station. They are the Guardian, in music form.

#80

Never actually heard. Thought they were an 80s band? Maybe it’s just the name makes me think that.

#81

Warm, compassionate, but a bit one-note?