1 drahla - useless coordinates
2 the murder capital - whilst i have fears
3 l’epee - diabolique
4 fontaines dc - dogrel
5 girl band - the talkies

2 Likes

Not much love for Cate le Bon? Easily my favorite album this year.

  1. Cate Le Bon - Reward
  2. Big Thief - UFOF
  3. Mannequin Pussy - Patience
  4. Empath - Active Listening : Night on Earth
  5. Helado Negro - This is How You Smile
2 Likes
  1. The National - I am easy to find
  2. Jenny Lewis - On the line
  3. Martha - Love keeps kicking
  4. Better Oblivion Community Centre - Better Oblivion Community Centre
  5. Charly Bliss - Young Enough
3 Likes
  1. Richard Dawson - 2020
  2. nara is neus - fail to deliver
  3. Sharon Van Etten - Remind Me Tomorrow
  4. Aldous Harding - Designer
  5. Lena Raine - Oneknowing
1 Like
  1. Big Thief - Two hands
  2. Press club - late teens
  3. Jimmy eat world - Surviving
  4. The comet is coming - Trust in the life force of the deep mystery
  5. Hot chip - a bath full of ecstasy
1 Like
  1. Deliluh - Beneath The Floors (Tin Angel Records)
  2. Kim Gordon - No Home Record (Matador)
  3. Black Midi - Schlagenheim (Rough Trade)
  4. The Murder Capital - When I Have Fears (Human Season Records)
  5. Automatic - Signal (Stones Throw Records)

In fact have the top 44, feels better to get it off my chest!

44 Siobhan Wilson - The Departure (Suffering Fools Records)
43 J Robbins - Un-becoming (Dischord Records)
42 Blanck Mass - Animated Violence Mild (Sacred Bones Records)
41 Bambara - Shadow on Everything (Wharf Cat Records)
40 Christian Fitness - You Are The Ambulance (Self Released)
39 Heather Woods Broderick - Invitation (Western Vinyl)
38 Big Thief - Two Hands (4AD)
37 Plaid - Polymer (Warp Records)
36 Common Holly - When I Say To You Black Lightning (Dalliance Recordings)
35 Chastity Belt - Chastity Belt (Hardly Art)
34 Pip Blom - Boat (Heavenly Recordings)
33 Sneaks - Highway Hypnosis (Merge Records)
32 Mono - Nowhere Now Here (Pelagic Records)
31 Big Thief - U.F.O.F (4AD)
30 Jesca Hoop - Stonechild (Memphis Industries)
29 LCD Soundsystem - Electic Lady Sessions (DFA)
28 Shellac - The End of Radio (Touch and Go)
27 The Coathangers - Devil You Know (Suicide Squeeze Records)
26 Fat White Family - Serfs Up! (Domino)
25 Novel - Novel (Meat Machine)
24 Mudhoney - Morning in America (Sub Pop)
23 !!! - Wallop (Warp Records)
22 Marika Hackman - Any Human Friend (AMF Records)
21 Nots - 3 (Goner Records)
20 Omni - Networker (Sub Pop)
19 The Black Tones - Cobain and Cornbread (Reptar Records)
18 Floating Points - Crush (Ninja Tune)
17 Uzeda - Quocumque Jeceris Stabit (Temporary Residence Ltd)
16 Bob Mould - Sunshine Rock (Merge Records)
15 Better Oblivion Community Center - Better Oblivion Community Center (Dead Oceans)
14 Drahla - Useless Coordinates (Captured Tracks)
13 Sasami - Sasami (Domino)
12 Kate Tempest - The Book Of Traps And Lessons (Republic Records)
11 Sacred Paws - Run Around the Sun (Rock Action)
10 Sharon Van Etten - Remind Me Tomorrow (JagJaguwar)
09 Twilight Sad - It Won’t Be Like This All The Time (Rock Action)
08 These New Puritans - Inside The Rose (Infectious Music)
07 Wives - So Removed (City Slang)
06 Diiv - Deceiver (Captured Tracks)
05 Automatic - Signal (Stones Throw Records)
04 The Murder Capital - When I Have Fears (Human Season Records)
03 Black Midi - Schlagenheim (Rough Trade)
02 Kim Gordon - No Home Record (Matador)
01 Deliluh - Beneath The Floors (Tin Angel Records)

3 Likes
  1. Girl Band – The Talkies (pipped Kelsey Lu to the top spot because by all accounts the lead singer has had a rough few years and to nail it like this by surpassing their debut is a grand achievement)
  2. Kelsey Lu – Blood (deserves a lot more appreciation)
  3. Sudan Archives – Athena (as does this, very similar in feel to KL)
  4. Bonniesongs – Energetic Mind (best ‘conventional’ guitar album I’ve heard in a while)
  5. Bobby Krlic – Midsommar OST (thoroughly addictive freak-classical, not sure I’ll bother with the film though)

Close but no cigar:

  1. Faye Webster - Atlanta Millionaire’s Club (so laid back and summery)
  2. Aiden Baker / Faith Coloccia / Jon Mueller - See Through (nice and dark)
  3. Kinbrae - Landforms (beautiful and immersive)
  4. Florist - Emily Alone (beautiful but slight)
  5. Big Thief - U.F.O.F (not as good as the other nine in my list :wink: )
5 Likes
  1. Evan Carson - Ocipinski
  2. A Formal Horse - Here Comes a Man from the Council with a Flamethrower
  3. Devin Townsend - Empath
  4. Lost Crowns - Every Night Something Happens
  5. Richard Dawson - 2020

Girl Band - The Talkies
Kim Gordon - No Home Rcord
Teeth of The Sea - Wraith
Sleaford Mods - Eto Alive
Lightning Bolt - Sonic Cathedral

Theres an awful lot of stuff I’m going to investigate due to this thread.

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Still catching up on a bit of a backlog…

  1. Big Thief - UFOF
  2. Angel Olsen - All Mirrors
  3. The Comet is Coming - Trust In The Lifeforce…
  4. Billy Woods, Kenny Segal - Hiding Places
  5. Little Simz - Grey Area

HMs: Bat for Lashes, Fontaines DC, Lizzo, black midi, Hayden Thorpe, Michael Kiwanuka

2 Likes
  1. James Blake - Assume Form
  2. Beth Gibbons - Henryck Gorecki Symphony No. 3*
  3. Fontaine’s DC - Dogrel
  4. Madder Rose - To be beauiful
  5. Deerhunter - Why hasn’t everything already disappeared?

*Would have been top if it was original material!

Honourable mentions: Nick Cave, Nils Frahm, La Dispute, Bruce Springsteen, The National, Thom Yorke, Theon Cross

1 Like

1.Nick Cave - Ghosteen
2.Jesca Hoop - Stonechild
3. Thom Yorke - Anima
4. Heather Woods Broderick - Invitation
5. These New Puritans - Inside The Rose

1 Like
  1. Big Thief - UFOF
  2. FKA Twigs - Magdalene
  3. Lana Del Rey - Norman Fucking Rockwell
  4. Carly Rae Jepsen - Devoted
  5. Bon Iver - i,i
  1. Oso Oso - Basking in the glow
  2. Modern Nature - How to live
  3. Nathan Micay - Blue Spring
  4. The Murder Capital - When I have fears
  5. Billy Woods and Kenny Segal - Hiding Places
  1. Jenny Lewis - On the Line
  2. Martha - Love Keeps Kicking
  3. Vampire Weekend - Father of the Bride
  4. Blanck Mass - Animated Violence Mild
  5. Danny Brown - uknowhatimsayin¿
4 Likes
  1. W. H. Lung - Incidental Music
  2. Self Esteem - Compliments Please
  3. Big Thief - U.F.O.F
  4. Floating Points - Crush
  5. M. T. Hadley - Empty
1 Like
  1. Thom Yorke - ANIMA
  2. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Ghosteen
  3. Black Midi - Schlagenheim
  4. Kim Gordon - No Home Record
  5. DIIV - Deceiver
2 Likes
  1. Big Thief - U.F.O.F.
  2. Sharon Van Etten - Remind Me Tomorrow
  3. Big Thief - Two Hands
  4. Empath - Active Listening: Night on Earth
  5. Florist - Emily Alone

Ok…here goes

  1. Altin Gun - Gece
  2. Aurora - A Different Kind of Human - Step 2
  3. Lowly - Hifalutin
  4. American Football - LP3
  5. I Was A King - Slow Century
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