Here’s the DIS forum user poll. What I need you to do is give your top five albums in this format:
The artist who released your favourite album of 2017 - Name of album
The artist who released your 2nd favourite album of 2017 - Name of album
You get the idea
etc
The artist who released your 5th favourite album of 2017 - Name of album
Please use this format, anything else just makes my life more difficult than it needs to be. I will also only take the first list provided. So if you want to swap positions 2 and 3, and exchange the 5th one for something else that’s all fine, but it won’t be included in the results so try and get it right first time if you can.
It’s also better if all discussion goes somewhere else so this is just a thread lists. I’ll start another thread for AOTY discussions.
And at the start of January I’ll crunch the data and we can find out which albums DIS users really liked.
Excellent year, at least 20 stand-out records for me to choose from (and there’s still plenty I haven’t heard yet) that all easily could have got into the top 5, not often one gets such luxury.
Special mentions to Child Of Alice, Slowdive, Laurel Halo, Lana del Rey, R. Missing, LCD, Dead Cross, Black Angels, Fever Ray, probably loads of others that I’ve not had the chance to listen to…
Look forward to gushing about all my favourites when the discussion thread goes up, but I think I’m pretty concrete on the Top 5 so for now I’m going with…
Manchester Orchestra - A Black Mile To The Surface
Could easily make an alternative top 5 with Protomartyr, Jesca Hoop, Perfume Genius, Big Thief, Wear Your Wounds and Priests all fighting it out for spots
These 5 could be in any order, but what they hey. I’ve enjoyed a lot of albums this year, more than the average, but I think it is perhaps circumstance and the situations that these have soundtracked that have led them to making my top 5.