The DIS 2021 album of the year polling thread.

  1. Floating Points and Pharaoh Sanders - Promises
  2. Self Esteem - Prioritise Pleasure
  3. Japanese Breakfast - Jubilee
  4. Parquet Courts - Sympathy for Life
  5. Lucy Dacus - Home Video

Guess I need to listen to this Cassandra Jenkins record again!

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  1. Satomimagae – Hanazono
  2. Sóley – Mother Melancholia
  3. Low – HEY WHAT
  4. EERA – Speak
  5. Orla Gartland – Woman On The Internet
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  1. The World Is a Beautiful Place and I am No Longer Afraid to Die – Illusory Walls
  2. illuminati hotties – Let Me Do One More
  3. Foxing – Draw Down the Moon
  4. Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & The London Symphony Orchestra – Promises
  5. Self Esteem – Prioritise Pleasure
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  1. Cassandra Jenkins - An Overview on Phenomenal Nature
  2. Dry Cleaning - New Long Leg
  3. Floating Points, Pharaoh Sanders & LSO - Promises
  4. Tyler, the Creator - CALL ME IF YOU GET LOST
  5. Alice Phoebe Lou - Glow
6-10
  1. Mdou Moctar - Afrique Victime
  2. Kedr Livanskiy - Liminal Soul
  3. Alan Vega - Mutator
  4. R.A.P Ferreira - Bob’s Son
  5. Arooj Aftab - Vulture Prince
Honourable Mentions

Fucked Up - Year Of The Horse
Grouper - Shade
Armand Hammer - Haram
Japanese Breakfast - Jubilee
John Carroll Kirby - Septet
MIKE - Disco
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Butterfly 3000
Liars - The Apple Drop
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - G_d’s Pee AT STATE’S END
Amyl and the Sniffers - Comfort To Me
Ty Segall - Harmonizer
Mogwai - As The Love Continues
Cheekface - Emphatically No.
Parquet Courts - Sympathy For Life

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I’ve been holding off as long as I could hoping to revisit the playlists from each month before finalising my long list, but it turns out I would have needed to start in mid-September so I have to admit defeat and squeeze in my current top 5 before the deadline!

  1. R.A.P. Ferreira - Bob’s Son
  2. Enji - Ursgal
  3. Jucara Marcal - Delta Estacio Blues
  4. The Bug - Fire
  5. Tirzah - Colourgrade
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Almost time to shout STOP THE COUNT. Thank you so much for all your efforts - if there’s a charity you’d like us to make a donation to on your behalf, feel free to slip it alongside announcing the list.

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  1. Iceage - Seek Shelter
  2. Mogwai - As The Love Continues
  3. Weezer - OK Human
  4. Dean Blunt - Black Metal 2
  5. Turnstile - Glow On
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4 Likes
  1. Arab Strap - As Days Get Dark
  2. John Francis Flynn - I Would Not Live Always
  3. Rats on Rafts - Excerpts From Chapter 3: The Mind Runs A Net Of Rabbit Paths
  4. The Altered Hours - Convertible
  5. Mogwai - As the Love Continues
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  1. New Pagans - The Seed, The Vessel, The Roots and All
  2. Sugar Horse - The Live Long After
  3. Viagra Boys - Welfare Jazz
  4. The Armed - Ultrapop
  5. Demons - Privation
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Thanks, that’s very kind. @Octobadger has helpfully linked.

This is the final countdown … an hour left until close-down.

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  1. Halsey - If I Can’t Have Love, I Want Power
  2. Fred Again - Actual Life (April 14 - December 17 2020)
  3. girl in red - if I could make it all go quiet
  4. Manchester Orchestra - The Million Masks of God
  5. KennyHoopla - SURVIVORS GUILT: THE MIXTAPE//

Shout out to @avery for making sure I got my vote in on time by reminding me to post this 10 times over the weekend. I’m not sure this is the exact list except the first 2 and still haven’t worked out my top ten, been enjoying lots of beaty stuff this year and lots of new(to me) artists.

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And that’s it. Thanks everyone.


I’ll be back in a few days with some results.

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As ever, thanks for running this

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God bless you, that’s a lot of posts to correlate.

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Just listened in the bath. Very nice, I see why it got a lot of love. Don’t know why I bounced off of it first time around.

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Maybe you weren’t in a bath at the time?

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That is correct

Dammit, missed another cut-off. Oh well, here’s mine:

  1. Armand Hammer & The Alchemist - Haram
  2. Black Country, New Road - For the First Time
  3. LICE - WASTELAND: What Ails Our People Is Clear
  4. R.A.P. Ferreira - Bob’s Son: R.A.P. Ferreira in the Garden Level Cafe of the Scallops Hotel
  5. Liars - The Apple Drop
Honorable mentions
  1. R.A.P. Ferreira - The Light Emitting Diamond Cutter Scriptures
  2. Failure - Wild Type Droid
  3. Helvetia - Essential Aliens
  4. Nation of Language - A Way Forward
  5. Sunken Foal - Two Moon Junction

I also missed the cut. Never mind, I think other people have most of these covered.

  1. Mogwai - As the Love Continues
    4, Cassandra Jenkins - An Overview of Phenomenal Nature
  2. Loscil - Clara / Lux: Refractions
  3. The War on Drugs - I Don’t Live Here Anymore
  4. W.H. Lung - Vanities

I’m counting the Loscil album and EP as one thing, as Lux: Refractions is basically reworkings of one track from Clara, and I wanted to have 5 different artists on my list.

And here is a list of my top 30 tracks on 2021. I don’t limit this list to only being stuff released in 2021, hence why my number is a song that was obviously on an album from 2020, and why a couple of John Carpenter things are on here.

30 Blue Aeroplanes – Your Ages
29 Lantlos – Magnolia
28 Zombie Zombie – The Thing
27 Nick Cave and Warren Ellis – Albuquerque
26 Wolf Alice – No Hard Feelings
25 The Weather Station – Parking Lot
24 Molly Nilsson – Pompei
23 Chazz Knapp – My TMJ Pain Might be an Abscess
22 The War on Drugs – Harmonia’s Dream
21 Wet Leg – Too Late Now
20 Loscil – Lux Refractions: 3
19 Hum – The Summoning
18 Low – Days Like These
17 John Carpenter – Assault on Precinct 13 (title theme)
16 Eve Maret – Synthensiser Hearts (W.H. Lung remix)
15 Beachy Head – Warning Bell
14 Orson Hentschel – Paradise Future
13 Wet Leg – Chaise Longue
12 Nils Frahm – Fundamental Values (‘Tripping’ version)
11 Peter Broderick – Earnest Leslye
10 The War on Drugs – Victim
09 W.H Lung – ARPi
08 Mogwai – Midnight Flit
07 Sofia Kourtesis – La Perla
06 Black Country, New Road - Sunglasses
05 The Antlers – Solstice
04 Cassandra Jenkins – Hard Drive
03 Niki and the Dove – Ode to Dancefloor
02 W.H Lung – Kaya
01 Hum – Desert Rambler

This is the original version of Sunglasses, not the reworked version that’s on the Black Country New Road album.