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Not sure I've seen an 'Albums of the Year' thread yet, so thought I'd kick things off with my top 5:
1. Vision of Bodies Being Burned - clipping.
2. Off-Key in Hamburg - Father John Misty
3. A Celebration of Endings - Biffy Clyro
4. Mass for the Endangered - Sarah Kirkland Snider
5. Post Human Survival Horror - Bring Me The Horizon
What are yours?
Lianne Le Havas - Lianne Le Havas
Nadine Shah - Kitchen Sink
Caribou - Suddenly
Doves - Universal Want
Tony Allen and Hugh Masekela - Rejoice
Favourite Album of the year is BC Camplight - Shortly After Take Off.
Just waiting for my signed first-pressing on vinyl to turn up 😀
clipping.? clipping?! How very dare you 😀
Great choice at number 1 there.
I shall compile a list
@fasthaggis, found the 6music listener! Great shout on that new Lianne La Havas record, her cover of Weird Fishes is up there on my tracks of the year list. Absolutely superb.
@dezb, hadn't heard of clipping. before listening to Visions for the first time off the back of Anthony Fantano's review, and I'm smitten. Reminds me a lot of everything I love about Nine Inch Nails, just in experimental hiphop form. Like, industrial hiphop I guess!
Strange as this year is,there has still been some great music coming out and I think it has meant even more.
Good shout with 'Shortly After Take Off' Binners,cracking album .
Fingers crossed for his 2021 gig in Glasgow.
Christ,I am missing the live stuff 🙁
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The vision - the vision
Whatever the oh sees are called and have released!
Best tune - King Gizzard and the Lizzard Wizzard - Straws in the Wild
A few from me
working men's club (first heard on this very site)
i am moron - lovely eggs
abolition .... - the orb
hadn’t heard of clipping. before listening to Visions for the first time off the back of Anthony Fantano’s review, and I’m smitten
Cool, you haven't been paying attention to me raving about them on the Tunes Association thread though! Check out the first 2 albums on Bandcamp, they are unbelievable [url= https://clppng.bandcamp.com/ ]Midcity and CLPPNG [/url]
I think Working Men's Club (self titled) is my fave of the year, but that maybe cos it's so recent. Need to scout back.
Certainly not the new Green Day album. Most disappointing 26 minutes of music I have ever waited for
Whatever the oh sees are called and have released!
yes all of these and also the damaged bug one with the song about gold on it, that is awesome. Think they got a remix album out soon as well.
I thought the new Sepultura album Quadra stood out. Oh how Max would love to be making music of this quality now. However, the new Killer be Killed is also very good.
Whatever the oh sees are called and have released!
Protean Threat - great album. I'll add in :
Crack Cloud 'Pain Olympics'
Flat Worms - Antartica
The Orb - Abolition of the Royal Familia
Bdrmm - Bedroom
Floating Points - Crush
Fingers crossed for his 2021 gig in Glasgow.
@fasthaggis - Have you seen him live before? He puts on a cracking gig. Hoping to catch him at the Trade Club next year
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6Music were all over that too. I struggled to find more than 2 good tracks though, didn't get it.
The only album I've bought this year was Larkin Poe's Self Made Man. So that…
Oops told a lie there. Bought Satriani's Shapeshifting. So that goes in at number 2.
I also bought Marylin Manson's excellent the Pale Emperor, but that was 2015 so that's out/
Hmmmm so far
Slomosa - Slomosa
Slift - Ummon
Camo & Krooked with the Max Steiner Orchestra -Red Bull Symphonic (Cringy corporate title I know)
Might be a bit mainstream for STW but Power Up by ACDC is brilliant. Far better than Rock or Bust.
Wheres The Outrage by the Rock Bottom Risers was initially released at the back end of last year but released on a new label I think in January and is brilliant.
And linked to the above who were meant to be supporting them this year on a tour, The Lottery Winners self titled album is another belter.
Here's the Ratio 6 list:
I have an extremely narrow taste in music my top 5 are but in no order
Knucks - London Calling
Verbz / Mr Slipz - Radio Waves
TrueMendous - Huh?
Conway the Machine - From King to God
Benny the Butcher - Bulletproof
Doves - Universal Want
Bob Mould - Blue Hearts
Taylor Swift - folklore
They are the 3 I’ve listened to most.
No particular order, but here are five of the top of my head...
Moscow Death Brigade - Bad Accent Anthems
Body Count - Carnivore
Coriky - Coriky
Bob Vylan - We Live Here
Warwound - WWIII
Currently have Spirit World Field Guide by Aesop Rock on repeat - best album this year for me, but not his greatest work maybe
Here’s the Ra[t]dio 6 list
*removes Nadine Shah from my list* 😛
(It's great really)
The new Aesop Rock is good, but I have'nt really got my head round it yet.
Fleet Foxes - Shores
Possibly their best yet and a real return to form.
I’ve been on a country/Americana trip for the last few months so it’s either:
Western Swing & Waltzes and Other Punchy Songs - Colter Wall
Or
Reunions - Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit.
Then again old Skool hip-hop/breaks & beats is always good so:
Andy Cooper - Listen
and
The Allergies - Say the Word
Oh yeah Allergies, bangin' album, stick that on the list.
Field Lines Cartographer - The Spectral Isle. This sent me down a Hauntology rabbit hole that I'm yet to get out of and is costing me a fortune in records.
Anything Guided by Voices has put out this year, they don't seem to be capable of releasing anything I don't like
Autechre - Sign. Taking a while to grow on me, but once it took hold its ver hard to walk away from
Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever -Sideways to New Italy
Alex Henry Foster and the Long Shadows - Windows In The Sky
Eels - Earth To Dora
Matt Berninger - Serpentine Prison
Doves - Universal Want
Bob Mould - Blue Hearts
Wire - Mind Hive
Wire- 10:20
Some truly awful recommendations on here.
I really must try harder. Most of what I thought were new albums this year were last year's or much earlier:
kindathing. Curse of streaming and sonos, which I'm getting sick of as a way to listen to music.
Anyway this year prob
caribou - suddenly
father john misty - off-key in hamburg (having skimmed the thread these two are up there for sure)
j hus - big conspiracy [edited as originally typed 'bog conspiracy' which is an entirely different piece of work that Armitage Shanks don't want you to hear. Or you'll be shanked. Makes you think...
Listening a bit atmn to that new blue note compilation re:imagined which is okay.
Like I say must try harder
The lost art of longing - BT
Possibly reliving my youth a Little 🙂
Some truly awful recommendations on here
Good job taste is subjective then really! Do let us know what we're missing @joe...
@johnx2, glad to see another Father John Misty fan. I was a bit torn about putting that album into my top 5 as they're not strictly new songs (being a Live album) but it's so well done, performances and mix-wise, that it felt justified.
Lots of love for the new Doves album it seems, I'll get that on the 'to listen' list.
Well for me the best album by a country mile is Home by Hania Rani. Listened to it heaps and heaps and heaps.
Even managed 6 times in a row one day. Pretty much put it on first thing most mornings.
Then Fiona Apples Fetch the Boltcutters.
And Gillian Welch’s Boots no. 2 trilogy.
There’s been releases by Angel Olsen, Bill Callahan that haven’t hit the spot for me. even the latest Khruangbin hasn’t really resonated... here’s hoping their Latenighttales makes up for it...
I picked up a lot of things the end of last year that skewed the first 6 months (nilüfer yanya, this the kit, holy magick, etc.)...
another Father John Misty fan. I was a bit torn about putting that album into
His/their (absolute top band - and can't make that much cash touring with that many musicians) Piece Hall Concert in Halifax a couple of years ago was fantastic, just a brilliant night, and the set is pretty much what's on that album.
I've been thriving on RTJ4 like a fat kid on chicken nuggets.
Idles' Ultra Mono and Working Mens Club for me.
With a special mention for Arab Strap's single, The Rolling of Our Bones
Back at it like a crack addict, me too Sharkattack
Some truly awful recommendations on here.
Yeah, maybe folk like different stuff?
Anyway, I'd prefer an awful recommedation to none at all.
Don't be shy, hit us with it...
Not got Fleet Foxes new one yet, or Fiona Apple, Gillian Welch, or Bob Mould, and sadly The Besnard Lakes’ new album won’t be out until January.
I haven’t bought a huge amount of actual new albums this year, but so far my favourites are:
Laura Marling - ‘Songs For Our Daughter’
Phoebe Bridgers - ‘Punisher’
Baxter Dury - ‘The Night Chancers’
Neil Young - ‘Homegrown’
The Hu ‘Gereg’
Can’t believe I forgot the Slow Rush by Tame Impala! Bloody loved that album.
Slow Rush was this year? Losing it. Anyway, that too...
Joe
Some truly awful recommendations on here
and one truly moronic post
Some great recommendations here. Must check out the FJM one. Hadn’t even realised he’d done anything new.
My album of the year was folklore. I think it might be La Swift’s best work.
My album of the year was folklore
Yep. It’s something I can just listen to over and over...which is a weird thing for a Hüsker Dü fan to admit to.
Couple of my favs so far this year
With you on Rival Consoles. Great album.
Was hoping this thread was due soon, have really struggled to find any new music this year. No gigs or meeting my music-minded friends has meant I've been listening to the same stuff all year.
New playlist is inbound.
With the year we've had, I've spent a lot more time listening to old favourites, so I've not bought as many albums as normal.
These are the three that have really taken hold of my brain.
Chromatics -Closer To Grey
Actress - Karma and Desire
NIN -Ghosts V: Together
Taylor’s releasing a sister album to folklore at midnight eastern. 😍
https://twitter.com/taylorswift13/status/1337020334122397697?s=21
Oh, seeing as it's been bumped. Here's a bunch I thought of in addition to Working Men's Club. I could add another 10-15 but, leaving out my usual artistes* 🙂 Links included, in case anyone fancies sampling:
[url= https://alphafox.bandcamp.com/album/la-haine ]Alphafox - La Haine[/url]
[url= http://smarturl.com/floorseats2 ]ASAP Ferg - Floor Seats II[/url]
[url= https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RuasaxDilCo&list=PLqkBJLgOE09Qx5LjD9OXUV_fKt9NydUZM ]Nocturnal Sunshine - Full Circle[/url]
[url= https://bleepbloop.bandcamp.com/album/one-liners ]Bleep Bloop - One Liners[/url]
[url= https://haleekmaul.bandcamp.com/album/errol ]Haleek Maul - Errol[/url]
[url= https://youtu.be/5u9bEeyAcvo ]Girls on Canvas - LO[/url] (oh dear, didn't know that video existed til now😳 )
[url= https://thelasso-mmg.bandcamp.com/album/dont-play-it-straight ]Small Bills - Don't Play it Straight[/url]
and from way back in Feb some guitar based pop
[url= https://hmltd.bandcamp.com/album/west-of-eden ]HMLTD - West of Eden[/url]
*Tricky, DoseOne, Clipping, RAP Ferriera, Aesop Rock, Tobacco
I've not got that many new albums this year. Of those I have got:
Pearl Jam's Gigaton has engaged me more than their last couple of albums. Nothing earth shattering, but I do like the Pearl Jam-meets-Talking Heads Dance of the Clairvoyants.
Jim White's Misfit's Jubilee and Emily Barker's A Dark Murmuration of Words both seem good and I've listened to them a decent amount.
Eels' Earth To Dora has yet to clearly distinguish itself from their other recent albums. Decent, but not yet caught my attention.
Mark Lanegan's Straight Songs of Sorrow hasn't clicked with me yet.
Fiona Apple's Fetch the Boltcutters seems pretty good but I've not really listened to it enough yet to have a firm grasp of it.
I didn't realise that Bob Mould had released another album, so it's now on my Christmas list. According to Amazon the new Fleet Foxes album isn't out on CD until February, so I'll probably wait until then to get it as I am old and like my physical artefacts.
1. Bob Vylan - We live here
2. Bob Vylan - We live here
3. Run the Jewels - RTJ4
4. Ghostpoet - I grow old but dare not fall asleep
5. then something else: Fontaines DC, Clipping, Flaming Lips maybe WMC after the top 4 the pickings get a little thinner. ...
IMHO.