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It's that time of year. Bring on your top 10s.
Mine's something like this although almost impossible to separate the top 5, it's been a blinding year for music (again).
- Joan Shelley – Joan Shelley
- Hallelujah Anyhow – Hiss Golden Messenger
- The Navigator – Hurray for the Riff Raff
- Pangs – Alasdair Roberts
- Peasant – Richard Dawson
- Let the Dancers Inherit the Party - British Sea Power
- Orc - Oh Sees
- Future Echoes - Pictish Trail
- Newk Wight Delhi Allstars - Yorkston Thorne Khan
- Out of Range - Gun Outfit
alittleotter replied on Permalink
In no particular order
In no particular order
1.Ian Felice-In The Kingdom Of Dreams.
2.Grandaddy-The Last Place.
3.Run The Jewels-RTJ3
4.Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever-French Press
5.Kevin Morby -City Music.
6.Woods-Love is Love.
7.Spoon-Hot Thoughts.
8.Julie Byrne-Not Even Happiness.
9.Peter Perrett-How The West Was Won.
10.The Shins- Heartworms.
decemberboy replied on Permalink
1) Nadine Shah - Holiday
1) Nadine Shah - Holiday Destination
2) Slowdive - Slowdive
3) Ryan Adams - Prisoner
4) The Jesus & Mary Chain - Damage & Joy
5) The War on Drugs - A Deeper Understaning
6) Sleaford Mods - English Tapas
7) British Sea Power - Let the Dancers Inherit the Party
8) Conor Oberst - Salutations
9) Vancouver Sleep Clinic - Revival
10) Cigarettes After Sex - Cigarettes After Sex
'adios senor pussycat' -
'adios senor pussycat' - michael head
and some other records
Grandaddy - Last Place
Grandaddy - Last Place
Ed Dowie - The Uncle Sold
Seamus Fogarty - The Curious Hand
North Atlantic Drift - Departures Vol.1
Mogwai - Every Country's Sun
Thundercat - Drunk
Manoganon - Killmens
Big Thief - Capacity
Gill Landry - Love Rides a Dark Horse
Conor Oberst - Salutations
you people are all listening
you people are all listening to completely different records to me
'adios senor pussycat' - michael head
'sandgrown' - jack cooper
'mapache' - mapache
'we are millionaires' - pete fij + terry bickers
'30 seconds to the decline of planet earth' - sun kil moon
'common as light and love are red valleys of blood' - sun kil moon
'another summer of love' - gospelbeach
'crack-up' - fleet foxes
'existential beast' - miranda lee richards
'a crow looked at me' - mount eerie
'volcano' - temples
'foxhole' - the proper ornaments
Nathan replied on Permalink
Jens Lekman - Life Will See
Jens Lekman - Life Will See You Now
DiS say it was this year, I thought it was last...
Nathan replied on Permalink
Cry Cry Cry - Wolf Parade
Cry Cry Cry - Wolf Parade
A Crow Looked at Me - Mount Eerie
Modern Kosmology - Jane Weaver
Prince of Tears - Baxter Dury
Moonshine Freeze - This is the Kit
Capacity - Big Thief (Album of the Year)
Preservation - Nadia Ried
Planatarium Sufjan et al.
Honourable Mention: Ride. and Phases by Angel Olsen.
LIVE AWARD: RIchard Dawson.
So many magnificent albums this year including ...
Sam Amidon - The Following Mountain
Kevin Morby - City Music
The Barr Brothers - Queens of the Breakers
Blue Rose Code - The Water of Leith
Seamus Fogarty - The Curious Hand
Michael Chapman - 50
Angus and Julia Stone - Snow
Waxahatchee - Out in the Storm
Peter Oren - Anthropocene
Offa Rex - The Queen of Hearts
Hurrah for the Riff Raff - The Navigator
Hamell on Trial - Tackle box
Most disappointing album: The Mountain Goats - Goths (betcha it would sound great live at GM 18 though!!!)
Best Live Album: Hamell on Trial - Big Mouth Strikes Again
Best new-old album: Neil Young - Hitchhiker
Well one or two of you get a
Well one or two of you get a few marks for trying but it's a pretty piss poor effort overall I have to say.
Before anyone else embarasses themselves the correct answer, in no particular order, is ...
Trampolene - Swansea to Hornsey
Sun Kil Moon - Common as Light and Love are Red Valleys of Blood
Pumarosa - The Witch
HMS Morris - Interior Design
Richard Dawson - Peasant
U2 - Songs of Experience
Nadine Shah - Holiday Destination
Loyle Carner - Yesterday’s Gone
Samantha Crain - You Had me at Goodbye
Toby Hay - The Gathering
Kamasi Washington - Harmony of Difference
U2? Oh you are a one peridot!
U2? Oh you are a one peridot!
The Samantha Crain album was one of my disappoitments of the year. It's not bad but not, in my opinion, a patch on her earlier stuff.
I didn't even get 1 out of 10
and I tried really hard this year
... insert sad face emoji here
waveydavey replied on Permalink
In no particular order:
In no particular order:
Atomic Bomb Band - Atomic Bomb Band
Every Valley - Public Service Broadcasting
Every Country's Sun - Mogwai
Party - Aldous Harding
Yesterday's Gone - Loyle Carner
Bicep - Bicep
Resistance - Songhoy Blues
Two Trains - Hogni
Mary Casio:Journey to Cassiopeia - Hannah Peel
George Best 30 - The Wedding Present
And any of the following who
And any of the following who haven't played GM would be more than welcomed by me next year (as well as those who already have):
Algiers – The Underside of Power
Kevin Morby – City Music
Neil Young – Hitchhiker
Manchester Orchestra – A Black Mile to the Surface
Peter Perrett – How the West Was Won*
Pumarosa – The Witch
Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever – Talk Tight
The National – Sleep Well Beast
The Surfing Magazines - The Surfing Magazines
The War on Drugs – A Deeper Understanding
Single : W.H.Lung - Inspiration! / Nothing Is
*Although it's only the 2nd best of the two 'How the West Was Won' albums I have.
Voices, Strings and Other Things 2017
Colorama - Some Things Just Take Time
Marty Stuart - Way Out West
HGM - Hallelujah Anyhow
Michael Chapman - 50
The Weather Station
James Elkington - Wintres Woma
Joan Shelley
Yorkston Thorne Khan - Neuk Wight Delhi All-Stars
Chris Hillman Bidin' My Time
GospelbeacH - Another Summer of Love
Rodney Crowell - Close Ties
I'll Make The Most Of My Sins
I'll Make The Most Of My Sins by Robert Vincent
smithers replied on Permalink
Not a list but I have finally
Not a list but I have finally got around to listening to Mount Eerie - A Crow Looked at Me, stunning.
blackpumpkinhead replied on Permalink
Wonderful album,very
Wonderful album,very difficult/emotional to sit through---would love to hear it performed live but unsure if it would get the silence required from the crowd at a festival.
it was gruelling (though
it was gruelling (though wonderful) to see one of the shows of 'crow' material
but phil said that he won't be doing the songs live again