Album of the year 2022
- Thread starter Knotted
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the wire list is here - unusually I've heard loads of them this year
ska invita
back on the other side
your officially a wiredo
I was saving that until after Xmas tbh
marty21
One on one? You're crazy.
I can confidently say that none of them will appear in my list as I haven't listened to any of them.the wire list is here - unusually I've heard loads of them this year
not even the Bjork?
Dunno, I think it's a more conventional list than usual too.your officially a wiredo
the wire list is here - unusually I've heard loads of them this year
I thought I'd missed it for a minute but Richard Dawson and Circle was released last year according to bandcamp.
Yeah, I know several well and have listened to 29 of them. The Aldous Harding one is in my top 5 listened to albums this year.the wire list is here - unusually I've heard loads of them this year
As an aside, whilst looking for Belladonna by Mary Halvorson I happened upon Belladonna by Ian Carr. Both are pretty good.
marty21
One on one? You're crazy.
Yep , might have a listen to that tbf.
it's probably the strangest album in their top 10 tbh
I've got the Lucretia Dalt album on atm, that's worth checking out too I reckon - weird jazzy torch songs for the most part
billy_bob
Air of bewilderment model's own
I'm struggling this year. Not because there hasn't been loads of good music, but because I seem to have listened to a couple of hundred new albums between 0.75 and 1.25 times each and liked them all pretty much equally. HMHB's Voltarol Years and the Circle/Richard Dawson collab. seem to be the only things I've listened to more than five times, and one of them's from last year.
What do you suggest in this situation? I might have to follow killer b's lead and just pick the ones I think will make me - and us, if any of them make the grade - look good.
What do you suggest in this situation? I might have to follow killer b's lead and just pick the ones I think will make me - and us, if any of them make the grade - look good.
hitmouse
music obfuscation technology
Oh, Automatic, that's another one that I reckon would probably be on my list if I'd given it a few more listens:
As it is I reckon there's about nine albums I can confidently vote for, and then I'll probably just vote for Wet Leg an extra 21 times to pad my list out.
As it is I reckon there's about nine albums I can confidently vote for, and then I'll probably just vote for Wet Leg an extra 21 times to pad my list out.
Spandex
A crazy bulbous punchbag of sound
You got a number of options:
1. Vote for all of them in a random order.
2. Only vote for the ones you've listened to all of - what if you missed a track that was so terrible you could never in good conscience vote for an album that contained it?
3. Only vote for albums you think other people will vote for - make those votes count.
4. Create a brain meltingly complex scoring system and spend every waking hour from now until the 17th creating numerous linked spreadsheets to come up with a scientifically objective basis for your list.
5. Ignore what you've listen to, intead cutting and pasting the Pitchfork/Quietus/Wire/Decibel/Rolling Stone/NME list. Saves you time thinking about it.
6. Spend 5 minutes writing down the ones you can remember without checking. If you haven't remembered an album by then, you can't have liked it that much.
7. PM killer b and ask what he's voting for.
8. Pick the ones that make you look cool.
9. Use the force to help you put 30 in order.
10. Only vote for the two albums you REALLY liked.
Spandex
A crazy bulbous punchbag of sound
You've got time to give it a few more listens before the deadline. Go on, put it on now, then you can vote for it
hitmouse
music obfuscation technology
11. Just vote for Wet Leg?
billy_bob
Air of bewilderment model's own
Thank you for your exhaustive consideration of this.
6 seems like the most sensible option - if I can't remember it, stands to reason it didn't really blow me away. Trouble is, at my age I'm prone to forgetting such trivial details as my PIN, my child's name, and indeed my age, so I find that the contents of my head at any given moment are no longer a reliable guide to what I actually think.
Maybe I'll go with the inverse of no. 3, which you didn't suggest: deliberately pick the absolute most obscure ones that I'm fairly sure even killer b hasn't heard and no-one else will be voting for. My votes will count for nothing whatsoever but I'll get one up on everyone else when I post my list after Knotted has announced the collective results.
billy_bob
Air of bewilderment model's own
I can rule that option out right now.
braindancer
not for long
I've managed to submit a list - first time I've done so in many years as I normally get stuck in decision paralysis. This time I narrowed it to 12 - the order I placed them in was pretty random though 
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hitmouse
music obfuscation technology
17th December.When is the deadline? or is it a traditional vague deadline?
Fwiw I've just checked the Aquarium Drunkard list and there is an absolute shitload on there that we've missed. Loads of great looking stuff too, will be dipping in over christmas
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Aquarium Drunkard : 2022 Year in Review : Aquarium Drunkard
Looking back to look ahead. It’s our Year In Review 2022. As always, our list is unranked and unruly. Let it blurb.
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