Urban75 Album of the Year 2013 - The Results

[Spandex]

doh! I knew there'd be one.....not having originally noticed that there were two Asphodells albums nominated, I initially put them both together (which gave it a decent bump), and somehow thought that Remixed was the popular one. I wrote a hilarious post about how you were all weird for voting for that, but not the original, but then thought I better go back and check, and realised my mistake. i thought I'd corrected the track tho...

That Hardway Bros remix you linked to is great.

 

[braindancer]

I hope one was The Ex album. Damn but that's great.

I w3as a bit surprised when it, and a couple of others, were on Spotify. I've just worked out that, they weren't, but they're on my computer so did show up when I searched. No one else will be able to listen to them tho

Could have a sneaky listen on grooveshark: http://grooveshark.com/#!/album/Enormous+Door/8942345 as I am doing at the moment. Great stuff I agree.

 

[Dr. Furface]

Ok here's mine...

King Krule - 6 Feet Beneath The Moon
Julia Holter - Loud City Song
DJ Rashad – Double Cup
Boards of Canada - Tomorrow's Harvest
Laurel Halo - Chance of Rain
Floorplan – Paradise
Hookworms - Pearl Mystic
Holden - The Inheritors
Bill Callahan – Dream River
Mount Kimbie - Cold Spring Fault Less Youth
Oneohtrix Point Never – R Plus Seven
Young Echo – Nexus
Djrum - Seven Lies
Kanye West – Yeezus
RP Boo – Legacy
Mazes - Ores & Minerals
Wooden Shjips – Back to Land
Thundercat – Apocalypse
Forest Swords – Engravings
Crime & The City Solution – American Twilight

Thanks to everyone who voted and for coming up with some albums that I didn't know about and which haven't featured in other end of year lists, which is the great thing about the U75 poll every year (even if I knew Nick Cave would win it as soon as his album came out!)

 

[sim667]

http://wonkydonkeyrambler.blogspot.co.uk/

Wrote mine up on me blog, just a few words about each and a tune from each

 

[sim667]

Djrum - Seven Lies

I got given a copy of this, been told its very good but not had a chance to listen yet.

 

[Dr. Furface]

I got given a copy of this, been told its very good but not had a chance to listen yet.

It's really good and better than certain other electronic/dance albums this year which have received a lot more attention

 

[boing!]

My list

1. Josephine Foster - I'm A Dreamer
2. Nick Cave - Push The Sky Away
3. Matmos - The Marriage of True Minds
4. Charles Bradley - Victim Of Love
5. Low - The Invisible Way
6. Moderat - II
7. The Knife - Shaking The Habitual
8. Machinedrum - Vapor City
9. Oneohtrix Point Never - R Plus Seven
10. Katie Gately - Katie Gately
11. Mogwai - Les Revenants
12. Jon Hopkins - Immunity
13.Haiku Salut - Tricolore
14. Guy Clark - My Favourite Picture Of You

 

[Dr. Furface]

No Earl Sweatshirt's 'Doris' in the top 50 is the biggest suprise for me.

I just finally got round to hearing that - really good, probably woulda made my list if I'd heard it earlier.

 

[Hollis]

Pah! I don't particularly rate Push the Sky Away as a first rate Cave album.. much as I still like it. Its probably the only album from this year I've actually listened to much.

My top 10 discoveries of the year - in no particular order..

1. Sparks - Lil Beethoven
2. Loop - Heaven's End
3. Jesus and Mary Chain - Psychocandy
4. Slowdrive - Soulvaki
5. Slowdrive - Just for a Day
6. Eno/Bryne - My Life in the Bush of Ghosts
7. David Bowie - Lodger
8. Loop - A Gilded Eternity
9. The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
10. Luke Haines - 9 1/2 Pyschedelic Mediations on British Boxing in the Late 70s and Early 80s

 

[Dr_Gonzo]

Cheers for putting it together, Belboid. Great list overall.

The top 20 I submitted was:

1. Colin Stetson - New History Warfare Vol. 3: To See More Light
2. Julia Holter - Loud City Songs
3. Kanye West - Yeezus
4. Tape Loop Orchestra - In a Lonely Place
5. Tim Hecker - Virgins
6. Bill Orcutt - A History of Every One
7. Forest Swords - Engravings
8. Grouper - The Man Who Died in his Boat
9. Mogwai - Les Revenants
10. Four Tet - Beautiful Rewind
11. Hey Colossus - Cuckoo Live Life Like Cuckoo
12. DJ Rashad - Double Cup
13. Oneohtrix Point Never - R Plus Seven
14. Ghostface Killah - Twelve Reasons to Die
15. Shugo Tokamaru - In Focus?
16. James Blake - Overgrown
17. Boards of Canada - Tomorrow’s Harvest
18. These New Puritans - Field of Reeds
19. Scout Niblett - It’s Up To Emma
20. Marnie Stern - Chronicles of Marnia

Although after 10 the order could change day to day. In fact since I submitted the list I'd probably take a couple of things off so I could get the Daniel Avery album and the Clams Casino mixtape on.

 

[Ming]

Fuck! I've only heard mbv and the cave one. Will give them all a good listen. The only new group for me this year is The Tragically Hip (which is tragically tragic...great stuff though. Road Apples is amazing).

 

[mwgdrwg]

Pah! I don't particularly rate Push the Sky Away as a first rate Cave album.. much as I still like it. Its probably the only album from this year I've actually listened to much.

My top 10 discoveries of the year - in no particular order..

1. Sparks - Lil Beethoven
2. Loop - Heaven's End
3. Jesus and Mary Chain - Psychocandy
4. Slowdrive - Soulvaki
5. Slowdrive - Just for a Day
6. Eno/Bryne - My Life in the Bush of Ghosts
7. David Bowie - Lodger
8. Loop - A Gilded Eternity
9. The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
10. Luke Haines - 9 1/2 Pyschedelic Mediations on British Boxing in the Late 70s and Early 80s

Slowdive.

 

[clandestino]

4. Slowdrive - Soulvaki
5. Slowdrive - Just for a Day

Did you get the CD reissues with the, ahem, really amazing and totally erudite sleevenotes wot I wrote? You didn't fancy "Pgymalion" as well?

 

[Fozzie Bear]

1. Sleaford Mods “Austerity Dogs” (Harbinger Sound)
2. Hacker Farm “UHF” (Exotic Pylon)
3. Manix “Living In The Past” (Reinforced)
4. Major Lazer “Free The Universe” (Secretly Canadian)
5. GRMMSK "The End Prophecies" (Libertatia Overseas Trading)
6. Some Truths "Low X Point" (Magic and Dreams)
7. Various Artists "The Outer Church" compilation (Front and Follow)
8. Ceramic Hobs "Spiritworld Circle Jerk" (Must Die)
9. Sophie Cooper "Labyrinth" (Exotic Pylon)
10. Various Artists "Noise In Opposition" compilation (Noise In Opposition)
11. EVOL "Something Inflatable" (Alku)
12. Crabskull "Keep The Evil Away" (Dub Ditch Picnic)
13. Emmplekz "Your Cart Has Changed" (Mordant Music)

I think I would really like the new Congo Natty and Forest Swords too, but I've not checked them yet.

But this year was mainly about old stuff for me - rediscovering Bandulu, getting back into some drum 'n' bass briefly.

Ploughing into Sun Ra, David Jackman, AMM.

 

[ska invita]

But this year was mainly about old stuff for me - rediscovering Bandulu, getting back into some drum 'n' bass briefly.

mainly 70/80s roots, 20s jazz tahnks to Danny and catching up on techno at the fishco for me

 

[braindancer]

Although after 10 the order could change day to day. In fact since I submitted the list I'd probably take a couple of things off so I could get the Daniel Avery album and the Clams Casino mixtape on.

Oooh - I'd not heard there was a new Clams Casino mixtape. Must investigate! Loved the first two...

 

[Hollis]

Did you get the CD reissues with the, ahem, really amazing and totally erudite sleevenotes wot I wrote? You didn't fancy "Pgymalion" as well?

Actually, I'm afraid I just got 'em of spotify.. err.

 

[marty21]

1. Daft Punk - Random Access Memories
2. Camera Obscura - Desire Lines
3. Caitlin Rose - The Stand In
4. The Rockingbirds - The Return of the Rockingbirds
5. Lady Antebellum - Golden
6. Goldfrapp - Tales of Us
7. Court Yard Hounds - Amilita
8 Savages - Silence Yourself
9. Natalie Maines - Mother
10. Phospherescence - Muchacho
11. The Civil Wars - The Civil Wars

my top 11 (in fact the only new music I bought this year)

Positions could change - amazed that the Camera Obscura album wasn't in the chart - it is fab!

 

[braindancer]

Although after 10 the order could change day to day. In fact since I submitted the list I'd probably take a couple of things off so I could get the Daniel Avery album and the Clams Casino mixtape on.

Oooh - I'd not heard there was a new Clams Casino mixtape. Must investigate! Loved the first two...

 

[killer b]

Irritatingly - as I find their journalism insufferable in the main - I concur with the quietus, Grumbling Fur's Glynaestra is the best album I've heard this year. Even more irritatingly, it's the second year in a row.

also on my list, which I didn't submit so didn't count for shit:

Sleaford Mods - Austerity Dogs (it's an odd musical climate we're in atm - I've seen this in loads of people's top 10s, but they played to 12 people in Blackpool the other night)
Bad Guys - Bad Guys (I guess it's sort of 'ironic' hard rock, but it's really good)
Karen Gwyer - Kiki the Wormhole (lovely soulful deep & experimental techno on Opal Tapes - loads of other brilliant stuff on the same label too)
Cavern of Antimatter - Blood Drums (two of stereolab doing high quality groovy krautrock)
LB Dub Corp - Unknown Origin (Luke Slater's latest album. Really nice dubby / clubby techno. Nothing new I suppose, but so what)
Richard Dawson - The Glass Trunk (Noise-folk from Newcastle)
Shit & Shine - Jream Baby Jream (low-end low-rent noise-rock)
Warm Digits - Interchange (more krauty stuff)

Mainly it's been live music for me this year though tbh. Most of which I can't remember 'cause I was pissed all the time. ho hum.

Links are to the music, mostly the whole album.

 

[souljacker]

Fuck me, this Congo Natty album is fucking brilliant!

 

[Dr_Gonzo]

Oooh - I'd not heard there was a new Clams Casino mixtape. Must investigate! Loved the first two...

Think it came out two or three days ago. Along the same lines as his first two, basically most of his productions that came out this year. Apparently his final mixtape, slightly different from his others but still great.

 

[braindancer]

Irritatingly - as I find their journalism insufferable in the main - I concur with the quietus, Grumbling Fur's Glynaestra is the best album I've heard this year. Even more irritatingly, it's the second year in a row.

I'd not heard this till I read the Quietus list - but yep, what a fucking brilliant album. What was the Quietus no. 1 last year then?

 

[killer b]

swans, same as here.

 

[braindancer]

Ah yes.

 

[Indeliblelink]

Here's my list -

01 Boards Of Canada - Tomorrows harvest
02 Ludovico Einaudi - In a time lapse
03 Conny Plank - Who's that man? (esp. CD4: Plank, Moebius and Arno Steffen Live In Mexico 1986)
04 Nadine Shah - Love your dum & mad
05 Fire! Orchestra - Exit!
06 Melt Yourself Down - Melt yourself down
07 Autechre - Exai
08 Kavinsky - Outrun
09 Donato Dozzy - Plays Bee Mask
10 The Asphodells - Ruled by passion, destroyed by lust
11 Minilogue - Blomma
12 Aufgang - Istiklaliya
13 Bombino - Nomad
14 Dirtmusic - Troubles
15 Shxcxchcxsh – STRGTHS
16 Dirty Beaches - Drifters / Love is the devil
17 DJ Heny. G – Childhood
18 Vakula - You've never been to konotop (selected works 2009-2012)
19 The Memory Band - On the Chalk (Our Navigation of the Line of the Downs)
20 Mamman Sani Abdullaye - La musique électronique du Niger

I would probably of got the William Onyeabor compilation on there too if I had know it qualified.

 

[Johnny Vodka]

No-one fallen for the John Grant album? Listening to it now after seeing it get placings in end of year polls and hearing stuff on 6 music... Liking it so far. Looks like it should be a folk album, but it's actually electronic/dancey*...

*well, the 1st two tracks anyway

 

[chriswill]

Excellent work, Playlist subscribed to

 

[Silva]

Did you get the CD reissues with the, ahem, really amazing and totally erudite sleevenotes wot I wrote? You didn't fancy "Pgymalion" as well?

I love Slowdive (and have the three re-issues), but Pygmalion is a very different record compared to the first two. I know people who never got into it after the first two, and others who didn't like the fuzzy guitars of those and prefer the Enoish textures on Pygmalion.

 

[redsquirrel]

Irritatingly - as I find their journalism insufferable in the main - I concur with the quietus, Grumbling Fur's Glynaestra is the best album I've heard this year. Even more irritatingly, it's the second year in a row.

also on my list, which I didn't submit so didn't count for shit:

Sleaford Mods - Austerity Dogs (it's an odd musical climate we're in atm - I've seen this in loads of people's top 10s, but they played to 12 people in Blackpool the other night)

Definitely going to have to check this out.

Mine were
1. These New Puritans - Field of Reeds
2. John Grant - Pale Green Ghosts
3. British Sea Power - Machineries of Joy
4. Bill Callahan - Dream River
5. Caitlin Rose - The Stand In
6. My Bloody Valentine - m b v
7. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Push the Sky Away
8. Mogwai - Les Revenants
9. Future of the Left - How To Stop Your Brain In an Accident
10. Crime & The City Solution - American Twilight
11. Mick Harvey - Four (Acts of Love)
12. Edwyn Collins - Understated
13. Mazzy Star - Seasons of Our Day
14. Laura Veirs - Warp and Weft
15. Hey Colossus - Cuckoo Live Life Like Cuckoo
16. Southern Tenant Folk Union - Hello Cold, Goodbye Sun
17. Factory Floor - Factory Floor
18. The Rockingbirds - Return of the Rockingbirds
19. The Duckworth-Lewis Method - Sticky Wickets
20. The Drones - I See Seaweed

TBH all the top 10 are pretty much equal in quality.