Urban75 Album of the Year 2017 - The Results!

[belboid]

Alright, alright...young people today

 

[marty21]

Alright, alright...young people today

If you are calling me a young person , you can take as much time as you like

 

[redsquirrel]

Mogwai for number one then.

Hopefully not. Much as I love them this year's isn't their best and there's a bunch of records more deserving.

 

[belboid]

10 - Forest Swords - Compassion

Unfolding like a journey through a bustling soundscape of found sounds, instrumental loops and post-dubstep production, tis dazzling and evocative.

 

[killer b]

Mogwai aren't number 1. They might scrape top 5.

 

[belboid]

9 - Mogwai - Every Country's Son

Oh no they're not! It's a Mogwai album, we know what to expect. Except this time, they sound kinda happy.

 

[killer b]

or not even that.

 

[belboid]

8 - Thee Oh Sees - Orc

Psych!

 

[redsquirrel]

Oooh, my #1 might be in the top 5. Stetson too

 

[belboid]

7 - Colin Stetson - All This I Do For Glory

Experimental saxophonist Colin returns with a new album that doesn't exactly break new ground. But when the ground is that fertile, why would you?

 

[redsquirrel]

Shame, deserved a top five position. Still pretty good

 

[belboid]

6 - Sleaford Mods - English Tapas

The Sleafords can't possibly mantain there acerbic cutting edge on a ninth (ninth!) album, can they? Hell, yes.

 

[Orang Utan]

7 - Colin Stetson - All This I Do For Glory

Experimental saxophonist Colin returns with a new album that doesn't exactly break new ground. But when the ground is that fertile, why would you?

He manages to make his sax sound like a Rob Hood synth line, which makes him awesome in my book

 

[killer b]

Hannah Peel for number 1!

 

[Orang Utan]

6 - Sleaford Mods - English Tapas

The Sleafords can't possibly mantain there acerbic cutting edge on a ninth (ninth!) album, can they? Hell, yes.

FFS

 

[redsquirrel]

Hannah Peel for number 1!

Well I'd be surprised if she didn't make the top 25. No Richard Dawson yet either.

 

[belboid]

5 - Slowdive - Slowdive

Shoegaze is back. And it could be better than ever.

 

[belboid]

FFS

I know, I expected it to be Number 1 as well

 

[redsquirrel]

Bah, really? Nostalgia triumphing common sense. (at Slowdive)

 

[belboid]

4 - Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs - Feed the Rats

A Cro-Magnon bludgeoning of guttural howls and relentless metal-against-granite riffs, swelling and falling like universes colliding. It's quite noisy.

 

[belboid]

Okay, NOW you can make guesses as to the Top Three.

 

[killer b]

I've got Peel & Dawson in the top 3, who else is there?

 

[redsquirrel]

I've got Peel & Dawson in the top 3, who else is there?

Gnod?

3. Gnod, 2. Peel, 1. Dawson is my guess.

 

[Dr. Furface]

King Krule or Actress, c'mon!

 

[killer b]

Gnod?

3. Gnod, 2. Peel, 1. Dawson is my guess.

seems unlikely, I don't think they made the list.

 

[marty21]

Okay, NOW you can make guesses as to the Top Three.

Alfie Boe and Michael Ball must be in with a shout

 

[redsquirrel]

seems unlikely, I don't think they made the list.

Laura Cannell? She's not appeared so far.

 

[Indeliblelink]

Aldous Harding maybe?

 

[Dr. Furface]

Not that godawful Arca album

 

[clandestino]

Aldous Harding maybe?

I voted for her.