Urban75 Album of the Year 2017 - The Results!

[redsquirrel]

Laura Marling

Your and my brothers Marling soft spot always make me give her a go, but this one was bland even by her recent standards.

 

[belboid]

Your and my brothers Marling soft spot always make me give her a go, but this one was bland even by her recent standards.

The utter brilliance of the second album keeps me listening. I like her voice and guitar playing, so I'll forgive her for being less than stupendous lyrically occasionally.

 

[rekil]

No country in the U75 top 30, but then it's pretty low in my list, doesn't seem to have been a good year. Anybody else got any country suggestions for 2017?

I had Billy Strings, Jaime Wyatt, Rachel Baiman, Rhiannon Giddens, Chris Stapleton and Molly Tuttle. My number 1 was Valerie June which has elements of country amongst everything else.

Spoiler: Valerie June - The Order Of Time

 

[billy_bob]

Mine were:

1 Forest Swords
2 Alan Vega - It
3 Pigs x 7

I'm happy to see two of three in there.

 

[redsquirrel]

I had Billy Strings, Jaime Wyatt, Rachel Baiman, Rhiannon Giddens, Chris Stapleton and Molly Tuttle. My number 1 was Valerie June which has elements of country amongst everything else.

Spoiler: Valerie June - The Order Of Time

Cheers, heard of (though not actually listened to the Rhiannon Giddens), look forward to checking these out.

 

[Lorca]

didn't vote but if i did, i probably would have rolled with:

1. Susanne Sundfor - Music for People in Trouble
2. GY!BE - Luciferian Towers
3. Laura Cannell - Hunter, Huntress, Hawker
4. Gnod - Just Say No to the Psycho Right-Wing Capitalist Fascist Industrial Death Machine
5. Karine Polwart With Pippa Murphy -A Pocket of Wind Resistance

with honourable mentions for Kamasi Washington, Idles, Dave Rawlings Machine, Momus, Band of Holy Joy - and that Hannah Peel album does sound fantastic

 

[Indeliblelink]

01 Slowdive - Slowdive
02 Forest Swords - Compassion
03 Kelly Lee Owens - Kelly Lee Owens
04 Colin Stetson - All This I Do For Glory
05 The Black Angels - Death Song
06 The Necks - Unfold
07 The Tiger Lillies - Cold night in Soho
08 King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Flying Microtonal Banana
09 Alfa Mist - Antiphon
10 Hannah Peel - Mary Casio; Journey to Cassiopeia
11 Ibibio Sound Machine - Uyai
12 Onda Tropica - Baile Bucanero
13 Mitch & Mitch & Kassin - Visitantes nordestinos
14 Patrick Cowley - Afternooners
15 Lingua Ignota - All Bitches Die
16 Daniel Brandt - Eternal Something

Cheers belboid for the hard work, the back in time 1957,67,77,87 threads were great fun this year too. Look forward to doing the
19?8s next year

 

[clandestino]

Thanks belboid. Great work as always!

 

[nogojones]

I feel like I'm pissing in the Urban wind. I seem to becoming more estranged from any hive mind with only two of mine making the list.

For what its worth here's mine....

1. Phatworld - sad reacts only
2. Luke Vibert - Presents UK Garave Vol 1
3. Juana Molina - Halo
4. zed bias - different response
5. strange u - LP4080
6. PTU - A Broken Clock Is Right Twice A Day
7. quantic & nidia góngora - cuaro
8. open mike eagle - Brick Body Kids Still Daydream
9. tulketh - general waste
10. still - i
11. turinn - 18 and a half minute gaps
12. wiley - godfather
13. lee scott - SUPERGOD5000PLUS
14. va - NSA records - Underground Connection n Tha'
15. Rebekah - Fear Paralysis
16. the darkhouse family - The Offering
17. jlin - Black Origami
18. otim alpha - gulu city anthems
19. Perc - Bitter Music
joint 20 Mahatma X - A Mobtown Suite Vol. 1
tqd - ukg

Although there are two in the urban top 30 that I've not heard and sound ok

 

[clandestino]

I mostly listened to the Oh Sees back catalogue this year, and last year's Cate Le Bon album and "Idle No More" by King Khan. But loads to explore here - the Hannah Peel sounds incredible.

My list, such as it is:

OCS - Memory Of A Cut Off Head
Oh Sees - Orc
Jesus And Mary Chain - Damage And Joy
Public Service Broadcasting - Every Valley
Aldous Harding - Party
Alvvays - Antisocialites
The Burning Hell - Revival Beach

 

[stavros]

1. Blanck Mass - World Eater
2. Charli XCX - Number 1 Angel
3. Slowdive - Slowdive
4. Anjou - Epithymia
5. Mogwai - Every Country's Sun
6. The Fall - New Facts Emerge

However, The Fall is shite for them, and I haven't got much new stuff this year. My top three are excellent though.

 

[The39thStep]

1.Cigarettes After Sex- Cigarettes After Sex
2.Slowdive -Slowdive
3. Sufjan Stevens- The Greatest Gift
4. Penguin Cafe Orchestra- Perfect Sea
5. Sparks - Hippopotamus
6. Austra -Future Politics
7. The National -Sleep Well Beast

 

[MBV]

1. Daughter - Music From Before The Storm

2. Slowdive - Slowdive

3. Four Tet - New Energy

4. Cigarettes After Sex - Cigarettes After Sex

5. Bonobo - Migration

6. Mount Kimbie - Love What Survives

7. Julie Bryne - Not Even Happiness

8. Grizzly Bear - Painted Ruins

9. Alt J - Relaxer

10. The XX - I see You

Lots of new stuff to check out over xmas which makes this thread so good. Cheers belboid

 

[mwgdrwg]

Arca was my number 1, it didn't even make the list. I'm astounded. You tasteless fucks!

"Let's see what you could've won"

 

[redsquirrel]

1.Cigarettes After Sex- Cigarettes After Sex
2.Slowdive -Slowdive
3. Sufjan Stevens- The Greatest Gift
4. Penguin Cafe Orchestra- Perfect Sea
5. Sparks - Hippopotamus
6. Austra -Future Politics
7. The National -Sleep Well Beast

Another Penguin Cafe fan

 

[killer b]

I tried the penguin cafe, didn't love it very much though. Shame as it should fit my aesthetic this season too.

 

[The39thStep]

Another Penguin Cafe fan

It's really good, none of the original band apparantly just Jeffes son and some people from Gorillaz and Suede apparently.

 

[The39thStep]

I tried the penguin cafe, didn't love it very much though. Shame as it should fit my aesthetic this season too.

Grows on you.

 

[redsquirrel]

I tried the penguin cafe, didn't love it very much though. Shame as it should fit my aesthetic this season too.

Have you heard the first album, A Matter of Life... ? I think that's the probably better, but I really like this one, probably one of things I've listened to most this year.

 

[Orang Utan]

Mine:
Equiknoxx - Colon Man
Transcendence Orchestra - Modern Methods For Ancient Rituals
DJ Sports - Modern Species
Shinichi Atobe - From The Heart, It's A Start, It's A Work Of Art
Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs - Feed The Rats
Dopplereffekt - Cellular Automata
Visible Cloaks - Reassemblage
Lone Taxidermist - Trifle
Brockhampton - Saturation II
Colin Stetson - All This I Do For Glory
Slowdive - Slowdive
Timothy J. Fairplay - Where Is The Champion?

 

[Orang Utan]

I found the Richard Dawson album painful to listen to - not sure what the attraction to him and that sort of thing is

 

[Spandex]

I feel like I'm pissing in the Urban wind. I seem to becoming more estranged from any hive mind with only two of mine making the list.

For what its worth here's mine....

I'm pissing in the wind every year when I vote in these polls. I've long since given up any expectation of having an impact on the result, I just like thinking back over what albums have made an impact on me over the year. For what it's worth, yours is always one of the lists I like to check out

Anyway, here's mine:

1. Charlotte Gainsbourg – Rest
2. Kedr Livanskiy – Ariadna
3. 2raumwohnung – Nacht und Tag
4. Sally Dige – Holding On
5. Andrew Weatherall - Qualia
6. Jane Weaver – Modern Kosmology
7. Les Amazones d’Afrique – Republique Amazone
8. Multiple Man – New Metal
9. Jupiter & Okness – Kin Sonic
10. Molly Nilsson – Imaginations
11. Girl One & the Grease Guns - Night of the Living Electrical Appliances
12. Polo & Pan - Caravelle

 

[Spandex]

Shinichi Atobe - From The Heart, It's A Start, It's A Work Of Art

Well done for voting for this. I completely forgot about it when I put my list together, but then ended up playing it loads the last week. It's brilliant.

Timothy J. Fairplay - Where Is The Champion?

I forgot about this too. I love Timothy J Fairplay, but this album was just more of a good thing and there's other stuff of his that I'll listen to before this one.

 

[Spandex]

Arca was my number 1, it didn't even make the list. I'm astounded. You tasteless fucks!

I was astounded by the Arca album. Astounded that no-one had a word with him about his singing before he released it. Someone should've taken him aside before he finished it and said "Look mate, you sound like bloke down pub doing a Bee Gees impression after a few too many. Stick to instrumentals".

 

[Orang Utan]

I'm pissing in the wind every year when I vote in these polls. I've long since given up any expectation of having an impact on the result, I just like thinking back over what albums have made an impact on me over the year. For what it's worth, yours is always one of the lists I like to check out

Anyway, here's mine:

1. Charlotte Gainsbourg – Rest
2. Kedr Livanskiy – Ariadna
3. 2raumwohnung – Nacht und Tag
4. Sally Dige – Holding On
5. Andrew Weatherall - Qualia
6. Jane Weaver – Modern Kosmology
7. Les Amazones d’Afrique – Republique Amazone
8. Multiple Man – New Metal
9. Jupiter & Okness – Kin Sonic
10. Molly Nilsson – Imaginations
11. Girl One & the Grease Guns - Night of the Living Electrical Appliances
12. Polo & Pan - Caravelle

I pay attention to your recommendations and some of my top albums this year are from your suggestions, so thanks! Will have a listen to these

 

[Orang Utan]

I was astounded by the Arca album. Astounded that no-one had a word with him about his singing before he released it. Someone should've taken him aside before he finished it and said "Look mate, you sound like bloke down pub doing a Bee Gees impression after a few too many. Stick to instrumentals".

I listened to it once, and, like with the Richard Dawson, I'm mystified as to what the attraction is?

 

[Dr. Furface]

Thanks belboid and apols for including numbers!

1 King Krule - The OOZ
2 Actress - AZD
3 Protomartyr - Relatives in Descent
4 LCD Soundsystem - American Dream
5 Oh Sees - Orc
6 Kendrick Lamar - DAMN
7 Mount Kimbie - Love What Survives
8 Chino Amobi - Paradiso
9 Sleaford Mods - English Tapas
10 Thundercat - Drunk
11 Laurel Halo - Dust
12 Tyler, The Creator - Flower Boy
13 Alessandro Cortini - Avanti
14 Kelly Lee Owens- s/t
15 Oneohtrix Point Never - Good Time (soundtrack)
16 John Maus - Screen Memories
17 Liars - TFCF
18 Lee Gamble - Mnestic Pressure
19 James Holden & The Animal Spirits - The Animal Spirits
20 Ricardo Villalobos - Empirical House

 

[Orang Utan]

thanks for all the lists folks, esp belboid - gonna listen to loads on your lists.
Will even listen again to those in the top 30 that I listened to and didn't like.
Just out of interest - what did people like about the Richard Dawson and Arca albums?

 

[killer b]

The shinichi atobe album is great, good shout

 

[Orang Utan]

Damn, just started listening to the Errorsmith album