Urban75 Album of the Year 2018 - the Results

[killer b]

just tell us what they are. I'll post the album covers.

 

[rekil]

 

[clandestino]

Here it is then. After much thought, deliberation, pissing about, and even a bit of sleep, the time is nigh.

A high vote this year, with our usual blend of eclectic, genre busting, age defying, selections. That Low then win.

Or do they?

For the next hour we will control all that you see and hear. You are about to experience the awe and mystery which reaches from the inner mind.... to the outer limits.

Ooh, just remembered that this happened tonight. I'm pouring a large glass of red and settling into the first post. What excitement awaits I wonder? See you back here in a bit.

 

[May Kasahara]

Keeping the spirit of bluestreak alive there belboid

 

[clandestino]

Haha, it's not over! Great work belboid!

 

[belboid]

3 Autechre - NTS sessions 1-4

Lucky 13 for Autechre. Though it’s created by a computer, it will bring you to another plane of human existence if you let it. Apparently.

 

[belboid]

2 Low - Double Negative

www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXaLOVeWOdU

Low - always different, always the same. Static prevails, it captures 2018's pervasive dread like nothing else.

 

[May Kasahara]

Slow Mass for number 1 then!

 

[clandestino]

Oh Sees had two albums in the top 30 last year. This year's effort didn't even chart! Kind of reassuring to know that I'm not the only one who thought it was a bit half-baked.

 

[belboid]

1 Janelle Monae - Dirty Computer.

With Prince tributes and vagina trousers, Jane 57821 attempts to break free from the constraints of "a totalitarian society that forcibly makes her comply with its homophobic beliefs. Through the power of magnificent dance music. Ironically sick and tired around their relationship dramas constantly getting gossipped about now which just sours its cultural significance it is not.

 

[clandestino]

2 Low - Double Negative

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/90/Low_%E2%80%93_Double_Negative.png

www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXaLOVeWOdU

Low - always different, always the same. Static prevails, it captures 2018's pervasive dread like nothing else.

I still haven't heard this. If I had, and included it in my list, would it have won?

 

[belboid]

I still haven't heard this. If I had, and included it in my list, would it have won?

Yup. Incredibly close at the top. Top two a reasonable amount ahead, but very close between the two.

350 votes in all, but possibly the lowest winning total that I’ve known (definitely in fact). Any one list could have changed things about quite a bit.

 

[belboid]

the rundown in full:

1 Janelle Monae - Dirty Computer.
2 Low - Double Negative
3 Autechre - Nts Sessions 1-4
4 ill - we are ill.
5 Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever – Hope Downs
6 Skee Mask – Compro
7 Courtney Barnett - Tell Me How You Really Feel
8 Christine and the Queens - Chris
9 Pigs, pigs, pigs, pigs, pigs, pigs, pigs – King of Cowards
10 Tirzah – Devotion
11 Anna Von Hausswolff - Dead Magic
12 Hailu Mergia - Lala Belu.
13 SOPHIE — OIL OF EVERY PEARL'S UN-INSIDES
14 Idris Ackamoor and the Pyramids - An Angel Fell.
15 Stick In The Wheel - Follow Them True
16 Sink Ya Teeth - Sink Ya Teeth
17 The Smashing Pumpkins - SHINY AND OH SO BRIGHT, VOL. 1/NO PAST. NO FUTURE. NO SUN.
18 Vive La Void - Vive La Void
19 Goat Girl - Goat Girl
20 Gwenno – Le Kov
21 Half Man Half Biscuit - No-one Cares About Your Creative Hub So Get You Fuckin Hedge Cut
22 Kamasi Washington - Heaven and Earth
23 Ezra Furman - Transangelic Exodus
24 Daughters - You Won't Get What You Want
25 The Breeders - All Nerve
26 Kacey Musgraves - Golden Hour
27 Soccer Mommy - Clean
28 DMBQ, Keeenly
29 Mogwai - Kin
=30 Odeon - Galaxies
=30 Sleep - The Sciences

The ‘unsuccesful’ Number 1’s

Ben Chatwin, Staccato signals
Mark Springer - Diving
Group listening - clarinet & piano, selected works
Haiku Salut - There Is No Elsewhere
Hampshire & Foat - The Honeybear
Hot Snakes - Jericho Sirens
Jon Hopkins - Singularity
K-orse & Basshound - Black & White
Little Big - Antipositive, Pt. 2
Oneohtrix Point Never - Age Of
Park Jiha - Communion
Perel – Hermetica
Sarah Davachi – Let Night Come on Bells End the Day
Screaming Females - All At Once
Slow Mass - On Watch
The Ex - 27 Passports
Tropical Fuck Storm - A Laughing Death in Meatspace



Spotify:

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[clandestino]

Yup. Incredibly close at the top. Top two a reasonable amount ahead, but very close between the two.

350 votes in all, but possibly the lowest winning total that I’ve known (definitely in fact). Any one list could have changed things about quite a bit.

350 votes! How many people provided that - about 40? How does that compare to previous years?

 

[ManchesterBeth]

3 Autechre - NTS sessions 1-4

Lucky 13 for Autechre. Though it’s created by a computer, it will bring you to another plane of human existence if you let it. Apparently.

Fucking hell. i was telling nogojones it would make it. i didn't even have high hopes. an 8 hours album. my number 1.

 

[Kaka Tim]

good work belboid! . As ever - a diverse mix - and some interesting new stuff to check out - and very pleased to see ILL getting so high in the chart.

 

[nogojones]

Fucking hell. i was telling nogojones it would make it. i didn't even have high hopes. an 8 hours album. my number 1.

Ha, and I was saying you had no hope.

None of my top 20 made it

 

[ManchesterBeth]

the best bit about that nts sessions is after 6 hours of the most weirded out electro funk beats the fourth one is just an ambient/drone one.

 

[ManchesterBeth]

post your list nogojones!

 

[killer b]

Ha, and I was saying you had no hope.

None of my top 20 made it

nor mine. I must not have been championing the music I liked as well this year, I placed loads in 2017.

 

[nogojones]

post your list nogojones!

The top 25 from what I'd been listening to..

K-orse & Basshound - Black & White
Phatworld - Pure Live-0
Rawkid - Grum, Vol.1
Smiley Maxx - Cloud$
Venz - A Few Venz Riddims
Various - Off Me Nut Allstars Vol. 3
Martyn - Voids
X-Altera - X-Altera
J69 - Bootlegs Vol.1
East Man - Red, White & Zero
Blawen - Wet Will Always Dry
Proc Fiskal - Insula
Ocean Wisdom - Wizville
B-Movie Millionaires - Attack of the 50,000ft Sweg Lawds From Outer Space
Gabor Lazar - Unfold
Blocks & Escher - Something Blue
Jean Grae & Quelle Chris - Everything's Fine
Marie Davidson - Working Class Woman
Djrum - Portrait With Firewood
DJ Taye Still Trippin
Mouse on Mars - Dimensional People
Ruby My Dear - Brame
Skee Mask - Compro
Kaamal Williams - The Return
Vessel - Queen of the Golden Dogs
Low Entropy - Acidcore Collection 2000-2017

 

[clandestino]

It feels like a weird list this year. Not quite as eclectic/unpredictable as usual. Too many of the things I voted for in the list tbh.

 

[nogojones]

nor mine. I must not have been championing the music I liked as well this year, I placed loads in 2017.

No longer a mover and shaker

 

[killer b]

My stock has plummeted

 

[clandestino]

But, as always, still a few interesting things to check out. Thanks belboid!

 

[clandestino]

Were there more long lists this year? Did that skew the voting slightly? Or do you only give points to, say, the top 20 of a list?

 

[nogojones]

Lets see peoples lists then. There will surely be some toe tappers out there that have been missed

 

[Indeliblelink]

The top 25 from what I'd been listening to..

East Man - Wet Will Always Dry

Is this a vote for Blawan or Red, White & Zero?

 

[nogojones]

Is this a vote for Blawan or Red, White & Zero?

oh no, C&P fail. Its a vote for both of them. No wonder none of mine got through

 

[ManchesterBeth]

1) Autechre - Nts Sessions 1-4.
2) Iannis Xenakis - Persepolis. Karlrecords 2018 remaster. (technically a reissue but this is the first one that has been properly mastered, with no missing chunks, backwards reversals or wrong stereo separation, etc...)
3) Eli Keszler - Stadium.
4) Senyawa - Sujud.
5) Hailu Mergia - Lala Belu.
6) African Scream Contest Vol.2 - Benin 1963-1980. highly recommend sitting down with both of these comps if you like your funk music.
7) SOPHIE — OIL OF EVERY PEARL'S UN-INSIDES
8) Janelle Monae - Dirty Computer.
9) Gabor Lazar - Unfold. (warmed up to this one eventually!) still not as ruthless as ep16 but clinical in a different kinda way.
10) Neons Publishing - Creepin' In Memphis mixtape.
11) Pusha T - Daytona.
12) cardi b - Invasion of Privacy.
13) Earl Sweatshirt - Some Rap Songs.
14) Massimo Toniutti - Il Museo Selvatico.
15) Mark Fell - Intra.
16) Richard Devine - Sort\lave.
17) Heather Leigh - Throne.
18) Guttersnipe - My Mother the Vent.
19) Idris Ackamoor and the Pyramids - An Angel Fell.
20) Afrodeutsche - Break Before Make.