Urban75 Album of the Year 2019 - the results!

[belboid]

4 Little Simz - Grey Area

She's the boss in a fucking dress. And we will admit she is the best (three higher placed albums not withstanding).

 

[belboid]

And now, the traditional pause while you guess the top three. Or, to put it more accurately guess the third one joining the obvious two.

 

[belboid]

12 years or something I've been doing this and I've only just realised I can copy and paste the whole bloody row from the spreadsheet and break it up, rather than copying each cell individually. Saves loads of irritating time.

Which I'm sure you're all fascinated to know.

 

[redsquirrel]

Nick Cave must be somewhere in the top three. Can't see any of my albums making it (maybe a Laura Cannell?). Shameful lack of country in the list.

 

[Steel Icarus]

Oh ballbags. I forgot I'd bought Grey Area this year. Bloody great it is too

Will you tell me once it's all over belboid if I'd voted for Grey Area at no. 1 what difference it would have made to it and also the only record I DID vote for?

 

[SpookyFrank]

Is it too late to cast ten votes for 'Anything' by Anyone But Nick Cave?

 

[rekil]

Cave, Fontaines and I dunno, F.X. Lilac.

 

[belboid]

okay, let's actually finish this...before I go to the pub for a change

 

[belboid]

3 Sharon Van Etten - Remind Me Tomorrow

It appears I forgot to write anything about this. It's great.

 

[belboid]

2 Fontaines DC - Dogrel

Were I stricter about deadlines, this would have won. As it did, one last vote tipped it away from our favourite new Irish (post) punks.

 

[belboid]

1 Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Ghosteen

Ubiquitous, but for pretty good reason. “Nothing can go wrong, because everything has gone wrong,”

 

[belboid]

1 Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Ghosteen
2 Fontaines DC - Dogrel
3 Sharon Van Etten - Remind Me Tomorrow
4 Little Simz - Grey Area
5 Purple Mountains - Purple Mountains
6 Richard Dawson - 2020
7 LINGUA IGNOTA – CALIGULA
8 The Delines - The Imperial
9 Julia Jacklin - Crushing
10 Billie Eilish - When we fall Asleep where do we go?
11 Big Thief - U.F.O.F.
12 Lightning Bolt - Sonic Citadel
13 Teeth Of The Sea - Wraith
14 Boy Harsher – Careful
14 Brighde Chaimbeul – The Reeling
16 The Comet is Coming - Trust in the Lifeforce of the Deep Mystery
17 Sleaford mods - Eton alive- Sleaford mods
18 Lankum - Livelong Day
19 The Murder Capital - When I have fears
20 Better Oblivion Community Center - Better Oblivion Community Center
21 Mdou Moctar - Ilana
21 Sault - 7
22 Thom Yorke - Anima
24 Blanck Mass - Animated Violence Mild
25 Freddie Gibbs & Madlib - Bandana
26 Lee Scratch Perry - Rainford
27 Karen O/Danger Mouse - Lux Prima
28 Mannequin Pussy - Patience
29 Girl Band ‎– The Talkies
30 Angel Olsen - All Mirrors
30 J Majik - Full Circle.
30 Mekons Deserted
33 Tyler, The Creator - IGOR.
34 Beirut - Gallipoli
34 Marika Hackman - Any Human Friend
36 Otoboke Beaver - Itekomi Hits
36 Slowthai - Nothing great about britain- Slowthai
36 Tindersticks - No Treasure But Hope
39 Jesca Hoop – Stonechild
39 Lizzo – Cuz I Love You
39 Sophie - Oil of every pearl's un-insides Non-Stop Remix (Dubious one this)
39 Soulphiction- 24/7 Love Affair
43 Bat for Lashes – Lost Girls
44 black midi - Schlagenheim
45 Amyl and the Sniffers - Amyl and the Sniffers
46 Loraine James - For You and I
47 The Chemical Brothers - No Geography.
48 Carter Tutti Void - Triumvirate
48 Kogumaza - Fugues
48 Nkisi – 7 Directions

and the 'unsuccessful' Number 1's:

Tyler, The Creator - IGOR.
Beirut - Gallipoli
Bilge Pump We Love You
Coil - Theme from the gay man's guide to safer sex
Kate Tempest - The Book of Traps and Lessons
Self-Esteem - Compliments Please
The Exbats - E Is For
VA - London to Addis (No Hats no Hoods Records)

spoty playlist:

 

[braindancer]

Oh shit - I just discovered I sent my list to a poster called 'Bel'.

Ooops

 

[redsquirrel]

Cheers for doing the hardwork belboid

Lot of the albums in my list didn't make the cutoff. Not really sure that the Nick Cave deserved the number 1 spot. It's good but up there with his best. Glad that the Delines and Mekons made it in. They were both my best albums and best gigs of the year.

1. The Delines - Imperial
2. Mekons - Deserted
3. Richard Dawson - 2020
4. Purple Mountains - Purple Mountains
5. Tindersticks - No Treasure But Hope
6. Swans - Leaving Memory
7. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Ghosteen
8. Laura Cannell - The Sky Unturned
9. Haiku Salut - The General
10. Laura Gibson - Goners
11. Karen O & Danger Mouse - Lux Prima
12. Jenny Lewis - On the Line
    
13. Portico Quartet - Memory Streams
14. Penguin Cafe - Handfuls of Night
15. Darren Hayman - Songs of High Altitude
16. Earth - Full Upon Her Burning Lips
17. Carter Tutti Void - Triumvirate
18. Gemma Ray - Psycheogeology
19. These New Puritans - Inside the Rose
20. Sharon Van Etten - Remind Me Tomorrow

 

[belboid]

Oh ballbags. I forgot I'd bought Grey Area this year. Bloody great it is too

Will you tell me once it's all over belboid if I'd voted for Grey Area at no. 1 what difference it would have made to it and also the only record I DID vote for?

Might have made it up to third. No difference to the top spots.

 

[belboid]

Is it too late to cast ten votes for 'Anything' by Anyone But Nick Cave?

Is that a formal objection to allowing a very late vote which completely changed the top two? I might be convincable

 

[Indeliblelink]

This was my top 20, can't say I thought it was a golden year.

Freddie Gibbs & Madlib - Bandana
Michael Kiwanuka - Kiwanuka
Sharon Van Etten - Remind Me Tomorrow
Oscar G - For The Culture [Extended Versions]
The Comet Is Coming - Trust in the Lifeforce of the Deep Mystery
Karen O and Danger Mouse - Lux Prima
Special Request - Bedroom Tapes
Autechre - Warp Tapes 89-93
Nkisi - 7 Directions
Mount Palomar - Black Knights Tango
The Chemical Brothers - No Geography
Lankum - The Livelong Day
Sarah Mary Chadwick - The Queen Who Stole the Sky
LINGUA IGNOTA - Caligula
Justin Hopper & Sharron Kraus with The Belbury Poly - Chanctonbury Rings
SFV Acid - Fire Zone
Afriqua - Colored
Gary Gritness - The Legend of Cherenkov Blue
MC Tha - Rito de Passá
Helado Negro - This Is How You Smile

Cheers belboid for this and the other decade album threads over the last few months.

 

[friedaweed]

Marvellous work

 

[marty21]

Great work as usual belboid

Didn't submit this year , I would have put The Delines at number 1 . Plenty of stuff I have never heard of to have a listen to . Which is the great thing about this chart.

 

[braindancer]

I think it's the first time not one of my 10 made the list - not helped by not submitting it to the right person - but here's my list anyway:


Ecstatic computation - Caterina Barbieri
Barker - Utility
Shed - Oderbruch
Nkisi - 7 directions
Quirke - Steal a golden hail
Function - Existenz
Anthony Naples - Fog FM
Octo Octa - Resonant Body
Fennesz - Agora
R beny - Echo’s Verse

 

[MBV]

Mine:

1. Beirut - Gallipoli
   
   
2. Angel Olsen - All Mirrors
   
   
3. Sharon Van Etten - Remind Me Tomorrow
   
   
4. Big Thief - U.F.O.F
   
   
5. The Cinematic Orchestra - To Believe
   
   
6. Julia Jacklin - Crushing
   
   
7. Thom Yorke - Anima
   
   
8. Operators - Radiant Dawn
   
   
9. Steve Gunn - The Unseen In Between
   
   
10. Steve Mason - About The Light
    
    
11. A Winged Victory for the Sullen - The Undivided Five
    
    
12. Gang Starr - One of the best yet
    
    
13. Radiohead - OK Computer Sessions
    

 

[nogojones]

I know I have no right to judge as my own tastes are pretty questionable, but this seems one of the duller album of the year threads.

For what its worth, feel free to mock...

VA - London to Addis (No Hats no Hoods Records)
VA - Fuk the Borders vol.3 (Suck Puck Records)
J Majik - Full Circle
Rian Treanor - ATAXIA
Bogdan Raczinski - Rave 'til you Cry
Karenn - Grapefruit Regret
33EMYBW - Arthropods
Yao Bobby & Simon Grab - Diamonds
Iglooghost Kai Whiston & BABii - XYZ
Theon Cross - Fyah
PTU - Am I Who I Am
Sophie - Oil of Every Pearl's Un-insides (non-stop remix album)
DJ Guy - Jungle Archives Vol. 2 (1995 -1999)
Soulphiction -24/7 Love Affair
Soundbwoy Killah - Halcyon Daze
Loraine James - For You and I
Ansome - Hounds of the Harbour
$hit And $hine - Doing Drugs, Selling Drugs
DaBaby - Baby On Baby
Nubyan Twist - Jungle Run

 

[souljacker]

Here's mine. Quite shocked there wasn't more love for some of these, Moodyman especially:


The CIA - The CIA
Jenny Hval - The Practice of Love
Sophie - Oil of every pearl's un-insides Non-Stop Remix
Octo Octa - Resonant Body
Soulphiction- 24/7 Love Affair
Moodyman - Sinner
Coil - Theme from the gay man's guide to safer sex

 

[Buddy Bradley]

Mine (in descending order):

Better Oblivion Community Center - Better Oblivion Community Center
American Football - American Football (LP3)
Marika Hackman - Any Human Friend
Mannequin Pussy - Patience
MONO - Nowhere Now Here
FEVER 333 - STRENGTH IN NUMB333RS
Silversun Pickups - Widow's Weeds
Desperate Journalist - In Search of the Miraculous
Bon Iver - i,i
Hobo Johnson - The Fall of Hobo Johnson
Foals - Part 1 Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Ghosteen
Lizzo - Cuz I Love You
Billie Eilish - WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO?
Kanye West - JESUS IS KING
Self Esteem - Compliments Please
The Damned Things - High Crimes
clipping. - There Existed an Addiction to Blood
Julia Jacklin - Crushing
Beyonce - HOMECOMING: THE LIVE ALBUM

Quite a few in the winning list that I haven't even heard of, so I'll be checking those out over the coming weeks.

 

[Spandex]

Is there some kind of rule I don't know about where we have to vote for the Nick Cave album if he releases one? Have I been doing this wrong all these years?

Here's my list:

Boy Harsher – Careful
Sault - 5
Scan 7 – Between Worlds
Ladytron – Ladytron
Bat For Lashes – Lost Girls
Le Superhomard – Meadow Park Lane
Randolph & Mortimer – Manifesto for a Modern World
Chromatics – Closer To Grey
Tim Jackiw - Monuments
The Budos Band – V
Mdou Moctar – Ilana
Sault - 7
John Shima – The Lonely Machine
International Teachers of Pop - International Teachers of Pop
L’Epee - Diabolique
Rod Modell – Captagon
Mount Kismet – Warmer Lanes
Hama – Houmeissa
Insalar - Demedim Mi
Ghost Funk Orchestra – A Song for Paul

Thanks as usual belboid

 

[Dr. Furface]

Is there some kind of rule I don't know about where we have to vote for the Nick Cave album if he releases one? Have I been doing this wrong all these years?

He’s become the Boris Johnson of U75 end of year polls - it doesn’t matter what crap he puts out, you just know ppl will vote for him anyway

 

[belboid]

Is there some kind of rule I don't know about where we have to vote for the Nick Cave album if he releases one? Have I been doing this wrong all these years?

You mean the Radiohead rule?


(to give it its original name)

 

[May Kasahara]

Nice one, thanks again belboid

My list:

Self-Esteem - Compliments Please
Jesca Hoop - Stonechild
Julia Jacklin - Crushing
Better Oblivion Community Center - s/t
Sharon Van Etten - Remind Me Tomorrow
Mannequin Pussy - Patience
Little Simz - Grey Area
The Delines - The Imperial
Rapsody - Eve
Czarface meets Ghostface
Marika Hackman - Any Human Friend
Smallpeople - Afterglow

 

[friedaweed]

Really enjoyed this belboid . Had a fab evening listening to some lovely tunes as a result of yours and all the nominators hard graft. Cheers

 

[Dr. Furface]

Purple Mountains
black midi - Schlagenheim
75 Dollar Bill - I Was Real
Barker - Utility
Loraine James - For You and I
King Midas Sound - Solitude
BEA1991 - Brand New Adult
Freddie Gibbs & Madlib - Bandana
JPEGMAFIA - All My Heroes Are Cornballs
clipping - There Existed an Addiction to Blood
Quelle Chris - Guns
Zonal - Wrecked
Tyler The Creator - IGOR
billy woods & Kenny Segal - Hiding Places
The Comet is Coming - Trust in the Lifeforce…
Fontaines DC - Dogrel
Efdemin - New Atlantis
Lee Scratch Perry - Heavy Rain
E B U - Hinge
Vanishing Twin - Age of Immunology

I found it a tough year to pick an outstanding #1. Sadly I’ll never be able to vote for another David Berman album, but he wasn’t likely to ever better this one anyway.

As ever, thanks belboid