Urban75 Album of the Year 2020 - the Results

[Favelado]

you may touch my hem

Well done for ruining the thread for everyone. I hope you're proud.

 

[killer b]

if only betfair would give me odds on the U75 albums of the year!

 

[Favelado]

if only betfair would give me odds on the U75 albums of the year!

By the way. Surely Black Is is going to win the Mercury. The panel will be keen to acknowledge BLM and it hits all the other marks that a Mercury Winner usually needs. I think there's some FREE MONEY to be had.

I have bet on the Mercury before and made cash. Miss Dynamite won me 80 quid.

 

[belboid]

So there you go.

From 1 - 50 they were:

Roisin Murphy-Roisin Machine
Craven Faults - Erratics and unconformities
Sault - Untitled (Black Is)
Taylor Swift - Folklore
Bob Dylans - Rough and Rowdy Ways
Nadine Shah - Kitchen Sink
Sault - Untitled (Rise)
Cabaret Voltaire - Shadow of Fear
Kelly Lee Owens - Inner Song
Phoebe Bridgers - Punisher
Mirry - Mirry
Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs - Viscerals
Stick the Wheel - Hold Fast
Coriky - Coriky
Cornershop - England is a Garden
Margaret Glaspy - Devotion
Fontaines D.C. - A Hero's Death
Hey Colossus - Dances/Curses
Julianna Barwick - Healing Is a Miracle
Alabaster DePlume - To Cy and Lee: Instrumentals Vol. 1
Hen Ogledd – Free Humans
Jessie Ware - What's Your Pleasure?
Working Men's Club - Working Men's Club
Run The Jewels – RTJ4
Aksak Maboul - Figures
Billy Nomates - Billy Nomates
Moor Mother - Circuit City
Sink Ya Teeth - Two
Dua Lipa - Future Nostalgia
Soccer Mommy - Color Theory
Tony Allen & Hugh Masekela - Rejoice
Toots and the Maytals - Got To Be Tough
Cecile Believe - Made in Heaven
Lanterns on the lake - Spook the Herd
Pharaoh Overlord - 6
Rina Sawayama - Sawayama
Oneohtrix Point Never - Magic OPN
Sorry - 925
Naujawanan Baidar - Naujawanan Baidar
Daniel Avery & Alessandro Cortini - Illusion of time
Irreversible Entanglements - Who Sent You?
Protomartyr - Ultimate Success Today
Speaker Music - Black Nationalist Sonic Weaponry
Theo Parrish - Wuddaji
Luke Vibert - Presents Amen Andrews
Horselords - The Common Task
Shabason, Krgovich, Harris - Philadelphia
Behold A Pale Horse - Today's News...Stay Happy
Mary Lattimore - Silver Ladders
Andrea - Ritorno

I'll post 'interesting' facts and 'unsuccessful' Number 1's shortly, but I'm off to have me tea and wine now.

 

[Knotted]

Mariam Rezaei's Skeen was absolutely outstanding, so I'm a bit disappointed that didn't make the top 50. But otherwise that's a great list. Well done folks.

 

[AverageJoe]

No Bob Vylan

 

[Indeliblelink]

Right, get your lists out. Mine was -

Bibio - Sleep On The Wing
Andrea - Ritorno
La Nòvia - Maintes fois
Craven Faults - Erratics & Unconformities
Grand Veymont - Persistance & changement
Millsart - Every Dog Has Its Day Vol. 5
Dua Lipa - Future Nostalgia
Róisín Murphy - Róisín Machine
Jessie Ware - What's Your Pleasure?
Run The Jewels - RTJ4
Millsart - Every Dog Has Its Day Vol. 6
Mildlife - Automatic
Craven Faults - Live Works
Plant43 - The Countless Stones
Roedelius - Selbstportrait Wahre Liebe
Neptunian Maximalism - Éons
Autotelia - I
36 & 扎克 - Stasis Sounds for Long-Distance Space Travel
Jóhann Jóhannsson & Yair Elazar Glotman - Last and First Men
Nicolas Godin - Concrete and Glass
Σtella - The Break

Thanks belboid

 

[marty21]

Cheers belboid

 

[killer b]

Yeah, thanks for your service Belboid

My list is below - I've listened to a whole load more since it was submitted and it'd be different again today...

Alison Cotton - Only Darkness Now
Craven Faults - Erratics & Unconformities
Horselords - the Common Task
Alabaster Deplume - to Cy & Lee
Mirry - Mirry
Calahen Morrison - Wealth of Sorrow
Huntress - The Unshackling
David Colohan - Walking Ghost Phase
Moor Mother - Circuit City
David Behrman - She's More Wild
Aril Brikha - She's my Everything
Irreversible Entanglements - Who Sent You?
Oranssi Pazuzu - Mestarin kynsi
Roisin Murphy - Roisin Machine
Powers / Rolin Duo - St
Dragged into Sunlight - Terminal Aggressor II
Otis Jordan - Dodger Point
The Bug - In Blue
Robert Hood - Mirror Man
Contours - Balafon Sketches

 

[nogojones]

Only one in the top 30 this year

Dj DIaki - Balani Fou
Samurai Breaks - Acid Puma Racing Stripes
Spongebob Squarewave - Return Of The Rave
Prid Prod - Приехали
Sammy Virji - Spice Up My Life
Aksak Maboul - Figures
Luke Vibert - Presents Amen Andrews
ASC - Isolated Systems
LCSM (Likwid Continual Space Motion) - Earthbound
Dagga - Gutter Trax 002
Groove Skool - Nu Grooves Vol.5
Błoto - Erozje
Project X - Project X
Speaker Music - Black Nationalist Sonic Weaponry
LOFT - Are Eye Pea Ell Oh Eff Tea
Dgohn - Undesignated Proximate
Asher Gamedze - Dialectic Soul
Teno Afrika - Amapiano Selections
Bambu - Sharpest Tool in the Shed
Anna Högberg Attack - Lina

 

[marty21]

My top 10 btw

1. The Chicks - Gaslighter
2. Nadine Shah - Kitchen Sink
3. Bob Mould - Blue Hearts
4. Sault - Untitled (Black is)
5. Samantha Crain - A Small Death
6. The Flaming Lips - American Head
7. Phoebe Bridgers - Punisher
8. Fontaines D C - A Hero's Death
9. Lucinda Williams - Good Souls Better Angels
10. Future Islands - As Long As You Are .

4 of mine made it in the end.

 

[Spandex]

Right, get your lists out.

Here's mine:

Sault - Untitled (Rise)
Cabaret Voltaire - Shadow of Fear
Jesse Ware - What's Your Pleasure
Roisin Murphy - Roisin Machine
Robert Hood - Mirror Man
Riki - Riki
Shawn Rudiman - Conduit
Fleur - Fleur
Annie - Dark Hearts
Azu Tiwaline - Draw Me a Silence
Aux 88 - Counterparts
Working Mens Club - Working Mens Club
Cold Beat - Mother
Ghost Funk Orchestra - An Ode to Escapism
Naujawanan Baidar - Naujawanan Baidar
Russ Gabriel - Ancestors
Kelly Lee Owens - Inner Song
Sault - Untitled (Black Is)
Le Couleur - Concorde
The Yearning (feat Luci Ashbourne) - Only When I'm Dancing

Though the top 4 could go in any order and the bottom 6 could easily be swapped with another 6 equally good albums.

Thanx as always belboid

 

[MBV]

1. Craven Faults - Erratics & Unconformities
2. Julianna Barwick - Healing Is a Miracle
3. Soela - Genuine Silk
4. DJ Metatron - Loops Of Infinity (A Rave Loveletter)
5. Four Tet - Sixteen Oceans
6. STRFKR - Ambient 1
7. Kelly Lee Owens - Inner Song
8. Daniel Avery & Alessandro Cortini - Illusion of time
9. Khruangbin - Mordechai
10. The Orielles - Disco Volador

 

[neonwilderness]

Billy Nomates - Billy Nomates
The Hempolics - Kiss, Cuddle & Torture: Volume 2
Sorry - 925
Fontaines D.C. - A Hero's Death
Stick In The Wheel - Hold Fast
Toots and the Maytals - Got To Be Tough
Working Men's Club - Working Men's Club
CocoRosie - Put the Shine On
EOB - Earth
JARV IS - Beyond the Pale
Pigs x 7 - Viscerals
Taylor Swift - Folklore
Public Enemy - What You Gonna Do When The Grid Goes Down?
The Avalanches - We Will Always Love You
Bob Dylan - Rough and Rowdy Ways
The Left Outsides - Are You Sure I Was There?
Tame Impala – The Slow Rush
Doves - The Universal Want
Osees - Protein Threat
Craven Faults - Enclosures

I usually go through the album recommendations thread before voting, but life got in the way this year. There‘s a few from the results that I’m going to listen to in full at some point.

Cheers belboid

 

[Knotted]

My top 30 goes like this (absolutley a work in progress)

1) Moor Mother - Circuit City
2) Mariam Rezaei - Skeen
3) Aksak Maboul - Figure
4) Irreversable Entanglements - Who Sent You?
5) Błoto - Kwiatostan
6) Anakronos - The Red Book of Ossory
7) Mirry - Mirry
8) Sault - Untitled (Rise)
9) Sault - Untitled (Black Is)
10) Iva Bittová, Paolo Angeli - Sul Filo
11) Jaga Jazzist - Pyramid
12) Material Girl - Tangram
13) Contours - Balafon Sketches
14) Yukihiro Atsumi - Kachofugetsu
15) Horselords - The Common Task
16) Stick the Wheel - Hold Fast
17) Błoto - Erozje
18) Duma - Duma
19) Tigran Hamasyan - The Call Within
20) Bab l' Bluz - Nayda!
21) Locean - Top Ten Zen Meditations
22) OOIOO - nijimusi
23) Laura Cannell - The Earth Without Her Crowns
24) Shirley Collins - Heart's Ease
25) Chouk Bwa & The Ångstromers - Vodou Alé
26) Fiona Apple - Fetch the Bolt Cutters
27) Bhajan Bhoy - Bless Bless
28) Motorpsycho - The All is One
29) Ciśnienie / Lód 9 - Brass Album
30) United Bible Studies - Unify!

 

[Knotted]

David Behrman - She's More Wild

Oh that looks exciting.

 

[sankara]

Sam Sweeney - Unearth Repeat
Ustad Saami - Pakistan is for the Peaceful
The Four Owls - Nocturnal Instinct
Alabaster DePlume - To Cy and Lee: Instrumentals Vol. 1
Tamikrest - Tamotait
Craven Faults - Erratics and Unconformities
Yorkston/Thorne/Khan - Navarasa: Nine Emotions
Eddie Chacon - Pleasure, Joy and Happiness
Maarja Nuut and Ruum - World Inverted
ASC - Pattern Recognition: Second Sequence
Jessy Lanza - All The Time
Shabason, Krgovich & Harris - Philadelphia
Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs - Viscerals
Skinshape - Umoja
Khruangbin - Mordechai
Sigurd Hole - Lys/Morke

Lots of good records this year but nothing I was crazy about.

 

[killer b]

Oh that looks exciting.

it's great - it's a recording of a live thing and doesn't totally flow as an album or it would be higher. The best tracks on there are just amazing though - bizarro pop music but with those woozy Behrman computer controlled synths wobbling around all over them. You'll love it I'm sure.

 

[The39thStep]

Sault- Untitled ( Rise)
Budd and Guthrie-Another Flower
Olaf Arnarld - Some kind of peace
Julianna Barwick - Healing Is a Miracle
Roisin Murphy-Roisin Machine
ACR- ACRLoco
Sink Ya Teeth-Two
A Girl Called Eddy- Been Around
Avery and Cortini-Illusion of Time
Working Men’s Club – Working Men’s Club

 

[Dr. Furface]

Cheers belboid

Duval Timothy - Help
Speaker Music - Black Nationalist Sonic Weaponry
Westside Gunn - Pray for Paris
J Hus - Big Conspiracy
070 Shake - Modus Vivendi
Rina Sawayama - Sawayama
Thundecat - It Is What It Is
Armand Hammer - Shrines
Bartees Strange - Live Forever
Freddie Gibbs & the Alchemist - Alfredo
Grimes - Miss Anthropocene
Beatrice Dillon - Workaround
Future Islands - As Long As You Are
Oneohtrix Point Never - Magic OPN
Kelly Lee Owens - Inner Song
Jay Electronica - A Written Testimony
Theo Parrish - Wuddaji
Actress - Karma & Desire
Andrea - Ritorno
Craven Faults - Erratics and Unconformities

 

[AverageJoe]

My top 10 btw

1. The Chicks - Gaslighter
2. Nadine Shah - Kitchen Sink
3. Bob Mould - Blue Hearts
4. Sault - Untitled (Black is)
5. Samantha Crain - A Small Death
6. The Flaming Lips - American Head
7. Phoebe Bridgers - Punisher
8. Fontaines D C - A Hero's Death
9. Lucinda Williams - Good Souls Better Angels
10. Future Islands - As Long As You Are .

4 of mine made it in the end.

Didn't know The Flaming Lips had an album out this year. Going to listen to it now.

 

[Fez909]

Moodymann - Taken Away
Planisphere ‎– Definitive Transmissions
DMX Krew - Ghost bubbles
SAULT - Untitled (Black Is)
Javonntte ‎– Runaway Galaxy
Cabaret Voltaire - Shadow of Fear
Tony Allen & Hugh Masekela - Rejoice
Linkwood - Face the Facts
Ratgrave - Rock
Steve Rachmad - The Beauty and the Sea
Kamaal Williams - Wu Hen
Byron the Aquarius - Ambrosia
Legowelt - Unconditional Contours
Theo Parrish - Wuddaji
Bufiman - Albumsi
Linkwood & Foat - Linkwood & Foat
Thundercat - It Is What It Is
Tom Misch & Yussef Dates - What Kinda Music
Khruangbin - Mordechai

 

[cloudyday]

Hats off to Knotted for including SC. the song of the year for me.



going to listen through some of these releases over the next few days. Big thanks again to belboid for putting it together.

 

[belboid]

No Bob Vylan

I was surprised at that. Other things which only got a single vote: Waxahatchee; Tunng; Idles; Julian Cope; Fiona Apple; Caribou; Bruce Springsteen. No mention at all for Bill Callahan or Hawkwind.

A couple of those weren't really surprises.

 

[belboid]

Three albums (Taylor Swift, Bob Dylan and Dua Lipa) are in the 40 best selling albums of the year - of which only twenty would have been eligible for this chart.

 

[belboid]

There were albums by seventeen bands whose name begins with the word 'The'.

Not one of them got more than one vote.

 

[belboid]

As far as I can tell, there were 308 different albums nominated.

(This is, i think, the largest number ever)

 

[belboid]

For the first time ever, everyone chose a different Number 1.

 

[belboid]

The Roisin Murphy received votes from the most people, being included by a full 20% of participants.

 

[The39thStep]

well done and many thanks Belboid