Urban75 Album of the Year 2022 - The Results

[Dr. Furface]

Fontaines was the only one of mine that charted (unless you include Aldous Harding at 29). I was surprised it won but thought it would feature somewhere.
I think I've only ever once had the winner anywhere in my selections, but I usually have a few further down. Looks like I went for the 'wrong' Oren Ambarchi!

Sudan Archives - Natural Brown Prom Queen
Fontaines D.C. - Skinty Fia
Ron Trent presents WARM - What do the stars say to you
La Société Étrange - Chance
Oren Ambarchi, Johan Berthling & Andreas Werliin - Ghosted
They Hate Change - Finally, New
Infinity Knives & Brian Ennals - King Cobra
Nik Colk Void - Bucked Up Space
Ethel Cain - Preacher's Daughter
Decius - Decius Vol. I
Two Shell - Icons
Elucid - I Told Bessie
Pusha T - It's Almost Dry
Anteloper - Pink Dolphins
Enumclaw - Save the Baby
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Cool It Down
Dry Cleaning - Stumpwork
Aldous Harding - Warm Chris
Moin - Paste
Nilüfer Yanya - Painless

 

[killer b]

Silvia Tarozzi & Deborah Walker - Canti di guerra, di lavoro e d'amore

I had this on at the weekend, but found it wasn't suitable for listening in company - will be reloading it tonight cause it sounded pretty wild.

 

[Rebelda]

Can anyone beat neon's 8 in the top 50?

 

[hitmouse]

Björk came at a shocking joint 180th position!

Obligatory:

 

[hitmouse]

I had a solid amount that charted:

Special Interest - Endure
Beach House - Once Twice Melody
Porridge Radio - Waterslide, Diving Board, Ladder to the Sky
Wet Leg - Wet Leg
Drug Church - Hygiene
Soul Glo - Diaspora Problems

(^these ones were the absolute standouts for me)

Mountain Goats - Bleed Out
Dalek - Precipice
Chat Pile - God’s Country
(^this is the cutoff point for "albums that I'd listened to enough to form a proper opinion on", the others are the less confident opinions: )

Chats - Get Fucked
Ho99o9 - Skin
Midnight - Let There Be Witchery
Devil Master - Ecstasies of Never Ending Night
Automatic - Excess
Alvvays - Blue Rev
Big Joanie - Back Home
teen suicide - honeybee table at the butterfly feast

TBH I thought that was a very rock oriented list. Good stuff on there but what happened to all the hip hop?

Soul Glo's not not hip-hop, I reckon? And not my fault that no-one else voted for Dalek.

 

[Knotted]

I want so badly to love the new Stick in the Wheel and have tried, but I can't.

Not sure if I love it tbh, but it's very much it's own thing. Very listenable as well I thought.

 

[Spandex]

It's been a great year for albums. I've kept finding new ones that are excellent and then I find another one that I get really into for a bit and then another that is amazing but doesn't get the attention it deserves as I found another one. There's not enough time to listen to everything I want to. Some years I've struggled to find 10 that I think are worth voting for, but this year I quickly got to 40 and there's still others I didn't include. And I never did get round to listening to the Beyonce album, even though I kept hearing Break My Soul on Pride weekend and thought to myself I must check the album out.

Here's what I went with:

Horace Andy – Midnight Scorcher
Steve O’Sullivan – Dimensions
Hatchie – Giving the World Away
Gemma Cullingford – Tongue Tied
Winter Severity Index – Disgelo
Nu Genea - Bar Mediterraneo
xPropaganda - The Heart is Strange
Boy Harsher – The Runner OST
Danae – Good Fruit
Acid Klaus - Step on My Travelator: The Imagined Career Trajectory of Superstar DJ & Dance Pop Producer, Melvin Harris
Yin Yin – The Age of Aquarius
Gwenno - Tresor
Melody’s Echo Chamber - Emotional Eternal
Etran de L'Aïr – Agadez
Sault – Today & Tomorrow
Horace Andy – Midnight Rocker
Congo Natty – Ancestorz (Rootz of Jungle)
Hagan - Textures
O’Flynn x Frazer Ray – Shimmer
Volodymyr Gnatenko- Rainalice
Tagliabue - Un' Altra Forma Di Vibrazioni
Small Hours – Ukraine Fundraiser
Beach House – Once Twice Melody
Sally Shapiro – Sad Cities
Alai K – Kila Mara
Montparnasse Musique – Archeology
Caroline Loveglow - Strawberry
Minami Deutsch – Fortune Goodies
Stephen Mallinder - Tick Tick Tick
Loop - Sonancy
Charlotte Adigéry & Bolis Pupul – Topical Dancer
Sault – Earth
Confidence Man – Tilt
Radiant Love – IWD Comp Vol 3
Automatic – Excess
Trentemoller – Memoria
Taylor Swift – Midnights
Darren Nye – Voyage of Light
Gabe Gurnsey - Diablo
Prins Thomas – 8/9

Thanks for doing this Knotted

 

[neonwilderness]

I want so badly to love the new Stick in the Wheel and have tried, but I can't.

Their EP would have been higher up my list if they'd been allowed

 

[killer b]

Yeah, I could have carried on but I made myself stop at 20 (then added another, that Bitchin' Bajas LP - who else was on that? It's so damn good...)

 

[May Kasahara]

Nina Nastasia - Riderless Horse
Kendrick Lamar - Mr Morale and the Big Steppers
Mice Parade - lapapo
Katy J Pearson - Sound of the Morning
Danger Mouse and Black Thought - Cheat Codes
Stella Donnelly - Flood
Wet Leg - Wet Leg
Delines - The Sea Drift
Lady Wray - Piece of Me
Marlowe - Marlowe 3
Sharon van Etten - We've Been Going About This All Wrong
Charlotte Adigery and Bolis Pupul - Topical Dancer
Carly Rae Jepsen - The Loneliest Time
Makaya McCraven - In These Times
Warpaint - Radiate Like This
Soccer Mommy - Sometimes, Forever
Arctic Monkeys - The Car

was my list.

 

[Rebelda]

Soccer Mommy I knew I was forgetting something.

 

[Knotted]

Can anyone beat neon's 8 in the top 50?

Maybe, but there was a list submitted that was over 50 long. I allowed it but the lower entries are very unlikely to make any difference.

 

[nogojones]

I think the only one of mine that made the top 50 that someone else also voted for was Daphni


Samurai Breaks - XTC Generation
Suck Puck Recordz - FROZEN ASS COLLECTION vol.2
Abadir - Mutate
Indian Junglist - The Most Fake Happy
Polska Ja Wersyja - W Imię Zasad
Glump - Going Dumb
Nü Kvlture - VOL.2
Ecko Bazz - Mmaso
Low End Activist - Hostile Utopia
DJ Q - Est. 2003
Simon Grab - Anthropocene Panic ∕ Remixes
Imperial Triumphant - Spirit Of Ecstasy
La Roche - Liye Liye
Nduduzo Makhathini - In the Spirit of Ntu
Daphni - Cherry
One More Grain - Beans On Toast With Pythagoras
Time Wharp - Spiro World
Wax Machine - Hermit's Grove
Sessa - Estrela Acesa
Cult of the Dammed - CULTGANGRAPSH!T, Vol. 1

 

[hitmouse]

Nina Nastasia - Riderless Horse
Kendrick Lamar - Mr Morale and the Big Steppers
Mice Parade - lapapo
Katy J Pearson - Sound of the Morning
Danger Mouse and Black Thought - Cheat Codes
Stella Donnelly - Flood
Wet Leg - Wet Leg
Delines - The Sea Drift
Lady Wray - Piece of Me
Marlowe - Marlowe 3
Sharon van Etten - We've Been Going About This All Wrong
Charlotte Adigery and Bolis Pupul - Topical Dancer
Carly Rae Jepsen - The Loneliest Time
Makaya McCraven - In These Times
Warpaint - Radiate Like This
Soccer Mommy - Sometimes, Forever
Arctic Monkeys - The Car

was my list.

So who got the Beths into the top 20? I kind of thought they might be one of your picks. Congratulations to whoever did vote for the Beths anyway, looking forward to listening to that one more later.

 

[Knotted]

I'm going to look forward listening to some of the upcoming entries in this round up. Been listening to the Beths quite a bit recently...

You might just like that Beach House album if you haven't heard it already.

 

[Indeliblelink]

Not a classic year IMO, I'm sure there's still some brilliant stuff out there to be discovered.
I went with -

Real Lies - Lad Ash
Mildlife - Live from South Channel Island
Skee Mask - A
Caterina Barbieri - Spirit Exit
Party Dozen - The Real Work
The Order of the 12 - Lore of the Land
Waajeed - Memoirs of Hi-Tech Jazz
Kokoroko - Could We Be More
Rat Heart - Ratty Rids the Clubs From the Evil Curse of the Private School DJ’s
JK Flesh - Sewer Bait
Bitchin Bajas - Bajascillators
Field Lines Cartographer - Dreamtides
Kombynat Robotron - Dickfehler Studio Treffen 2
Melts - Maelstrom
Kae Tempest - The Line Is a Curve
Akusmi - Fleeting Future
Ellen Arkbro & Johan Graden - I Get Along Without You Very Well
Decius - Decius Vol. I
Long Island Sound - Lost Connection
Rough Sleeper - Our Music

 

[killer b]

I think the only one of mine that made the top 50 that someone else also voted for was Daphni


Samurai Breaks - XTC Generation
Suck Puck Recordz - FROZEN ASS COLLECTION vol.2
Abadir - Mutate
Indian Junglist - The Most Fake Happy
Polska Ja Wersyja - W Imię Zasad
Glump - Going Dumb
Nü Kvlture - VOL.2
Ecko Bazz - Mmaso
Low End Activist - Hostile Utopia
DJ Q - Est. 2003
Simon Grab - Anthropocene Panic ∕ Remixes
Imperial Triumphant - Spirit Of Ecstasy
La Roche - Liye Liye
Nduduzo Makhathini - In the Spirit of Ntu
Daphni - Cherry
One More Grain - Beans On Toast With Pythagoras
Time Wharp - Spiro World
Wax Machine - Hermit's Grove
Sessa - Estrela Acesa
Cult of the Dammed - CULTGANGRAPSH!T, Vol. 1

I had Time Wharp on my list

 

[Knotted]

I think the only one of mine that made the top 50 that someone else also voted for was Daphni


Samurai Breaks - XTC Generation
Suck Puck Recordz - FROZEN ASS COLLECTION vol.2
Abadir - Mutate
Indian Junglist - The Most Fake Happy
Polska Ja Wersyja - W Imię Zasad
Glump - Going Dumb
Nü Kvlture - VOL.2
Ecko Bazz - Mmaso
Low End Activist - Hostile Utopia
DJ Q - Est. 2003
Simon Grab - Anthropocene Panic ∕ Remixes
Imperial Triumphant - Spirit Of Ecstasy
La Roche - Liye Liye
Nduduzo Makhathini - In the Spirit of Ntu
Daphni - Cherry
One More Grain - Beans On Toast With Pythagoras
Time Wharp - Spiro World
Wax Machine - Hermit's Grove
Sessa - Estrela Acesa
Cult of the Dammed - CULTGANGRAPSH!T, Vol. 1

Don't worry, you've just got to utopia before everybody else.

 

[Spandex]

Suck Puck Recordz - FROZEN ASS COLLECTION vol.2

Was this the first compilation ever to break into the Urban top 50? Congratulations

 

[nogojones]

I had Time Wharp on my list

A don't think our love for it was good enough for it to chart though

 

[marty21]

My list:

The Smile - A Light For Attracting Attention
Fontaines DC - Skinty Fia
Danger Mouse/Black Thought - Cheat Codes
Broken Bells - Into The Blue
Kae Tempest - The Line Is A Curve
Los Bitchos - Let the Festivities Begin!
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Cool It Down
Leftfield - This Is What We Do
Sandy Denny - Early Home Recordings
Osees - A Four Form
Sea Power - Everything Was Forever
Wet Leg - Wet Leg
Stick In The Wheel presents Perspectives on Tradition
Richard Dawson - The Ruby Cord
Jamie T - The Theory Of Whatever
Bonobo - Fragments
The Unthanks - Sorrows Away
Pixies - Doggeral
Gabriels - Angels & Queens - Part I
Oh My God! It's the Church - Revelations
Warpaint - Radiate Like This

Would have put the Gabriels in , forgot to ffs

 

[Knotted]

Taylor Swift – Midnights

The only Taylor Swift vote.

 

[nogojones]

Was this the first compilation ever to break into the Urban top 50? Congratulations

When I saw it had made the top 50, I was all excited to see who else had voted for it. Then realised there were a lot of joint 50's

 

[Knotted]

A don't think our love for it was good enough for it to chart though

It charted fine at 98. Smashed Björk and Taylor Swift.

 

[killer b]

It charted fine at 98. Smashed Björk.

do the next 50!

 

[marty21]

do the next 50!

This ^

 

[neonwilderness]

Would have put the Gabriels in , forgot to ffs

#shambles

 

[May Kasahara]

So who got the Beths into the top 20? I kind of thought they might be one of your picks.

Along with many other albums, I listened to it once and quite liked it but have yet to listen again and decide whether I like it more.

I have to say, nothing this year has reached in and squeezed my heart. Lots of stuff I've enjoyed, nothing much that's really imprinted on me. Suspect the problem is me, I have felt disconnected/disassociated through much of the year in general

 

[marty21]

Would also have put First Aid Kit in but forgot , that might have dragged them in to the top 300.

 

[marty21]

Losing that ❤idiot Badgers early doors stopped me listening to music for a while