Urban75 Album of the Year - 2024

[belboid]

OP didn't specify!

blimey, you're right! What an eejit.

'fuck you' withdrawn

 

[belboid]

Well, I've just realised that all those people voting for the Beth Gibbons album were voting for Beth Gibbons, not Beth Orton.

There's a Beth Gibbons album! I should have listened to that before now. Hey ho.

 

[belboid]

Almost there.

Have a chart while you're waiting.

 

[belboid]

Be prepared

 

[belboid]

In the words of The Ramones.....Shoot 'em in the back now

Hang on, that's not right

 

[belboid]

30 Whitelands- Night-bound Eyes Are Blind To The Day

Modern shoegaze malarkey. Not by yer usual skinny white boys.

 

[belboid]

29 Jack White - No Name

A sneaky release from ol' Jack, returning to his bluesy garage roots.

 

[belboid]

=27 The Messthetics & James Brandon Lewis -The Messthetics & James Brandon Lewis

Fugazi's rhythym section plus sax = a magnificent noise, constantly changing and challenging, like prime John Zorn.

 

[belboid]

=27 Doechii - Alligator Bites Never Heal

A good ol' fashioned mixtape. With rap, punkiness, a solid bit of house and even a conversation with 'her' therapist. Whats not to love?

 

[belboid]

26 Kendrick Lamar -GNX

Putting feuds aside, Lamar shows why he defers to no one but God. And God better watch out.

 

[belboid]

=24 Jesus and Mary Chain - Glasgow Eyes

Hoary eighties beasts rock back into fashion. Cant see anyone else from that era doing likewise.

 

[belboid]

=24 Floating Points - Cascade

He's got a PHd in neuroscience, you know. And you can kinda tell. But with dancing.

 

[belboid]

=22 Underworld - Strawberry Hotel

Album eleven and, as is appropriate for ravers in their sixties, it starts off banging and then goes 'ooh, I could do with a sit down'

 

[belboid]

=22 Kelly Lee Owens - Dreamstate

Brilliantly multi-colored synths, gathering and refracting light like skyscrapers against a sunset. Apparently

 

[belboid]

21 Skee Mask - Resort

It's like the nineties never ended. Retro, but clever and subtle idiom tweaking, Resort shows off blissed-out breakbeats, lucid-dream techno, and gauzy downtempo

 

[belboid]

right, I need to do some more of that thing I get paid for. Back 'shortly'.

 

[May Kasahara]

Glad to see Doechii on here, it's a great release - only reason she stayed on my B-list was because I didn't find it in time to listen more than once before the deadline.

 

[Voley]

Would've liked to see Jack White higher than that. Best thing he's done in ages.

 

[belboid]

Would've liked to see Jack White higher than that. Best thing he's done in ages.

I concur. I'd like to see loads of things higher because they are great, but then that would mean forcing other also great albums lower down. It did surprise me a bit how many really cracking albums came out this last year.

 

[belboid]

20 Cindy Lee - Diamond Jubilee

A sprawling, careering, couple of hours of sweet pyschedelia, fifties girl groups and general loveliness. Lose yourself in it.

 

[belboid]

19 Beak> - >>>>

The fourth and final album from the ex-Portishead dude and it’s a cracker. I wonder what happened to that lass he sang with?

 

[belboid]

18 Jamie XX - In Waves

Polished danciness made to be played at absurd volume at 3am whilst off yer tits.

 

[belboid]

17 Warrington Runcorn New Town Development Plan - Your Community Hub

Apparently "Your Community Hub continues Gordon Chapman-Fox's sonic exploration of the New Towns movement" - but don’t let that put you off. Both familiar and original, its sometimes even catchy.

 

[belboid]

16 Kneecap - Fine Art

Poltical, satirical, Irish rappers who annoy tories. Which would be enough reason to dig them even if the album wasn’t brilliant. Which it is.

 

[belboid]

15 Jenny Sparks - Bassline Music

Pitchfork says: "Filled with nerves and anticipation, you pull down the superman flight track road into a Peng lil place, you get out the German (naturlich) whip, and lo!"

No, me neither.

 

[belboid]

14 The Smile - Wall of Eyes

Sombre majesty from those legendarily happy chappys. Sounds a bit like A Moon Shaped Pool era Tvbottom.

 

[belboid]

13 Fontaine's DC - Romance

Less is more with the fourth Fontaines long-player. Less shouty, less thrashy, more good.

 

[belboid]

12 Chat Pile - Cool World

Bass driven industrial punk, abrasive, caustic and visceral. Definitely one to stick on straight after Christmas dinner.

 

[belboid]

11 Four Tet - Three

Kieran Hebden doing what sounds like a megamix of everything he has done before.

 

[The39thStep]

17 Warrington Runcorn New Town Development Plan - Your Community Hub

Apparently "Your Community Hub continues Gordon Chapman-Fox's sonic exploration of the New Towns movement" - but don’t let that put you off. Both familiar and original, its sometimes even catchy.

Forgot all about it after playing it loads late Spring/early summer