Urban75 Album of the Year - 2024

[braindancer]

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

Likewise. Quite a few of the albums posted so far are ones I really liked and then forgot about!

 

[danny la rouge]

Likewise. Quite a few of the albums posted so far are ones I really liked and then forgot about!

I remembered Gordon, but I think I forgot beak^ and Beth.

 

[danny la rouge]

Where’s the rest? I am impatient to complain bitterly!

 

[belboid]

I remembered Gordon, but I think I forgot beak^ and Beth.

you remembered the wrong Gordon!

 

[belboid]

10 Beth Gibbons - Lives Outgrown

Ohhh, so this is what happened to the other one from Portishead. She's done well for herself.

(and made it into the Top 10 thanks to the very final voter, who voted literally two seconds after I had finished everything off and three seconds before I was going to formally close the ballot. Good thing they chose wisely)

 

[belboid]

9 Charli XCX - Brat

For a moment or three young Charli was solidly in second position. Then I noticed that Brat and it's completely different but also still Brat is actually completely different to Brat. What a summer.

(and it just goes to show how close the rest are. One vote could/would have changed almost everything!)

 

[belboid]

8 Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Wild God

Oh, how the might are fallen. Truly Nick is the Man City of this years chart. Perhaps it is the excessive use of strings? Perhaps we've just heard him do this before. It's still fucking awesome and includes several (more/new) highlights from a very high career. An ode to joy.

 

[belboid]

7 Amyl & the Sniffers - Cartoon Darkness

Cartoon darkness and it is almost cartoon punk. About as boldly original as an Oasis covers band, but who gives a fuck when they do it this well?

 

[belboid]

6 Nadine Shah - Filthy Underneath

The first entry where I was really tempted to cheat and get it into the top 5, at least. Wafer thin margins between this and the next four albums.

Since her last album, Shah has nursed her mother through terminal cancer, got married and divorced, tried to take her own life and entered rehab. And then made a record about it. And it is, frankly, sublime. It could be depressing as fuck, but it isn't, it's full of beauty, tenderness, humour and even joy. Wonderful.

 

[belboid]

5 Goat - Goat

That swaggering groove, that fuzzy guitar, those surprisingly funky beats, that mix of Afrobeat, krautrock and psych-folk. Taking a path they have trodden well, this time they sprint and dance along it. Quite brilliant.

 

[belboid]

4 Shellac - To All Trains

Proof I don’t fiddle, as this was tied with Number 3 and lost out cos of my stupid rules.

Something something something when this is over/Leap in my grave like the arms of a lover/And if there’s a heaven, I hope they’re havin’ fun, ’cause if there’s a hell I’m gonna know everyone.” Live your best life.

 

[belboid]

And now, the traditional pause* for you to make your wild guesses about the Top 3.

Is it as simple as you think? Well, I doubt it, I doubt it very much. In fact, if anyone guesses what they are, I will buy them Urban75. All of it.





* as opposed to the irritating pauses throughout the rest of the list posting.

 

[Voley]

Well we're sort of In-between days at the moment but I've Faith err that this boy won't cry.

Oh fuck it. You know what I mean.

 

[Voley]

I've never heard Whitelands or Chat Pile before, both of whom sound excellent, so thanks for that, everyone.

 

[belboid]

Well we're sort of In-between days at the moment but I've Faith err that this boy won't cry.

Oh fuck it. You know what I mean.

look to be some wild mood swings going on there

 

[Indeliblelink]

And now, the traditional pause* for you to make your wild guesses about the Top 3.

I'm going for Ex-Easter Island Head, Nala Sinephro, The Cure

 

[braindancer]

Solid shout...

I'm going for Ex-Easter Island Head, Nala Sinephro, The Cure

I concur!

 

[braindancer]

I've never heard Whitelands or Chat Pile before, both of whom sound excellent, so thanks for that, everyone.

Both superb. I forgot to include Whitelands in my list but it's a wonderful album...

 

[braindancer]

I wondered about some of the indie darlings that have been placing high on some of the lists - Waxahatchee, MJ Lenderman? Maybe insufficient lunch urbanz?

 

[Dr. Furface]

Nala Sinephro, Geordie Greep and… oh go on then, The Cure

 

[Voley]

I'm hedging my bets.

3 The Cure
2 The Cure
1 The Cure

 

[Steel Icarus]

I've only had one of my selections appear so far. Another I'm almost certain will appear as I think it's one you all love, cats, but far less sure about my other rock choice even though it is smashing

 

[danny la rouge]

1.Nebula, and Black Rainbows - In Search Of The Cosmic Tale: Crossing The Galactic Portal
2.Dirty Three - Love Changes Everything
3. Elephant Tree - Handful of Ten

 

[braindancer]

Could Orannsi Pazuzu sneak in? I know at least 3 posters loved it - including me? Would be quite the coup if some psychedelic black metal snuck in!

 

[ska invita]

3. The Fall
2. Taylor Swift
1. Oasis

 

[Dr. Furface]

3. The Fall
2. Taylor Swift
1. Oasis

Top 2 nailed on if we were doing the year’s biggest ticketing rips

 

[SpookyFrank]

Top 2 nailed on if we were doing the year’s biggest ticketing rips

To be fair, anyone who sold you Fall tickets this year was ripping you off as well.

 

[belboid]

Well, some of you came closer than expected. Some big names missing, previous big hitters, but.....

 

[belboid]

3 Nala Sinephro - Endlessness

Sorry, wtf is this? It's…it's….jazz. Proper, old school, jazz. A modern day Alice Coltrane, harp n all. Orchestral, ambient jazz. But much better than that sounds. More of you voted for this album than any other than the Number 1.

 

[belboid]

2 Jane Weaver - Love in Constant Spectacle

You bunch of fucking hippies. Actually, this ones a bit Kylie, a bit Goldfrapp, a bit… Can. The things you find in Widnes, eh?