Urban75 Album of the Year - The Results

[belboid]

Put the kettle on, settle yourself down, hell, have a small egg nog. Why not, it’s Christmas!

And only five minutes to the final countdown for the biggest event of the year!

 

[belboid]

Only a slight delay as the insurance rings up to sort my claim out, then gets cut off after leaving me on hold for ten minutes. So worthwhile.

In the mean-time, have a bit of The Supremes in memory of the late great Mary Wilson

 

[belboid]

30 Chrissy - Physical Release

Physical Release is a declared effort to, in Chrissy’s own words, reclaim the “utopian ideals” of the dance scene and return it to its core principles: family, connection and joy. Very groovy.

 

[belboid]

Hmm, not sure if we really need a youtube link and a Bandcamp one, but I'll sort that out in a bit.

Apparently bands actually need people to buy their records if they are to make enough money to live long enough to make more records. So, hit the Bandcamp link (the last one) and go support the artists you have just discovered to be brilliant.

 

[belboid]

29 White Solar Dog - White Solar Dog

White Solar Dog is the debut album of compütah! in Sin Hilo records. The 9 track album releases an inedit project with a new alias "White Solar Dog", who represents a god looking for new devotees and followers to inspire. Whatever the fuck that is meant to mean. Awesome tuneage.

 

[belboid]

28 The Exbats - Now Where Were We

The dystopian garage rock version of the Shangri-Las made another ace album.

 

[belboid]

27 Tyler, the Creator - Call Me if You Get Lost

Tyler gets all grown up and references Baudelaire a lot.

 

[belboid]

26 Gruff Rhys - Seeking New Gods

Another somewhat peculiar pop gem.

 

[belboid]

25 The Bug - Fire

Apoplectic rage and fury gets spat out amongst cries for righteous violence. And it's damned great fun.

 

[belboid]

24 Japanese Breakfast - Jubilee

Great hooks meet up with that voice and an instinctive knack for narrative to combine deliciously.

 

[belboid]

23 Goat Girl - On All Fours

Elegantly raging post-punk.

 

[belboid]

22 Ben LaMar Gay - Open Arms to Open Us

More genre defying tunesfrom the Chicago multi-instrumentalist. Something, something pan-american rhythyms.

 

[belboid]

21 Squid- Bright Green Fields

A nervy debut blazes through scraps of jazz, funk, krautrock, dub, and punk. Still a shit name though.

 

[belboid]

Remind yourselves how great Nanci Griffiths was

 

[belboid]

20 Joy Orbison - Still Slipping Vol. 1

Finally an album, a mere ten years from his first release, wherein Peter O'Grady hangs out with his family making brilliant dance music.

 

[killer b]

29 White Solar Dog - White Solar Dog

White Solar Dog is the debut album of compütah! in Sin Hilo records. The 9 track album releases an inedit project with a new alias "White Solar Dog", who represents a god looking for new devotees and followers to inspire. Whatever the fuck that is meant to mean. Awesome tuneage.

not heard/heard of this before, but it's really great.

 

[belboid]

19 Dry Cleaning, New Long Leg

Deadpanning vocals over the classic guitar-bass-drums trio, stream of consciousness lyrics on the beautifully banal, post-punk for the twenty-first century personified. Bandified? Whichever.

 

[belboid]

18 black midi - Cavalcade

An abum of extremes. It's extremely proggy and extremely post-punky, with squirling bits. VG (but definitely not VDGG).

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

Excellent, my annual “what I’ll listen to next year” list

 

[belboid]

hmmm, technical difficulties suddenly arising, back in a mo

 

[mwgdrwg]

not heard/heard of this before, but it's really great.

I like this...

 

[Knotted]

That Black Midi album! Damn.

 

[belboid]

17 Public Service Broadcasting Bright Magic

Fewer 'fun' samples and more collaborations with vocalists enhance the other PSB's fourth album, which is that bit darker and more interesting.



Bright Magic, by PUBLIC SERVICE BROADCASTING

 

[belboid]

16 Hélène Vogelsinger - Reminiscence

Ms Vogelsinger is a French singer, composer and sound designer. But don’t let that put you off, it really is a very good album.

 

[belboid]

15 Amyl and the Sniffers - Comfort to Me

More venom spitting from the Melourne based punksters.

 

[belboid]

So, what's next in the Annual Chart That Nick Cave Always Ends Up Winning?

Why, it's...

 

[belboid]

14 Nick Cave and Warren Ellis - Carnage

Their first as a duo (followed up by an album released on Friday that someone managed to vote for before it was even released!) follows familiar themes, brutal, surreal and romantic.

 

[belboid]

13 Liminanas/Garnier - De Película

The French techno legend meets up with purveyors of garage pysch rock to make a record of wonderfully scuzzy electronica.

Electrified (Best-of 2009 - 2022), by The Limiñanas

35 track album

theliminanas.bandcamp.com

 

[Voley]

I didn't think much of that Nick Cave one this time round.

If Jane Weaver isn't in the top ten I'm flouncing.

 

[belboid]

12 Hypnotic Brass Ensemble - This Is a Mindfulness Drill

People who like this like it a lot. Must admit I don’t get it myself. The title gives as good a clue as to what they sound like than anything I could write.

Treasure, by Hypnotic Brass Ensemble

track by Hypnotic Brass Ensemble

hypnoticbrass.bandcamp.com