Urban75 Album of the Year - The Results
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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.
you've got their previous album 'bad boys of jazz' on the bandcamp link there belboid - I don't think the latest is on there
edit: actually it is - here: This is a Mindfulness Drill: A Reimagining of Richard Youngs' 'Sapphie', by Hypnotic Brass Ensemble
AverageJoe
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I've got one of my 20 in here so far, the Japanese Breakfast one. I'm so out of the loop
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
well found! I couldn't manage it last night
I've only got one too, it just means our choices are so cool no-one's heard of them / likes them, or that they're all in the top 10.
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
Before we break into the Top 10.....
There were pretty much bang on the average total votes cast this year, but the variation in choices was easily the greatest ever, with a larger number of individual albums ever voted for. I would often see a vote sent in from a 'familiar customer' and think 'well, this one should set us more on a usual rockist path' - but no, it'd be another twenty with stuff I'd barely heard of. Some of which were actually rather good.
There were pretty much bang on the average total votes cast this year, but the variation in choices was easily the greatest ever, with a larger number of individual albums ever voted for. I would often see a vote sent in from a 'familiar customer' and think 'well, this one should set us more on a usual rockist path' - but no, it'd be another twenty with stuff I'd barely heard of. Some of which were actually rather good.
I think the way people find out about new music has changed quite a bit in the last decade, and probably more so in the last couple of years - the music press is becoming less relevant, streaming algorithms (much) more important. While I'm dubious about much of what streaming has changed, maybe this is one good thing about it.
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
6 Jane Weaver Flock
Weaver's eleventh album brings everything togerher for her, combining pyschedelia, folk, kraut but now with added pop. Zingy.
(If I allowed ridiculously late votes, sent after I had announced that all votes were counted, tallied and final results calculated, then this would actually have been at .... Number 6, because I do allow ridiculously late votes because I am just so bloody nice)
Weaver's eleventh album brings everything togerher for her, combining pyschedelia, folk, kraut but now with added pop. Zingy.
(If I allowed ridiculously late votes, sent after I had announced that all votes were counted, tallied and final results calculated, then this would actually have been at .... Number 6, because I do allow ridiculously late votes because I am just so bloody nice)
AverageJoe
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Still only two from my list. I am bereft.
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
Okay, so its now time for the deliberate pause (as opposed to the technical pause, the accidental pause and the just plain bloody annoying pause) while you give me your guesses for the Top Three. Really, they could be anything couldn't they? Considering my ability to fuck things up, I wouldn't even exclude any of the previous twenty seven choices.
Dr. Furface
One small step for me
Little Simz has to be one of them
AverageJoe
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Won't be any of mine unless it's...
Halsey
Royal Blood
Sleaford mods
Halsey
Royal Blood
Sleaford mods
souljacker
innit
It should be Eris Drew but it will be something I've never heard of as usual.
