Urban75 Album of the Year - The Results

[neonwilderness]

My list. Hastily compiled at the last minute, as usual

Arab Strap - As Days Get Dark
Sleaford Mods - Spare Ribs
Radiohead - Kid Amnesia
Mogwai - As The Love Continues
Arlo Parks - Collapsed In Sunbeams
Gruff Rhys - Seeking New Gods
Amyl and the Sniffers - Comfort To Me
Low - Hey What
Richard Dawson and Circle - Henki
Unkle - Rōnin I
Nick Cave and Warren Ellis - Carnage
Public Service Broadcasting - Bright Magic
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - B-Sides & Rarities Part II
Sleater Kinney - Path of Wellness
Goat Girl - On All Fours
Gabriels - Love and Hate in a Different Time
Nick Cave and Warren Ellis- La Panthère des Neiges (I listened to it on Friday morning before voting )
Lost Horizons - In Quiet Moments
Django Django - Glowing in the Dark
Wolf Alice - Blue Weekend
Sons of Kemet - Your Queen Is A Reptile
Shirley Collins - Crowlink

 

[The39thStep]

Many thanks Belboid

 

[Knotted]

Well, that was all very interesting. The annual album recommendations thread was notably less predictive than it usually is - loads of stuff here that never appeared there, or didn't attract much notice if it did.

I'd love to know how many voted for Mario Batkovic at no. 10. If it was many more than flypanam and me and possibly killer b I'll be amazed, which really brings home just how spread out our (not-so-)collective choices were overall.

It was my no. 5. Great stuff. Thanks for introducing me to it.

 

[hitmouse]

Should be the Lady Blackbird album but haven't seen anyone on Urban mention it so I doubt it.

If only it was called Black Ladybird, would've been a shoe-in then.
I'm assuming the tons of votes for Skopje vs Sheffield were all thrown out for it being too short, and Year of the Horse was similarly disqualified for technically being a single cos it's one big song, even though it lasts for about an hour and a half?

 

[belboid]

I'm assuming the tons of votes for Skopje vs Sheffield were all thrown out for it being too short, and Year of the Horse was similarly disqualified for technically being a single cos it's one big song, even though it lasts for about an hour and a half?

Split album = Compilation, so NO!

One big song would be fine, is fine. Splitting said track into four and calling them Title Parts 1-4 would have been fine. But calling them Acts 1-4. Even bigger fucking NO!

 

[hitmouse]

Split album = Compilation, so NO!

One big song would be fine, is fine. Splitting said track into four and calling them Title Parts 1-4 would have been fine. But calling them Acts 1-4. Even bigger fucking NO!

I can't believe Fucked Up, Rat Cage and Nervous SS have been deprived of their rightful place at the top of the pops, as voted for by the urban masses, by your petty rules.

 

[belboid]

I missed the Fucked Up entirely, it probably does deserve to be in there.

 

[AverageJoe]

So much music. So little filtering.

 

[Dr. Furface]

I listened to this a couple of times and both times I liked it while it was on but couldn't remember anything about it as soon as it finished, and by the time I was putting a list together I'd forgotten it even existed

Pretty much same here!

Great work as ever belboid

Dry Cleaning - New Long Leg
Loraine James - Reflection
Joy Orbison - still slipping vol 1
Ghetts - Conflict Of Interest
Sleaford Mods - Spare Ribs
Armand Hammer & The Alchemist - Haram
Pink Siifu - Gumbo’!
Eli Keszler - Icons
Boldy James & The Alchemist - Bo Jackson
The Bug - Fire
Westside Gunn - Hitler Wears Hermes 8
Tyler, The Creator - Call Me If You Get Lost
Little Simz - Sometimes I Might Be Introvert
Ben LaMar Gay - Open Arms to Open Us
L’rain - Fatigue
Smerz - Believer
Irreversible Entanglements - Open the Gates
Moor Mother - Black Encyclopedia of the Air
Jana Rush - Painful Enlightenment
Nana Yamato - Before Sunrise

 

[marty21]

Cheers belboid , my number one was number one , and I think I got 4 into the top 30 #franklyfurious

Will post my top 12 shortly

Low - Hey What
Wolf Alice - Blue Weekend
Chvrches - Screen Violence
Arlo Parks - Collapsed in Sunbeams
The Staves - Good Woman
Public Service Broadcasting - Bright Magic
Sleaford Mods - Spare Ribs
Jane Weaver - Flock
Liz Lawrence - The Avalanche
Kacey Musgraves - Star-Crossed
St Etienne - I've Been Trying to Tell You.
Aimee Mann - Queens of The Summer Hotel.

 

[AverageJoe]

It might be a bit much for you to do Belboid but are you able post up a list of all the contenders?

 

[MBV]

I'm already really enjoying a couple of new discoveries as a result of this thread. Well done everyone.

My list:

1. His Name Is Alive - Hope Is A Candle
2. Graham Coxon - Superstate
3. Sarah Neufeld - Detritus
4. The Weather Station - Ignorance
5. Alessandro Cortini - SCURO CHIARO
6. A Winged Victory for the Sullen - Invisible Cities
7. Jon Hopkins - Music For Psychedelic Therapy
8. Helene Vogelsinger - Reminiscence
9. Nightmares on Wax - Shout Out! To Freedom…
10. Bicep - Isles
11. Charles Spearin - My City Of Starlings
12. Public Service Broadcasting - Bright Magic

 

[belboid]

It might be a bit for you Belboid but are you able post up a list of all the contenders?

the Number 1's that didn't make the final list, you mean? That can be done.

 

[killer b]

Here's my 20

Hypnotic Brass Ensemble - This Is a Mindfulness Drill
Mother of Mars - I Hear
Natural Information Society / Evan Parker - decension (Out of our Constrictions)
Richard Youngs - CXXI
Rosali - No Medium
Dylan Henner - Great Prairie Plains: studies of American Minimalism
Wild Up - Julius Eastman Vol. 1: Femenine
Bubils - Blue Forty
Miriam Gendron - Ma Delire, songs of Love, Lost & Found
Yasmin Williams - Urban Driftwood
Mario Batkovic - Introspectio
Pan-Amerikan Native Front - Little Turtle's War
Sophie Cooper - Goodbye Gemini
James Johnston / Steve Gullick - We Travel Time
Land Trance / Aging - Embassy Nocturnes
Richard Dawson / Circle - Henki
Ben LaMar Gay - Open Arms to Open Us
Green House - Music for Living Spaces
Rhyton - Pharaonic Crosstalk
Body Meπa - The Work Is Slow
Cerebral Rot - Excretion of Mortality

 

[May Kasahara]

I sent my biggest ever list this year (30!) and only 3 appeared anywhere in this list Also surprised at how few of these appeared on the Album Recs thread, it's almost like you have actual lives or something

Do I mind? Not at all, cos now I've got loads of cool new stuff to explore. Thanks belboid

 

[AverageJoe]

So. Many. Albums

 

[belboid]

Here we go then, the 'unsuccessful' Number 1's. I think this is the lot

Lost Girls-Menneskekollektivet
Muito Kaballa Power Ensemble - Mamari
Archie Shepp & Jason Moran - Let My People Go
Graham Coxon - Superstate
Arab Strap - As Days Get Dark
Juke Bounce Werk - JBDUBZ Vol. 9
Lone - Always Inside Your Head
Gemma Cullingford - Let Me Speak
Eris Drew: Quivering in time

 

[stavros]

I sense that yet again I'm largely out of sync with the rest of you. My 15 were:

1. Amyl and the Sniffers - Comfort to Me
2. Nonconnah - Songs For and About Ghosts
3. Mono - Pilgrimage of the Soul
4. Muggs - Dies Occidendum
5. JOHN - Nocturnal Manoeuvres
6. 파란노을 (Parannoul) - To See the Next Part of the Dream
7. Black Country, New Road - For the First Time
8. Koreless - Agor
9. Tangents - Timeslips & Chimeras
10. The Black Dog - Music for Photographers
11. Black Dice - Mod Prog Sic
12. Tropical Fuck Storm - Deep States
13. Loscil - Clara
14. Daniel Avery - Together in Static
15. Flyying Colours - Fantasy Country

 

[billy_bob]

My top seven (there were plenty more than that I liked, but I never send a full list - after the first few, the difficulty of ranking them starts to stress me out and I just leave off at that point)

Dead Cell - Weather Warning
Sarah Neufeld - Detritus
Oslo Tapes - Ør
Lingua Ignota - Sinner Get Ready
The Shalabi Effect - The Shalabi Effect
Mario Batkovic - Introspectio
Jessica Moss - Phosphenes

I was sorry not to see Dead Cell or Lingua Ignota make an appearance because I know they have at least a few admirers around here, surprised Batkovic did place, but not surprised the others didn't.

 

[AverageJoe]

Here we go then, the 'unsuccessful' Number 1's. I think this is the lot

Lost Girls-Menneskekollektivet
Muito Kaballa Power Ensemble - Mamari
Archie Shepp & Jason Moran - Let My People Go
Graham Coxon - Superstate
Arab Strap - As Days Get Dark
Juke Bounce Werk - JBDUBZ Vol. 9
Lone - Always Inside Your Head
Gemma Cullingford - Let Me Speak
Eris Drew: Quivering in time

Halsey

 

[billy_bob]

Also surprised at how few of these appeared on the Album Recs thread, it's almost like you have actual lives or something

I'll tell you what it's like, May. It's like hardly any fucker's paying any attention to all our recommendations. Bastards, the lot of them

 

[belboid]

Halsey

You do know you didn't vote, don't you?

 

[May Kasahara]

My list:

Self-Esteem - Prioritise Pleasure
Wolf Alice - Blue Weekend
Wednesday - Twin Plagues
Arooj Aftab - Vulture Prince
Marissa Nadler - The path of the clouds
Little Simz - Sometimes I might be introvert
La luz - La Luz
Low - Hey What
Shannon Lay - Geist
Joy Crookes - Skin
Arlo Parks - Collapsed in sunbeams
Lou Hayter - Private sunshine
Nao - And then life was beautiful
Rosie Tucker - Sucker supreme
Pom Pom Squad - Death of a cheerleader
Durand Jones & the Indications - Private space
Rodeola - Arlene
Joel Culpepper - Sgt Culpepper
Gabriel Vicens - The way we are created
Remi Wolf - Juno
Rosali - No medium
Emma Ruth Rundle - Engine of hell
Jo Harrop - The heart wants
Dead Cell - Weather warning
Pom Poko - Cheater
The Staves - Good woman
STACEY - Saturn return
Mucha - Fall
The Anchoress - The art of losing
Slothrust - Parallel Timeline

 

[nogojones]

Cheers belboid.

Here's mine..

Juke Bounce Werk - JBDUBZ Vol. 9

Ripatti - Fun Is Not A Straight Line

Suck Puck Recordz - SPRING BREAK Vol.2

Joshua Abram's Natural Information Society - Descension (with Evan Parker)

NÜ KVLTURE - Vol. 1

DJ Bark Lee - The Collection (2012-2016)

Keg Fool Venz - Circus

Bloto - Kwasy I Zasady

Chrissy - Physical Release

Muito Kaballa Power Ensemble - Mamari

Proc Fiskal - Siren Spine Sysex

Vincent Van Sloth - The House of the Sloth

Polska Ja Wersyja - W Byciu Sobą Najbardziej Przeszkadza Nam Kodeks Karny

Little Simz - Sometimes I Might Be Introvert

Reptant - Return to Planet X'trapolis

Damon Locks Black Monument Ensemble - NOW

The Bug - Fire

Don Zilla - Ekizikiza Mubwengula

Emma-Jean Thackray - Yellow

MonoNeon - Banana Peel on Capitol Hill

I forgot to add the Das Booty comp - HYPER REALITY 2, which would have been near my top.

 

[manji]

My list:

Self-Esteem - Prioritise Pleasure
Wolf Alice - Blue Weekend
Wednesday - Twin Plagues
Arooj Aftab - Vulture Prince
Marissa Nadler - The path of the clouds
Little Simz - Sometimes I might be introvert
La luz - La Luz
Low - Hey What
Shannon Lay - Geist
Joy Crookes - Skin
Arlo Parks - Collapsed in sunbeams
Lou Hayter - Private sunshine
Nao - And then life was beautiful
Rosie Tucker - Sucker supreme
Pom Pom Squad - Death of a cheerleader
Durand Jones & the Indications - Private space
Rodeola - Arlene
Joel Culpepper - Sgt Culpepper
Gabriel Vicens - The way we are created
Remi Wolf - Juno
Rosali - No medium
Emma Ruth Rundle - Engine of hell
Jo Harrop - The heart wants
Dead Cell - Weather warning
Pom Poko - Cheater
The Staves - Good woman
STACEY - Saturn return
Mucha - Fall
The Anchoress - The art of losing
Slothrust - Parallel Timeline

Arooj Aftab - Vulture Prince

 

[May Kasahara]

I am surprised at the complete lack of Courtney Barnett, first album made Number 1, second (another from 2018) made it to 7, but this one? Nowhere.

I didn't even know she'd released another album, and I like CB, so that's an end of year bonus for me to check out

 

[May Kasahara]

Arooj Aftab - Vulture Prince

So brilliant <3 I was really surprised that didn't make an appearance in the U75 list!

 

[killer b]

Joshua Abram's Natural Information Society - Descension (with Evan Parker)

I'm surprised this didn't make the top 30 with both of us placing it so high

 

[souljacker]

These were mine. The Eris Drew one is fucking ace, as was the Garnier/Liminanas album.

Eris Drew: Quivering in time
The Limiñanas, Laurent Garnier: De Pelicula
Mogwai: As the Love Continues
Bicep: Isles
St Etienne: I've Been Trying to Tell You
Jon Hopkins: Music for Psychedelic Therapy
Mono: Pilgrimage of the Soul

 

[Knotted]

My top 10 was this.

Archie Shepp & Jason Moran - Let My People Go
Ben LaMar Gay - Open Arms to Open Us
Hands of the Heron - 13 Moons
Rhyton - Pharaonic Crosstalk
Mario Batkovic - Introspectio
Kristín Þóra Haraldsdóttir - Blóðhófnir
Southeast of Rain 东南有雨 - 42 Days 四十二天
Aaron Frazer - Introducing...
Mario Batkovic - Introspectio
Writhing Squares - Chart for the Solution

Just realised I voted Mario Batkovic twice! Rushed it. Doh.