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Urban75 Album of the Year - The Results

May Kasahara said:
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
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I liked the Self Esteem one but forgot to put it on my list #mybad
 
Number 8. Fucking hell. I got to the top 10 and was thinking Haiku Salut would be outside of the top 30 somewhere when the full list was posted. Was a genuine shock to see it there.

Great list, as always - lots of stuff to explore. I'd never heard of The Exbats, but instantly love them.
 
Top 20 was -

Hélène Vogelsinger - Reminiscence
Sarah Neufeld - Detritus
Lady Blackbird - Black Acid Soul
Bicep - Isles
Regal - Remember Why You Started
Joy Orbison - Still Slipping Vol. 1
Rochelle Jordan - Play With the Changes
Eimear Reidy & Natalia Beylis - Whose Woods These Are
Jane Weaver - Flock
Anna Meredith - Bumps Per Minute: 18 Studies for Dodgems
Voilaaa - Voiciii
Azmari - Samā'ī
Pridjevi - Drugi Korijen
Błoto - Kwasy i zasady
Tomaga - Intimate Immensity
Arushi Jain - Under the Lilac Sky
Observatories - Flowers Bloom, Butterflies Come
Walt McClements - A Hole in the Fence
Taggy Matcher - Push Push
Grandbrothers - All the Unknown

Do give this a listen, an amazing voice


Thanks belboid.
 
Here be albums:

Gemma Cullingford - Let Me Speak
Liminanas/Garnier - De Película
Kælan Mikla - Undir Köldum Norðurljósum
Zanias – Unearthed
Sound Synthesis – Soul Signal Modulation
Stretch & Enjoy – Samurai Revenge
DJN4 – Tales of Z
Reptant - Return To Planet X'trapolis
Eris Drew – Quivering in Time
White Solar Dog
Mdou Moctar ‎– Afrique Victime
Chrissy – Physical Release
MOY ‎– Dynamics Of Acid
Darren Nye - Memories Of The Future
Uf0 ‎– Arp Better Than Line
Greentea Peng – Man Made
Xeno & Oaklander – Vi/deo
Altin Gün – Yol
Jex Opolis – It’s Me, Jexy
Sansibar - Sans Musique
 
I didn't send a list, as far as new records I'd listened to enough to be able to confidently vote for go, there was a mixture of EPs I thought were really good (Early Mornings, Rudimentary Peni, Skopje vs Sheffield), a few albums by artists I usually like that didn't particularly grab me this time round and I'm not confident would make it into my top 10 if I'd actually listened to more than 10 new albums this year (Fucked Up, Iceage, Xiu Xiu), and then that Lana Del Rey album that I disliked enough that it made me vow to new listen to any more of her stuff. Ask me again in 10 years. Still surprised by how weak the urban swiftie caucus is, though.
 
Spandex said:
Here be albums:

Gemma Cullingford - Let Me Speak
Liminanas/Garnier - De Película
Kælan Mikla - Undir Köldum Norðurljósum
Zanias – Unearthed
Sound Synthesis – Soul Signal Modulation
Stretch & Enjoy – Samurai Revenge
DJN4 – Tales of Z
Reptant - Return To Planet X'trapolis
Eris Drew – Quivering in Time
White Solar Dog
Mdou Moctar ‎– Afrique Victime
Chrissy – Physical Release
MOY ‎– Dynamics Of Acid
Darren Nye - Memories Of The Future
Uf0 ‎– Arp Better Than Line
Greentea Peng – Man Made
Xeno & Oaklander – Vi/deo
Altin Gün – Yol
Jex Opolis – It’s Me, Jexy
Sansibar - Sans Musique
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The Gemma Cullingford album was on my shortlist.
 
I only submitted one entry - thinking that was the only album released this year I'd listened to..

Jane Weaver - Flock

However it turns out there's several.. would have added Graeme Coxon, Gruff Rhys and Dry Cleaning

Think I must have missed the Sleaford Mods and Low.. will be giving them a listen..
 
The39thStep said:
The Gemma Cullingford album was on my shortlist.
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That's the album I've kept going back to this year. It's exactly the kind of of synth-pop/post-punk/80s industrial/coldwave type stuff I'm into, done really well, with great tune after great tune, but then she goes and does that devastating cover of Ode to Billy Joe and it's in just the right place on the album and its fucking fantastic.
 
Many thanks to belboid again this year.

This was my top 10

01. Japanese Breakfast - Jubilee
02. Beach House - Once Twice Melody (would have been number 1 but only 8 out of 16 tracks released, the rest come out next month)
03. u-Ziq, Mrs Jynx -Secret Garden
04. Tyler, the Creator - Call Me if You Get Lost
05. pie pie lie lie - Genesis Block
06. Arca - kiCK ii
07. Daniel Avery - Together in Static
08. Piroshka - Love Drips and Gathers
09. Madlib - Sound Ancestors
10. White Solar Dog - White Solar Dog
 
mwgdrwg said:
Many thanks to belboid again this year.

This was my top 10

02. Beach House - Once Twice Melody (would have been number 1 but only 8 out of 16 tracks released, the rest come out next month)
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I have been liking that, but don't think it really counts as a 2021 album.
 
belboid said:
30 Chrissy - Physical Release

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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.



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Listening to this for the first time. It's great, thanks.
 
I didn't enter this year as I've not given many albums a proper listen, but these were on my "listen to these properly so you can vote for them in earnest" list:

Franck Roger - 44
Dam-Funk - Above the Fray
Teno Afrika - Amapiano Selections
Derek Carr - Arrival
Anthony Naples - Chameleon
ALEPH - EGO DEATH
Kaidi Tatham. - An Insight to All Minds
Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio - I Told You So
Jose Manuel - Janara
Felipe Gordon - A Landscape Onomatopeya
Andy Stott - Never The Right Time
MMM - On the Edge
Floating Points & Pharoah Sanders - Promises
Leon Vynehall - Rare, Forever
Secret Night Gang - Secret Night Gang
Nightmares On Wax - Shout Out! To Freedom...
Joy Orbison - still slipping vol. 1
Ross From Friends - Tread
Leron Carson - Under the Conditions
Voilaaa - Voiciii
XL Middleton & Delmar Xavier VII - XL Middleton & Delmar Xavier VII
Placid Angles - Touch the Earth

I probably would have voted Leron Carson as AOTY, if pushed to pick one...
 
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Spandex said:
That's the album I've kept going back to this year. It's exactly the kind of of synth-pop/post-punk/80s industrial/coldwave type stuff I'm into, done really well, with great tune after great tune, but then she goes and does that devastating cover of Ode to Billy Joe and it's in just the right place on the album and its fucking fantastic.
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Her music partner from Sink Ya Teeth released a couple of good tracks as well this year. This is my fave, it's a A Certain Ratio remix of a track from her 2020 EP

 
The39thStep said:
Her music partner from Sink Ya Teeth released a couple of good tracks as well this year. This is my fave, it's a A Certain Ratio remix of a track from her 2020 EP

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This is good - quite surprised at how decent the current ACR stuff is - I listened to their recent album (from last year I think) after I went to see them the other week and there's some songs on there that are as good as anything they've done.
 
killer b said:
This is good - quite surprised at how decent the current ACR stuff is - I listened to their recent album (from last year I think) after I went to see them the other week and there's some songs on there that are as good as anything they've done.
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Yes recent output is good especially after so long out of the game . Must admit though I miss the edgyness and experimental side of their earlier stuff .
Last years album was excellent and some of the remixes are good as well.
 
Working my way through some of the albums & the UAotY. Annoyed with self for forgetting to do my list as have probably listened to & bought more music this year than for a long time. Can console myself i have 4 of the top 10. Mogwai, Biceps, Arlo Parks & Low.
Can see me adding a few more. Mario Batkovic could be this years Mary Lattimore.
Well done again belboid.
 
killer b said:
This is good - quite surprised at how decent the current ACR stuff is - I listened to their recent album (from last year I think) after I went to see them the other week and there's some songs on there that are as good as anything they've done.
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I also went to see them recently - was very impressed. I like their new singer/flautist.

Expected it to be a Madchester-esque throwback gig, with a crowd full of middle-aged, fat, bald guys. And, well, the crowd prediction was true, but the music was fresh :cool:
 
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