OT: Your album of the year

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OT: Your album of the year

Post by ŽižkovClaret » Fri Dec 28, 2018 10:32 pm

TracyAnne & Danny - TracyAnne & Danny for me

Honorable mention to Courtney Barnett

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Re: OT: Your album of the year

Post by Pimlico_Claret » Fri Dec 28, 2018 10:46 pm

James - 'Living in extraordinary times', as good as anything they've ever done and still amazing live

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Re: OT: Your album of the year

Post by basil6345789 » Fri Dec 28, 2018 10:48 pm

Fame Northern Soul. Very strong compilation - every one a winner.
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Re: OT: Your album of the year

Post by Steve1956 » Sat Dec 29, 2018 10:13 am

Wildness/Snow Patrol

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Re: OT: Your album of the year

Post by bobinho » Sat Dec 29, 2018 10:16 am

This could get incredibly vague, as most music threads seem to do on here.

It’s almost like “who can name the most obscure musician” competition.

So, trying to keep it real, I’ll go for “Springsteen live on broadway”.

Course, if you particularly enjoyed Masindo Mbakindo’s “sounds from a daytime nightmare”, then by all means post it.

PS... that James album is very good also.

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Re: OT: Your album of the year

Post by SammyBoy » Sat Dec 29, 2018 10:18 am

bobinho wrote:This could get incredibly vague, as most music threads seem to do on here.

It’s almost like “who can name the most obscure musician” competition.

So, trying to keep it real, I’ll go for “Springsteen live on broadway”.

Course, if you particularly enjoyed Masindo Mbakindo’s “sounds from a daytime nightmare”, then by all means post it.

PS... that James album is very good also.
If you post a list of musicians you’ve heard of
I’m sure we can be damn civil enough to not mention anyone that doesn’t feature.

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Re: OT: Your album of the year

Post by SalisburyClaret » Sat Dec 29, 2018 11:06 am

Heaven and Earth - Kamasi Washington
Laws of Motion - Karine Polwart

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Re: OT: Your album of the year

Post by Bertiebeehead » Sat Dec 29, 2018 11:20 am

Panini

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Re: OT: Your album of the year

Post by Squarepusher » Sat Dec 29, 2018 11:44 am

Another vote for Kamasi Washington here. I was lucky enough to see him live this year as well, and he was fantastic.

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Re: OT: Your album of the year

Post by TheFamilyCat » Sat Dec 29, 2018 12:39 pm

Not sure if Primal Scream’s “lost version” of Give Out But Don’t Give Up can be included as it’s not strictly speaking a new album. But it’s very good.

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Re: OT: Your album of the year

Post by Fretters » Sat Dec 29, 2018 12:58 pm

Staying at Tamara's by George Ezra was brilliant.

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Re: OT: Your album of the year

Post by Flat Stanley » Sat Dec 29, 2018 1:04 pm

Star Crawler by Star Crawler
Manic Street Preachers Resistance is Futile
Superorganism by Superorganism
Johnny Marr Call the Commet
First Aid Kit Ruins

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Re: OT: Your album of the year

Post by Dyched » Sat Dec 29, 2018 1:28 pm

I’ll vote for Tranquility Base
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Re: OT: Your album of the year

Post by thatdberight » Sat Dec 29, 2018 2:03 pm

I listened to the picks above that I'd never heard of.

Mostly, they irked me.

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Re: OT: Your album of the year

Post by Billy Balfour » Sat Dec 29, 2018 2:18 pm

Idles – Joy as an Act of Resistance.
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Re: OT: Your album of the year

Post by todclaret » Sat Dec 29, 2018 7:18 pm

All At Once by Screaming Females.
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Re: OT: Your album of the year

Post by depechedingle » Sat Dec 29, 2018 8:05 pm

Always love a thread like this as to be honest I'm total out of tune with what's new as I just don't listen to radio much anymore and never venture too far from my comfort blanket of.mid 80's through to early 2000's.

I might spend a day or two on Spotify looking some of these up for a listen.

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Re: OT: Your album of the year

Post by KLClaret » Sat Dec 29, 2018 8:57 pm

Billy has it for me. Idles by a country mile

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Re: OT: Your album of the year

Post by LeadBelly » Sat Dec 29, 2018 9:41 pm

These things are fairly arbitrary as any single person only hears a small % of all available music + tastes vary widely anyway; but for me.............

Best new rock album: Curse of Lono - "As I Fell"
Best new folk album: Kitty MacFarlane - "Namer of Clouds"
Best new Americana album: Stray Birds - "Let it Pass"
Best reissue album: Blodwyn Pig - "Head Rings Out"
Best gig I went to - Hannah Alrdridge (who played to me and about 10 others in a small scruffy venue on a Tuesday night in summer but still gave it everything)

I enjoyed music as much in 2018 as any other year since I started listening/attending in earnest in c. 1960/61.
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