Guyhoneymoon 0 Posted November 12, 2020 Share Posted November 12, 2020 It's been a weird old year, what's been your favourite album of the year? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guyhoneymoon 0 Posted November 12, 2020 Author Share Posted November 12, 2020 Personally my favourites are Fleet foxes - Shore, The Beths - Jump Rope Gazers, Kiwi Jr - Football Money, Pinegrove - Marigold. Just can't decide which one I like best. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
John Robinson 9 Posted November 13, 2020 Share Posted November 13, 2020 Strong topic! Expect to hear more from us on here about this. For me: Dylan. C'mon. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Twoboots 0 Posted November 14, 2020 Share Posted November 14, 2020 I really really enjoyed Traditional Techniques by Stephen Malkmus. I was also surprised that there Sufjan Stevens didn’t come out to more of a fanfare. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
John Robinson 9 Posted November 16, 2020 Share Posted November 16, 2020 Good call! Trad Techniques my favourite Malkmus albums since Real Emotional Trash. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Michael Bonner 16 Posted November 19, 2020 Share Posted November 19, 2020 Hopefully, you've all had time to digest our Albums and Reissues Of The Year by now. But were there any glaring omissions in our polls? We'd love you top turn us on to some other records we may have missed, so please post your own favourites/charts/recommendations etc below. Thanks! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Scott 3 Posted November 22, 2020 Share Posted November 22, 2020 Some favourites from this year: Chassol - Ludi Trees Speak - Shadow Forms Ustad Saami - Pakistan Is for the Peaceful Guided By Voices - Mirrored Aztec Hollow Ship - Future Remains Lukas Lauermann - I N Prins Thomas - Traens Soul Jazz Records Presents Deutsche Elektronische Musik: Experimental German Rock And Electronic Music 1971-83 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Michael Bonner 16 Posted November 24, 2020 Share Posted November 24, 2020 Thanks, Scott - the Deutsche Elektronische Musik comp is excellent. On a similar tip, you should keep an eye out for Cafe Exil - New Adventures In European Music 1972 - 1980, which is due on Ace in a week or so's time. It features a lot of familiar names - Amon Duul II, Faust, Eno, Michael Rother, Cluster, Popol Vuh etc - as well as people like Annette Peacock, Piero Umiliani, Tony Esposito. I can happily eat this stuff for breakfast. I can also heartily recommend Soul Jazz's Cuba: Music And Revolution comp, Experiments In Latin Music: 1975 - 1985 Vol 1. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Scott 3 Posted November 24, 2020 Share Posted November 24, 2020 Just pre-ordered Cafe Exil, it looks like an interesting compilation 🙂 And thanks also for the recommending the Soul Jazz Cuba comp. Apart from listening to some Os Mutantes and Caetano Veloso a few years back, I'm not very familiar with Latin music. So this looks like a good place to start! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Michael Bonner 16 Posted November 25, 2020 Share Posted November 25, 2020 14 hours ago, Scott said: Just pre-ordered Cafe Exil, it looks like an interesting compilation 🙂 And thanks also for the recommending the Soul Jazz Cuba comp. Apart from listening to some Os Mutantes and Caetano Veloso a few years back, I'm not very familiar with Latin music. So this looks like a good place to start! Soul Jazz are just the very best at that kind of thing, I think. I still rate their % Dynamite series as among the very best reggae + compilations. On a similar note, digging around in my record collection the other day, I came across Blue Note's Blue Juice and Blue Breaks & Beats comps - which were equally well curated. Easy enough, I guess, if you have access to everything in the cupboard. Let us know what you think of Cafe Exil and the Cuba comp! 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Scott 3 Posted November 25, 2020 Share Posted November 25, 2020 1 hour ago, Michael Bonner said: Soul Jazz are just the very best at that kind of thing, I think. I still rate their % Dynamite series as among the very best reggae + compilations. On a similar note, digging around in my record collection the other day, I came across Blue Note's Blue Juice and Blue Breaks & Beats comps - which were equally well curated. Easy enough, I guess, if you have access to everything in the cupboard. Let us know what you think of Cafe Exil and the Cuba comp! I think you're right, Soul Jazz are just the best at making these kinds of compilations. I only have a few (Deutsche Elektronische Musika and New Orleans Funk series, Future Bass, Soul of a Nation, New York Noise), but I'm always really impressed with their selection of tracks, and the fantastic booklets. I've been meaning to pick up some of their Studio One collections, and I'll be adding the % Dynamite to my wishlist 🙂 Just listening to Blue Breakbeats Vol 1, great shout! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
the dude 1 Posted November 26, 2020 Share Posted November 26, 2020 first post; love a list fiona apple - fetch the bolt cutters laura marling - songs for our daughter hum - inlet taylor swift - folklore deftones - ohms all in all i'd say it's been a pretty decent year 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Pannaltiger 1 Posted November 27, 2020 Share Posted November 27, 2020 It has without doubt been an exceptional year for music, thankfully in these strange times. However I was surprised that 6 of my top ten didn't make the Uncut top 75. The guilty 6 are: Samantha Crain - A Small Death Kris Drever - Where the World is thin Orlando Weeks - A Quickening North Americans - Roped In Oscar Jerome - Breathe Deep Tim Bowness - Late Night Laments. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Sean 1 Posted November 30, 2020 Share Posted November 30, 2020 In no particular order: Jason Isbell - Reunions (Maintaining his high-level consistency) Bob Dylan - Rough & Rowdy Ways (Just... mesmerising) Margo Price - That's How Rumors Get Started (Lovely stuff) Gretchen Peters - The Night You Wrote That Song (I'm a sucker for Mickey Newbury's songs) Bruce Springsteen - Letter To You (Has Max Weinberg played the drums any better than on this?) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Michael Bonner 16 Posted December 3, 2020 Share Posted December 3, 2020 On 27/11/2020 at 12:20, Pannaltiger said: It has without doubt been an exceptional year for music, thankfully in these strange times. However I was surprised that 6 of my top ten didn't make the Uncut top 75. The guilty 6 are: Samantha Crain - A Small Death Kris Drever - Where the World is thin Orlando Weeks - A Quickening North Americans - Roped In Oscar Jerome - Breathe Deep Tim Bowness - Late Night Laments. If you like the North Americans album, check out the Barry Walker Jr album Shoulda Zenith. He plays pedal steel on Roped In. It’s similarly spacious, ambient, meditative anchored by Walker’s playing. You can check it out here — it’s seriously good. https://holymountainrecords.bandcamp.com/album/shoulda-zenith 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Sean Hewitt 0 Posted December 9, 2020 Share Posted December 9, 2020 1 Bob Dylan: Rough And Rowdy Ways 2 Fiona Apple: Fetch The Boltcutters 3 Taylor Swift: Folklore 4 Bill Callahan: Gold Record 5 Bruce Springsteen: Letter To You Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Martin 0 Posted December 25, 2020 Share Posted December 25, 2020 For me, one of the year's best albums, and a startling omission from Uncut's Top 75, was Maya De Vitry's "How to break a fall". Excellent album from the former Stray Bird. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ElsaWhite11 0 Posted February 12 Share Posted February 12 All of this has turned into a long weekly discussion at my office so let's hear your opinion. Bartees Strange: Live Forever Ben Seretan: Youth Pastoral Bruce Springsteen: Letter to your Country Vladislava Fedotova: Employee monitoring software - that's all i need Westerns: Country Westerns Dogleg: Melee Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Beau 6 Posted February 14 Share Posted February 14 For me, album of the year has to be the cruelly unheralded I Am Not a Dog on a Chain by Morrissey. Listen to it, it's really great. Others include (in no particular order): The Strokes -The New Abnormal, Phoebe Bridgers - Punisher, Bruce Springsteen - Letter To You, Haim - Women In Music Part III, King Krule - Man Alive!, Paul McCartney - McCartney III, Blu and Exile - Miles and Nick Cave - Idiot Prayer. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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