The eFests Albums & Tracks of The Year - Submissions Thread

[gigpusher]

Ok how do I get my longlist of 27 down to 10 arggggh!! 

[gigpusher]

Ok here it goes I should caveat this list by saying that this year has been a strange year of music listening for me. Generally I have a lot of active listening times like when walking to the gym or when on public transport into Manchester. For obvious reasons that hasn't been happening and couple with work being busy as a bastard all year and me promising to read more I have tended to put on playlists of entire albums from the New music thread and had them on in the background. My lists have therefore been the ones that have grabbed my attention most. Maybe at another time some other albums might come to the forefront. 

1 Laura Marling – Songs For Our Daughter

2 Billy NoMates – Billy NoMates

3 Sault – (Black Is)

4 Jessie Ware – What’s Your Pleasure

5 Gorillaz – Song Machine Season One

6 The Big Moon – Walk Like We Do

7 Haim – Women in Music Part III

8 Phoebe Bridgers – Punisher

9 Red Rum Club – The Hollow Of Humdrum

10 Beach Bunny – Honeymoon

Kind of cheating with my favourite songs and using it to pick the best tracks by artists that didn't make my album of the year in a lot of cases

1 Little Simz – Might Bang Might Not

2 Lianne Le Havas – Bittersweet

3 Roisin Murphy – Jealousy

4 Jarv is – Must I Evolve

5 Dream Wife -  After The Rain

6 The Orielles – Bobbi’s Second World

Taylor Swift - No Body, No Crime

7 Nadine Shah - Trad

8 Fontaines DC - A Lucid Dream

9 Bombay Bicycle Club - Everything Has Else Gone Wrong 

10  Bob Vylan - We Live here

On another day I might pick a whole other selection but for today these are my choices and any glaring omissions are mine to own. 

 

 

 

[found home in 2009]

After much deliberation: 

 

1 The Big Moon - Walking Like We Do

2 Declan McKenna - Zeroes

3 Matt Berninger - Serpentine Prison

4 Phoebe Bridger - Punisher

5 BC Camplight  - Shortly After Takeoff

6 Laura Marling - Songs For Our Daughter

7 Baxter Dury - The Night Chances

8 Lanterns on the Lake - Spook The Herd

9 Creeper - Sex, Death and the Infinite

10 Roisin Murphy - Roisin Machine

 

honourable mention to Nadine Shah, who's album is awesome, but I couldn't quite find space for it on my list

[gigpusher]

13 minutes ago, found home in 2009 said:

 

honourable mention to Nadine Shah, who's album is awesome, but I couldn't quite find space for it on my list

That's why I put her in my songs of the year. Most of my songs of the year were from albums that I wish I could have found room for except for Little Simz which is legit banger of the year and Jarv Is which wouldn't have made my album of the year but does have some great tracks. 

[found home in 2009]

Just now, gigpusher said:

That's why I put her in my songs of the year. Most of my songs of the year were from albums that I wish I could have found room for except for Little Simz which is legit banger of the year and Jarv Is which wouldn't have made my album of the year but does have some great tracks. 

I thought about doing the 10 tracks, but I took a ludicrous amount of time deliberating on my album list it feels ridiculous to spend any more time thinking about it

[gigpusher]

6 minutes ago, found home in 2009 said:

I thought about doing the 10 tracks, but I took a ludicrous amount of time deliberating on my album list it feels ridiculous to spend any more time thinking about it

Yes I don't tend to even remember song names a lot of the time. I've had a few stand out tracks this year but I did just use it to get some more artists in there. 

[zero000]

Leaving this right until the last minute:

Top albums:

1) Inner Song - Kelly Lee Owens
2) Punisher - Phoebe Bridgers
3) Color Theory - Soccer Mommy
4) Roisin Machine - Roisin Murphy 
5) Fetch The Bolt Cutters - Fiona Apple
6) Heaven To A Tortured Mind - Yves Tumor
7) Future Nostalgia - Dua Lipa
8. Sideways to New Italy - Rolling Blackouts Costal Fever
9) Folklore - Taylor Swift
10) Women In Music Pt III - HAIM

Top tracks:

1) Midnight Sky - Miley Cyrus
2) Circle The Drain - Soccer Mommy
3) Exile - Taylor Swift ft Bon Iver
4) Blinding Lights - The Weeknd
5) Lone Swordsman - Daniel Avery
6) La Vita Nuova- Christine & The Queens
7) Heartbreak - Bonobo + Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs
😎 Gospel For A New Century - Yves Tumor
9) To S. - Father John Misty
10) Illusion Of Time - Daniel Avery and Alessandro Cortini

[Gnomicide]

30 minutes until the voting window slams shut!

[Brave Sir Robin]

2 hours ago, gigpusher said:

Kind of cheating with my favourite songs and using it to pick the best tracks by artists that didn't make my album of the year in a lot of cases

1 Little Simz – Might Bang Might Not

2 Lianne Le Havas – Bittersweet

3 Roisin Murphy – Jealousy

4 Jarv is – Must I Evolve

5 Dream Wife -  After The Rain

6 The Orielles – Bobbi’s Second World

Taylor Swift - No Body, No Crime

7 Nadine Shah - Trad

8 Fontaines DC - A Lucid Dream

9 Bombay Bicycle Club - Everything Has Else Gone Wrong 

10  Bob Vylan - We Live here

Yeah I did similar, to a large extent. And Bobbi’s Second World would definitely have made my favourite tracks list had it not been for the fact that I played it to death when it first came out as a single, in 2018!

[priest17]

1. Mush - 3D Routine

2. Hinds - The Prettiest Curse

3. Flatworms - Antarctica

4. Porridge Radio - Every Bad

5. Damaged Bug - Bug On Yonkers

6. Lithics - Tower Of Age

7. Haim - Women In Music pt III

8. Wasted Shirt - Fungus II

9. Young Knives - Barbarians

10. The Cribs - Night Network.

 

Lots of great albums not in there, I wouldn't read too much into it or the order

[Weekend Cigarette Smoker]

Albums

1.Island-Owen Pallett
2.Purple Moonlight Pages-R.A.P. Ferreira
3.We Will Always Love You-The Avalanches
4.RTJ 4-Run The Jewels
5.Kiss My Super Bowl Ring-The Garden
6.Hero’s Death-Fontaines D.C
7.Welcome To Bobby’s Motel-Pottery
8.Kings Disease-Nas
9.Mystic Familiar-Dan Deacon
10.Songs-Adrianne Lenker

Songs

1.Murder Most Foul-Bob Dylan
2.Become A Mountain-Dan Deacon
3.Aries-Gorillaz
4.M4 Lema-Autechre
5.Ohh La La-Run The Jewels
6.Hot Like Jungle-Pottery
7.Anything-Adrianne Lenker
8.Posthumous Forgiveness-Tame Impala
9.A Hero's Death-Fontaines DC
10.Leaving Hell-R.A.P. Ferreira

 

[gigpusher]

46 minutes ago, Brave Sir Robin said:

Yeah I did similar, to a large extent. And Bobbi’s Second World would definitely have made my favourite tracks list had it not been for the fact that I played it to death when it first came out as a single, in 2018!

It's on their album released this year and that was the criteria wasn't it? I have substitutes if needed!! 😄 

In fact I'm just about to embark on the hell on earth that is food shopping so if you need a substitute 

Doves - Cathedral of The Mind

Edited December 21, 2020 by gigpusher

[Gnomicide]

[SwedgeAntilles]

Here's me thinking I'd have an easy day tomorrow topping in the last of the votes, them boom, avalanche of Johnny and Janey Come-Latelys.

 

[nikkic]

5 minutes ago, SwedgeAntilles said:

Here's me thinking I'd have an easy day tomorrow topping in the last of the votes, them boom, avalanche of Johnny and Janey Come-Latelys.

 

You reap what you sow....

[SwedgeAntilles]

11 minutes ago, nikkic said:

You reap what you sow....

Haha too true

[SwedgeAntilles]

Big THANK YOU to everyone who's played!

I'll do my best to finish totting up the scores over the next day or so then my plan is-

• Top Ten Tracks reveal - 23rd December
• Top Ten Albums reveal - 24th December

[Brave Sir Robin]

1 hour ago, gigpusher said:

It's on their album released this year and that was the criteria wasn't it? I have substitutes if needed!! 😄 

In fact I'm just about to embark on the hell on earth that is food shopping so if you need a substitute 

Doves - Cathedral of The Mind

Yeah I reckon it’s fine, was just justifying (to myself as much as anyone) why I hadn’t chosen it.

[gigpusher]

 

1 hour ago, SwedgeAntilles said:

Here's me thinking I'd have an easy day tomorrow topping in the last of the votes, them boom, avalanche of Johnny and Janey Come-Latelys.

 

Sorry!! Thanks for the hard work. Looking forward to the stats on this!

[gigpusher]

59 minutes ago, Brave Sir Robin said:

Yeah I reckon it’s fine, was just justifying (to myself as much as anyone) why I hadn’t chosen it.

It's a tune for sure!!

[DJL]

2 hours ago, SwedgeAntilles said:

Big THANK YOU to everyone who's played!

I'll do my best to finish totting up the scores over the next day or so then my plan is-

• Top Ten Tracks reveal - 23rd December
• Top Ten Albums reveal - 24th December

At a time when most of us have so little to look forward to... I'm very excited by this 🙂

[a6l6e6x]

I missed the deadline but here's my list anyway

1. Code Orange - Underneath

2. Deftones - Ohms

3. Protest the Hero - Palimpsest

4. Bring Me The Horizon - Post Human

5. Taylor Swift - evermore

6. Taylor Swift - folklore

7. Killer Be Killed - Reluctant Hero

8. Dua Lipa - Future Nostalgia

9. Joyner Lucas - ADHD

10. Nova Twins - Who are the Girls?

 

Honourable mentions: Polaris - the death of me, Vukovi - Fall Better, Spanish Love Songs - Brave Faces Everyone, Loathe - I let it in and it Took Everything, Run the Jewels - RTJ4, Enter Shikari - Nothing is True and Everything is Possible

[waltere]

Missed the deadline so won't submit full lists, but will mention some things which would have made mine and I don't think anyone else mentioned:

Album: Emma Ruth Rundle & Thou - May Our Chambers be Full

 

Songs: Dadi Freyr - Think About Things

System of a Down - Protect the Land

Teenage Wrist - Earth is a Black Hole

 

[priest17]

44 minutes ago, waltere said:

 

 

Songs: Dadi Freyr - Think About Things

 

 

need to hang my head in shame that I didn't include this, listened to it that much feels like its been round longer than a year

[SwedgeAntilles]

Quick update folks, I've just finished up adding the last scores. I've listed below everyone who's votes I've counted (a massive SIXTY SIX members, well in team!). I've sorted them alphabetically, if you posted a list please double check that your name's there and if not let me know asap. 

Andeeroo
anditmakesmesmile
Andre91
Ashl
Avalon_Fields
baggie92
Baggins7
Bennykill
Brave Sir Robin
broken monkey
Burgers_
Calvin Klein
cdm22
circus92
Claire96
Ddiamondd
dentalplan
Diamond24
DJL
EssexIndie
FloorFiller
foolee
found home in 2009
gigpusher
Giraffe Man
Gnomicide
grayfitz
Greenelk
Guy Incognito
Haan
Johnkhutch
jparx
Jsmurphy
jyoung
Kalopsia
kingcrawler
lessthanwill1
Matt42
Mattymooz
mcshed
Mellotr0n
mjh310
Mouseboy11
nikkic
Padjeq
PDAD
priest17
Punksnotdead
Quark
Radiochicken
reflekting
rockandnoll
SomeoneListeningIn
st dan
stanh
Supernintendo Chalmers
Superunknown
SwedgeAntilles
The life of Pablo
thrillhouse188
tjamest
uscore
Watergirl
Weekend Cigarette Smoker
willd255
zero000