Album of the Month Tournament - April 2021

[gigpusher]

15 minutes ago, SwedgeAntilles said:

Swifties by like 

 

Lol the discussion I saw was actually between 2 men in their 50's so not tradiional Swifties 😄 

[Quark]

9 minutes ago, gigpusher said:

Lol the discussion I saw was actually between 2 men in their 50's so not tradiional Swifties 😄 

Was one of them @Gnomicide?

[gigpusher]

2 minutes ago, Quark said:

Was one of them @Gnomicide?

Not unless he has a different Twitter handle. One of them is a friend who I wouldn't have imagined ever discussing Taylor Swift but he's a huge National fan and has been sort of converted to a Swiftie in a slightly misogynistic way where he basically does that thing of saying The National helped her more than vice versa. 

[Quark]

Late runners made this a tricky one at the end. Good month again.

1. Dry Cleaning - New Long Leg

2. Hadda Be - Another Life

3. Manchester Orchestra - The Million Masks of God

Honourable mentions to London Grammar, The Coral, Dinosaur Jr, Bruno Pernadas Arooj Aftab and The Lords of Misrule.

Edited May 5, 2021 by Quark

[SwedgeAntilles]

19 minutes ago, gigpusher said:

Lol the discussion I saw was actually between 2 men in their 50's so not tradiional Swifties 😄 

Swifties come in all shapes and sizes

[gigpusher]

1 minute ago, SwedgeAntilles said:

Swifties come in all shapes and sizes

True but these definitely aren't concerned about her hat

[SwedgeAntilles]

6 minutes ago, gigpusher said:

True but these definitely aren't concerned about her hat

Cardigan? 

[gigpusher]

3 minutes ago, SwedgeAntilles said:

Cardigan? 

😄 😄 Well played!

[blutarsky]

Last day to get your votes in tomorrow...! 

[gigpusher]

1 minute ago, blutarsky said:

Last day to get your votes in tomorrow...! 

Hoping to have a final listen of Friday's releases before I make my final decision tomorrow. 

[Cherry Tree]

On 5/4/2021 at 12:37 PM, Superunknown said:

On 5/4/2021 at 1:12 PM, blutarsky said:

Edited May 5, 2021 by Cherry Tree
Sorry missed a page of jokes about Swifts album being new.

[rivalschools.price]

Another good month in what’s been a good year for music so far:

2020 was great for releases too so maybe lockdown has helped get some creative minds focused.

[vintagelaureate]

1. Royal Blood - Typhoons

2. The Coral - Coral Island 

3. Dry Cleaning - New Long Leg 

 

 

 

[tpark]

1) Royal Blood - Typhoons

2) While She Sleeps - Sleeps Society

3) The Snuts - W.L.

[chuckles07]

Thanks to posters of all the info on the new music thread and this thread. Invaluable, thank you. 
 

1. Manchester Orchestra - completely new to me 😊

2. London Grammar

3. The Coral

[st dan]

1. Manchester Orchestra - The Million Masks of God

2. Dry Cleaning - New Long Leg

3. The Coral - Coral Island

[blutarsky]

My votes:

1 - Godspeed You! Black Emperor G_d's Pee
Atmospheric, foreboding, everything you'd expect. 

2 - Glasvegas Godspeed
Classic Scottish indie that we know and love. 

3 - The Offspring Let the bad times roll
By the numbers, cliche pop punk from a band that's really way too old to still be doing it, but I like it anyway. They sound the same as they did in the 1990s and that's a good thing. 

 

11 and a half hours left to vote... I'll be compiling results after that, but due to how busy I am at work (deciding GCSE grades and kids futures) those results may not be published until mid-week next week. 

[dentalplan]

1. Cory Hanson - Pale Horse Rider

2. Dry Cleaning - New Long Leg

3. Dinosaur Jr. - Sweep It Into Space

[dentalplan]

19 hours ago, blutarsky said:

I’ve not listened to it so wasn’t aware. Will defer to @Gnomicide as creator of the competition... 

what?

[Quark]

4 minutes ago, dentalplan said:

what?

I was going to correct him but decided it would be funnier to wait until you picked up on it.

[dentalplan]

1 minute ago, Quark said:

I was going to correct him but decided it would be funnier to wait until you picked up on it.

Either that or you knew which side of the fence I would come down on about a god damn live album by Red Rum Club.

[Quark]

No comment your honour.

[FakeEmpire]

Damn, forgot about this last month.

At the last minute, April votes:

1. 'New Long Leg' - Dry Cleaning

2. 'Actual Life (April 14 - December 17 2020)' - Fred again...

3. 'Flu Game' - AJ Tracey

Edited May 6, 2021 by FakeEmpire

[Gnomicide]

10 minutes ago, dentalplan said:

Either that or you knew which side of the fence I would come down on about a god damn live album by Red Rum Club.

It's not a live album so I'd still be right. 

He seemed so sure on the creator thing, I'd started to think he may be right.

[gigpusher]

Ok I had my 1st vaccine last night and actually feel a little rough so I'm just going to go for it

Royal Blood - Typhoons

Dry Cleaning - New Long Leg

The Coral - Coral Island

I have a feeling some of these might changed a right at the death of the month there did seem to be a flurry of good stuff and I've not listened to all of them enough but I look forward to doing so in the next few weeks.