Album of the Month Tournament - May 2021

[funkychick2007]

7 hours ago, Quark said:

Just finished listening to it here. Really good. The new versions of Why Does My Heart and Natural Blues are lush.

Think i have just revisited my younger youth!! Porcelain still sounds amazing!! Someone mentioned his book on here somewhere will put it on the list to read I think!! 

[anditmakesmesmile]

That Moby album is amazing. It’s a Best of… album and yet it’s all new. 
Sitting here in the Lisbon sunshine with a glass of wine totally overcome by this record. 

[Cherry Tree]

My three this month

1st if allowed Chrissie Hynde - Standing in the Doorway (Dylan Covers), if not then

1st Lord Huron - Long Lost

2nd St Vincent - Daddy’s Home

3rd Olivia Rodrigo - Sour.

[dentalplan]

5 minutes ago, Cherry Tree said:

1st if allowed Chrissie Hynde - Standing in the Doorway (Dylan Covers), if not then

 

This will be posed towards the Black Keys album too, I'm sure.

VAR CHECK IN PROGRESS

Both studio albums. Play on.

[blutarsky]

6 hours ago, dentalplan said:

This will be posed towards the Black Keys album too, I'm sure.

VAR CHECK IN PROGRESS

Both studio albums. Play on.

You should check with @Gnomicide

[Gnomicide]

3 hours ago, blutarsky said:

You should check with @Gnomicide

I'll allow it.

[lessthanwill1]

1. Black Midi - Calvacade

2. Sweet Trip - A Tiny House, In Secret Speeches, Polar Equals

3. Squid - Bright Green Field

[kingcrawler]

1. Iceage - Seek Shelter

2. Sarah Klang - Virgo

3. Squid - Bright Green Field

Three from the first week for me.

[thewayiam]

19 hours ago, Cherry Tree said:

My three this month

1st if allowed Chrissie Hynde - Standing in the Doorway (Dylan Covers), if not then

1st Lord Huron - Long Lost

2nd St Vincent - Daddy’s Home

3rd Olivia Rodrigo - Sour.

About 5 years ago, A few festivals is America would have been right up your street.

[dentalplan]

Going pretty early but nothing has turned my head considerably since first week. Exactly the same as @kingcrawler

1. Iceage - Seek Shelter
2. Sarah Klang - Virgo
3. Squid - Bright Green Field

[kingcrawler]

2 minutes ago, dentalplan said:

Going pretty early but nothing has turned my head considerably since first week. Exactly the same as @kingcrawler

1. Iceage - Seek Shelter
2. Sarah Klang - Virgo
3. Squid - Bright Green Field

No Black Midi?

[dentalplan]

3 minutes ago, kingcrawler said:

No Black Midi?

Jesus, I remember them!

Apparently they brought a new album out the other day. Good to see them sticking at it.

[Cherry Tree]

3 hours ago, thewayiam said:

About 5 years ago, A few festivals is America would have been right up your street.

I actually saw St Vincent in 2018 at Life is Beautiful festival in Las Vegas, only 3 years instead of 5, also saw Chrissie Hynde the same year at a one day thing in Colchester, but I have never seen Lord Huron live.

[SwedgeAntilles]

1. Iceage - Seek Shelter
2. Squid - Bright Green Field
3. HAERTS - Dream Nation

As others have said, May felt like the weakest month of the year so far, but having said that my number 1 is likely to be towards the top of my AOTY list.

[Padjeq]

1. Greatest Hits by Waterparks (real album, not a greatest hits fyi)

2. Scaled and Icy by Twenty One Pilots

3. The Off-Season by J Cole

 

[Haan]

1. Mach-Hommy - Pray for Haiti

2. Erika de Casier - Sensational 

3. Squid - Bright Green Field

Hard to leave out Mdou Moctar and Young Nudy but oh well!

[found home in 2009]

1. St Vincent - Daddy’s Home

2. Bachelor - Doomin' Sun

3. HAERTS - Dream Nation

 

Honourable mention to the India Jordan EP which was ace. Others saying it was a weak month, but I thought it was pretty good. New St Vincent album is totally my jam, as a teen of the 90s love Bachelor's 90s indie rock/grunge vibe and HAERTS album is a really nice chill listen. Van Weezer was a bit disappointing but loved Hero from it. And few other albums others are voting for (Squid, Iceage) might have made it into my top 3 in other months.

[WhoOdyssey]

1. Twenty One Pilots - Scaled and Icy
2. Waterparks - Greatest Hits
3. Squid - Bright Green Field

[broken monkey]

1. Billie Marten – ‘Flora Fauna’
2. Gruff Rhys – ‘Seeking New Gods’
3. Weezer – ‘Van Weezer’

[Hugh Jass]

1. Royal Blood - Typhoons
2. Iceage - Seek Shelter

I haven't actually got a third. Only really listened to those two from this month's new releases.

[Hugh Jass]

Pretty confident I can do June's now too.

1. Wolf Alice

[vintagelaureate]

3 minutes ago, Hugh Jass said:

1. Royal Blood - Typhoons
2. Iceage - Seek Shelter

I haven't actually got a third. Only really listened to those two from this month's new releases.

I think Royal Blood was in last month's poll. Released end of April.

[Quark]

4 minutes ago, vintagelaureate said:

I think Royal Blood was in last month's poll. Released end of April.

Correct. It won as I recall.

[dentalplan]

You have to submit three anyway. Those are the rules.

[Hugh Jass]

8 minutes ago, vintagelaureate said:

I think Royal Blood was in last month's poll. Released end of April.

My bad.