eFests Album of the Year 2022

[evannn]

18 hours ago, benali said:

Honourable mentions - deathcrash, Claire Rousay, Jockstrap, Chat Pile, BCNR, Just Mustard, Mobbs, Michael J Blood, Kemi, Hinako Omori, Dead Rabbits, Unthanks, Lorraine James, Wu-Lu, Tomberlin.

I imagine you've heard them, but just in case, check out Claire Rousay's collab with More Eaze (& More Eaze's solo album) also from this year! 

[PDAD]

1. Black Country, New Road 

2. Angel Olsen 

3. The Suffers 

4. Danger Mouse and Black Thought 

5. Jockstrrapp 

Track of the year: The Place Where He Insterted The Blade by BC,NR

Gig of the year: Phoebe at Glasto 

[benali]

4 hours ago, evannn said:

I imagine you've heard them, but just in case, check out Claire Rousay's collab with More Eaze (& More Eaze's solo album) also from this year! 

The collab album was decent, just not enough to get into my second tier list. I really like the More Eaze solo album Oneiric if that's the one you are referring to? She's hard to keep up with, so many releases.

[mario man]

Some great lists - a super year for music. 

1. BCNR - Ants from up there

2. The Smile - A light for attracting attention 

3. Aldous Harding - Warm Chris

4. Kae Tempest - The line is a curve

5. The Bug Club - Green Dream in F#
 

Tracks: Kae Tempest - More Pressure / Khruangbin - Mariella

Gig: Black Midi headlining Garden stage at EOTR

Edited December 31, 2022 by mario man

[fightoffyour]

Probably forgot some because I can't figure out how to filter my music library by year, but here goes:

AOTY:

1. Taylor Swift - Midnights
2. Metric - Formentera
3. Everything Everything - Raw Data Feel
4. Surf Curse - Magic Hour
5. Alex Cameron - Oxy Music
6. The Regrettes - Further Joy
7. Holly Humberstone - Can You Afford To Lose Me?
8. The 1975 - Being Funny In A Foreign Language
9. Pablo Honey
10. Phoenix - Alpha Zulu
11. Stars - From Capelton Hill

Honourable mention:

• Arcade Fire - WE (yeah...)

TOTY:

• Taylor Swift - Would've, Could've, Should've

GOTY:

• Self Esteem - Glastonbury Festival, Green Peace stage.

Edited December 15, 2022 by fightoffyour

[stuartbert two hats]

On 12/8/2022 at 8:51 AM, Hugh Jass II said:

You can submit as many as you want, but I’ll only count the top five.

Can I put Kae Kempest for all five?

[Hugh Jass II]

5 minutes ago, stuartbert two hats said:

Can I put Kae Kempest for all five?

[gigpusher]

12 minutes ago, stuartbert two hats said:

Can I put Kae Kempest for all five?

Who is Kae kempest and are they anything like as good as Kae Tempest 😁

[panda97]

1 hour ago, fightoffyour said:

Probably forgot some because I can't figure out how to filter my library by year, but here goes:

AOTY:

1. Taylor Swift - Midnights
2. Metric - Formentera
3. Everything Everything - Raw Data Feel
4. Surf Curse - Magic Hour
5. Alex Cameron - Oxy Music
6. The Regrettes - Further Joy
7. Holly Humberstone - Can You Afford To Lose Me?
8. The 1975 - Being Funny In A Foreign Language
9. Pablo Honey
10. Phoenix - Alpha Zulu
11. Stars - From Capelton Hill

Honourable mention:

• Arcade Fire - WE (yeah...)

TOTY:

• Taylor Swift - Would've, Could've, Should've

GOTY:

• Self Esteem - Glastonbury Festival, Green Peace stage.

With the filtering by year, do you use Last FM to track? I had the same question yesterday and found a website that appears to let you filter by year of release 

[moogster]

Let's say...

Black Country New Road - Ants From Up There

Rosalia -  Motomami

Bjork - Fossora

Stromae -  Multitude

Spoon – Lucifer on the sofa

[fightoffyour]

2 hours ago, panda97 said:

With the filtering by year, do you use Last FM to track? I had the same question yesterday and found a website that appears to let you filter by year of release 

No, I've got everything in on my music library on my iPhone but you can't sort albums by Year like you can say, Genre, because Apple.

I could plug in my external HD and probably view by year in something like WInamp but I'm running a laptop with my SATA to USB cable because the internal drive is goosed. First world problems.

[PDAD]

For anyone interested, I've started reviewing my top 50 albums of the year in a Facebook page... Once that's done I'm going to try and think of new ideas to keep it going and probably turn it into a blog but here it is 🤙

https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100087982491998

[Avalon_Fields]

34 minutes ago, PDAD said:

For anyone interested, I've started reviewing my top 50 albums of the year in a Facebook page... Once that's done I'm going to try and think of new ideas to keep it going and probably turn it into a blog but here it is 🤙

https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100087982491998

It’s good, you’re very thorough and insightful. 

[Avalon_Fields]

Looks like Black Country, New Road are going to be on the winning list, inspired me to play it a lot more recently and belatedly agree I should have put it in my top 5 (It was top 10).

[PDAD]

3 minutes ago, Avalon_Fields said:

It’s good, you’re very thorough and insightful. 

Thank you! I'm doing it for a bit of fun really (after some pestering that I should start turning my obsession with listening to music into a more productive hobby) but it's been enjoyable to have to articulate what I think about what I've been listening to 🙂 

[not worthy]

The Smile

Machine Head

Yard Act

Frank Turner 

Placebo 

 

 

[Livvy13]

On 12/13/2022 at 7:39 AM, Livvy13 said:

Looking through everyone else's on here, it appears as though mine is very different, but fuck it. 

Album Of the Year

1. Midnights - Taylor Swift.

2. Girl Of My Dreams - Fletcher

3. Subject To Change - Kelsea Ballerini 

4. Älskar - Nina Nesbitt

5. Harry's House - Harry Styles.

Track Of The Year

1. Anti Hero - Taylor Swift

2. Left You For Me - Brooke Eden

3. Better Version - Fletcher

4. What I Have - Kelsea Ballerini

5. Balance - Lucy Spraggan

Gig Of The Year

1. Emily Burns (Factory Live)

2. Little Mix (Last Show)

3. Paul McCartney (Glastonbury, Pyramid)

4. Olivia Rodrigo (Glastonbury, Other)

5. Nina Nesbitt (Lexington)

Honourable Mentions (gigs)

Sugababes (Glastonbury, Avalon)

Kacey Musgraves (Glastonbury, Other)

Far too late to be counted but a massive honourable mention to Tom Grennan's new track You Are Not Alone which came out today which would've definitely made my top 3 if I'd heard it before doing them. 

[nikkic]

1. TSHA - Capricorn Sun
2. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Cool It Down
3. Kendrick Lamar - Mr Morale And The Big Steppers 
4. Fred Again.. - Actual Life 3 (January 1 - September 9 2022)
5. Arcade Fire - WE

Tracks 

1. HAAI - Baby, We're Ascending
2. The National - Weird Goodbyes
3. Bicep - Water
4. The Arctic Monkeys - Body Paint
5. Kendrick Lamar - N95

Gig Of The Year - Kendrick Lamar Glastonbury Festival 

Been a great year for music.

I have to say my biggest discovery of the year is Sam Fender. I'd written him off as another Ezra, Bugg style flash in the pan, but when the Glasto line up dropped I started to delve into his back catalogue a bit. He ended the year as my most played artist on Spotify. Looking forward to album 3 and him topping The Pyramid in 2024/25.

[anditmakesmesmile]

1) Skinty Fia, Fontaines DC

2) Hugo, Loyle Carner

3) Some Nights I Dream of Doors, Obongjayar

4) 11, Sault

5) What Came Before, Chase & Status

Edited December 17, 2022 by anditmakesmesmile
remembered an omission

[anditmakesmesmile]

15 hours ago, anditmakesmesmile said:

1) Skinty Fia, Fontaines DC

2) Hugo, Loyle Carner

3) Some Nights I Dream of Doors, Obongjayar

4) 11, Sault

5) What Came Before, Chase & Status

Just edited as I’d forgotten the Sault albums. Just included one - I do think 11 is the best of them

[jamesrfisher]

1. Liraz - Roya

2. Suede - Autofiction

3. Spiritualized - Everything Was Beautifiul

4. Nilufer Yanya - Painless

5. Yard Act - The Overload

 

Track: Liraz - Doone Doone

 

Gig: Mogwai at Aly Pally with Beak and BDRMM

Edited December 17, 2022 by jamesrfisher

[fantomas]

1. Rachika Nayar - Heaven Come Crashing

2. Plastic Mermaids - It’s Not Comfortable to Grow

3. Dead Cross - II

4. Lucrecia - ¡Ay! 

5. Father John Misty - Chloë and the Next 20th Century

 

 

[Quark]

AOTY list then. As always based purely on what I've kept coming back to with zero technical considerations

1. Craig Finn - A Legacy of Rentals
2. Lane 8 - Reviver
3. Death Cab For Cutie - Asphalt Meadows
4. Turin Brakes - Wide Eyed Nowhere
5. Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever- Endless Rooms

The rest of the top 10 for completeness:

6. Peaness - World Full Of Worry
7. Tears For Fears - The Tipping Point
8. Orville Peck - Bronco
9. Bonobo - Fragments
10. Yumi Zouma - Present Tense

An honourable mention as I don't quite feel like it sits as a new studio album to Olafur Arnalds - Some Kind of Peace: Piano Reworks.

Edited December 18, 2022 by Quark

[Limpet]

1. BCNR - Ants from up there

2. The Smile - A light for attracting attention

3. Black Midi - Hellfire

4. Big Thief - Dragon new warm mountain I believe in you

5. Jockstrap - I love you Jennifer B

[badleg08]

Albums 

1. Confidence Man - Tilt

2. Pale Blue Eyes - Souvenirs

3. Loyle Carner - Hugo

4. Fontaines D.C - Skinty Fia

5. T.E.E.D - When the lights go

 

Track 

Bulgarian Cartrader - LAB

 

Gig 

Michael Kiwanuka - Blackpool Empress Ballroom