Albums of the month

[PDAD]

Thought I'd get this up and running again...

 

Same rules as 2025's thread but I figured I'd not date this one just so it can remain an ongoing thing - post your 1st, 2nd and 3rd favourite albums of the previous month by the 2nd Thursday of the following month (so deadline for January's submissions is 23:59pm on the 12th Feb for example).

Hopefully this gives plenty of time to listen to any late month releases. 

I will then compile the results each month for our collective favourite albums of that month (I promise not to lose track of it as much this year and remember to post the results, even if I haven't had time to listen to everything and review😂)

 

Edited January 30 by PDAD

[TheSheriff]

Nice one I was hoping this would be brought back 

[fantomas]

Enjoyed doing this last year, it’s a good reason to check out a bunch of new music each month and discover some new music.

 

Count me in!

Edited January 31 by fantomas

[fatishman]

Great idea! I can put my three standout albums of January forward and look forward to checking out everyone else's...

 

1. Laurence Jones - On My Own

2. Shaking Hand - Shaking Hand

3. Sick Joy - More Forever

 

 

[foolee]

1. The Cribs - Selling A Vibe

2. Robbie Williams - Britpop

3. A$AP Rocky - Don’t Be Dumb

[Quark]

Good work 👏 

 

Not much for me in Jan, only had a couple of new ones that piqued my interest.

 

1. The Cribs - Selling A Vibe

2. Dry Cleaning - Secret Love

[sheffinghell]

Here goes, my first noms for aotm... let's see how long I keep up

 

1. The Cribs - Selling a Vibe (by a mile!)

 

Also great:

 

2. Lucinda Williams - World's Gone Wrong

3. Dry Cleaning - Secret Love

[TheSheriff]

January has been a pretty good month for me have enjoyed several albums

 

1, Courtney Marie Andrews - Valentine

2, Dead Dads Club - Dead Dads Club

3, Jenny on Holiday - Quicksand Heart

 

Honourable  mentions for The Cribs and Zach Bryan

[Quark]

On 01/02/2026 at 17:40, Quark said:

Good work 👏 

 

Not much for me in Jan, only had a couple of new ones that piqued my interest.

 

1. The Cribs - Selling A Vibe

2. Dry Cleaning - Secret Love

Hold the phone. Didn't realise that the new one from Yumi Zouma came out on Friday.

 

1. Yumi Zouma - No Love Lost To Kindness

2. The Cribs - Selling A Vibe

3. Dry Cleaning - Secret Love

[Ben7amin_]

1 - Jenny On Holiday - Quicksand Heart

2 - PVA - No More Like This

3 - Dry Cleaning - Secret Love 

[Meerkat]

Not the greatest January for me, but not gone out my way to find anything new. Out of the 3 I've listened to, I'd go:

 

1 - A$AP Rocky - Don't Be Dumb

2 - Dry Cleaning - Secret Love

3 - The Cribs - Selling A Vibe

[clasher]

Decent start to the year, and I only managed to listen to some albums released in the first half of the month.

 

As things stand:

1. The Cribs

2. Robbie Williams

3. Kid Kapichi

[sheffinghell]

Just taking a listen to Eric Bibb - released on 30th - similar quality to Lucinda Williams

[fantomas]

January 2026:

1. Julianna Berwick / Mary Lattimore - Tragic Magic

2. Zach Bryan - With Heaven on Top

3. Slut Intent - Slutworld

 

That Kid Kapichi album had a few decent tracks too. 

[Punksnotdead]

Decent month:

1. The Cribs - selling a vibe

2. Courtney Marie Andrews - valentine 

3. Jenny on holiday - quicksand heart

[PDAD]

1. loopcinema - My-Lovely-Yellow-Kombi

2. Yin Yin - Yatta!

3. Langhorne Slim - The Dreamin' Kind

[brendan84]

1. Dry cleaning

2. Sleaford mods

3. The cribs 

[EssexIndie]

1. The Cribs - Selling a Vibe

2. Cast - Yeah Yeah Yeah

3. Sleaford Mods - The Demise of Planet X

[JRhys29]

1. Dry Cleaning - Secret Love

2. Searows - Death in the Business of Whaling

3. Poppy - Empty Hands

[Quark]

On 02/02/2026 at 18:08, sheffinghell said:

Here goes, my first noms for aotm... let's see how long I keep up

 

1. The Cribs - Selling a Vibe (by a mile!)

 

Also great:

 

2. Lucinda Williams - World's Gone Wrong

3. Dry Cleaning - Secret Love

I'm terrible at this - start January off all keen and involved in threads like this, new music and up and coming bands, and then tail off during the year as I gradually get worn down. There's a reason my AOTY lists tend to draw really heavily from the first half of the year 🤣

[Ben7amin_]

On 06/02/2026 at 10:07, Quark said:

. There's a reason my AOTY lists tend to draw really heavily from the first half of the year 🤣

 

I did very well last year until September which was so stacked it practically wrote off Nov & Dec 

[Don1]

1. Zach Bryan - With Heaven On Top

2. Glom - Below

3. Dead Dads Club - Dead Dads Club

 

Howie Payne - Mountain is worth a mention too.

Edited February 10 by Don1

[jonnyf]

1. Black Pistol Fire- Flagrant Act Of Bliss

2. DZ Deathrays- Easing Out Of Control

3. Alter Bridge- Alter Bridge

[tjamest]

1. Yin Yin- Yatta!
2. Lucinda Williams - World's gone wrong.
3. Yumi Zouma - No love lost to kindness. (Thanks for the introduction Quark)

[found home in 2009]

Well that's serendipitous. Not logged into e-festivals in ages as failed in last few sales, used to love threads like this and happen to log on in the deadline to vote.

 

1. Zach Bryan - With Heaven On Top

2. Soen - Reliance

3. Together Pangea - Eat Myself

 

Thanks for organising this PDAD.