** RULE CHANGES** **VOTE FOR THREE ALBUMS**

Vote for your favourite album and also your second and third choices. Make your selections clear please as it makes tallying up the scores easier. If you list a whole bunch of albums without making your selections clear I'll take the first three mentioned as 1st, 2nd and 3rd places. No joint positions please. Sorry to be a pedant.

Your album of the month will get three points, 2nd placed album two points and 3rd placed album one point. If you name only one album I'll give that three points. If you name two albums I'll score them with three and two points accordingly.

I've noticed that on occasions there's a Facebook post of this thread. On a few occasions in previous years I think the Facebook votes changed the AOTM compared to votes here alone. If it's acceptable I'll only give Facebook people one vote which will only get one point. It's an attempt to weight the scoring heavier in the favour of DiS users that take the time and effort to vote and discuss the albums released rather than just naming/listing artists that I've seen on the FB post. Hopefully, the end result will much more reflect the opinions of actual DiS users.

My choices:
1. Flowers - Everybody's Dying To Meet You
2. The Jezabels - Synthia
3. The Prettiots - Funs Cool

I've been listening to both Flowers (yes, crap name for a band) and The Jezabels a lot since their releases. They'd be joint top for me but playing by my own rules of no joint positions (as it makes counting easier) I'll give my AOTM to Flowers just because they're a small British indie band. Their sound has been done before many times with Cocteau Twins and a whole host of C86 bands like The Shop Assistants. I just really like it and am looking forward to their gig next month. Most reviews of their album gave them around 6/10 but it's at least a 8/10 for me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKpySTliBW4

The Jezabels album is a brilliant follow up to their last album, big catchy tunes. I was looking forward to their gig next month too but unfortunately their keyboard player has ovarian cancer and so they've obviously cancelled. I wish her the best. A great album.

The Prettiots album is just fun indie pop and I have a ticket to their gig tonight. Not many indie pop songs have been written about Werner Herzog and Klaus Kinski. I hope they play that tonight.

Please forgive any shameless bumps of this thread during the week. I'll keep this thread open until Sunday 6th March and so you'll have over a week to listen to tomorrow's releases before choosing.

Vote now!! (Or later in the week) but make your choices clear please.