Mid Year Lemon Awards: 2021

Welcome/welcome back to the blog, and to the lemon awards! Now, I know every year we do this once a year at the end of the year. It's always the last post of the year, but my mum suggested that we do 2 lemon award posts a year, we did 2 last year. Last year we had the big lemon awards and the Quarantine Lemon Awards. I realised that now we work with like 100 artists and we churn out so much content, that it made sense for us to do 2 lemon awards a year. We will be keeping a lot of the same categories as we do in the main Lemon Awards, but it's just a way of giving more bands the chance to have a lemon award. As expected, we will only be talking about releases from 2021 up until now. I'm super excited about this, so without further ado let's get into this! Also please remember, this years awards only include artists who have released music this year. If they haven't released music this year, they won't be featured. Also, we do 5 awards for releases as there's 20 nominations, so it's always 5 certificates for releases. For all other categories it's 1-3 that get a certificate. As always, there will be physical copies of the certificates, and as I see bands and everything they will be handed out. 

Mid Year Lemon Awards: 2021

Best Release; 

20. Resurrection by Embxrs

19. Ticket to Hell by Cambridge

18. Worst Friend by Keep This Up

17. Up & Away by High Wire

16. Worldwide Catastrophe by Royals

15. Dreams of You by Late Night Legacy

14. Joel & Clementine by Passionflower

13. Back To Life by Autumn Fires

12. Spite Song by roberts.

11. Over This by We Were Sharks

10. Dislike by WRTHLESS

9. britannia mills by downcast

8. Road So Far by Raging Clue

7. Grey Skies by Hightail

6. When I'm High by Dead Bundy

5. ffs by Misplaced

4. Pink Alligator by Those Without

3. History by A Few Too Many

2. Weightless by Those Without

1. Too Far by Good Hustles

Best Album;

5. The Journey by Ryan Soanes

4. Rock & Roll Is My Religion by Dirty Rose

3. Local Band Forever by Aim High

2. Gone Are The Good Days by Chunk! No, Captain Chunk! 

1. New Low by We Were Sharks

Best EP; 

5. Perception by Charles Darling

4. Find Me Here Pt 1 by High Wire

3. A Spark To Ignite by Royals

2. Dead Friends by Clay J Gladstone

1. You Are The Reason I Hate Leaving by Dude Trips

Best New Discovery; 

5. Falling Off Maps

4. Viva La Bear

3. Raging Clue

2. Dude Trips

1. Clay J Gladstone

Best Overall Band of The Year So Far; 

Criteria: Must have had at least 2 releases this year! 

5. Dead Bundy

4. Misplaced

3. Those Without

2. We Were Sharks

1. Good Hustles

Song of The Year So Far; 

5. Complete You by Chunk! No, Captain Chunk! 

4. britannia mills by downcast

3. Dead Friends by Clay J Gladstone

2. Too Far by Good Hustles

1. Omens by We Were Sharks

Best New Band; 

Some of these may not be bands that have formed this year, but these are bands that released their debut singles this year! 

5. SKRUFF

4. The Blams

3. Embxrs

2. Zak Fox

1. Keep This Up

Best Frontman/women; 

5. Abi of Embxrs

4. Charlotte of Autumn Fires

3. Morton Piercewright of Good Hustles

2. Ryan of Near Mrs

1. Randy Frobel of We Were Sharks

Best Bassist; 

5. Luke D'Alton of A Few Too Many

4. Pearce Boulton of Left Hand Lane

3. Will of Good Hustles

2. Ebony of Embxrs

1. Richard Smith of Misplaced

Best Guitarist; 

5. Lewis of Embxrs

4. Nathan of Good Hustles

3. Christopher Hicks of Keep This Up

2. Danny Freeman of A Few Too Many

1. Kenneth Hilling of Misplaced

Best Drummer; 

5. Logan Pierce of Aim High

4. Mitchell Holleyman of A Few Too Many

3. Lou Cole of Embxrs

2. Sean Mitchell of Dude Trips

1. Harvey Duddles of Good Hustles

Mother Knows Best Releases; 

Since my mum is an even bigger music critic than me, and she loves small bands and considering she was the one who said we should do a second Lemon Awards for the year, I thought she could have her own category where she lists her top releases of the year so far. 

20. Desensitized by The Ones You Forgot

19. When I'm High by Dead Bundy

18. Road So Far by Raging Clue

17. History by A Few Too Many

16. Beautiful Child by Tony Meade

15. Alex's House by Chris Pidsley

14. idkwhyidkwhere by Region

13. Dreams of You by Late Night Legacy

12. Resurrection by Embxrs

11. Palace by BrunchBox

10. Party Party by Black Star Jackals

9. Billionaire Nightmare by Artio

8. Bring Me Down by We Were Sharks

7. Sorry by Clay J Gladstone

6. Turn Up The Music by Future Radio

5. Curtain Call by Don't Forget Rupert

4. No Way Out by Without Andrew

3. Back To Life by Autumn Fires

2. Face The Wall by Near Mrs

1. Too Far by Good Hustles

Best Cover Art: 

So, I felt like it was time to make this a category! I've had people point out how sick some of the cover art is for some releases, so each time we do the lemon awards, we'll include this category now, but to make it a bit more interesting, these won't be picked by me. This time I've had one of my nephews pick the top 5 for these, so it's not biased. 

5. Worldwide Catastrophe by Royals

4. ffs by Misplaced

3. Skully and Ted's Excellent Adventure by The Whether Channel

2. Loughborough to Lichfield by Next Year

1. Forget Me Not by All Along