In our first list of the year, Killian Laher shares his thoughts on a year in music!
10. Juliana Hatfield Three – Whatever, My Love
The return of the JH3 was a bright, poppier affair than 1993’s Become What You Are. And it rounds out the ten nicely.
A really vague, woozy collection of smoky rock.
8. Swervedriver – I Wasn’t Born To Lose You
Heavy shoegaze is back! Not so much dreampop here, these guys always rocked harder than most of the fey shoegazers.
Some days I hate myself for liking this. It’s just a load of Taylor Swift covers, right? But the guitars on the album are really superb.
6. METZ – II
Hard rocking, shouty trashy old noise? Maybe, but at times they could be a band to get really excited about.
Probably the most lovely album released this year – absolute bliss.
4. California X – Nights In The Dark
Pop tunes combined with sledgehammer riffs. Go get ’em.
3. Sun Kil Moon – Universal Themes
Look beyond what a complete twat Mark Kozelek is as a person and you’ll find a finer, more complex set of melodies than Benji.
Possibly rock’s most consistent band, another really strong album from the great survivors of slowcore.
1. Nite Fields – Depersonalisation
One of the first albums released this year, and still the strongest. An album in the truest sense of the word, it creates a world which you can immerse yourself in. A kind of murky, dark world.
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