![]() Favourite track: Poor Sucker is a dark, intoxicating track that is raw and angry without some of the violence of the rest of the album. It is a tumultuous expression of our modern era with a balance of their gritty, heavy slowcore and a vocal clarity that demands attention. Martin Husarik, 25, Czech Republic Low – Double Negative Favourite track: After the live experience, I would choose Alpha, because of its vibrant bass beat that transfer you to some dark, naughty club. This is an album that will never bore you. Perfectly cinematic, with striking instrumental production and Anna’s freezing voice on top of that. Cori, Edinburgh Anna Calvi – Hunterĭefinitely most moving album of this year. It’s manic, dissonant at times, random at others. Favourite track: It’s a concept album so I am not sure I can pick one, but at a push I’m Desperate which drew me to the album. I have rarely felt so engaged with music. Thank goodness somebody else is as confused and muddled up as you are. It’s a little too uncomfortably intimate and, in a funny way, reassuring too. The artist’s moods are conveyed with brilliance through various means: choir, glitches, brutal introspective lyrics. Bobby, Warwickshire BC Camplight – Deportation Blues It shouldn’t work – it’s got overlayered choirs, sung in French, Victoria reciting numbers in French – but it delivers a glorious gooey pudding of sumptuousness. Beach House style appears monosyllabic, but the nuances and soundscapes are fresh and inventive. Jake Nolan, 19, Manchester Beach House – 7Īn immersive and technically stunning album. Favourite track: No better example of this can be seen than on the song Santeria where the beat slowly builds towards a crescendo during a legendary third verse. ![]() Production from frequent collaborator Kanye West gives Pusha the best backdrop since the days of Clipse and the glitzy production of the Neptunes. Noah Sparkes, 16, West Midlands Pusha T – Daytonaĭespite the relatively short runtime of Daytona, Pusha T manages to deliver the best bars of his solo career. Favourite track: Azucar – the most emotionally potent and one of the most personal and poetic songs Earl has ever written. The context of the album is also crucial: prior to release, Earl’s father had just passed away, he had cancelled a tour, citing anxiety and depression. The flow of the album is perfect with short, concise instrumentals that are moving, occasionally minimalistic, occasionally complex, and with lyrics that are honest and heartfelt and don’t dress anything up. Stuart, 43, Oxford Earl Sweatshirt – Some Rap Songs Favourite track: The Seance on St Augustine St is a superb example of a song that develops from something quiet and contemplative into a rousing and thumping slab of rock. The reverse is more traditional, but the tracks still grow organically. ![]() The first side features no silent space at all, as all the tracks bleed into one another with the listener unable, at first, to determine where one ends and the next begins. Greg, Wiltshire Wild Pink – Yolk in the FurĪ simply stunning slice of Americana. Amazing vocal delivery of the best lyrical conceit wrapped up in the most arresting and just plain fun band performance I heard this year. Also doesn’t suffer from the production homogeneity which blights some otherwise interesting pop albums. Idiosyncratic, varied songs with arresting, sparky, loose energy and a lyrical deftness which flatters the listener. ![]() Cat, 40, Brighton Parquet Courts – Wide Awake Favourite track: Make Me Feel, the squelchy Kiss-esque masterpiece she reportedly co-wrote with Prince, is enough to make summer come all over again. Melodies jostle for space with defiant rap and meld to comprise her most commercial but also her strongest album yet – this soundtracked my summer. ![]()
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