Day 6: Bongripper - Empty. One of my favourite bands to put on when working; just massive riffs that go on forever and ever into space. It doesn’t always hit the heights of earlier records, but delivers on being a great big stoner metal lump.
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Day 8: Frail Body - Artificial Bouquet. Centrepiece track ‘Devotion’ is a very rare thing: a six-minute epic of blackened screamo, and it’s the band’s masterpiece. Caught them live twice this year and the show is as moving as it is crushing. Not messing about these lads
Day 9: Moin - You Never End. Another Quietus find, this band, all chopped up vocal samples and atmospheric guitars and stuttery drums, are a whole load of moody mysterious fun.
Day 10: Thank - I Have A Physical Body That Can Be Harmed. Delightful, noisy, very funny collection of songs from the Rock Band Thank from Leeds. If there's a better title than 'Woke Frasier' or a better screamed refrain than 'a pint of Guinness in a Madri glass' out there this year I'd be shocked.
Day 11: Coded Marking - Coded Marking. Thank-adjacent (I think) in that they're also from Leeds and play enjoyably raucous sort of post-punk. Not sure how known they are or what plans they have beyond this record, but I've been coming back to it lots.
Day 12: Fontaines D.C. - Romance. Such a fascinating band. At once really experimental and interesting, but also like a big stadium ladrock sensation, somehow? Good for them! Starbuster was maybe the single of the year, so addictive. And the album ain't bad either.
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