(((O))) Category: Records of the Year

#31 – El-P – Cancer 4 Cure

‘leaves most of his contemporaries in the dust; his rapid-fire delivery, complex rhyme schemes, and savage charisma feel mercifully out of a place in a rap market dominated by Auto-Tuned nothings’ – Tinymixtapes

#32 – Purity Ring – Shrines

‘those looking for an entrancing, challenging, compelling and god-damn great-sounding clutch of tunes will celebrate and share liberally.’ – The Line Of Best Fit

#33 – MAKE – Trephine

‘Trephine is a concept album about a fantasy world a hospitalised man encounters after a psychological breakdown. Inspired tragically in part by the death of Guitarist/singer Scott Endres’s close friend, they have created a dark, psychedelic bruising a …

#34 – Melvins – The Bulls & The Bees

‘If you have any interest in underground music, you will be familiar with Melvins. That scene you love? Over the decades, the Melvins’ sweat, blood, and big hair paved the way for that to happen.’ – Beardrock

#35 – White Hills – Frying On This Rock

‘psychedelic, space rock wig-outs’ – The405

#36 – Future Of The Left – The Plot Against Common Sense

‘[their] most eclectic crop of songs to date and stands out as a great guitar-rock album in a year that’s seen its fair share of them already.’ – Tinymixtapes

#37 – inFictions – Maps Of Revenge And Forgiveness

I tend to rant a lot about genre classification (see: anything I’ve ever written) and how needless it is most of the time. Thus, when I saw that Sheffield’s inFictions classified themselves as ‘post-progressive’ I got a little worried about the content …

#38 – Chelsea Wolfe – Unknown Rooms: A Collection Of Acoustic Songs

‘Unknown Rooms : A Collection of Acoustic Songs’ is Chelsea Wolfe’s third release and it’s a softer inspiring addition to her discography. Prior to ‘Unknown Rooms’, Wolfe was known for a blend of doom rock and gloomy folk that usually featured a full b …

#39 – MINIONTV – The Last Projectionist

Well they’ve done it again. MINIONTV’s third record in just over two years continues the quality of the others with their wonderful looping drums, powerful layers of guitar and synth, the prominent dancing bass lines, and that ability to get you out of …

#40 – Holy Mountain – Earth Measures

Sludgelord called this album ‘a ride through elements of everything great about stoner/doom music’ Read more.

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