The Mountain Goats’ music has reached new levels of complexity, as well as quality, and that Darnelle and co have enough imagination and capabilities to take their music in any direction that they wish.

In Edicius, Dreich have crafted a black metal album which is a majestic piece of work and an articulate exposition of their aesthetic of darkness and negativity.

A beautiful, mesmeric, riff-laden collection of songs with the tightness and musicianship that comes with playing together for a decade.

This isn’t just a mind-blowing album; this is a wildly brilliant and wildly electronic as good as it can really get.

The life that Wereldwaan embodies is not only right up my street, but it’s inside my home, up the staircase, and currently jumping on my bed. And now Maria Iskariot is rapping hard on the door of your life – let them in!

The Uncool is a fascinating memoir for anyone who loves music or revealing the true story beyond the 2000 classic. Music is the true form of healing of one’s hope to continue on and never look back, but it is a healing mechanism that stays with you for the test of time.

The abilities and inventiveness of the two musicians bridge all the possible gaps here and do reach that “liminal state of mind” that the duo was striving for.

Although it runs the full spectrum from gentle pickin’ through to face meltin’ it finds its best moments in some newer corners between.

Create Or Die is testament to the resilience of one of the greats of our time.

Krok is an album that offers quite a few delights, both “old” and new.

Every now and then a record like this comes along to completely stop you in your tracks and it’s impossible not to fall in love with such enchanting music.

The musicianship is incredible and every song is a journey traversing a multitude of styles, there is much to enjoy.

Jamie’s songwriting has a substance that firmly holds things together here, and instrumental and vocal help from guests like Josephine Foster make things (darkly) intriguing throughout.

For all its threatening inaccessibility it’s actually an album which allows the listener to latch on and enjoy.

It is just one of those (late-night) albums that you simply don’t care if you understand a single word of the lyrics; it just works in every way it should.

The Brown Acid series shows other compilations how its done, done, done!

Whilst Para Bellum may not reach the heights of some of their more recent efforts it’s still another vital release from them.

Their new EP hasn’t a moment of fluff or filler; it grabs you by the scruff, and shakes you like a chew-toy for 15 gloriously miserable minutes.

It’s the way that both prog metal and prog rock add in massive amounts of ice cream with a delicious taste of a doom sundae, waiting to be delivered to you.

It all might sound like a bit of a strange mix, but it turns out that Cohen was able to turn all the varied influences, or rather varied ideas, into a very cohesive whole.

While it is sad to see them go, we will always remember the wonder, the excitement, and the beauty that this band have endured with the music.