Actual Bastard brings hopelessness, self doubt, nihilism, psychic dread, social anxiety and all yer best boys over for a bag of cans and a pitch black laugh.

These compositions within the six tracks that is on here, blend in their maturity and distinctive voices throughout their arrangements.

It seems that Conic Rose has further perfected their craft of bringing some fresh air to current modern jazz trends.

The Passing is quite the emotional ride with unbelievable results and wonderous sense of arrangements Jacob has brought to the fold.

This album truly lifted my spirit and is a contender for album of the year.

Two decades on from their last album, The Heads fifth is a heady stew of the sounds that make them such a vital force in psychedelic music.

The music is like a willow dipping its boughs in a stream, turning its leaves in the wind like a shoal.

The second volume gets even wacky, dadaist, crazy, insane, and brilliant in a way those two guys can show how much wonderful music can come out of the Great White North.

If you like metal, then this album is for you. It’s unabashed in its delivery, and more fun than an afternoon eating pizza, watching Return Of The Living Dead 3.

Sanguis is harder, edgier, powerful, and it still manages to see what the band will do next for the third and final chapter in the Dark Poem saga that waits for us.

Sugar Horse pull off the unlikely feat of sounding like OMD and Ministry at the same time.

It’s an album which towers tall over the recent death metal revival and shows how it should be done.

You feel as if you’re watching the duo, pouring their heart and soul into the album and bringing all of these wonders to life to make sure they’ve got it all down to a T.

Tenth album from beloved Canadian collective finds them getting even more insular and melancholy than its predecessor.

Sabel and Vildgren wrap it all up in some gentle and subtly complex songwriting that makes it all sound like it is worth the effort of turning it all into music, as well as keeping that search for the right path going.