Well this is a first. We have a band getting two entries on the list and it is none other than drone metal uberlords Sunn O))). One of the most incredible and absorbing live acts on the planet (Manchester Live review here), you feel as well as hear them. In fact, their reverberations are so powerful that they managed to total my friend’s glasses by vibrating all the screws out of their fittings. This is the companion album to April’s Life Metal (keep your eyes out for it on the list) and it consists of four improvised meditations on life, the universe and everything, each in a different key (C, G, E and A for those who those things matter). It’s classic Sunn O))) in that it is low, slow and rumbling but it also has an organic earthy feel to it. There is a stark beauty to its minimalism and you can lose yourself in the four tracks. Devastatingly simple in its approach, the tracks stay with you much longer than one held chord played in one key has a right to.