Very technical Progressive Metal. Loads and Loads of notes and time changes. Initially I really liked it, but then I sadly got bored very quickly on the second spin.
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Soundtrack to the Italian crime drama of the same name. Not quite a new record but still contains twenty-one new pieces of music from these extraordinary scots. There is no band like Mogwai. Lots of imitators but nobody actually like them.
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Punishing Death Metal from Denmark. Harsh and non-compromising. Lacked any contrasts to break up the unrelenting noise.
On other lists this will be higher, much higher. That is not because I don’t like Lamb of God. I do, lots and lots and lots. I just was expecting more, much more from this. I found it OK, which for a band of Lamb of God’s calibre is simply not enough. I wasn’t inspired. It didn’t make my heart sing in the way that “Wrath”, "Sacrament” and “Ashes of the Wake” all did. It might well be me, but it just felt muted.
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Dreamy indie-pop from Dream Wife. Pleasant and suitably uplifting but lacking in staying power.
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