57. Black Map - "Melodoria"

There has been a fantastic Placebo album released this year but it is not by Placebo. “Melodoria” is how I remember late nineties and early noughties alt-rock sounding. Full of insanely catchy hooks and sail-away choruses but backed by a crunchy underbelly that stopped it simply fading away. A time when they actually wrote songs rather than throwing together random melodies and hoping that they form some sort of cohesive whole. “Melodoria” is brim-full full of tunes, tunes that engage, tunes that entice and tunes that enrich. It has made me realise that sometimes you need something that is catchy as hell.