Ramblings About’s Top Twenty Albums Of 2018

Until I sat down to put this list together, I hadn’t realised how fantastic 2018 has been for music. It’s all the more evident for what’s not made my top twenty with bands like IDLES, Wild Cat Strike, Barely March, The Interrupters, Clutch, Pijn, Cancer Bats, Fucked Up and so many more missing out. If I’d wanted to be self-indulgent (okay, more self-indulgent), I could quite easily have come up with fifty albums that I loved and a hundred that were at least good. If you’re interested, buy me a pint sometime, and I’ll happily talk at you about them. In the here and now, here are the twenty that blew my mind.

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26/12/2018 2

Top 20 Albums of the Year: Number 5 to Number 1

Happy New Year to everyone reading and as we enter the new year, I can cap off the last with my top five albums of 2014. If you missed the first three parts, you can find them here, here and here. Enjoy.

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02/01/2015 0

Marmozets

Marmozets seem to be the latest buzz word on everyone’s lips and with their debut album, The Weird and Wonderful Marmozets, dropping this week, it looks likely that they are here to stay. Formed of two sets of siblings, Becca, Sam and Josh MacIntyre and Will and Jack Bottomley, Marmozets have been on the live scene for a while. I saw them supporting Feed the Rhino a while back and they impressed me then with their energetic show. Back then their sound was also a lot more mathcore, something that they have by no means lost on this release, but which they have honed and in many ways perfected into some cracking tunes.

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30/09/2014 0

Mid-Weekly Playlist 3/4/2014

So this is the playlist from Stuart’s Alternative Hour on what I believe will have been the 21st of March? This allows me to now be up to date in terms of posting things up and therefore from tomorrow I shall just be putting in on the site after the show itself. Hope you enjoy. You should all tune in at noon to have a listen! You can find it here.

The only song not on Spotify was, Marmozets – Collisions

03/04/2014 0