Best of the year 2019

These are the albums that made me jump up and down and want to smash things.
They are not numbered - all deserve to be at the top. Remember kids, I am right
and you are wrong. There will be no descriptions - you will have to participate
and press play and actually listen to them.

I have been a lazy cunt recently - I hope to post more often. Or not.

El Drugstore - The Golden Age of Bad Ideas

El Drugstore describe themselves as "Instrumental Freak

Attack" and with those words, launch into a whirling,

insane barrage of riffs, timings, dizzy note abuse and

powerhouse drumming.

Early Mastodon meet the Cardiacs doing Botch cover numbers

is probably the nearest I can get to a quick description and even

then I am falling short of the mark.

This is head-fuck music of the highest order and I gladly embrace

its almost psychedelic and psychotic aggression gladly.

Technical chops they have in abundance but unlike so many

instrumental metal/hardcore bands, El Drugstore have the vision

and tunes to pull it off. 

Like "On The Corner" by Miles Davis, at first it seems almost too

complex and random to make sense but under the distorted instruments

there is a fucked up groove happening. 

This is the perfect soundtrack for a world full of tension, mistrust,

loners, paranoia and nerves shot to pieces with coffee and hate.

Cloud Rat - Pollinator

Like a rabid dog raping your childhood innocence, Cloud Rat

have unleashed a fucking tempest of punk, hardcore and grind

which will melt your face off.

Manic drums unite with furious buzzsaw guitars that

lay the template from which the frontwoman, Madison, can

unleash a barrage of fearsome shrieks that somehow contain

real emotion and feeling, rather than just some routine throat-

shredding.

What makes this stand out though, are the inserts of clean

vocals, spoken word, keyboards, ghostly chanting

and other superior touches that bring a huge depth of

atmospherics into this bleak masterpiece.

Lightning Bolt - Sonic Citadel

Crazed chaos from this drum / bass duo.


Brutal, fast noise rock - the drummer sounds like he
is playing 2 kits at the same time and fuck knows what
the bass is going through - thick fuzz guitar tones envelop
the tunes, with grunted vocals buried in the mix.


This is like World War 3 going off in your head but much
more fun - it made me jump up and down.