13. Alas Salvation - YAK.
YAK wander into the dirtier corners of modernity on their sleazy post-punk debut. The trio have managed to capture the raw energy of the carnage that is their live shows with feedback drenched guitars and pounding basslines that leave you battered and bruised after just one listen as YAK’s grubby sound and sharp tongued lyrics ring in your ears and coax you into hitting play just once more.
14. Chaosmosis - Primal Scream.
The opening track may have ‘borrowed’ the piano riff from the Happy Mondays’ ‘Step On’ but we’ll let that one go. Gillespie really is digging deep on ‘Chaosmosis’ and strangely, the air has been cleared. There’s no drug infused haze hanging over the Glaswegian raver’s heads on this record. Could this be a clean slate? The album is continuously juxtaposing its dark, resentful almost mournful lyrics on sobriety, addiction and recovery with its feel good, electro pop accompaniment. The real highlight of Chaosmosis has got to be the fierce ‘Golden Rope’. Its combination of frantic drum rolls and seductive riffs that coax you in with its explosive synth fuelled chorus, before decaying into a bleak, dismal bridge; Gillespie’s eerie, melancholy vocals, tediously echoing “and I know that there is something wrong with me” 'till the fade.
15. Adore Life - Savages.
A gorgeous collection of love songs referred to as a “disease” by front woman Jenny Beth. Adore Life appears to be the softer cousin of the bands debut – It is as if you are left to drown in a soundscape so lush that you can hardly believe the infamous savagery of their live shows.
MUSIC.