So, what your favourite album of the year?
I am going to go for The Parallax II: Future Sequence by Between the Buried and Me. They are consistently brilliant with more music in one album than a lot of good bands manage in their career.
Second place goes to The Safety Fire with their first album Grind the Ocean. This is the first UK band I have heard in years that have really grabbed my attention. It’s a short but flawless album with lots of variation; each song doesn’t necessarily work perfectly on its own but as an album it is addictive.