When a good band comes to town and you’re available, you go and watch that band, right? If they’re a really good band you might even watch them a couple of times in the same year if they pass by your way enough times.
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Normally, we leave it a bit longer than two years to revisit an album. But the subject of this write-up is no ordinary record, so we don’t feel bound by our own rules.
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If you’re going to trek to Milton Keynes – well, Wolverton to be precise – on a frozen Wednesday night in January, you’d want a pretty good reason.
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I can pinpoint the moment I fell in love with Permission To Land, which, weirdly, came before it was released or before I would actually get to hear the whole thing.
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Debut albums are a funny thing, aren’t they? They are your means to announce yourself to the world, to make a mark and set out your stall.
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Cast your mind back to 2002. In the world of heavy, guitar-based music, the freaks were in charge. Nu-metal’s rise had thrust the alternative forward and made it mainstream.
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Our favourite band playing our album of the year in full? Of course we were there – well, one of us was able to make it anyway.
And so we move into my Top 10 Albums of 2018, and what a Top 10 they are.
It’s that time of year again. Here are numbers 20 to 11 in my Top 20 Albums of 2018.
The High Fidelity generation loves to make lists. Top five this, top ten that. But 2017 has made life difficult for those of us who like to collate our favourite albums of each year.
Here’s where it gets really interesting: the best albums from one of the best years I can remember.
