Well, what a year it’s been. After hints of a creative revival in rock music in recent years and the realisation of that in 2016, 2017 has been an artistic triumph in almost every corner of heavy music. For the… Continue Reading
You’ve seen the lower half of my Top 20 Albums of 2017. Now let’s step it up a notch. My ten best albums of the year are, as you might expect, stupidly good. So, off we go. Click here for… Continue Reading
Considering the strength of the albums that didn’t make this Top 10 – click here for numbers 20 to 11 and for Chris Nee’s picks – it goes without saying that I hold the following ten records in very high… Continue Reading
2017 has given us an embarrassment of riches in the world of rock, metal and hardcore. In the last couple of years the great new albums have been coming thick and fast, meaning that coming up with a top twenty… Continue Reading
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. Still, nice problems to have. Let’s… Continue Reading