News — AOTY

Jas works most Saturdays in our Swansea shop where she's to be found cleaning tables, toilets and records. She also helps with cleaning and organising records in our Carmarthen location. As the youngest member of the team we’ve let her choose her top 10 ‘listens’ 2022 - this is what has been in rotation for Jas this year, new and old. We had a job keeping her list down to only two Lana Del Rey albums by the way... 10. THE VELVET UNDERGROUND & NICO - THE VELVET UNDERGROUND & NICO Genre: Rock/IndieSongs: I'm Waiting for the Man, Heroin, There She Goes Again. 9....

Another year and I’ve been horrible at keeping up with releases for this one – but I definitely have my favourites. Want to give shout outs to other great releases that came out this year including Earl Sweatshirt Sick! [Hip-Hop]; Dälek Precipice [Experimental Hip Hop]; Abduction Black Blood [Black Metal], Lord Mantis Tormentor [Sludge/Death/Black Metal]; Lustmord The Others (Lustmord Deconstructed) [Experimental/Drone]; Boris W [Alternative Rock/Metal]; Sault Angel [Classical]; Infinity Knives/Brian Ennals King Cobra [Experimental Hip-Hop]; Gnod Hexen Valley [Experimental/Noise Rock]; Your Old Droog YOD Presents: The Shining [Hip-Hop]; The Body/OAA Enemy Of Love [Electronica/Industrial]; Blackbraid Blackbraid I [Black Metal]; Viagra Boys Cave [Noise Rock]; Thraa Into Earth [Drone] and Adwaith Bato Mato...

Hard choices this year for top 10. It’s my first time doing this also. Not all of them are metal, which is different... [Shane also runs his own metal label: MSH Music Group!] 10. ABBATH - DREAD REAVER Genre: Black MetalSongs: The Deep Unbound, Dream Cull, Acid Haze. Let’s start off with Abbath’s attempts at being solo. For me, it’s basically Immortal with a twist. Instrumentally a lot more in your face than Immortal and it’s just a rage from start to finish as you’d expect. However, it’s hard for me to not be impressed. Top track The Deep Unbound –...

THE BUG - FIRE Genre: Electronica/Hip-HopSongs: Pressure [feat. Flowdan], Vexed [feat. Moor Mother], How bout dat [feat. FFSYTHO]Label: Ninja TuneWE HAVE THIS! THE BODY/BIG|BRAVE - LEAVING NONE BUT SMALL BIRDS Genre: Folk/AcousticSongs: Once I had a Sweetheart, Black is the Colour, Oh Sinner.Label: Thrill JockeyWE HAVE THIS! MATT SWEENEY & BONNIE 'PRINCE' BILLY - SUPERWOLVES Genre: Folk/AcousticSongs: My Popsicle, Hall of Death, My Blue Suit.Label: DominoWE HAVE THIS! GROUPER - SHADE Genre: Ambient/DroneSongs: Followed the ocean, Disordered Minds, Unclean Mind.Label: Kranky MOGWAI - AS THE LOVE CONTINUES Genre: Post-rock/Alternative RockSongs: Ceiling Granny, Ritchie Sacramento, Dry Fantasy.Label: Rock ActionWE HAVE THIS! DRY CLEANING -...

It’s this time of year again. I’ll admit I was fairly horrible at keeping up with new releases this year and found myself taking comfort in familiars, plus finding undiscovered loves from the past (especially John Prine and Karen Dalton – cheers Matt!). I want to give these artists/albums a shout out too, these are other releases I’ve really enjoyed and returned to repeatedly, all of these you might have heard in the shop while I’ve haunted it: Underdark Our Bodies Burn Bright On Re-Entry [Atmospheric Black Metal]; Armand Hammer Halam [Hip-Hop], Flying Lotus Yasuke OST [Electronica]; Alice Coltrane Kirtan: Turiya...