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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 –...

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...

A lot of you will be familiar with Matt and Simon with their time behind the desk at Tangled Parrot, so I’d like to introduce myself: I’m Rich (the new guy), I make stupid videos for the shop every Saturday and currently work in my favourite place in the world. So here are my top ten releases of the year, but I would like to shout out these as well: Dragged Into Sunlight Terminal Aggressor II; Quelle Chris & Chris Keys Innocent Country 2; Dragunov Arkhipov, ShitKid 20/20 ShitKid; Deftones Ohms; Run The Jewels RTJ4; Bib’s Delux; Elysian Fields Transcience...