Saturday, December 14, 2019

The A team

By a curious quirk of fate, the names of all of the bands whose albums I reviewed for the December/January issue of Buzz begin with A, so they appear together right at the start of the round-up. Hotly tipped duo Alffa's debut Rhyddid O'r Cysgodion Gwenwynig is good; ... And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead's first LP for six years, X: The Godless Void And Other Stories, is better; and Algiers' There Is No Year is stunning, fully delivering on what July's gig at Clwb promised.

In addition to evaluations of new releases from The Flaming Lips, Throbbing Gristle, Ben Frost and Yann Tiersen, there are assessments of albums by two of south Wales' best bands, Silent Forum and KEYS, both out on Libertino.

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