I'll put this marker down now. If I had had more time to become acclimatised with this record than it could have very well claimed the top spot. But its late October release date has meant that I have not given it adequate gestation time. What I can tell you is that it is an extraordinary album that deftly marries vulnerability and fragility with strident heaviness and scuzzy, gritty riffs. It wears its sentiments on its sleeves and is an emotionally literate album that is in touch with its own soul. A bold and brilliant album that keeps revealing itself on each listen.

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