Andy Capper

Mastodon - Blood Mountain
The Observer
80
All these ingredients go to make up a truly original, innovative, heavy-as-hell, interesting heavy metal record that you can listen to more than twice without wanting to smash it to a million pieces with an axe.
Deftones - Deftones
NME
80

A modern, commercially-viable, carefully crafted rock record that also sounds violent, deranged and desperately, incurably sad all at the same time.

Linkin Park - Meteora
NME
70
LP could call this album ‘Hybrid Theory Part Two’ (Exactly The Same As The First One But A Bit Slower) and it’d still sell millions. Whether it’ll make them bigger than they already are is debatable though.
NON - Children of the Black Sun
NME
70

His most accessible to date ... It's what you'd play if you were the leader of a grand underground sex cult and had a party 'in the dark'.

Glassjaw - Worship and Tribute
NME
80
Glassjaw’s second effort is by far the most intense rock record of the year.
Whitehouse - Cruise
NME
90
If you like your noise records raw, uncensored and visceral, then it’s unlikely that you’ll find a better album all year than this. If easily offended and politically correct then we suggest you steer well clear.
Deftones - White Pony
NME
80

Massive in pretension, slightly too long and gothic, but when all the pieces fit, you can't deny its unstoppable power.

Queens of the Stone Age - Rated R
NME
90

A heady mix of speed-addled punk rock, huge, sky-filling psychedelic majesty and sex-crazed black humour. For fans of Kyuss, this is his best album since 'Welcome To Sky Valley', for everyone else, it's just the best, most important rock album for years.

dead prez - Let's Get Free
NME
70

The debut album from this Florida-based two-piece is a return to when rap wore leather Africa pendants round its neck and followed Chuck D's design for life.

Boredoms - Vision Creation Newsun
NME
90
After more than ten years of making some of the most unlistenable records known to man, the Boredoms have made their most accomplished and perfectly realised album to date. Immerse yourself in it.
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April Playlist