"Maid In England" does what every good sophomore album should in that it takes all the promising bits from Maid of Ace's debut album a couple of years back, tightens up the loose fittings, adds a dose of killer tunes and riffs and lets it explode with H-bomb style power. A great effort from these Hastings punkettes - give the title track a listen below.
9. LAST GREAT DREAMERS - "Transmissions From Oblivion"
Some of you might remember the rather excellent "Oh Yes We Can Love" glam rock box set a few years back which looked at the full story of glam from its roots in 1940s music hall right up to modern day acts influenced by it. With "Transmissions From Oblivion", what Last Great Dreamers have done is essentially taken all the best bits from that and wrapped 'em up into an absolutely killer 40 minutes of swaggering tunefulness which Bolan would be proud to call his own. Full review here and you can check out the excellent video for the "Glitterball Apocalypse" single below.
8. NEW MODEL ARMY - "Winter"
It says a lot about what a career renaissance New Model Army have had in recent years that not only did they put out one of their strongest offerings for years with 2013's "Between Dog And Wolf" but they then went and actually surpassed it with "Winter". At once a reminder of everything that made them such a great band back in the day but with plenty of unexpected twists and turns on it, this is up there with their best stuff and comes strongly recommended. Full review here and you can see the video for "Devil" below.
7. CJ WILDHEART - "Robot"
A more than worthy follow up to 2014's "Mable", "Robot" saw CJ put together another great collection of earworms with plenty of variety, energy and choruses which stubbornly refused to leave your head once they'd got in there. You can read the full review here and check out the video for "FUBAR" below.
6. RYAN HAMILTON & THE TRAITORS - "The Devil's In The Detail"
A late entry on to this list but it definitely deserves to go in. Following up the excellent "Hell Of A Day" album from last year was never gonna be easy but credit to Ryan, he made it look as simple as falling off a log. "The Devil's In The Detail" contained some of the catchiest songs of the year mixed with some lovely haunting ballads and an overriding message of rising above the haters and doing what you want to do. Full review here and you can watch the video for "We Never Should Have Moved To LA" below.
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