MALK - Death From A Love

It's been a difficult year to choose a winner: lots of great records but few with that extra spark. Death From A Love is, to our jaded ears, a clear exception - an album which both sums up and stands up to this confusing and disorientating year.

An exhilarating attack on the senses, it's a journey where nothing is quite as it seems. Over on Bandcamp, one listener puts it perfectly: “I listen to a track, then play it again, and it sounds different, somehow”. It veers from exquisite melodic electronica through cyberpunk, vaporwave, harsh noise, sampledelica. We don't quite know how it works, but it is a must-listen album.