Baroness – Blue Record

I’m making a list of all the music I’ve dug that was released in 2010. Novel concept, no?

It is a shame that Baroness’s Blue Record was released in 2009, because it is, so far, the best thing I’ve heard in 2010.

Words that spring to mind when I listen to it, include: rollicking, horseback, vikings and eating lunch off a sword.

Favourite tracks include: Bullhead’s Psalm, Jake Leg, Ogeechee Hymnal and A Horse Called Golgotha.

I keep talking about it being shoe-gazing metal with ’70s throwback style guitar. That, perhaps means nothing. Blue Record is not nothing, it is a really, exceptionally good album and I will be forever thankful that I accidentally saw them support Isis.