My Top Albums 2013: Number 2

Joanna Gruesome – Weird Sister

 

 

Having supposedly met in anger management, a story almost too good to be true, Joanna Gruesome's debut album manages to cram hardcore beats, fuzzed-out bliss and violent urges into just about half an hour.
 
With a singer who stomps, screams, and shouts her way through plenty of the album, while verses slam into bridges before crashing headlong into choruses, this is without doubt one of the most purely exuberant, hook-stuffed indie-pop records of the year.
 
Video: Joanna Gruesome - Secret Surprise