3. The PastelsSlow Summits

This record feels like where The Pastels were moving towards for a while. They’d always had great songs but the productions could sometimes be a bit lo-fi and scratchy, which I also love, but by this record they had kind of got into a groove. And it wasn’t just great songs. It was like a great performance of great songs. It was something that they hinted at before, but it all just seemed to come together here. The Pastels are another one of those bands that really should have been huge. On planet Jimbo, if I could run the world, this would be the music that would be pumping out the radio, instead of the shite that was at the time [this record came out]. Also, it’s not expected for an album as late in their career to be this great. An awful lot of bands don’t get better with age but with The Pastels the standard stays high. I love that.