Nite Songs

  Top 20 time then - hopefully a few albums on here you might have missed first time out and will enjoy giving a much deserved listen to. Tune back in for the Top 10 tomorrow... *** 20.     CAROL HODGE - "The Crippling Space Between" Hodge's third solo album sees her in good form, mixing light and shade to brilliant effect. Informed by the strange climate that lockdown brought on, by turns angry and hopeful, despairing and optimistic, it runs the full gauntlet of emotions that a lot of us felt during those weird months. She may still be one of the UK music industry's best kept secrets but on the evidence of The Crippling Space Between , it's really time that somebody changed that and she received the recognition she deserves. *** 19.     MINISTRY - "Moral Hygiene" Times like this provide rich fodder for Al Jourgensen and Moral Hygiene  is arguably Ministry's strongest album for over a decade. As you'd expect, it doesn't let up on the heavines...

  Long time residents on the excellent Acetate records roster, Nine Pound Hammer are probably best known for being Blaine from Nashville Pussy's "other band" (though they actually pre-date NP having started out way back in 1985 before reforming in the early years of the millennium and kicking on ever since).  Hand on heart, I'd only heard one of their albums before in the form of 2007's Sex, Drugs And Bill Monroe  but it was a proper scuzzed-up slice of cowpunk as evidenced by songs like Too Sorry To Shit  and Mama's Doin' Meth Again . With Daniel Rey, best known for his work with the Ramones and the Dictators, in the producer's chair for this one, When The Shit Goes Down  is very much cut from the same cloth - like all the best Jason & The Scorchers or Bob Wayne records, it's the sound of a bunch of redneck ne'er do wells plugging in in the barn and kicking up an absolute storm. You can definitely hear Rey bringing a hint of da Bruddas to ...