gRAVE PLEASURES

Motherblood

CENTURY MEDIA

If the first Grave Pleasures album had fallen a little short of post-Beastmilk expectation, the second one made no mistake by taking the post-punk roof off. Powered by almost alarming levels of energy and frontman Mat ‘Kvohst’ McNerney’s harrying baritone, everything from ferocious opener Infatuation Overkill to more skewed fare like the darkly funky Falling For An Atom Bomb demanded that feet hit dancefloors and souls surrender to the void. 2017’s sexiest rock’n’roll album by a cobwebbed, goth-strewn and mildly priapic mile.