13. Katatonia - 'City Burials'

Katatonia started life as self-confessed Paradise Lost fanboys. Over the years their sound has crystallised into the fragile, atmospheric doom that it is today. “City Burials” is their first album in four years, though sonically they haven’t moved on that far from 2016's stunning “The Fall of Hearts”. What they have created is a haunting, slight and ethereal record. They long ago swapped heaviness for a lingering harmonious sound that is full of desolate beauty. 

“City Burials’ unfurls itself slowly, its tracks are in no hurry and its glacial pace lets the waves of exquisite miserabilism breath. I love Katatonia, I love their gorgeous melancholic doom. Yet again they have proved that less is more, and fragility can be utterly beautiful.