There are a lot of fresh emo bands in Russia, but a selected few of them create equally catchy, heart-wrenching and reassuringly heavy songs one after another.

Kashtanka's sound is familiar from bands like Daïtro, Raein, Touché Amoré and the like, but the production here puts those legendary bands, dare I say it, to shame. The instrumentation and vocals are spot on, radiating traces of sludge metal, post-rock and pop punk through cracks of the solid, melancholic emocore rumble.

Album of the year.

The record has touched me deeply as it has many other people. For me it was love at first sight; for some it's a grower. The first Glass Beach album is a companion that will never make you feel unsafe.

The first Glass Beach album is the true emo jazz record you've dreamt of, and so much more. It is full of heartwarming lyricism, jawdropping song structures, hilarious genre cameos and goes very very hard, too.

Healing music, as the title suggests. Numerous cases of Cura healing the ill have been reported.

Thick but ethereal, resulting in an unbeatably hypnotic sound

An earthshaking, rare dialect of a familiar post-rock language. Virtually another language (pun intended), and it's beautiful.