Mike Patton and the Avett Brothers join forces to create a work of immense beauty.

Featuring tributes to curry and fantasy battles involving… rats?! here are all the records our critics loved this year

This month…

Rat City Rockers TEE PEE

Nobody believed half a tonne was possible. Then Eddie Hall broke 500. Nobody thought that deadlift would be beaten. Then Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson pulled 501. And then 505. As he attempts to lift 510kg, we went backstage at the Mutant World Deadlift Championships to witness history in the making

Black And Blue UMC/POLYDOR