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

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Black And Blue UMC/POLYDOR

We might have lost metal’s founding fathers, but the next generation proved that the music lives on

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

The witchy Glaswegians stuck it to the patriarchy, with a little help from some kittens