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

H.e.a.t frontman Kenny Leckremo on the records, artists and gigs that are of lasting significance to him.

This month…

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

JOHN LYDON WITH PHIL MEARS “This pic of myself and John Lydon was taken at the Waterside Arts Centre in Sale, Greater Manchester, as part of his I Could Be Wrong, I Could Be Right spoken word tour on

London Shepherd’s Bush Empire