Box sets, underground oddities and all the essential merch you need this month

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

This month…

From The Bottom Of An Old Grandfather Clock (reissue, 2004) DEAD OCEANS

These Spectred Isles

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