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

This month…

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

London Shepherd’s Bush Empire

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

Sun Triptych Maxim Rysanov, Dasol Kim, Roman Mints et al; BBC Concert Orchestra/ Dobrinka Tabakova ECM 4878558 64:61 mins This is the second ECM disc to feature the extremely accessible music of Bulga