Rat City Rockers TEE PEE

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

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

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

These Spectred Isles

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