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

This month…

SPARKS AND SUEDE KEEP IT SPIKY, BRYAN FERRY RELAXES INTO A NEW ERA AND ANDY BELL SERVES UP A MASTERCLASS IN HOOK-LADEN POP 01 SPARKS MAD! (TRANSGRESSIVE) Sparks may have landed on a new record label i

Black And Blue UMC/POLYDOR

74-75: Night Life / Fighting UMR

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