Our 10 favourite test tracks of 2024 

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

London’s post-punk seismographers pick up more weird vibrations on their third album. By Victoria Segal. Illustration by Cold War Steve.

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

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

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