It’s a great pop record with plenty of depth (a rare thing) that will prove divisive.

Love, heartbreak, growing up, and self-discovery are the ingredients to this emotional rollercoaster of a cocktail, and it’s simply beautiful.

The vocals of singer Sarah P take At Home to an altogether more ethereal plane.

Take both albums as separate entities and you'll be fine, and if alienation is the upshot, what a way to go about it.

An infectious offering, ‘Out And About’ shines a light on the band’s unified creativity.

Johnny Flynn’s consistently simple melodies and simply, his sheer musicality, are evidence of an artist in his prime.

A world of distortion and contradiction, blood and venom, ‘If I Can’t Have Love, I Want Power’ is a singular statement, one of extreme power.

Pearson's mournful growl, and the brutal honesty in raking over his personal failings, makes for a majestic, in-the-dead-of-the-night confessional.

Sure, Ultimate Painting know their influences, but what shines through most of all is the sheer diversity and inventiveness of their songwriting.

These tracks are both club and headphone worthy, insular and expansive, ephemeral and dense, lush and skeletal; their only uniting factor, Thom's voice, curling like a wraith through their intricate insistent landscapes. Captivating.

‘Stream of Life’ is a reflective, uplifting and intelligent album that stands out in the Maxïmo Park canon and is full of texture, soaring melodies and sagacious storytelling and lyrics.

On ‘Irreversible,’ Brigitte Calls Me Baby has emerged with a maturity that encapsulates the timelessness they have been honing all along.

While one of her least immediate records, it stands as one of her most rewarding.

The rawness to his vocals add grit to a sound definitely polished, but not sanitised. ‘Some Nights I Dream of Doors’ may shed the crudity that helped build intrigue around Obongjayar, but there’s enough here to excite the faithfuls and attract new members to ‘OB Dream Corp’.

The sound of a band pushing forwards, ‘Endless Arcade’ points to a bright future for a much-loved institution.

This marvellous studio-recorded successor [to his debut album] is more expansive but no less affecting.

It is captivating. What is more, we’re listening to every note and hanging on every word.

Rich, warm and deeply immersive, ‘Datura’ is brooding proof of a band refined.

An engaging album devoid of stagnancy.

Sheer, unabashed stadium sonics delivered with a heart of gold, ‘Imploding The Mirage’ finds The Killers providing one of the biggest – in both a sonic and emotional sense – albums of their career. It’s a propulsive achievement, pushing their songwriting to the limit in a thrilling, Devil-may-care manner.

For those who weren’t able to attend or for those who wanted a cheeky throwback to watching the gig that night, ‘blur Live at Wembley Stadium’ is an exhilarating celebration of the band’s barnstorming gig on the Sunday night.

The result is an album of intimacy, introspection and incredible beauty; a communion with the sands.

No one has travelled further than the band themselves. Yet it’s a journey worth savouring, with the renewed duo seemingly capable of soaking up all that life can throw at them.

Beginning and ending on a high note, Hardwired miraculously leaves the listener hungry for more, following an all-out binge on some of Metallica’s strongest work since 1991.

On the surface, a hyperpop post-punk album should never work. But somehow, by some distorted miracle, Courting pulls it off – in the best way imaginable. In a landscape of so many albums regurgitating overbaked sounds, Courting have redefined guitar music. Instead of using the guitar as a songwriting tool, they use it as a weapon.

This is an album about growth, however messy and non-linear it may be.

Analog Africa has created a compilation that’s less esoteric than some previous releases and more focused feeling. It’s a fascinating time capsule into not only the artists and studios of the time but the cities themselves and the Congolese spirit as a whole—another must-buy for those who get a kick of uncovering long-lost musical treasures.

Futurology is the Manics doing what they do best, with added Krautrock, Georgia Ruth and Green Gartside.