Ultimately Soft Hair is the sound of two musicians filling in each other’s blanks while only seeing the best in each other. When it works, it’s captivating.

Yes Lawd! is a feel-good album that isn't afraid to take a step back and reflect. NxWorries brilliantly capture the sense of being carried by the whirlwind of success--disorientated and bewildered but enjoying the ride regardless.

A welcome reminder that Lambchop are just as vital as they’ve ever been.

The criss-crossing sounds better than ever, and is everything you’d want from a FaltyDL opus.

For the most of Friends, though, this is White Lies doing what they do best. There are huge choruses, soaring, ethereal melodies and that distinctively glistening ‘80s production. However, you suspect their formula may need to be tweaked substantially if the band are to avoid self-parody or burning out in the future.

It’s one that sees TOY testing the water for the future blueprint of their music, which seems only to be building on its successes.

You can't help but feel that the teasing at euphoria on Slow Knife would be a little less frustrating if the thing were allowed to crescendo further, and for some of that drumwork to be incorporated accordingly.

Bonito Generation is likely to be the most fun album you’ll hear all year. The production is disarmingly joyous and, thanks to a predilection for early ‘90s dance, some of the tracks here are absolute bangers.

If there’s a criticism to be made about Big Box Of Chocolates, it’s that while every track works on its own, often a song has a tendency to knock the course of the album as a whole off centre by contradicting its predecessor.

Yet American Football sounds like nothing that’s come in the last 16 years, or the last two for that matter.

There are sludgy, down-tuned power chords, there are whiny lyrics about how life is constantly unfair (reminder: Korn frontman Jonathan Davis is 45 years old), there is even that vocal tic where Davis sort of cackles like a disturbed demon.

Ever mutable, always evolving, never anything but relentlessly restless.

Every Now And Then takes the form of a transcendental equivalent of the longest summer. Wavelengths stretch leaving you feeling worked over, fatigued and ready for a taste of something new.

Front Row Seat To Earth strongly standing as one of the year's most affecting and luscious releases.

As a self-styled pop record then, Stay Together is something of a failure, distinctly lacking in hooks, entertainment value and any sort of real ingenuity.

A Seat At The Table is an expertly-curated, a near-perfect record that serves as a timely, musical manifesto on how to be black and proud.

In short, though this is a completely new face to Goat, a deeper, richer exploration of their abilities, it’s not a complete departure.

At times the clash of rhyme and sonic styles is too full or disjointed, sounding like the Boys are still finding their stride and working out how to cram everything in. Plenty here though to be blasted throughout Suburbia.

Outer ventures further into this new realm with an even more polished sound that doesn’t shy away from the cheesier moments. Still, the duo’s effortless delivery of multiple styles wrapped in one tight package remains very compelling.

Loaded with fan-focused extras, this three-disc box set comes with all the extra demos, b-sides and alternate versions you could ever need. If anything, it’s a timely reminder of just how many tunes Oasis had at their disposal. A salute, then, to great times gone by.

It is an album produced on it’s own terms, that should be considered on it’s own terms. Judged as such, 'Human Energy' is a successful document of an artist enjoying his life, his work and more generally his own company.

Williams manages to retain the transportative element of his previous work while slightly neatening the edges.

The Altar is more textured and artful than ‘Goddess’, BANKS growing into her role as a writer, upholding the sensual melancholia that characterised her debut. Yet, it still feels as if BANKS is fine-tuning her sound.

A bold first full album from a trio whose ambitions are clearly only getting bigger.

Unusual, refreshing and vulnerable KoKoro is an album inspired by the political, environmental and the human conscious.

Despite the lack of progression from the first album to the second Take Control is a perfectly listen-able album--and perhaps album three will be where they shine.

Let Them Eat Chaos is engaging and at only 48 minutes it doesn't outstay its welcome. Tempest seems to relish the challenge of delivering a concise but complex story over a compelling variety of instrumentals.

A work of quite singular intensity, it leaves a lasting impact.