Becoming Undone is a twisted, thrilling ride, at once stylish and unhinged, showing that more sophisticated production techniques haven’t taken away any of ADULT.’s edge over the years.

It’s a brutal, intense listen, and certainly won’t be for everyone, but those who care to take the journey will find many rewards.

Star Eater’s Delight is Neale’s best, and most accessible, work to date.

The whole record is exhilarating, a bustling house party where the aux is only ever passed judiciously.

Beck proves once again here that he’s a tremendously versatile artist, capable of excelling throughout the musical spectrum.

The Inheritors is a rich and vivid work that is as mysterious as it is compelling.

There is pain, frustration, beauty and love whistling away in every crevice of this album.

At times The Decemberists sail close to being an horrific hybrid of They Might Be Giants and The Coral - all arched eyebrows and accordions.

This is a very carefully thought out new page to Hayden Thorpe’s career, yet the page has freshly written calligraphy on it. There is much to admire and much to relate to, in what is surely just the start of this particular Wild Beast’s solo migration.

Musical diversity has been embraced to better reflect his character, whilst a positive tone remains, even when he’s examining negatives. No longer is McKenna a teenager emerging at Glastonbury, he is someone for the generation he speaks for to listen to.

Like much of Richard Dawson’s material, it’s an album that has to be immersed in and savoured – and although it may be a struggle sometimes, there’s nobody else out there making music quite like this.

Altogether a belter of an album, then, as their reputation for consistency prevails once more.

The emotional impact of this music is sometimes disorientating or alienating, but that is probably the intention. It's mostly impossible to discern the lyrics or comprehend their themes. Somehow this doesn't matter, given the striking, weird and often turbulent music beneath.

It's a work of craft from a continually rewarding, continually American, singer-songwriter.

Everything Everything return with Fever Dream, a brave, boundary pushing album which shows many of their peers how things should be done.

Caroline Rose’s most personal album to date which, while it may not have the immediacy of Superstar or Loner it will, given time, prove just as emotionally affecting.

Cold Spring Fault Less Youth is an album that’s as purposefully awkward as its title: cleverly put together, but occasionally just not very much fun.

There’s the bones of at least three spin-off albums within its grooves. Yet, this constant shapeshifting means that there’s much to be discovered and loved here. Sounding different every time it’s played is the mark of a great achievement.

An album of satisfying wholeness, its range of moods power Taylor’s most successful solo outing to date. Anyone who had him pigeonholed will have to think again.

Whilst the linguistic half of Sleaford Mods is developing in two very different directions, Andrew Fearn has turned in his most musically satisfying set of tracks to date.

Quite comfortably the duo’s best album to date, Unity is – literally – like all your favourite bands rolled up into one.

By the time the album’s 54 minutes have drawn to a close, you feel exhausted but in the best possible way.

Inspiring and ingenious, this is an album you shouldn't be without.

Lopatin dispenses with radio’s interchangeable verse chorus verse format, instead replicating the labyrinthine ways the internet once promised formerly unreachable music might become graspable before being commoditised.

As an exercise in maintaining artistic form, it's an indisputable success.

It’s a brilliantly consistent and, at eight tracks, concise offering that perfectly captures their sound.

One of the best Pet Shop Boys albums in years.

This is very much an album that feels necessary right now--one that packs a political punch without being didactic or evangelical--and offers positive thinking, including a clarion call of co-operative and community responses to global issues.