Favourite Song: A Boat to an Island on the Wall

Best: Nica Libres at Dusk, What the Moon Does, Someone in the Doorway, The Defeat, There's Your Man, Murmurations

Worst: Towing the Line

Favourite Song: Time Is Dancing

Best: I Forget Where We Were, Small Things, In Dreams

Worst: N/A

Favourite Song: Real Love

Best: Masterpiece, Vegas, Interstate, Humans, Parallels

Worst: Velvet Ring

You either die a hero, or you live long enough to become a cornball.

Favourite Song: N/A

Best: Burning Hammer, Pop this Heat, The Ghost Of Emmett Till, ¥ (Yen)

Worst: head

Favourite Song: Sleep Sweet

Best: Penguin, Superluminal, That You Might, Confession (of a Time Traveler), We, Melon

Worst: Dialogue Box

Favourite Song: Ride

Best: I Could Get Used To This, Superbloom, Automatic, Sauna, Mr Valentine, No Consequences, Mon Amour

Worst: Love You For

Wow, I've never heard them this tired before. Asking For A Friend is the only sign of life.

Favourite Song: Asking For A Friend

Best: Caught In The Echo

Worst: Your Favourite Toy

Ben has quickly become one of the most important songwriters that I've stumbled across.

Favourite Song: Esmerelda

Best: Oats In the Water, To Be Alone, Burgh Island

Worst: N/A

Favourite Song: Kitten

Best: Living Room

Worst: Ache

Favourite Song: ( ╥﹏╥ )

Best: You're serious aren't you ?, lil qoo, BURNMATERIAL, ( fallout ), all-time chump, landslide

Worst: Recap :

Favourite Song: Tribute

Best: Kielbasa, Wonderboy, Fuck Her Gently, Explosivo, The Road, Lee, Friendship, Rock Your Socks, Double Team, City Hall

Worst: Dio

I got to see Ms. Humberstone perform about two months ago and she was stellar. It was a minimalist set (consisting of just her and her keyboardist stripping back songs for an hour and a bit) of indie pop brilliance. I got to hear a few tracks from this album before it released, and since they were great, unsurprisingly the rest of the tracks are pretty great too. It's quite a front-heavy album though, as the second half definitely peters out a little. Nonetheless, I'm very lucky to ... read more

Favourite Song: Fabienk

Best: Mata Zyklek, Sarniezz, Utzp, Yor Zarad, Angor

Worst: N/A

Against all odds, it was actually possible to do a folk pop album in the 2010s which wasn't stomp clap.

Favourite Song: The Fear

Best: Old Pine, Diamonds, The Wolves, Everything, Only Love, Keep Your Head Up, Black Flies, Promise

Worst: Gracious

I randomly came across 'Homie Don't Shake' about a year ago and enjoyed it greatly, so it was a pleasant surprise to see Fcukers' debut album get some attention. It's a fun electronic time, and Fcukers have some great versatility within the electronica genre.

Favourite Song: L.U.C.K.Y

Best: Beatback, Butterflies, if you wanna party come over to my house, Play me, I Like It Like That, Getaway, Feel The Real

Worst: TTYGF

I knew from STARFUCKER that Slayyyter would be one to watch. Great to see her getting critical flowers whilst keeping the same consistent fun from her last album, with a harsher electronic tone this time around.

Favourite Song: I'M ACTUALLY KINDA FAMOUS

Best: DANCE..., CANNIBALISM!, OLD TECHNOLOGY, CRANK, YES GODDD, OLD FLING$, $T. LOSER, WHAT IS IT LIKE TO BE LIKED?, BRITTANY MURPHY.

Worst: GAS STATION

Favourite Song: Do It

Best: Tell Me (U Want It), Music, Hollywood Forever, The Peace, Innuendo (I Get U), Lovefield, Bodyfeeling, Wish U Well

Worst: N/A

Favourite Song: We Were Never The Same

Best: Love Is Not Enough, Bad Faith, Beyond Repair, Amon Amok, Force Meets Presence, Gilded Cage, Make Me Forget You

Worst: Distract and Divide

Favourite Song: Disco 2000

Best: Mis-Shapes, Common People, I Spy, Something Changed, Bar Italia

Worst: Pencil Skirt

On my last listen of this, I accidentally had Thong Song queued, so after the majestic opener I was blessed by a cacophony of noise by a man who loves nothing but big booties and thongs to death. Honestly, it made for a heavenly opening for the album, would heavily recommend doing the same.

Some of the songs are genuinely up to Plastic Beach standards, which is remarkable. Some of them are middling, which is to be expected for the later Gorillaz catalogue, especially since Cracker Island was ... read more