Albums of 2013: Deafheaven - Sunbather

Albums of 2013: Disclosure - Settle

Albums of 2013: Girls Names: The New Life

Albums of 2013: Hookworms - Pearl Mystic

Albums of 2013: Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Push The Sky Away

Albums of 2013: Nine Inch Nails - Hesitation Marks

Albums of 2013: Queens of the Stone Age - ...Like Clockwork

Albums of 2013: Run The Jewels

Albums of 2013: Savages - Silence Yourself

Albums of 2013: The Strokes - Comedown Machine

The Top 75 Tracks of 2013

Albums of 2012: ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead - Lost Songs

As striped-down as your ever going to get from Trail of Dead, Lost Songs is more punk than prog and sounds all the better for it.

Albums of 2012: Dinosaur Jr - I Bet On Sky

Pretty mellow for a Dinosaur Jr. album, I Bet On Sky still contains plenty of fuzz and J Mascis guitar solos with a surprisingly upbeat feel.

Albums of 2012: DZ Deathrays - Bloodstreams

It might be a bit obvious to call them DZ Death from Above 1979 - but for anyone awaiting the return the Canadian duo this will tide them over nicely.

Albums of 2012: Frank Ocean - Channel Orange

For anyone whose missed The Neptunes and N*E*R*D since the drowned under Pharrell's ego, Frank Ocean has taken a similar spaced-out R&B formula and improved it so it actually works over the course of an album.

Albums of 2012: Graham Coxon - A+E

Graham Coxon albums usually come in one of three forms: folk, the best albums The Libertines never made or Weird & Noisy. This album falls into the latter category with lots of synths, feedback and angry guitar growls all over the place.

Albums of 2012: Hot Chip - In Our Heads

Thought of as a cool dance act, there's always been a poppiness to Hot Chip's sound to suggest they're actually more Pet Shop Boys than Pitchfork.

Albums of 2012: Japandroids - Celebration Rock

Bands like The Gaslight Anthem, The Hold Steady and even Fucked Up have led the growing number of bands that owe an increasing debt to Bruce Springsteen in their sound - Japandroids are the latest with The House That Heaven Built sounding like The Boss fronting The Hives.

Albums of 2012: Nada Surf - The Stars Are Indifferent To Astronomy

Sounding completely different to the band that wrote Popular, Nada Surf now can be relied on for another album of Anglophile-influenced sounds.

Albums of 2012: Smashing Pumpkins - Oceania

The two most surprising returns to form in 2012 were the new series of Red Dwarf not making you want to bleach your eyes - and this latest album from The Smashing Pumpkins. Unlike the over-produced dirge of Zeitgeist, you can actually hear this time that Billy Corgan can still write a good song when he puts his mind to it.