Our staff dove back into the last 12 months of music, applied their exacting standards and came up with these 10 albums as ...

Rock City on a frosty December night felt the perfect setting for The Jesus and Mary Chain’s return, and forty years on from their earliest gigs, the show was as visceral and cool as ever.

No big surprise that it hasn’t caught on for nieces and nephews, but I could imagine it coming back as the name of a snack ...