OK, no more messing about now. Put that foam finger down, pull that foam finger out: no more banter, OK? We’ve had a lot of fun so far, but now it’s time to get serious. The list so far has been a little spurious in places, and a lot of things have been over or underrated, but from this point on it’s exclusively masterpieces, OK? Any of the following sonic Sistine Chapels of artistic brilliance could feasibly be called your album of the year and you wouldn’t sound too weird
We’re going up a gear, fasten your boot straps
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO-YA!!