14. Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs – When the Lights Go (Nice Age)

It’s been a long time coming but the second album from Orlando Higginbottom a.k.a. Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs (TEED from now on) is a delight. It might have taken ten years to get to this point but the result is considered and highly polished dance-pop record. Releasing this record on Higginbottom’s own Nice Age label …

13. Floating Points – Crush (Pluto/Ninja Tune)

It took four years for him to follow up Elaenia, but Sam Shepherd’s second Floating Points LP was well worth the wait. A perfect blend of acoustic and synthesised aesthetics that creates a wondrously chaotic but satisfying record. This feels like a warmer, more humane album than his debut – and it is definitely more …

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