Making an immediate mockery of every rashly cobbled-together, scrobble-informed end-of-year rundown is Lily Allen‘s lithe comeback track, Trigger Bangs.
‘A musing on Yves Klein’s notorious IKB by way of “the vast open blue of the Mediterranean Sea”’, hear Manic Street Preachers’ stomping International Blue.
Hear Sufjan Stevens’ breathtaking, years-in-the-making salute to ‘one of the greatest figure skaters of her time,’ Tonya Harding, in both D and Eb major.
