Father Christmas is a reworked Adam Ant cover recorded by Elastica on December 6th 1994 during a John Peel session

Trust Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe to take the good old fashioned Christmas song and turn it into something that's extravagant and entirely commonplace at the same time.

'Born Under a Bad Sign is Hawley at his simple, elegant peak. That is to say, Hawley going about his business as usual: effortlessly enriching.'

The decision to leave Gene's first two singles - For The Dead and Be My Light, Be My Guide - off their debut album Olympian doesn't look any better with the passing of time.

Eternal Death are duo Elin Berlin and Johan Angergård; Cry is their fourth single in 2014, following Fade, Bullet, and Head. It's a shiny, glorious piece of dance-synth full of flowing electronic waves and Elin...

And so to the other best album-opener of the year. Our Love... is a three minute blast of energy riding on the back of Paul Banwatt's percussion, forever on the cusp of breaking free, always...

'The Musical Advent Calendar: like a regular advent calendar, only more music-based, more mysterious, and way more fun.'

This is why I don't do best-of lists very often. Hands down, Jackson is the best album opener of the year. Until I remember Our Love... from Mended with Gold by The Rural Alberta Advantage,...

This is not one of those lists like you see everywhere else at this time of year (though there may yet still be an RRP round-up of the year's finest). It's more of a ramble,...

Tonight We Fly is a song about friends, and love and life, and not worrying about what you've missed out on so much as appreciating the things you've seen, and the people you've shared all...

'A Right RRP Round-up #7 - featuring Any O’Neill, Candy Cigarettes, Featherweights, Saigon, Syvia, The Planets Collide'

A Right RRP Round-up #6 - Featuring pop, psychedelia, and so much more from Azwel, IX, Moving Parts, Phosphene, Valerio Lysander, and Y'all

'Round-up #5 features another six artists you might not yet know but might just come to love - Attic Fowler, The Cold Start, The DuskWhales, Macatier, Moonrags & Hoost, and Slight.'

'Round-up #4 features six more artists you should definitely give a little time to: Arbo, Blak Lyons, Elephant Memoirs, Slopes, Velcro Mary and Voda-i-Ryba.'

The Divine Comedy's twenty-first century reboot was both bold and brilliant, but not the commercial success Parlophone had hoped for.

'There are no guilty pleasures: only pleasures. Yellow is one of them.'

Tender was the lead single and opening track on Blur's 6th studio album, 13. Co-written and co-sung by Coxon and Albarn with backing vocals from the London Community Gospel Choir, it couldn't have felt much...

'Round-up #3, featuring Braver Than Fiction, The Halfways, Jennie Vee, Magic Bronson, The Mercy Alliance and The Shivers.'

The seven-minute instrumental La Femme D'Argent is the first track on Moon Safari. You can't love me ironically, it seems to say, with its funky disco basslines and thoroughly un-modern synthesiser sounds, because I am...

My second RRP round-up features OSKAR, Owlle, Something in the Trees, Spirals, Telepopmusik and VYD.