For most of us there was a record that changed our lives and switched on the music light; for Dave Cooper, at the tender age of 5, it was Wuthering Heights by Kate Bush.

Album of the year is a term bandied around quite a lot but this damn near ticks all the boxes. Perfect and fascinating, you will be exploring all the nooks and crannies of Once I was an Eagle for a long time. By Martyn Coppack

Something has stirred in the northern wastelands. A thawing, a warming perhaps? Green shoots have poked their tender heads from beneath the snow. Whatever it is that has happened this, the sixth album from Sigur Ros, is different. Whilst still being ob …