Christmas comes early for Hey Colossus fans in this thunderous collection of rare tracks.

If you like wild sprawling guitar tracks, bone cracking drums and earthquake-inducing basslines then this is the band for you.

It’s a pissed off, explosive album with a rare uniformity and a well-maintained standard of absolute excellence.

Spiralling Continuum along with its accompanying film does a good job of depicting an otherworldly beauty that is best described as “sublime”

XAM Duo have crafted one of the finest psychedelic albums of this year.

A contemplative, dazzling voyage into cosmical introspection.

In Echelon offers a broad array of moods and a consistent quality of production through the guise of neoclassical lullabies and sleepy chill-out electronica.

Possibly the finest ambient album of the year; a mind-melting, trance-inducing spell and yet another excellent contribution to electronica from The Orb. By Chad Murray.

THIEF does a good job of dunking the listener’s head under the water pushing to the point of near asphyxiation and dragging the head back out into the oxygen before asking a question and dunking it back in like an interrogator. – By Chad Murray

Barberos are purveyors of truly fucking crazy music. By Chad Murray.

Bold, idiosyncratic and really quite astounding to listen to as one long piece. – By Chad Murray

Reminiscent of light-hearted video game soundtracks and rich in its multiplicity, it’s a mild-mannered yet intriguing listen. By Chad Murray.

These Are But Dreaming Men, Breathe and they Fade Away is an astonishing example of how to craft a mellow yet engaging release by an under-appreciated artist with a great skill for crafting songs and albums alike. By Chad Murray.

Get California Chrome and take a listen, you won’t hear another one like this for a while. By Chad Murray.

Mellowing ambient introspection, that always seems to be hinting towards a potential threat, somewhere in the distance. – By Chad Murray

Never have I heard something so close to what I imagine extraterrestrial music would be like. – By Chad Murray.

The key to the album is introspection; whether riding the rails on your own with headphones on or working in the early hours, ‘Ghost Stations’ is best experienced as a vehicle for thought transporting the listener through imagination and contemplation. In this regard, it’s a delightful and enrapturing listen. – By Chad Murray.

Rival Consoles since I first heard Howl has been a lucid aural manifestation of the wider hole in time around three in the morning and Night Melody continues that tradition well – Chad Murray.

Heat & Entropy is an aptly named warm and chaotic expulsion of excellent electronic music with a beautifully psychedelic squid tentacle sack adorning the cover – Chad Murray.

This whole year is just one long obituary and T.E. Morris’ solo swan song is possibly the most fitting requiem to a period of ceaseless disillusionment and despair…and it’s a fucking masterpiece as well – By Chad Murray

The startling new direction of the album will lead to a lot of new fans and a lot of new avenues to explore for Middleton but, the transition and the magnitude of the change will likely leave a lot of fans out of step with the artist sprinting to try and catch up. By Chad Murray.