If you’re sick of end of year lists, look away now. Right, if you’re still with us we have the 10 best tracks reviewed on these pages this year, plus one bonus track which I’ll explain later, but, if you want to know why you should bother with this Top Ten, to quote Nigel Tufnel, “Well, it’s one better, isn’t it?” 2015 was a cracking year for new music, with certain themes emerging, and some memorable one-offs. The summer was one of glorious electronic-pop, then the nights go

Two months in and 2015 has already provided some great new music for your pleasure, and with a real mixture of styles and sounds. The early part of any year is often quiet but in this roundup alone there is power pop, rock, electronica, folk, funk, acoustic guitar and at least one classic in the making. And that classic comes in the shape of Dunfermline band OSKAR and their single ‘Wildlings’. Building from the opening drums, which are reminiscent of Joy Division, and with Da