Featuring Little Simz, Sufjan Stevens and Kanye West, KEYMAG counts down the albums that defined the year.

Featuring Moses Sumney, Charli XCX and Caribou, KEYMAG counts down the albums that defined the year.

A guidebook to an alternative viewpoint for sci-fi, via a hip-hop album that blasts off into space, and a techno record plunged into the deep blue.

The ‘Modern Mavens’ series is a guide to some of contemporary music’s most definitive artists, going through their catalogues and deciphering their greatest qualities. These artists may not be accepted into the pantheon of the legends yet, but this series makes the case for why they should already be or definitely will be. First up, Sweden’s acoustic leading man.

A comprehensive guide to a style of music based on opening up pop progressions and melodies to vast amounts of space, then filling every square inch with cryptic instrumentation and imagery.

Aphex Twin has become a by-word for ‘impenetrably weird’ over the course of a fascinating career. But underneath the surface, he has also made some of the most emotional and humane material under the ‘dance music’ umbrella.

KEYMAG takes a look into the technique of plunderphonics and two of its greatest accompishments, from DJ Shadow's Endtroducing to the Avalanches' Since I Left You.