Patrick Clarke , January 29th, 2021 12:00 The new year brings a continuation of old miseries, but a resurgence of extraordinarily good music. Here's our guide to the best albums and tracks of a particularly strong month I'm not sure why, but in a year so far as disastrous as the last, in which musicians' fortunes continue to plummet to the point that total collapse looms as a real possibility, the art they've been releasing sounds stronger than ever. From Sleaford Mods' blistering career-best new album, to anti-colonialist duo Divide And Dissolve's unbelievably powerful cascades of crushing doom, to The Body's latest head-melting extremity, music has provided plenty of necessary catharsis.