We are picky around here, the review policy has always been, since we started this thing as a very handmade diy zine back in last century, to only cover the things we feel positive about. It is a policy we mostly stick to (although now and again something has to be said and polite ignoring everything isn’t quite enough). We Don’t really have time for the not very good art shows or bands, we don’t really have time for the average, you know all this already don’t you?

Here, for we have taken to end of year lists in recent years, are the best of the best bits….

ORGAN: Our best art shows of 2025, who excited? Ron Athey and Hermes Pittakos, Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, David Hepher, Hetty Douglas, Geneva Jacuzzi, Lauren Halsey, A Gesture, An Action, Alexandre Diop, Brandon Ndife, Jennifer Binnie and…

ORGAN: Our Best Art Shows of 2025 Part Two with Steven Appleby, Susie Hamilton, Jakkai Siributr, Erin M Riley, Jim Hodges, Tricia Gillman, Lady Pink, Sasha Stiles, Canalboat Contemporary, Bianca Raffaella, Alison Chaplin and more…

ORGAN: Our best albums of another very musically busy 2025. Who did we rate? Part One, 1 to 10…

ORGAN: The Albums of 2025 – 11 to 25 with Pili Coït, Yowie, IQ, Cheer-Accident, Gösta Berlings Saga, Aya, Hawkwind, HaywardxDälek, Michael J Sheehy, Nick Cave, Gloyw and…

ORGAN: The Albums of 2025 – 26 to 60 with Lana Del Rabies, Dead Pioneers, Osmium, Rëlisp, Hawkwind, Drill for Absentee, Elliott Galvin and…

ORGAN: The Albums of 2025 – 61 to 80 with Horse Lords, The Tea Club, Swans, Hortvs, Me Lost Me, Edvard Graham Lewis and the best of the rest…

2024….

ORGAN: The twenty art things that stood out in 2024 – Tracey Emin, Lee Bae, Ken Currie, Jeffrey Gibson, those Safehouse shows, Working Girls at Gallery 46, Bianca Raffaella, Ernest Cole, Sadie Hennessey, Peter Kennard, Carol Bove and…

ORGAN: Our best 43 albums of another very musically busy 2024. Who did we rate? The Flying Luttenbachers, Extra life, Earth Ball, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, Gazelle Twin, English Teacher, Slift, Uniform…

Further back….

ORGAN: Our best 43 albums of a very musically busy 2023. Who did we rate?

ORGAN: The twenty art things that stood out in 2022 – Upfest, Ken Currie, SaiakuNana, Caroline Coon, Kevin Sinnott, Lee Maelzer, I Just Can’t Think Straight, Jeffrey Gibson, Miss Bugs and…

ORGAN THING: List time, our top albums of 2022, who made it? Uto, Cheer Accident, Miraculous Mule, Extra Life, Black Midi? That one eyed horse? Wovenhand? Who?

ORGAN: Our pick of 2021’s Art Things – Deborah Roberts, The Factory Project, Rebel Dykes, New Art Projects, the KLF on Kingsland Road, Kate Bickmore, Sam Nicholson, Gavin Turk taking the piss, Eloise Govier, Pez, Nicola Hicks, Christopher Myers and who else

ORGAN THING: List time, our top albums of 2021, who made it? Gazelle Twin & NYX, Peter Hammill, Michael J Sheehy, Black Country New Road, Robert Calvert, Flying Luttenbachers, Deerhoof, Van Der Graaf, Alex Ward, Charlotte Greve, the Commoners Choir and…

ORGAN: That best albums of 2020 list (at last), Cheer Accident, Michael J Sheehy, Le Grand Sbam, Odessey & Oracle, Penny Rimbaud, Terms, Allegra Krieger, Tairrie B, Deerhoof and…

ORGAN THING: The best albums of 2019? Le Grand Sbam, Poil, Peter Hammill & Isildurs Bane, Helium Horse Fly, Child Abuse, Throwaway, Flying Luttenbachers, John Ghost and…