7. Rudimental - Home
Home is the gargantuan debut from London drum and bass quartet Rudimental. It has spawned an army of ma-hoosive tunes and reached number 1 in May in the UK album chart, but credentials aside, for a debut record this truly is a beast. Drum and Bass has never felt so good, and songs like Feel The Love and Not Giving In (featuring John Newman) are chaotic head-f**ks and pumped with enough adrenaline to power a helicopter. The record features a tombola of collaborators along with being a catapult for young British artists like Foxes, Ella Eyre and Becky Hill. The three feature respectively on tracks Right Here, Powerless and Waiting All Night (the latter two reaching number 1 in the UK singles chart) --not a bad way to explode into the nations's psyche, ey?! The album takes us down many avenues of dance-pop-drum-and-bass crossover where we hear bursts of hip-house, retro soul, garage and even a D&B-meets-Gospel with Emilie Sande belting out her soulful voice on Free over guitar riffs and piano-driven melodies in a record that is near-impossible to dislike. Peel under the layers of the album further and you'll find collaborations with 18 year old one-to-watch singer MNEK in songs like Spoons (featuring Syron) which pays homage to 90's deep soul, and Baby (featuring Sinead Harnett) which delves into mid-tempo R'n'B and sees the duo dance around with hi-top hair and balloons in the nineties-GAP-esque music video. Home is undoubtedly the most addictive, genre-busting and up-tempo assaults we've heard in ages.