Dork's Bangers of the Year (So Far): 20-11

Featuring appearances from the likes of Superorganism, Chvrches and Idles and more, here's the next 10 to make the cut.

We’re more than half way through the 2018 auditing period, Dear Reader. That means it’s time to pull down the shutters, call in the staff, and do a stock check on the only thing that counts. Cold, hard Bangers.

We’ve run the sums, calculated the co-efficients, and come up with our definitive top 50 tracks of the year so far. You can read the full run down now in the new issue of Dork, or keep pace on readdork.com over the next few days as we count down.

Obviously there are rules to this countdown. You can read them here. You can check out numbers 50-41 here, 40-31 here and 30-21 here.

Featuring appearances from the likes of Superorganism, Chvrches and Idles and more, here's the next 10 to make the cut.

What they say: “‘I Was Biting’ is about dystopian aspects of modern society and a discontent for it. We talk about a unanimous feeling of anxiety and a desire to live in a fictional state of our own dreams; to escape from the mundane routine and expectations of society”.

What they say: ‘Graves’ is a particularly important moment. “It’s a cheerful one, isn’t it?” grins Lauren. “We didn’t sit down and say, this song is very danceable, so we need to have a lyric that’s really not,” she continues. “It just came out. The verses happened for that very quickly. Most of it happened in the room, and there’s a lot of imagery in it so that must have just been in my head, it just needed to get tapped into.”

What they say: “This is a song that dances between pure fear of failing at the expectations of bullshit manhood / adulthood and the exhilaration at being liberated in the knowing that I can be a boy and naked, dancing around the fire forever.”

What they say: “I always felt this song could wear many different outfits and live many different lives. Here she is in disco pants, sweating on a New York dance floor.”

Words: Abigail Firth, Jake Hawkes, Liam Konemann, Stephen Ackroyd