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NME Recommends: songs about change

Hopeful songs for a more hopeful year

NME Recommends: the definitive Christmas films

Yuletide season's approachin' — get the popcorn, the extra-large cheese board and the Baileys in and settle down with these festive movie favourites

NME Recommends: winter warmers – uplifting albums to get us through the next six months

The albums that'll help us through winter

NME Recommends: our favourite zombie films

Zombies. The walking dead. Ghouls. Whatever you call them, brain-eaters have become a staple horror villain. From the shuffling undead masses that wreak havoc...

NME Recommends: the best road trip albums

Perfect road trip soundtracks.

NME Recommends: the best autumnal albums

From Taylor Swift's 'Folklore' to Bob Dylan's 'Blood on the Tracks'

NME Recommends: the best adult animations

From BoJack Horseman to Big Mouth

NME Recommends: the song that reminds me of Reading and Leeds

From Bloc Party to Billie Eilish

NME Recommends: the best late night albums

Essential listening for when the sun goes down

NME Recommends: The best high school films

From Superbad to Carrie, NME writers recommend the best high school films