most of us, 2016 was a tumultuous and ugly year - one steeped in political chaos and an air of uncertainty. For Nadine Shah, these headlines had been a big part of her life for years, and Holiday Destination - her brilliant and compelling third album out on 1965 Records - sees her stepping out of the shadow of the complicated relationships she examined on her second album Fast Food and taking account of the world at large. On 'Out the Way' - a terrific first single that is as biting and scathing in equal measure as any of her output - Shah grapples with the fact that as a second-generation immigrant, her identity is constantly brought into question, the song appropriately ricocheting with burning intensity, bubbling over the bed of Pete Wareham's taut, jagged saxophone as she contemplates the rise of global nationalism. "So on this one trip to the States," Shah recalls, "I'm taken to the other side of the airport in this room where everyone in the room has brown skin - and they're all looking at me like 'what the fuck are you doing here?!'

1 Place Like This
2 Holiday Destination
3 2016
4 Out the Way
5 Yes Men
6 Evil
7 Ordinary
8 Relief
9 Mother Fighter
10 Jolly Sailor