Our contributors select the highlights of their year

Magic Moment: Caribou, Vicar Street. Caribou’s headliner at Vicar Street in November was sublime and spooky, with delicate beats and waves of old-fashioned human emotion coming together gorgeously.

Dan Snaith — the artist behind the moniker — was touring career-best LP Our Love and, with live drummer and lashings of sweat, tunes such as Can’t Do Without You triumphed in a potentially tricky concert setting.