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Shining debut from outrageously gifted 23-year-old Swede

Sixth album unites Rochdale's biggest ever musical export with producer Trevor Horn

Groovy chunk of synthetic funk from two super-cool Canucks

The new hick hop movement starts here

A selection of the other new albums released this month

Two-disc extravaganza from the Halos And Horns tour, backed by the Blueniques

Typically idiosyncratic but highly welcome return

Sexy sci-fi funk marathon takes Robert Smith to the disco

At a time when much British alternative rock is hobbled by the demands of 'authenticity', Brighton's Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster strike a rowdy, triumphantly rulebook-flouting note. Clearly, they have their heroes—The Cramps, Dead Kennedys, Melvins and Kyuss among them—but the band's wide-ranging vision suggests they couldn't churn out copies of the music they love even if they tried. The Royal Society explores themes of mental derailment and the black arts against a backdrop of the heaviest psychobilly, grunge-metal and stoner rock.

Posthumous offering from the brilliant but troubled singer-songwriter who died a year ago