Party Politics

Brat-rap superstars return after six-year sabbatical to cover 'serious issues'

Ella Guru – The First Album

Sumptuous debut from Liverpool octet

PJ Harvey – Uh Huh Her

Stripped-down follow-up to 2000's Mercury-winning Stories From The City...

Feist – Let It Die

Canadian singer-songwriter's enchanting long-player

Sunburned Hand Of The Man – Rare Wood

Hostile backwoods psychedelia from Massachusetts

Sonic Youth – Sonic Nurse

A fetish nurse cover shot that could've been lifted from a Jim Thompson paperback. A regular flicker between white noise and mellow, Jefferson Airplane circa Volunteers melody... It could only be the return of Thurston Moore, Kim Gordon, Lee Ranaldo, Steve Shelley and their incumbent guru Jim O'Rourke. Having squared up as aggravating aural elders, the Youth sound rejuvenated as they alternate between Stoogey metal rattlers like "Pattern Recognition" or the fetish-laden "Dripping Dream" and irate hippie singalongs.

French Letters

Succinct and soothing second album by Parisian quartet

Bright Eyes – Neva Dinova

Six-track EP from rising Nebraskan noiseniks

Sixtoo – Chewing On Glass & Other Miracle Cures

Latest from sometime Buck 65 sidekick

Orbital – Blue Album

Stadium-techno heavyweights bow out in style
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