Review

Russian Winters: Give Up The Ghost (Independent)

Good pop from down under

Review

Mercury Rev: Snowflake Midnight (Yep Roc)

The 7th album from Mercury Rev is trippy and beautiful

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Travis: Ode To J Smith (Red Telephone Box)

Possibly the rockiest and edgiest Travis album since their debut

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Cars Can Be Blue: Doubly Unbeatable (Happy Happy Birthday To Me)

Cute bubblegum pop punk with lyrics so wrong it’s right

Review

The Streets: Everything Is Borrowed (Sixsevenine)

Literature for the bloke on the street

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Bloc Party: Intimacy (Wichita)

Bloc Party’s Kid A

Knowledge

Proto-Punk

Prototype for anarchy…

Review

Cold War Kids: Loyalty to Loyalty (Downtown)

Children of the lost revolution

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TV On The Radio: Dear Science (4AD)

This masterpiece levels genres like a nuclear-powered 4WD

Detonate

Magistrates

funk driven indie-pop out on bail…