Wavves — You're Welcome (Ghost Ramp/Inertia)
Wavves continue surfing the "surf punk" wave they've mastered, but You're Welcome is "one of their best releases to date, fusing those old slacker sentiments with bright, noisy, brash but polished production". The band are still keen to share experiences of "getting loose and bagging the system" but there are "sentiments of the heart" too. We gave it four stars and Album of The Week.
Jessica Says — Do With Me What U Will (Chapter Music)
Her first album since her major accident in 2010, Do With Me What U Will evokes "theatrical minimalism" and "an array of vintage and contemporary sounds". Vocally, you can hear elements of Kate Bush or Lady Gaga, and "the songwriting displays an audacity and strong sense of identity". We gave it four stars.
The Mountain Goats — Goths (Remote Control)
With a "comfy west coast jazz feel", Goths is a dedication to the '80s Goth scene — "Has the silly season begun already?" With "gentle tones and cosy arrangements", it signposts the band's move into "an increasingly mature, reflective direction". There's a "a sickly odour of nostalgia" on some of the songs, too. We gave it three stars.
and the rest of the releases…
!!! — Shake The Shudder (Warp/Inertia)
ARIZONA — GALLERY (Atlantic/Warner)
Aldous Harding — Party (4AD/Remote Control)
Alex G — Rocket (Domino/EMI)
Apes — Stranger Than Strangers (MGM)
Bare Bones — Bad Habits (Resist)
Baro — Just Problems You Need To Know (teamtrick/Create Control)
Below — Upon A Pale Horse (Metal Blade Records)
Coldcut & On-U Sound — Outside The Echo Chamber (Ahead Of Our Time/Inertia)
Dragonforce — Reaching Into Infinity (earMusic/Sony)
Emily Barker — Sweet Kind Of Blue (Everyone Sang/Kartel)
Erasure — Would Be Gone (Mute/[PIAS] Australia)
Faith Evans & The Notorious BIG — The King & I (Rhino/Warner)
Foreigner — 40 (Warner)
Hell Or Highwater — Vista (Spinefarm/Caroline)
Jade Jackson — Gilded (Anti-)
Jane Weaver — Modern Kosmology (Fire Records/Rocket)
Kings — Never Alone (Independent)
Krafty Kuts & Dynamite MC — All 4 Corners (Central Station)
Land Of Talk — Life After Youth (Create Control)
Linkin Park — One More Light (Warner)
Mister Wives — Connect The Dots (Republic/Universal)
My Friend The Chocolate Cake — The Revival Meeting (MGM)
Nick Hakim — Green Twins (ATO)
Papa Roach — Crooked Teeth (Eleven Seven/Sony)
Pierce Brothers — The Records Were Ours (Warner)
Pumarosa — The Witch (Fiction/Caroline)
Raised By Eagles — I Must Be Somewhere (ABC/Universal)
Rikard Sjoblom's Gungfly — On Her Journey To The Sun (Inside Out/Sony)
She-Devils — She-Devils (Secretly Canadian/Inertia)
Smoking Martha — In Deep (Independent)
Taberah — Sinner's Lament (Rocket)
The Kooks — The Best Of...So Far (EMI)
The Night Flight Orchestra — Amber Galactic (Nuclear Blast)
The Wildbloods — All The Adversity (Independent)
Thomas Wynn & The Believers — Wade Waist Deep (Mascot Label Group)
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