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Iron & Wine - 'Ghost On Ghost'
Continuing in the same FM radio-friendly vein as 2011's 'Kiss Each Other Clean', former earnest acoustic-type Sam Beam's fifth album sees him taking further, grander steps in the shiny loafers of a cheesy 1970s crooner with a fondness for symphonic folk a
Meat Puppets - 'Rat Farm'
Arizona's Meat Puppets are habitually termed 'survivors'.
Sulk - 'Graceless'
To say that Sulk sound a bit like The Stone Roses around the time of their still-cherished first album is like saying Syria's probably not been the most relaxing holiday spot this winter.
Lil Wayne - ' I Am Not A Human Being II'
There was a time when New Orleans' Lil Wayne seemed invincible. His 2004-'08 run of albums and mixtapes made an all-swaggin', snarling superstar of the Cash Money rapper, muscling his way out of the Louisiana hip-hop scene into the charts and onto Obama's
Javelin - 'Hi Beams'
Brooklyn's Javelin mastered the art of cut-and-paste bedroom digi-pop on their first long player, 2010's 'No Más'.
Solar Bears - 'Supermigration'
Psychedelic electronica to remind us of that thing called summer.
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - 'Mosquito'
They've always been a mischievous bunch of minxes, Yeah Yeah Yeahs.
Post War Years - 'Galapagos'
The Galapagos islands are where Charles Darwin found evidence for his theory of evolution.
Steve Mason - 'Monkey’s Mind In The Devil's Time'
Steve Mason’s second solo effort sees him putting his own tender and reflective stamp on the protest album.