Great Scots follow up their shit-kicking weep-fest second album with a pleasent, muddy record.

Hotly topped by the BBC and Elbow, Bedfordshire's The October Game are eminently thoughtful in their approach to expansive indie-rock.

The Shins' James Mercer meets Danger Mouse. A perfect duo or a mismatch? 

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club return with their sixth studio album. Is it decent and passable? Yes. Is it great? Of course not.

Life Of Leisure is a record that resembles a woozy Technicolor frolic through a field of opiates. Give it a listen - you know you want to...

Hendrick Weber's first release for Rough Trade dissapointingly throws a few spanners in the works.

Gotta love a band whose name implies alcoholism...

A mix of folk and electronica is all well and good - but what happens when you don't have the tunes?

Odd Blood's peaks simply can't compensate for its valleys.

It's no "Shock The Monkey".   It's not even "In Your Eyes".