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The Music - Strength in Numbers (Album)
 The Music should be the biggest band in Britain but for one reason or another they have never quite made it to the top. Alas no longer shall this band of brothers be held back, this is a band of unrivalled quality, this is The Music.
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Plump DJs - Headthrash (Album)
 It’s no wonder that the Plump DJs have stacked up a pile of awards from the genres annual Breakspoll awards. Whether it be their own studio productions or their remix work, they always deliver jacking breakbeat of the highest order.
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Gavin Rossdale - Wanderlust (Album)
 After a prolonged absence Gavin Rossdale has returned and one has to contemplate whether there is really any room for him in the credible musical landscape.
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Our Sleepless Forest - Our Sleepless Forest (Album)
 South London maybe a far cry from the Icelandic landscape that has inspired artists such as Sigur Ros, but one listen to the self titled long-player from downbeat production outfit Our Sleepless Forest and you could be forgiven for thinking it was produced in similarly serene environs.
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Hot Chip – Made in the Dark (Album)
 The hotly (no pun intended) anticipated third album from feel-good electropoppers Hot Chip starts dramatically with a rousing, expectant crescendo of an almost bagpipe-inspired drone, before snapping into a frantically inviting disco beat.
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My Brightest Diamond – Bring Me the Workhorse (Album)
 Hailing from intensely musical roots and boasting impressive classically-trained credentials, Shara Worden has been composing and performing since childhood
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P.J. Harvey - White Chalk (Album)
 White Chalk, the eighth album by the only good thing to come out of Dorset not high in bad cholesterol, and the first since 2004's Uh Huh Her, is not a happy thing.
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Scott Walker - And Who Shall Go To The Ball? And What Shall Go The Ball? (Album)
 Just over a decade ago, Scott Walker, always one of the ultimate names to be dropped among the pop cognoscenti, delivered the stunning and difficult Tilt album.
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Manu Chao - La Radiolina (Album)
 We live in an age where many artists feel compelled to release albums every year lest the music buying public forget them.
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Architecture In Helsinki – Places Like This (Album)
 Is it Rock? Is it Electro? Is it Disco? Don't bother trying to categorize Architecture in Helsinki, because their third and latest album plucks a whole bunch of seemingly random styles and influences and violently shakes them up into their own distinctive, definition-defying sound.
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The White Stripes - Icky Thump (Album) Bagpipes. Marachi trumpets. Lyrical motifs about red headed women. Lancashire expressions previously made famous by the Goodies deliberately mis-spelt.
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Tiny Dancers - Free School Milk (Parlophone) (Album)
 Smart guitar pop hasn't been seen round these parts for many a moon. Tiny Dancers arrive right on time with an album bursting with summery harmony-laden songs in a sea of 'jolly gone gloomy' bands failing to live up to expectations with their second albums
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Shameless - Smokers Die Younger (Album)
 Anyone who still shivers upon hearing the term "white rapper" might yet be surprised by Shameless. Raised by an Irish mother in east London, his debut album, Smokers Die Younger, sounds authentically gritty.
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Spiritualized - Songs In A & E (Album)
 Jason Pierce bares his pained soul for all to hear with his sixth and possibly most ambitious studio album to date.
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Emily Maguire - Keep Walking (Album)
 Twenty seconds in and the hairs on the back of my neck are standing fully to attention. This soft and rich voice is pouring out of the speakers and she is singing in an impassioned and passionate manner with no effort or strain.
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Allá - Es Tiempo (Album)
 The trippy, sun drenched, tropical musings of Allá (Spanish for 'over there’) are as far removed as imaginable from the brow-furrowing earnestness of many of their fellow Chicago-dwellers.
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port royal - Flared Up: Port Royal Remixed (Album)
 With just 1,000 copies available worldwide, and rumoured to be some three years in the making, port-royal’s much hyped remixes album arrives to calm listeners with electronic lullabies for the 7am generation.
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Explosions In The Sky (Tour)
 In keeping with the billowing instrumental ‘post-rock’ style for which they have become
acclaimed, Explosions in the Sky have crept steadily onto the scene since their first
album, How Strange Innocence, was released in 2000
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Foo Fighters - Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace (Album)
 Considering he was one-third of one of the most influential acts on the planet, it's funny to think that Dave Grohl is now best known as 'leader of the Foo Fighters' rather than 'drummer in Nirvana'.
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Scouting For Girls - Scouting For Girls (Album)
 Perhaps the result of the success of The Kooks and The Fratellis has been this summer's curious spate of lighthearted indie pop singles, with the likes of The Hoosiers, Rooney and The Pigeon Detectives breaking through.
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The Donnas - Bitchin' (Album)
 You cannot be serious. You cannot play rock like this in the 21st century. It's an insane notion. You wouldn't even think about it. Not in a million years.
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The Rumble Strips - Girls And Weather (Album)
 Named after the small, continuous lines of bumps along the edge of the road to prevent motorists wandering off-road and falling asleep, The Rumble Strips have always preferred taking the road less-travelled along their brief lifespan so far.
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Ben Lee - Ripe (Album)
 Ben Lee is a pretty big name in Australia. His previous album Awake Is The New Sleep went five-times platinum and won him a clutch of ARIA Music Awards over there.
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Candidate Presents Oxengate (Album)
 Moving away from the 'folkatronica' style which dominated their last few albums, Candidate have embraced a more traditional, pared-down approach for their latest offering, Oxengate.
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Queens Of The Stone Age - Era Vulgaris (Album)
 There's no doubt, Queens Of The Stone Age rock. Era Vulgaris, rocks. It pounds and it struts and it rains deadly fire on those who dare question it.
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Simian Mobile Disco - Attack Decay Sustain Release (Album)
 Indie music lovers will no doubt be curious to hear Simian Mobile Disco's debut album Attack Decay Sustain Release, as the dance outfit have raised its profile among the indie fraternity following their involvement on the production for the Klaxons and the Arctic Monkeys.
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