Karin from The Knife makes desolate but inspiring dance record.

Lo-fi freakster doffs cap to minimalism & screaming chipmunks.

Upbeat comeback from the kings of coffee-table electro.

There’s nowt nu about this nu metal.

Shallow and unfunny third album from london boys

Dark things stir beneath the surface as alt.country figurehead Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy releases umpteenth solo record.

Grand old dame delivers stunning Hal Willner-produced extravaganza.

An edgy rock album, reminiscent of Razorlight’s great debut, had been promised but is nowhere to be heard.

Though this hook-up frequently pushes at the boundaries of plausibility, there's lots about Scream that makes perfect sense.

The rave revival starts here!

No Line On The Horizon is a mature, tender, reflective record of great musical variety, depth and beauty that could only have been made by four people who've experienced just about everything that life can throw at you.

Thrilling indie jinks from Arcade Fire wannabes.

It's like he'd never been away after an absence of five years.

A game of two halves as Brooklyn world music troop go synth pop on split disc.

New York dreampop combo meander a bit.

LA producers bond over Sao Paolo funk.

California dreaming, diminishing returns.

Slick yet soulless second effort from Denver’s Answer to Coldplay.

Detroit punk rockers come out swinging on feisty third album.

Four middle-aged men discover a dance element to their music... and it’s good!

From the grim and gritty depths of east Glasgow, Glasvegas tout a sure-to-be-huge mix of ragged emotion and vintage vibrations straight out of the Phil Spector playbook.

Cynical vocodered mediocrity.

The Circus isn’t terrible. In fact it’s very listenable; genre-wise it falls somewhere between Beatlesy ballads and Billy Joel’s 'The Piano Man.'

Messianic rapper Kanye West has survived grief and heartbreak to expands pop parameters on his new release.

A slight change of pace can be seen in this EP with a hip-hop icon cameo and some Eastern embellishments that may hint to new musical endeavors for Coldplay.

68-year-old lothario goes back to his white soul roots with a passionate performance showing that Jones still has "it."

STP singer on the solo comeback trail.

A few decent songs can't outshine this record's over-produced stadium rock. The Las Vegas rockers' latest just doesn't have the same sparkle.