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Bleach: Deluxe Edition
71 Alice In Chains 77 Amerie 70 Anjulie 85 The Antlers 75 Arctic Monkeys 68 As Tall As Lions 82 Atlas Sound 75 The Avett Brothers 67 Backstreet Boys 56 Bad Lieutenant 68 Devendra Banhart 72 Lou Barlow 88 Baroness 69 Basement Jaxx 81 David Bazan 72

Shudder To Think
81 David Bazan 72 Brendan Benson 72 The Big Pink 96 Big Star 46 Billy Talent 75 The Black Crowes 51 Black Mold 59 Amanda Blank 68 Blitzen Trapper 75 BLK JKS 77 A.A. Bondy 73 The Bottle Rockets 63 Box Elders 65 Boys Like Girls 76 Brand New 73 Tyondai

Music: This week's releases
Lately, dubstep has opened its heart, and for the scene's most progressive producers, juddering sub bass is now just one dark shade to be applied from a vivid colour palette. Birmingham's Emalkay is less brash than some, and here strikes a balance

Wolfmother: Cosmic Egg
Australian hard rock outfit Wolfmother is the sort of band that attracts unlikely fans in unlikely numbers. Their popularity is a sturdy bit of makeshift scaffolding cobbled together from various subcultures and mainstream offshoots; all expert estimates

The Swell Season: Strict Joy
have their work cut out for them with their second album, Strict Joy. The duo of Glen Hansard and Markta Irglov released their debut effort in 2006 under the name , and have toured using that moniker for the last few years. However, they came to fame

Neon Indian: Psychic Chasms
Psychic Chasms is a marvelous sonic voyage through a bubbly synth landscape of tones and emotions. One listen to the album gives the impression of brilliant, lush canopies of vivid synthesizers and crawling guitars swaying playfully in a jungle of

Say Anything: Say Anything
By Evan Sawdey PopMatters Interviews Editor

Karen O and the Kids: Where The Wild Things Are
Did Spike Jonze get more than he bargained for when he approached Karen O with this project? Most signs point to yes. The Yeah Yeah Yeahs frontwomanand former lover of Jonzesmade it a party, and just everyones invited: bandmates Brian Chase and Nick

Play On
Vote Now! The average user rating for this album is 9.2 (out of 10) based on 30 User Votes Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation. Michael S gave it a10: AMAZING ALBUM! Rock on Carrie! Matt S. gave it a10: Absolutely

World Painted Blood
81 David Bazan 72 Brendan Benson 72 The Big Pink 96 Big Star 46 Billy Talent 75 The Black Crowes 51 Black Mold 59 Amanda Blank 68 Blitzen Trapper 75 BLK JKS 77 A.A. Bondy 73 The Bottle Rockets 63 Box Elders 65 Boys Like Girls 76 Brand New 73 Tyondai

Susanna And The Magical Orchestra
Susanna Wallumrod. Also On The Web: What The Critics Said All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. 80 All Guide

Saint Etienne: Fox Base Beta
Saint Etienne's 1991 debut Fox Base Alpha should, in theory, be a tough work to update, partly because it's an album utterly of its time – 'to the sound of the World of Twist, you leant over and gave me a kiss,' coos Sarah Cracknell – and partly

JLS: JLS
Whether singing doo-wop or signed to Motown, black boybands have been integral to pop, infusing it with soul, rhythm and blues. By placing themselves in the British boyband, JLS ignore this illustrious history, choosing to recreate the anaemic pap of

Martha Wainwright: Sans Fusils, Ni Souliers, a Paris: Martha Wainwright's Piaf Record
An album that does no more and no less than it says on the sleeve: in June, Martha Wainwright staged three New York concerts devoted to Edith Piaf's music and sung in French, and here releases 15 tracks from the performances. We're told that Wainwright

Rod Stewart: Soulbook
Following the multimillion selling Great American Songbook series of 1930s and 40s covers, it was inevitable that Rod Stewart would eventually turn his chops to soul classics. Soulbook heaves with potential: arguably the greatest white soul singer

Biffy Clyro: Only Revolutions
There's something heartening about a band following an old-fashioned trajectory of slogging it out for a few years before pushing on to the big leagues. Like Muse, who just kept getting bigger before anyone noticed that they were playing two nights at

AA Bondy: When the Devil's Loose
Louisiana boy Auguste Arthur Bondy served his rock'n'roll dues in 1990s alt-rock nearly-weres Verbena, before turning to a more sedate, rural sound for his solo work, arriving at this second album after a recuperative move to the wilds of Mississippi.

Amerie: In Love & War
Had the right breaks come her way back in 2005, when she was flying high with the single 1 Thing, Amerie Rogers could have been a Rihanna-sized pop/R&B star. She's an inventive producer, capable songwriter and sparkling singer; you can only wonder at

Jimmy Webb/The Webb Brothers
Billed as 'three generations of the Webb family' (legendary songwriter Jimmy; his father, Bob; and his so-so singing sons, the Webb Brothers, Christiaan, Justin and Jamie), this has the makings of a classic family rumpus. But it turns out that ol' Bob

Slayer: World Painted Blood
Ask any metal fan what the most significant thing that happened to the genre was in the last ten years, and youll probably get a different response each time. While the 1980s yielded a bevy of seminal pieces of music, and the 90s spawned unprecedented

Molina and Johnson: Molina and Johnson
Few get more lonesome on record than Will Johnson and Jason Molina. I mean, sure Centro-matic can shake the rafters, and South San Gabriel can expand and overwhelm, and Magnolia Electric Co. often sound as big as the Midwestern sky they came up under,

Vince Guaraldi: The Definitive Vince Guaraldi
Put yourself in Lee Mendelsons position for a moment. Imagine its 1963 and youre a television documentary producer driving across the Golden Gate Bridge, thinking the film youre developing in collaboration with the creator of the Peanuts comic strip,

Spiral Stairs: The Real Feel
A rich heritage is not something to be totally discounted when considering the first solo outing of someone so closely associated with a notable musical group from the past. Indeed, in this case, its become inextricable from him. Scott Kannbergs (AKA

Sliimy: Paint Your Face
First off, it rhymes with Jimmy. Make no mistake, Sliimy makes extreme music. You wont find it in the hardcore section of your local record store, thoughits the other extreme. Its unapologetically feythe word effeminate barely begins to describe it. Over

Glee: The Music, Vol. 1
70 Alice In Chains 76 Amerie 70 Anjulie 85 The Antlers 75 Arctic Monkeys 68 As Tall As Lions 82 Atlas Sound 75 The Avett Brothers 67 Backstreet Boys 58 Bad Lieutenant 68 Devendra Banhart 74 Lou Barlow 88 Baroness 69 Basement Jaxx 81 David Bazan 72