Not quite the return to form many are saying, World Peace is None of Your Business suffers from inconsistency, and too many lows among its peaks.

Just Once mines a seam of sweet synth sounds, suffused in a soft-focus spotlight, and throws in a lyric that punches harder than you might expect.

At less than two minutes, Woke up in the Summer is a jangly note-perfect American tribute to the goold old British Summer.

Shadow's Song is a warm and comforting dream, wrapped in hazy echoes and old-fashioned charm.

More shoegazing greatness for you today. Bournemouth’s The Death of Pop are a janglegaze dream made up of three brothers and two cousins. The break-up album could be interesting then. But let’s hope we don’t...

Following on from Touch yesterday, today’s “In Case You Missed It” pick comes from another artists chosen by a big-blog-cheese. This time the selection comes from Sean Adams, of Drowned in...

Listening to BBC 6 Music's most blogged artists of the last six months show last night only confirmed what I already suspected: I am not all that interested in writing about what everyone else is...

**Deep Green** starts with an eerie-sounding chant and drumming that does nothing to prepare you for the quite incredibly lovely melody of the song's chorus, and the unexpected but perfect bass and vocal lines it...

For a guy still revered for a long-defunct garage-rock band that played it loud and played it rough, Bob Mould sure knows how to write a pop hook.

Given the massive PR effort that went into the release of the album St. Vincent in February, it's unlikely that many people will have missed Birth in Reverse, but with something this good it's best...

After a concerted promotion campaign and rave reviews for her self-titled album earlier in the year, St. Vincent has been (relatively) quiet for a few months. Last night, all that changed.

Letters We Told is the self-penned, self-recorded debut album from Jay Woodward, released late last year. It’s an intriguing mix of ageless folk and modern technique and appreciation for the possibilities of simple songs, softly...

Futuristic psychedelic dance-rock plus funk for you now, courtesy of Brooklyn’s Bear in Heaven. Autumn is taken from their forthcoming album Time is Over One Day Old, and is set for an August 5th release,...

I don't always pick up on something the minute it's released. Even when I do, I might not write about it. This playlist will hoover up a few songs I missed from earlier in the...

Something new and pretty tasty from Lo Recordings here. Astronauts is a new project from Dan Carney, whose previous bands include Dark Captain (and Dark Captain, Light Captain, although no-one seems to mention that, which...

Our Love is a typically heartfelt Sharon Van Etten song. Its beautiful and intimate video adds to the song's emotional resonance with its lingering black and white shots and feelings of despair and distant detachment....

The début album from Woman's Hour is a beautifully poised work: eleven easy-going pieces that belie the emotional turmoil documented within. While Conversations never goes all out to surprise, it is full of subtle but...

Gingerlys are a New York quintet who have created an EP that can only be described as pretty much perfect in every way. It packs into its whirling eleven minutes an almost inconceivable number of...

On first listen to Interpol’s new track All the Rage Back Home from the forthcoming anagrammatical album El Pintor I was struggling to see what others were saying about it being a return to form....

Following on from These Four Walls and In the Pit of the Stomach, Scottish band We Were Promised Jetpacks are set to release...