Minus The Bear may have returned to the style that made their name, but there is still enough mileage in that sound to ensure that 'Infinity Overhead' is a marked improvement on their previous album.

'Breakup Song' manages to hone and control their more outré-moments into a more cohesive structure than before without every compromising the band's predilection for sheer bonkers-ness.

With the lyrical focus on family life, this record is their most personal, powerful and cathartic yet.

[Breakthrough] is so much more than the hectic pastiches of exoticism that The Gaslamp Killer is famous for. Meticulous arrangements, pace, narrative and emotional authenticity are prioritized over an all-out assault of catatonia-inducing madness to convey its message.

The most interesting element of his chosen samples is the way that more classical instruments and acoustic guitar strums are looped, while his vocals occasionally get the remix treatment and judder along.

Amongst all that haze, it's clear that Krell has produced another gorgeous record that is incredibly open about love and loss.

The Sea & Cake could have been in danger of becoming an indie-band-by-numbers, but 'Runner' is performed with all the vigour and aplomb of fresh-faced youngsters and executed with the deftness of touch of grizzled old hands.

Overall the album is never really present enough to make an impression, beyond a hazy silhouette in the distance.

Sic Alps is an often fine, often frustrating listen which only succeeds when some flesh is applied to those skinny Californian bones.

This record is completely free of direction changes but at least they are consistent.

They're bold, they're tight in their production and they're not afraid to strip things back to their bare essentials or allow outside influences to shine through.

[Sun] is never less than intriguing, and more than often, grabs you by the heartstrings and pulls you in.

Gallows at their harshest, their angriest and their most thrilling and it turns out that no change in frontman can stop that.

If you like a theatrical sound with a dose of anarchy, quirk and unpredictability, this record comes highly recommended.

What 'TOY' lacks in originality, it more than makes up for with an incredibly rich dot-to-dot of psychedelia laced musical education, and this album is, to coin an awful new musical genre, Nu-new-wave at its very best.

In a similar context many other bands might have run dry by now. Not Calexico though, and 'Algiers' serves as a fitting reminder why they haven't.

Any sense of experimentation and freedom is impossible to find. Are Dinosaur Jr trying too hard to be Dinosaur Jr? It's the way it seems.

Whilst the album as a whole doesn't necessarily tread new ground, and admittedly is a little rough around the edges, it's a promising debut, and you can expect to hear more from Don Broco in the future.

'My Head Is An Animal' doesn't disappoint. Endearing, exciting, and downright enjoyable throughout, it is one of the finest debuts of the year so far.

Even if at times the album can be quite esoteric despite its pop veneer, there is a purity of expression that is addictive.

While Spoon and Wolf Parade fans may be mourning during the hiatus of their favourite bands, this is a tasty release in the interim.

Contact is a disappointment because it's packed with untapped potential, which never seems to be fully realised.

Experimental, psychedelic, mad, and oddly, very listenable pop music.

Recorded with longtime producer Neal Avron, Southern Air isn't a major step away from the band's previous work but a return to the original fire of their early years.

An album which is deluged in melancholy of the sweetest kind, 'Threads' undoubtedly deserves your ears.

Dignan Porch are slightly less effective at a less sprightly pace, veering too close to the point of collapse on 'And Are Now Not', but this is a fine exercise in pearly, bleary eyed acid pop.

It's one of the most powerful records to be released in a very long time.

when he gets it right, he's one of the best.... Let's be honest though, the hit rate isn't great.