Solid outing from country veteran.

The freeform mish-mash of sounds, scratches, samples, styles and lyrical themes is far too much of a mixed bag to have a wide appeal.

Mathangi Arulpragasam delivers intriguingly fluxed up genre bending third album.

Stonking new record from former Lad rockers. Who’d have thought?

Ho-hum third record from brit chanteuse.

This essentially middle of road noise bears some relation to their past work but lacks any of the grit or charm that made them such a cool little indie band.

Swedes living la vida on curious new outing.

Tokyo Police Club indubitably share similarities with their more commercially successful UK counterparts, Bloc Party.

Avant-rockers make shameless play for the aging Generation X market.

Lennox’s glossy white-soul template does sound a bit dated but she's still impressive when she gets it right.

Although the sound of 30 people making music is always going to have an uplifting edge to it, the songs here are less self-consciously happy-clappy than before.

Averegeness abounds from budding UK starlet.

Even though her debut album didn't go off so well with her label, Dixon's latest album gives her another chance in the music biz.

Surprisingly enjoyable party rock.

Southern rock merchants capture the energy of their live shows on accomplished fifth album.

A quantum leap in thought and execution from 2004 debut, These Were The Earlies.

Steady as she goes on AOR eighth outing.

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.

Reformation Post TLC may lack a tune as monumental as, say, the unforgettable ‘Hip Priest’ from Hex Enduction Hour, but 30 years into his career, Smith is still making music with the kind of vitality and imagination that shame most musicians half his age.

Two heads aren’t necessarily better than on! Fire Songs isn’t a terrible album, it’s just a little too sweet and safe for this writer’s ears.

Though it doesn't exactly live up to its name, Legend manages to capture the optimistic sprit of Barack Obama in

Patchy covers album from alt.rock veterans.

Irish Rockers still going for the emotional jugular on impressive fifth album.

Malin has seemingly adopted the persona and sound of his New Jersey counterpart Bruce Springsteen.

Pop chanteuse lets the sunshine back in.

Cutting to the chase, this album is full of Rihanna b-sides that sound like a carbon copy of everything in the charts right now and are completely personality free.

Slinky but less than earthshattering debut from buzzy manhattanites.

Devon’s finest makes a Motown-laced return.