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Clock Opera ? Ways to Forget (Moshi Moshi)

It takes a good few listens to realise that any noteworthy emotional mark has been left by Connelly on any of these 10 songs

Band of Skulls – Sweet Sour (Electric Blues)

Now they are back, and everyone is eager to see just where they will have gone from ‘Baby Darling Dollface Honey’.

Dan Sartain – Too Tough To Live (One Little Indian)

Dan Sartain has only been with One Little Indian for a short time now, but it?s been enough time to make an impact.

Ben Howard – Every Kingdom (Island)

Let?s hope we see more of this type of man, as well as music, and kick to touch the egotists who feel that we need them and they don?t need us.

The Subways – Money and Celebrity (Cooking Vinyl)

In some places solid, in others throwaway but oddly enough always displaying an engaging brand of rock, it should appeal to fans and diehards

Bombay Bicycle Club – A Different Kind of Fix (Island)

They?ve got to be happy with the way this album has turned out sonically, but it is never a Mercury contender or is it an alternative chart topper

Big Deal – Lights Out (Mute Records)

Big Deal are the bright new things in town and becoming a more and more frequent blip on the radars of the indie hipster brigade.

Red Hot Chili Peppers – I’m With You (Warner Bros)

A rounded and sure to be welcomed comeback to the golden days for the Californian funk-rock kings

Benjamin Francis Leftwich – Last Smoke Before the Snowstorm (Dirty Hit)

Benjamin Leftwich is a likeable character with a buoyant attitude and I?m sure that the current music scene would still be a poorer place without this release

Thomas Tantrum – Mad By Moonlight (Stranger Records)

Thomas Tantrum produced an instantly likeable slice of indie-pop, making this new outing a potential banana skin for the band this time around.