 | The Seldom Seen Kid (Deluxe Edition) by Elbow
Fourth album by Bury sort-of proggers - totally absent of cliche, beautifully realised, epic, emotional, (post)rock n roll. Love the voice, the words, the music.
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 | Hercules and Love Affair by Hercules & Love Affair
Buy new: £8.28 / Used from: £6.99 Anthony (& The Johnsons) Hegarty fronting a DFA-approved disco monster - tuneful, funky, beautiful.
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 | All Is Yes by The Blessing
Buy new: £9.98 / Used from: £8.50 Portishead's rhythm-section do that modern jazz thing - think Acoustic Ladyland with less mentalism and more tunes.
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 | Do You Like Rock Music? by British Sea Power
Buy new: £7.98 / Used from: £7.19 Actually unsure of this thus far - but the last one took time to reveal itself to me, so will give this a chance further.
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 | In Rainbows by Radiohead
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £5.98 2008 or 2007? I'm not a fan, as a rule, but this is actually really good - Reckoner is like a Fisher Price version of latter-day Talk Talk.
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 | Vampire Weekend by Vampire Weekend
Buy new: £4.34 / Used from: £4.87 Refreshingly light and tuneful - forget the 'Afro' and all the class-war nonsense; this is just good pop.
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 | Seventh Tree by Goldfrapp
Buy new: £8.98 / Used from: £6.98 Edging away from overblown sex-electro and back towards the pastoral psychedelic oddness of their debut - surprisingly hooky, too.
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 | Red by Guillemots
Buy new: £8.98 / Used from: £8.64 Occasionally too aggressive in its attempts to be a BIGECLECTICDISCOPOPALBUM,this nonetheless still has enough moments of glistening, textured musicality to make you swoon; Words is a keeper.
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 | Afterparty Babies by Cadence Weapon
Buy new: £9.99 A (sort of) secret: Rollie used to write for Stylus Magazine, the net's best music site. Now he just writes incredibly smart, danceable hiphop. Go Rollie!
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 | Alopecia by Why
Buy new: £9.98 / Used from: £8.19 Eclectic, uncompromising, musical, emotionally savage - former rapper Why? is now a fully-fledged 'indie' band, where 'indie' means 'genuinely alternative'. Very good indeed.
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 | Third by Portishead
Buy new: £8.98 / Used from: £7.80 Madly sinister, dark, groovy and uncompromising. Doesn't sound so much like Portishead as Portishead remixing Nine Inch Nails tracks. We Carry On is monolithic.
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 | Antidotes (Special Edition Double CD) by Foals
Buy new: £10.95 Battles as reinvented for and by the cast of Skins. Not quite sure if that means it's terrific or terrible yet.
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 | Good Nature by Youthmovies
Buy new: £7.98 Very long-awaited debut by moody mathy postrockers.
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 | Songs in A&E by Spiritualized
Buy new: £8.98 Five years in the making; a return to form? Lots will say so. It's good; it sounds like Spiritualized. Certainly better than Amazing Grace,
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