 | Post-Nothing by Japandroids
Buy new: £11.69 / Used from: £13.91 Dumb and essential reverb-heavy punk cum garage-rock - for fans of Fugazi, Dinosaur Jr, No Age and Wavves
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 | The Crying Light by Antony and the Johnsons
Buy new: £8.88 / Used from: £7.27 Where once he sqawked, now he coos. Tear-jerking and orchestral singer-songwriting - for fans of summer Sundays and life affirmation
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 | Wrecking Ball by Dead Confederate
Buy used from: £4.24 Credible and bruising nu-grunge with flecks of alt.country - for fans of Kings of Leon, Manchester Orchestra and Nirvana
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 | Alight of Night by Crystal Stilts
Buy new: £11.38 C86 meets Unknown Pleasures and Pyschocandy, drawling and jangly - for fans of surf-rock, post-punk and C86!
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 | Pains Of Being Pure At Heart by Pains Of Being Pure At Heart
Buy new: £8.98 Where C86 meets Britpop - for fans of fuzzy indie, Stone Roses, The Smiths and peculiarily James
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 | Primary Colours by The Horrors
Buy new: £6.98 / Used from: £6.35 Ignore the knockers - loving and faithful homage to Joy Division, My Bloody Valentine, Bauhaus and Killing Joke
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 | Veckatimest by Grizzly Bear
Buy new: £6.48 / Used from: £6.15 Hammock-worthy harmonies and complex, experimental arrangements - despite being obvious comparisons, for fans of Animal Collective and Fleet Foxes
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 | Merriweather Post Pavilion by Animal Collective
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £8.93 Hyped and deservedly so, FX-ed, very alt.pop - for the adventurous and fans of Deerhunter, Battles and mad-cap high jinx
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 | Swoon by Silversun Pickups
Buy new: £9.78 / Used from: £5.77 Unsubtle but polished alt.rock with slowburn anthems aplenty - for (big) fans of Smashing Pumpkins and lovely, fuzzy, talent-inducing pedals
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 | Mean Everything To Nothing by Manchester Orchestra
Buy new: £7.68 / Used from: £4.99 Southern-fried grunge and American alt.rock belter - for fans of Desaparecidos, The Hold Steady and Weezer
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 | Outside Love by The Pink Mountaintops
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £4.61 Black Mountain's chill-outlet, gentle, droning pysch-rock - for fans of Spiritualized's Songs in A&E, alt-country and all things Spectre
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 | War Elephant by Deer Tick
Buy used from: £12.72 Moonshine bluegrass 'n' roll with nods to Dylan and Neil Young as voiced by a would-be Cobain - for fans of Americana, spittin' and toe-tappin'
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 | 200 Million Thousand by Black Lips
Buy used from: £4.78 Fine continuation of lo-fi garage ground already well covered with added Blues and organ - for fans of The Doors, White Stripes and Creedence
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 | Vs. Children by Casiotone for the Painfully Alone
Buy new: £9.78 / Used from: £8.64 Minimal singer-songwriting with childlike keyboards, also, a great knack for storytelling - for fans of The Divine Comedy, The Dears, Pulp and Stars
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 | The Airing of Grievances by Titus Andronicus
Buy new: £9.98 / Used from: £4.19 Garage-punk and alt-country mash-up, think Saddle Creek embracing nihilism - for fans of Bright Eyes, Cursive, Black Lips and Rilo Kiley
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 | Ode To Sunshine by Delta Spirit
Buy new: £8.58 Rock 'n' soul as happy acoustically as it is rocking out - for fans of The Stones, The Strokes, The Walkmen and Gram Parsons - phew!
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 | Hombre Lobo by Eels
Buy new: £9.28 Superb cherry-picking from Mr Everett, all the best bits from previous albums now on one, except it's new material! - for fans of Eels (duh), Americana and honesty
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 | The Hazards of Love by The Decemberists
Buy new: £8.58 / Used from: £7.57 Fable-like prog-popera with more worthy guests than Michael Jackson's wake - for fans of concept albums, Lavender Diamond, My Brightest Diamond and all that sparkles in general
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 | Oh My God, Charlie Darwin by The Low Anthem
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £26.01 Ethereal alt-folk hoedown - for fans of moonshine, Band Of Horses, My Morning Jacket and Eels
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 | Heavy Ghost by Dm Stith
Buy new: £6.98 / Used from: £4.99 Kitchen-sink acoustic and sample singer-songwriting, as complex as Grizzly Bear, sister record to Andrew Bird really - for fans of ... oh I just said
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 | Noble Beast by Andrew Bird
Buy new: £5.58 / Used from: £5.10 Kitchen-sink acoustic ... blah ... see DM Stith, only this one has better lyrics
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 | Dance Mother by Telepathe
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £4.75 Cooler-than-you, minimal electro-pysch with a dash of tribal drumming - probably sounds even better on drugs - for fans of Gang Gang Dance, Glass Candy, Cocteau Twins and early, early Moloko
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 | Spayed by Kasms
Buy new: £6.98 / Used from: £25.91 Gothic pop-punk with elements of no-wave and art-rock, with banshee-like vocal - for fans of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The Cramps and The Cure
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 | Vivian Girls by The Vivian Girls
Buy new: £14.19 / Used from: £7.34 All conquering C86 comeback comes full circle, more of the same with a few Raveonette borrows, 20 mins of summetime whimsy - for fans of Jesus & Mary Chain, Manhattan Love Suicides and Shop Assistants
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 | Beware by Bonnie Prince Billy
Buy new: £8.98 / Used from: £8.50 Consistently solid from this mainstream-aimed outing, Americana, alt-country, quality singer-songwriting all check - for fans of Billie's catalgue, Calexico and The Allman Brothers
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