While it’s sometimes a bland experience, the songwriting here, with a little self monitoring, could bring us something really special next time around. As it stands we’re left with a debut referential in the extreme but with an occasional knack for shining loveliness.

There’s a dark undercurrent slithering underneath, even in the brightest flares, like a constant reminder that Simian is saving their biggest fold for a different attitude, but I’d like to think that this is who they are. Sinister House, Techno With Fangs – a smug confidence you would punch if the grooves could let you move.

Something of an anomaly in the metal world, Torche return with a new line-up and third album Harmonicraft – their most commercial output to date without forgoing the metallic sludge that they epitomise. Heather Steele reviews.

Nick Zammuto draws back the creative curtain on this new project, replacing the reticent artsiness of the Books with genuine, unvarnished emotion of Zammuto for the continuation of his imaginative musical story.

Tiffany Daniels reviews Sons of Noel and Adrian’s second album Knots, and explains why the band are so much more, beyond the genre that they’ve been assigned to.

An austere document from these stylish synthpop figureheads; intelligent and enjoyable, but one for a certain mood, to soundtrack time spent alone.

For every outsider, for everyone who wasn’t prom royalty, for everyone who sometimes still wants to kick up a fuss, for everyone who worries their façade of normality is going to slip any second, Garbage are your kind of people.

I Like Trains have intentionally chosen, for better or worse, to live in one singular mood on this album that explores the ongoing relationship between humanity and technology.