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The funky odd-pop of Field Music's fifth album proper may be lyrically concerned with the mundane minutiae of parenthood, but it'll still get you dancing...

While many mainstream artists seem unwilling to focus on anything beyond their own arse, Saul Williams presents the bigger picture with poetry and vitriol.

Tindersticks' slow, deliberate and nuanced new album sees them reaching dreamily into the darkness, but never quite finding fulfilment...

Chicago's favourite sons Tortoise show that they're able to be unconventional even when they're being conventional, on their long-awaited seventh album...

Hitler, Shipman, Auschwitz blowjobs... Fat White Family's follow-up to 'Champagne Holocaust' is undeniably attention-seeking, but is it worth the attention?

NZCA Lines' synth caresses fail to get Alex Allsworth's compass twitching, as 'Infinite Summer' perversely appears in the middle of winter...

David Bowie's parting gift, Blackstar, feels like a very different album now than it did on Friday morning...

Orange County twins The Garden somehow combine surf-punk, twisted rave, off-kilter electronica, absurdist poetry, noise-rock, cheese-pop, hip-hop, jungle and hardcore into a consummate whole.

Lotic's latest mixtape tears apart the club culture rule-book, resulting in an anxiety attack of record that retains just enough reference points to keep you hooked...

It might not be a Christmas album per se, but RR Perkins has gifted us a musical Xmas stocking stuffed full of petite treats and dreamy delights...