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Howler: America Give Up

The Minnesotan quintet’s debut album

Guided By Voices: Let’s Eat the Factory

The US indie group’s first album in eight years

The Internet: Purple Naked Ladies

Debut album evokes the LA hip-hop collective Odd Future

The Puppini Sisters: Hollywood

The close-harmony trio swap clever reworkings of modern pop songs for unabashed 1940s revivalism

Trailer Trash Tracys: Ester

The London quartet debuts with all thrumming basslines, distorted guitars and hazy female vocals

The Maccabees: Given to the Wild

The London quintet sheds the whimsical indie-pop of their 2007 debut for a bolder, more expressive style

Common: The Dreamer/The Believer

Chicago veteran sets out a challenge to rap’s perverse celebration of social dysfunction

The Little Willies: For the Good Times

Norah Jones features in this well-crafted but polite follow-up to the band’s 2006 album

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