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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

Rock & pop 