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This Month In Americana

Sublime second LP from Chicago quartet

Hanin Elias – No Games No Fun

Second solo outing from Atari Teenage Riot singer features J Mascis, Alec Empire and Alex (Neubauten) Hacke

Chick Flicks: The Sequel – Warner

Not a genre Uncut features heavily, but the previous volume was one of the biggest-selling soundtrack-related CDs of recent years. It's an excuse to bung together top hits from everything from Grease to Charlie's Angels, but the real reason it's here is because by a fluke it includes, among 40 tracks, a run of about 10 which would make my Desert Island Discs—or 31 Songs, as we're now calling the concept.

Pierce Pettis – State Of Grace

Belated British release for alternative Nashville singer/songwriter

Dave Dulake – Butterfingers

Bewildering debut album from Southend-based oddball

Placebo – Sleeping With Ghosts

Petite sex-rocker rings changes for fourth album

Barry White – Al Green

Compilations of two sonic soul forces

Flowing Muses

Long-awaited re-release for one of the great lost albums of the early '70s

Laura Veirs – Troubled By The Fire

If Gillian Welch floats your boat, chances are Laura Veirs will, too, though her take on homespun Appalachia is tempered by modernist tendencies. Anyone familiar with 1999's eponymous guitar-and-voice-only debut will be taken aback here, ditching much of its thorny agit-folk for dreamily intoxicating balladry, sawing strings and near-perfect vocal phrasing.

Cave In – Antenna

Massachusetts noiseniks' major label debut
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