Sonic youth

New York punk goes classical. Or vice versa

Gilded, accessible sixth album from avant-rock stalwarts

Oddly English-sounding quirkadelica from Paris

Debut from London post-rockers named after H-bomb test island

Last year, lambchop were commissioned by the San Francisco International Film Festival to perform a live score to soundtrack FW Murnau's. 1927 proto-film noir masterpiece Sunrise. It so happened that Lambchop's leader, Kurt Wagner, had already embarked upon a self-imposed mission to write a song a day. As a result of both endeavours he ended up with so many songs that there are now two new Lambchop albums, each containing 12 songs. So is this the alt.country equivalent of OutKast's Speakerboxxx/The Love Below? Not quite.

Overlooked Ohio five-piece deliver ravaged second album

The Addiction plug straight back into the main vein

First full review of 39-track follow-up to Stankonia from fractured hip hop duo

Star-crammed electro-mysticism from Greece's Akis Boyatzis

Savage garage from Lift To Experience's friendly neighbours