Circus Animals' Desertion is a varied, mature and ultimately fulfilling début from one of the UK's most exciting new guitar bands; that it will be ignored if favour of a dozen over-hyped copycat bands is merely symptomatic of the UK music scene's current malaise.

Ferris Wheel Makeout is an album that would be at home between Loveless and Souvlaki. Keith Canisius might not revamp the shoegaze world in the way some of the giants did, but he certainly creates powerful, evocative music.

Not to be confused with Panda Bear, this Chicago trio specialises in saccharine dream-pop.

32 year old Sheffield native Duncan Sumpner's third SOGP album is his finest to date, recalling the very best of early 90s indie, in particular that of the 4AD label.