Two drummers start a band and sing.  A lot.

The tail end of the decade is upon us, and British goth-rockers The Horrors create an album to remember it by.

From out of the wreckage of late 80's and early 90's influences emerges a modern pop gem. 

A record that was overlooked by us in 2008, and wrongfully so.

The third album from these New York shoegazers represents a gentle step in the direction of orchestral dream-pop.

Estonia's premier shoegaze band releases its fourth album on Seksound.

In the post-grunge nadir of the early nineties Swervedriver's first two albums – 1991's Raise and 1993's Mezcal Head – should have sealed their reputation as one of the finest British bands of the era. For a variety of reasons, they didn't. If ever a band deserved a re-appraisal it's Swervedriver.

Animal magic indeed - these Norwegian newcomers unleash their claws on a corker of a debut.

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.

The Brian Jonestown Massacre's Anton Newcombe, experiments too much and creates too little.