Gallows - Desolation Sounds

Thirty six minutes of outright bloody menace.

Amber Run - 5 AM

An ambitious album of pretty average songs.

East India Youth - Culture of Volume

Undeniably intriguing.

The Boy With Two Heads - The Good Consumer EP

80's desert soundscapes with electronic rumblings

Courtney Barnett - Sometimes I Sit And Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit

Both timeless and absolutely current.

Nai Harvest - Hairball

Next time out, a bit of variety wouldn’t go amiss.

Villagers - Darling Arithmetic

Likeable if unexceptional.

Stornoway - Bonxie

This is indie-folk for the Waitrose generation.

The Staves - If I Was

Exquisitely sung indie folk harmonies with added new brainpower

Duke Special - Look Out Machines

This is altogether more personal, dreamlike and surprising.

Flowers - Do what you want to, it's what you should do

Pick Flowers- it’s what you should do!

Addison's Uncle - I'd Like To Tell A Story

A fine album from another decent local band that promises much.

Father John Mistry - I Love You Honeybear

This has the rock press in raptures. I don’t get it.

Champs - Vamala

Pick yourselves up, Champs, and try again.

Elevant - Dreamface

Addison's Uncle - I'd Like To Tell A Story

Local band deliver a promising debut.

Chrome and Illinspired - The All C n I

This is one funky album.

Meghan Trainor - Title

Forgive me, whilst I 'bang dem sticks' against my head

Kodaline - Coming Up For Air

The mix of old and new just don’t seem to mesh well

Peace - Happy People

Something is happening here

Panda Bear Meets The Grim Reaper

Nothing more than a car wreck you simply cannot look away from

Public Service Broadcasting - The Race for Space

Like eating jam roly-poly without the custard.

Kitty, Daisy and Lewis - Kitty, Daisy and Lewis III

A crowning glory.

Gaz Coombes - Matador

Gorgeous, masterful, confessional, and uplifting.

The Unthanks - Mount The Air

The Unthanks confound this reviewer's expectations and produce the natural successor to Talk Talk's Spirit of Eden.

The Grazing Saints - Selene

Local band The Grazing Saints turn in a debut of swamp-psyche-blues-rock bordering on greatness.

Atari Teenage Riot - Reset

For all their efforts to sound like the noise of the future, Atari Teenage Riot just end up sounding like a dated noise.

Marilyn Manson - The Pale Emperor

In short it’s great. Not in a typical Manson, media-provoking comment-on-the-world kind of way, but in a decent album kind of way.

Darwin & The Dinosaur - A Thousand Ships

Decent debut from a local band that deserves our support.

Rats As Big As Dogs - Attract

Third EP from BSE Rock City's RABAD.

Grin By Growl - Foreward For Tune

Promising stuff from another promising young band from Norwich

Belle and Sebastian - Girls in Peacetime Want To Dance

Ultimately, this album is written for their fans

Funeral for a Friend - Chapter and Verse

Hard-hitting, high energy and thoroughly enjoyable

Rae Morris - Unguarded

Girl In A Thunderbolt - Own Your Bones

Following a brief hiatus, this is a triumphant return from Norwich's own Girl In A Thunderbolt.

Neil Young - Storytone Reprise

Two discs, two distinctly different interpretations of the same set of songs.

Superfood - Don't Say That

Well crafted but uninspired and uninspiring Britpop pastiche.

Jon Hopkins - Asleep Versions EP

More fascinating folktronica from Jon Hopkins

Broads - Care & Handling EP

Intriguing stuff from a local chap

Hookworms - The Hum

Hang on, this could get trippy.