New Music

Various Artists, ‘Old Enough to Know Better: 15 Years of Merge Records’ (Merge)

Uncle Kracker, ‘Seventy Two & Sunny’ (Lava)

The Roots, ‘The Tipping Point’ (Geffen)

The Mooney Suzuki, ‘Alive & Amplified’ (Columbia)

The National, ‘Cherry Tree’ (Brassland)

Taking Back Sunday, ‘Where You Want to Be’ (Victory)

The Kingsbury Manx, ‘Afternoon Owls EP/The Aztec Discipline’ (Overcoat Recordings)

Various Artists, ‘Kompakt 100’ (Kompakt)

Camera Obscura, ‘Underachievers Please Try Harder’ (Merge)

The Monolith, ‘Here Comes the Monolith’ (Fortune)

Oneida, ‘Secret Wars’ (Jagjaguwar)

Citizens Here and Abroad, ‘Ghosts of Tables And Chairs’ (Omnibus)

Kylie Minogue, ‘Body Language’ (EMI)

Blink-182, ‘Blink-182’ (Geffen)

Firewater, ‘Songs We Should Have Written’ (Jet Set) V/A, ‘Stop Me If You Think You’ve Heard This One Before…” (Rough Trade)