Once upon a time in Copenhagen...

A blend of the bland and the brilliant on this patchy debut.

Robert Plant joins the arty jazz-punk party on the first Scream album for five years.

Nordic heavy-prog trio embark on a jazz odyssey.

Garage-rockers reinvent their sound as southern-fried blues.

Yorkshire prog-metal torch-bearers keep it loud and hairy.

Timeless synth-rock with a dash of Pink Floyd.

Reclusive cult crooner returns with avant-rock opus.

Festive frolics with Roderick the red-nosed rocker.

Velvets veteran rediscovers avant-punk roots.

A spoonful of Sugar sweetens this solid solo album.

Excess all arias with operatic Scando-metal diva.

Cranked-up sadcore from the Robert Smith of sludge metal.

Cardiff art-punks mix snarly jokes with hard-rock poke.

Billy no mates: Corgan is back, but this new album is really a solo effort in all but name.

Reptile-punk overlord becomes lounge-lizard crooner on this self-released album.

Convincing comeback by veteran alt-rock bohemians.

Bowie meets Barrett in Damon’s Albion.

Parental advisory warning: may contains jazz hands.

Grindcore pioneers embrace new forms of sonic carnage.

Davis discovers dubstep. Civilisation shrugs.

Britpop’s evergreen faerie queen lets England flake.

Never mind the warlocks, here’s Beelzebub unplugged.

Marxist axeman broadens radical folk-rock persona.