Cardiff’s Attack! Attack! achieve the nigh-impossible with their eponymous début album – ten tracks of pop rock that doesn’t make you want to barf up your lunch.

The Elephant In The Room with Blackmarket’s début album is its disappointing blandness and uniformity of character.

“What’s The Point Of Anything New?” ask The Paddingtons. “To avoid trotting out tired chindie-punk toss like this,” replies Dave Saunders.

Broken Records belie their band name with two tracks of blissfully melancholic indie-folk on new single “Lies”.

Alt-rock Mancunians Smith 6079 seem to be searching unsuccessfully for a direction on Halloween-released single “Ghosts”.

Nottingham three-piece Lords have pretty much nailed the whole retro blues-rock thing with second album Everyone Is People.

The oddly but aptly named Take A Worm For A Walk Week pack thirteen slices of spazzcore insanity into seventeen minutes on The Monroe Transfer.

It’s country-rock by the numbers on The Thief & The Heartbreaker EP from new Noel Gallagher favourites Alberta Cross.

Prozac-happy electro-pop-punk kids Farewell deliver two and a half minutes of ear candy on “Eighty-Eights”. Sugar-rush!

Day-glo nu-rave loonies Trash Fashion have some strong songs lurking amongst the filler on début album Nights Of Error.