Long-lived lords of Los Angeles drone-psychedelia The Warlocks bring the darkness and the volume to a tiny cupboard somewhere in Southampton.

Southampton sleaze-rockers Plastic Toys are still ticking over; “Dirty” is the fourth industrial-synth-pop gem from their debut album For Tonight Only.

If you’re wondering whether the torrent of Welsh bands trying to coat-tail on the success of Lostprophets is weakening, The New 1920 are here to tell you “no”.

South-coast post-folkers The B Of the Bang deliver a mixed-up melange of multi-instrumental trash and treasure on their debut album Beginning. Middle. End.

If you’re hankerin’ for some home-grown British garage fuzz fun, “OCD Go Go Girls” by Lovvers will be the best value 99 pence you spend next week. Do it.

“A Love Like No-One Else”… a dull title for another dull record from Bristolian indie hopefuls The Chemists. At least they’re persistent, eh?

Distiller Records maintain their growing reputation for releasing dull records with “Tell Your Friends (It All Worked Out)” from White Belt Yellow Tag.

Set Your Goals may be full of the cheery exuberance of youth, but This Will Be The Death Of Us shows that they can write a skatepunk decent tune when they try.

Sometimes the album details say it all. So, ladies and gents: UFO Conspiracy Believer, by Benny Zen The Recording Artist featuring The Syphilis Madmen.

Engineers are awesome. Three Fact Fader is awesome. Your long slow summer of narcoleptic and narcotized musical dreamscapes starts right here, right now.