Another Belgian oddity from the Jezus Factory – if you’re looking for some dreamy summer-y psyche-pop, it’s time to grab a cold beer and say Hello Strumpets.

A second single from young grunge-revivalists Japanese Voyeurs fails to impress with its uninspired retreading of ground conquered two decades beforehand.

Los Angelino indie-rock oddballs The Outline are more fey, more moody and more dramatic than before on Phantasmagoria. But can the kids see the curve coming?

Until We Are Outnumbered sees Danish bruisers The Kandidate combine the simple and punchy elements of thrash and hardcore to neck-shattering contemporary effect.

Yet more by-the-numbers box-ticking chart fodder from Young Guns, recently voted “band most likely to disappear up the collective arse of Lostprophets”.

Calgary metallers Divinity bring down The Singularity, a maelstrom of hooky and progressive technical metal that sounds like the end of everything you know.

This is The New Enemy: four Toronto guys with buzzcuts bringing back the vest-clad and swaggering toughness of early proto-hardcore on their Shakedown EP.

Pisa is best known for that infamous leaning tower, but if there’s any justice it’ll get extra kudos for housing epic and proggy post-metallers Watzlawick.

Psychedelic stoner-krautrock? Kyuss meets Can? Sign youself up for the Summer Sessions, as Causa Sui invoke the lazy vibes of hazy days smoking in the park.

Finely-named Welsh retro-poppers Houdini Dax us a BBC live session to resurrect the fun vibe of late sixties psyche-rock without the dumb chindie swagger.