If you think the title The Rising Tide (Part 1): Corsa Al Ribasso is pretentious and clunky, wait until you hear the music Djevera put on the album of that name.

Accessible Aussie proggers Karnivool may sound a lot like the antipodean A Perfect Circle on Sound Awake, but that doesn’t make it a bad album by any stretch.

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

London alt-rock revivalists Grand Central sound a lot like the Smashing Pumpkins; if they were to somehow acquire their own sound, they could be dangerous.

What if Curve had been based in Seattle and listened to A Perfect Circle albums through a wormhole in spacetime? Luder’s Sonoluminescence, that’s what.

Oxfordshire post-grungers Serotonin have the sound nailed, but the songs on Siempre y para Siempre don’t yet have sufficient spark to challenge the big boys.

Burly nu-grunge noiseniks Zico Chain are still going, y’know. They’re not quite sure what they want to sound like, but they sound pretty decent nonetheless.

The summer may be over (if we can even be said to have had one), but Dinosaur Jr still capture the warm fuzzy glow of sunshine on latest single “Pieces”.

Poor home-grown post-grungers Slaves To Gravity; they and their single are “Doll Size” before reviewer Duncan Harris’ towering inferno of rage.

Long hot days like all your teenage summers distilled down into loud guitar pop moonshine… it must be Farm, the latest record from alt-rock veterans Dinosaur Jr.