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?

Youthful oddball composer Jonathan Pfeffer, slightly better known as Capillary Action, returns with So Embarrassing – a gloriously Zappa-esque shambles.

Balf Quarry is the new album by eccentric noise-rock duo Magik Markers. That doesn’t necessarily mean what you think it means, though.

Post-rock and post-hardcore are contradictory styles, right? Well, give Crushed Neocons a listen, and allow The Antikaroshi to prove you wrong.

Legendary progenitor of dark industrial ambient Lustmord returns with Other – a collection of moody post-apocalyptic soundscapes with some stellar guest guitarists.

Think British metal all sounds the same? The Miramar Disaster would like to plead the exception to the rule with their inventive new album Volumes.

The Outline have ambition and ideas aplenty; it just a shame that You Smash It, We’ll Build Around It isn’t a bit more consistent.

The Outline decide to leave Los Angeles at the peak of high summer to tour the rainy UK for two months. They must mean business.

Sweden’s extreme metal architects Meshuggah announce European tour dates in September … and a trailer to a forthcoming video for the “Bleed” single.

German schizo-doom duo Beehoover bring a uniquely weird and progressive brand of post-metal noise on Heavy Zooo.