Sardinian oddballs De Grinpipol have some great garage-pop to share on this self-released and eponymous debut album. Quirky, and full of Mediterranean sunshine.

Lonely and plaintive post-indie soundscapers Motion Picture Soundtrack draw “Glass Figures” with their echoing melodies. Actually, it’s pretty good, this.

Self-funded indie-rock five-piece Trail deliver one great track and an album full of not-so-much on debut full-length To The Rest Of The World.

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?

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.

If Black Soul Strangers play as good as they look, they’re destined for greatness… but new single “Lies” is too damned short to tell us either way, though.

Person L show that good things can happen when people get bored of playing pop-punk-emo; The Positives is a patchy but promising indie-retro-rock album.

It’s been a while, but finally there’s new music from Oceansize… though if you only like their heavy stuff, the Home & Minor EP isn’t going to do much for you.

I think I’m pretty safe in saying that, unless Rugrats is your favourite piece of daily television, Zwounds! and their single “Predator 3″ are not meant for you.

In the grand tradition of punk, the shock-horror naming of Japanese Voyeurs‘ Sicking & Creaming EP is a cunning front to distract you from the dull music within.