Blending a hint of country and a pinch of psychedelia with spacious grungy alt-rock, Confederate Dead’s Wrecking Ball is both gloomy and glorious at once.

London guitar-and-drum duo Dead Days Beyond Help aren’t the usual mess of faux-garage clichés; Access Denied! is studded with avant-post-rock gems.

Pens are the latest word in uber-hip lo-fi noisy stuff, apparently, and Hey Friend! What You Doing? is their debut long player. Is it trash, treasure or both?

Is this finally the one? Is Born Again Revisited by Times New Viking the lo-fi album I can recommend without reservation? D’you know, I think it might be close.

New Yorican trio-next-door Vivian Girls return with Everything Goes Wrong, a second album that’s fuller and more consistent than their ragged debut.

Part Chimp may be aping (arf!) Micheal Jackson by titling their latest album Thriller, but its sludgy noise rock stylings are a little underwhelming.

Turn on, tune up, rock out – it’s time to get yourself a Contact High from garage psyche-rock maestros You’re Smiling Now But We’ll All Turn Into Demons.

You know how you’ve been looking for your good-time summer noise album of the year? Stop the search, you just found Monotonix. Where Were You When It Happened?

It’s all twenty-something existential depression all the time on King of Jeans, the third slab of dark and doomy punk from surly foursome Pissed Jeans.

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.