I don’t know what precedent there is for it, but Crime In Stereo’s new album I Was Trying To Describe You To Someone gives hardcore a good hard kick in the arse.

Floating around In Orbit with Buttonmoon is like playing a bit-part role in a moodily soundtracked art-house sci-fi horror flick. Dark ambient industrial? Yup.

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.

A Sort Of Spasmic Phlegm Induced by Leaden Fumes of Pleasure… that’s the album title of the year right there, thanks to tongue-in-cheek Swiss stoners Phased.

It may be cold and dark outside, but it’s all hazy summer sun and smokerings in the psychedelic pop-gaze of Scots three-piece North Atlantic Oscillation.

More Belgian oddities from the Jezus Factory in the form of Static Moves, Sukilove’s new album of… whatever you’d call this stuff. Antwerpian alt-psyche-pop?

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.

Dean Fertita takes a break from QOTSA/Dead Weather/Raconteurs duties to release an album of psychedelic power-pop-rock under the name HELLO=FIRE. It’s decent.

Thanks to Obiat, your search for the musical equivalent of a hundred magic mushrooms and a bottle of whiskey is over. Eye Tree Pi; turn on, tune up, space out.