Just when you thought it was safe to go back to MySpace, I Am Ghost appear and lower the bar for weak shitty goth-tinged pop-metal with Those We Leave Behind.

White Denim seem to have completely reinvented the idea of the music single; “Shake Shake Shake” is quite possibly the best way to waste three minutes created this year.

Severe Zero’s self-released début Dead Air proves that all the will and ambition in the world can’t force an average band to make a good album.

Enjoy Destroy’s self-titled EP fails to impress, despite (or perhaps because of) press release attempts to rebrand them as a grunge band in waiting.

The dully-named duo Dolium deliver five tracks of plodding raucous garage Goth on the El Vampiro Attack! EP.

Dublin-based band Noise Control blend rapping, rave and metal on “Cities Of Dreams” - brace yourself for a riotous swerve into a nineties revival. w00t!

Despite a promising start, the filler-to-killer ratio on Stateside electro-rockers innerpartysystem’s eponymous début is just too high for a full album.

The Walkmen just walked back into town with You & Me – a suitcase full of hauntingly nonchalant Dylanesque indie-jangle Americana.

Just in case you’d missed out on all the most obvious made-for-radio tosh peddled out in the name of rock and metal in the last few years, Kerrang! The Album ‘08 has got your back.

Canada’s Finger Eleven deliver thirteen tracks of solid radio-friendly alt-rock on their latest album Them Vs. You Vs. Me.