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.

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.

London four-piece Hope & State evidently remember when pop-punk went bad, and their Grand Gestures EP captures the moment before that in ragged lo-fi glory.

Mis-billing themselves badly as grunge revivalists, Starseed’s debut album Peace Machine would do quite well in the pop-metal arena… if it were half as long.

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.

Belgian post-everything outfit The Hickey Underworld manage to impress with their unpretentiously taut and hook-laden self-titled debut album.

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?

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.

Woodstock proggers 3 (second prog band of the same name, apparently) have a new album of oldies called Revisions. Hey kids, can you say “contractual obligation”?

Burly nu-grunge noiseniks Zico Chain are still going, y’know. They’re not quite sure what they want to sound like, but they sound pretty decent nonetheless.