Pride Of Nowhere sees The Smoking Hearts play straight-up tattooed-rebel punk’n'roll. Which would be fine, were it not for the hundreds of bands just like them.

Cumbrian rockers Falling Red play respectable retro cock-rock with straight faces, and they make a decent job of it on debut album Shake The Faith.

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.

Montreal rednecks-in-waiting Barn Burner bring out the Sabbathy stoner clichés with gusto on Bangers… but sadly, that’s pretty much all there is to it.

Another Welsh pop-punk band? Straight Lines may not be doing anything particularly new, but Persistence In This Game at least has the courage of its convictions.

Bristol-based Turbowolf crank up the angry sleaze on “Let’s Die”, a high-velocity slice of electro-rock’n'roll that’s maybe the first to be worthy of the name.

Bristol rockers Riot:Noise competently revive the classic British hair-metal sounds of the early nineties on the Fight The People EP.

Japanese garage-metal madmen Electric Eel Shock with a more modern sound and a little less lunacy on their new crowd-funded album, Sugoi Indeed.

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?

Adorable noisy lunatics Lovvers have a second album of stripped-back garage silliness; OCD Go Go Go Girls is half an hour of smiles. But don’t ask what it means.