Hadouken! - Music For An Accelerated Culture (Surface Noise Recordings) **
	5:11pm Fri 9 May 08
	Initially fizzy youthful flouro pop falls flat fast

	Delays - Everything’s The Rush (Fiction) ****
	5:08pm Fri 9 May 08
	Big new sound serves Southampton’s Delays well

	Dusty Springfield - Gold (UMC) *****
	5:06pm Fri 9 May 08
	Definitive, two-disc overview of Britain’s original white soul girl

	Steve Winwood - 9 Lives (Sony BMG) ***
	5:02pm Fri 9 May 08
	At least one of rock’s stateliest grand hommes can still cut it

	The Last Shadow Puppets - The Age of Understatement (Domino) ****
	4:08pm Fri 25 Apr 08
	What Alex and Miles did on their holidays

	Chris de Burgh - Now and Then (Universal) **
	4:05pm Fri 25 Apr 08
	Rounding up the wee man’s highlights

	The B52s - Funplex (EMI) ***
	4:02pm Fri 25 Apr 08
	There’s still some life in the funky little shack after all

	Whitesnake - Good to be Bad (SPV/Steamhammer) *****
	3:59pm Fri 25 Apr 08
	After 30 years David Coverdale finally grows a pair

	Barry Adamson - Back to the Cat (Central Control) ****
	11:36am Fri 18 Apr 08
	Terrific assimilation of musical cool and Mancunian wit

	Tammy Wynette - Stand By Your Man (Sony-BMG) ****
	11:33am Fri 18 Apr 08
	Ten years after she died, this is what the fuss is all about

	Amy Studt - My Paper Made Men (19 Recordings) ***
	11:31am Fri 18 Apr 08
	All grown up at the age of 22, Amy makes a play for the serious stuff

	Asia - Phoenix (Frontiers) **
	11:28am Fri 18 Apr 08
	First new sounds from the original line-up in 25 years

	The Breeders - Mountain Battles (4AD) **
	1:03pm Fri 11 Apr 08
	Kim Deal makes a rubbish record for the first time. Dagnammit...

	The Courteeners - St Jude (A&M) ****
	12:59pm Fri 11 Apr 08
	First offering from Manchester’s latest mouth almighty – pretty good too

	The Long Blondes - “Couples” (Rough Trade) **
	12:57pm Fri 11 Apr 08
	80s disco pulse adds nothing to the Blondes’ itchy, scratchy foundations

	The Raconteurs - Consolers of the Lonely (Third Man/XL Recordings) ***
	12:55pm Fri 11 Apr 08
	Jack’s back with the Racs’ second, recorded and released in just three weeks

	Estelle - Shine (Atlantic/Homeschool) ***
	9:31am Fri 4 Apr 08
	Second album reboots career for flagging UK soulstress

	REM - Accelerate (Warners) ****
	9:29am Fri 4 Apr 08
	They came in search of critical redemption and, by jove, they found it

	Gnarls Barkley - The Odd Couple (WEA) ****
	9:27am Fri 4 Apr 08
	The Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau of retro-future soul nail it again

	Lowgold - Promise Lands (Goldhawk Recordings) ***
	9:24am Fri 4 Apr 08
	It’s bleak, boys, but on a huge scale

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