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Belated CD release of 2001 Internet-only 'comeback' album

Rock revelry with a Scandinavian twist

Sublime second LP from Chicago quartet

If Gillian Welch floats your boat, chances are Laura Veirs will, too, though her take on homespun Appalachia is tempered by modernist tendencies. Anyone familiar with 1999's eponymous guitar-and-voice-only debut will be taken aback here, ditching much of its thorny agit-folk for dreamily intoxicating balladry, sawing strings and near-perfect vocal phrasing.

New York punk trio surpass media hype with cataclysmic debut

Whichever way you slice it, this is a banker. Langford's recent rollicksome rip-'em-ups with The Waco Brothers are among his most inspired, while Toronto's largely unheralded Sadies, led by brothers Travis and Dallas Good, are modern roots-rock's best kept secret, tripping all switches from surf and chicken-scratch country to garage, psychedelia and Morricone twang.

Debut solo album from Stereolab's Laetitia Sadier

Miss Kittin collaborator plots future of electro on his first commercially available mix disc

Seventh album by Sheffield avant-electro duo, more approachable than their sixth

Ace girl-gang rock'n'roll