Tough trad Detroit garage. Recent touring partner Jack White was once a member

Young Dublin five-piece capture sound of summer on West Coast-fixated debut

Second album from French four-piece sets this year's pop gold standard

Adventurous second album from Belgian soundscape-jazzers

Ex-Barefoot Contessa's solo debut

How New York's hippie hoppers ushered in the philosophical D.A.I.S.Y. Age. And then pronounced themselves Dead

Second album (1989) from alt.country trailblazers, with three bonus tracks

Hip hop from Aussie all-female collective

Hyperactive crime caper from Down Under

A punchy and intelligent tale, co-written by Michael Tolkin, about an unethical yuppie lawyer (Ben Affleck) locked in a battle of wills with a troubled divorcee (Samuel L Jackson). Toni Collette and Sydney Pollack lead the heavyweight supporting cast, and director Roger Michell delivers a bracing state-of-the-nation bulletin in the vein of Falling Down.