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			<title>The Spook of the Thirteenth Lock - The Brutal Here and Now</title>
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&#60;p&#62;It's been four years since the wonderfully named &#60;strong&#62;The Spook of the Thirteenth Lock&#60;/strong&#62; unleashed their debut album on an unsuspecting world. A clutch of rave reviews accompanied its...]]></description>
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			<title>Best Coast - The Only Place</title>
			<description><![CDATA[&#60;p&#62;&#60;strong&#62;Best Coast&#60;/strong&#62; charmed many with their brand of lo-fi garage-rock on much heralded 2010 debut album &#60;em&#62;Crazy For You&#60;/em&#62;. It was a simple formula - the reverb-soaked vocals of Bethany Cosentino detailing matters of the heart from...]]></description>
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			<title>The Frank and Walters - Greenwich Mean Time</title>
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&#60;p&#62;We had no right to expect this. At a stage in their career when most other bands are already on their second comeback tour or mining the back catalogue for all it's worth, &#60;strong&#62;The Frank...]]></description>
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			<title>Gossip - A Joyful Noise</title>
			<description><![CDATA[&#60;p&#62;&#60;u&#62;&#60;strong&#62;Words&#60;/strong&#62;&#60;/u&#62;: Louise Bruton&#60;/p&#62;
&#60;p&#62;Some of the greatest pop songs are doused in melancholy but disguised as something sugary and &#60;strong&#62;Gossip&#60;/strong&#62;'s latest album, &#60;em&#62;A Joyful Noise&#60;/em&#62;, puts this charade to practice. In...]]></description>
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			<title>Miike Snow - Happy To You</title>
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&#60;p&#62;&#60;strong&#62;Miike Snow&#60;/strong&#62;'s eponymous debut album was something of a surprise sleeper hit in 2009. Its release garnered plenty of favourable interest, due in no small part to the...]]></description>
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			<title>Silversun Pickups - Neck of the Woods</title>
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&#60;p&#62;Los Angeles based alt- rockers &#60;strong&#62;Silversun Pickups&#60;/strong&#62; have spent the best part of nine years and two albums fending off accusations that they are little more than Smashing Pumpkins...]]></description>
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			<title>Jack White - Blunderbuss</title>
			<description><![CDATA[&#60;p&#62;&#60;strong&#62;Jack White&#60;/strong&#62; has long been one of music's most intriguing characters. He is one of the few musicians capable of garnering equal plaudits from the blogosphere, all the while raking in mainstream chart success - a most uncommon...]]></description>
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			<title>Cold Specks - I Predict A Graceful Expulsion</title>
			<description><![CDATA[&#60;p&#62;Dazzling with her performance of 'Lay Me Down' live on &#60;em&#62;Later... With Jools Holland&#60;/em&#62; last November, then newcomer &#60;strong&#62;Cold Specks&#60;/strong&#62; instantly marked herself out as 'One To Watch' for 2012. That particular song was written by...]]></description>
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			<title>The Walls - Stop The Lights</title>
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&#60;p&#62;&#60;strong&#62;The Walls&#60;/strong&#62;' third album, &#60;em&#62;&#60;strong&#62;Stop The Light&#60;/strong&#62;&#60;/em&#62;s, took seven years to make and in that time, Irish music has had a facelift so much so that it is practically...]]></description>
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			<title>Marina and the Diamonds - Electra Heart</title>
			<description><![CDATA[&#60;p&#62;The Welsh songstress who stole many a heart back in 2009 with the quirky indie-pop stylings of debut album &#60;em&#62;The Family Jewels&#60;/em&#62; is back! You remember &#60;strong&#62;Marina Diamandis&#60;/strong&#62;, right? The darling of the internet musos who went on to...]]></description>
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			<title>Santigold - Master of My Make Believe</title>
			<description><![CDATA[&#60;p&#62;It's hard to believe that it was way back in 2008 that &#60;strong&#62;Santigold&#60;/strong&#62; (then Santogold) unleashed her widely acclaimed eponymous debut. Info on the follow-up proved elusive, until April of 2011 when 'Go!' came along - and what a way to...]]></description>
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			<title>Alabama Shakes - Boys &#38; Girls</title>
			<description><![CDATA[&#60;p&#62;For a few months now &#60;strong&#62;Alabama Shakes&#60;/strong&#62; have been on the cusp of a breaking through from the music blogs to the music charts - in fact, their debut album &#60;em&#62;&#60;strong&#62;Boys &#38; Girls&#60;/strong&#62;&#60;/em&#62; has debuted at #13 in the Irish...]]></description>
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			<title>Clock Opera - Ways To Forget</title>
			<description><![CDATA[&#60;p&#62;The path walked by Guy Connolly's &#60;strong&#62;Clock Opera&#60;/strong&#62; throughout &#60;em&#62;&#60;strong&#62;Ways To Forget &#60;/strong&#62;&#60;/em&#62;is a dangerous one. The album is crammed full of intricately constructed electro-pop songs and is very, very ambitious - perhaps...]]></description>
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			<title>Dr. John - Locked Down</title>
			<description><![CDATA[&#60;p&#62;For fans of either - and especially both - a collaboration between &#60;strong&#62;Dr. John&#60;/strong&#62; and Black Keys frontman &#60;strong&#62;Dan Auerbach&#60;/strong&#62; would seem like an ideal meeting of the minds. On one side you have one of the premiere rhythm and...]]></description>
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			<title>Paul Weller - Sonik Kicks</title>
			<description><![CDATA[&#60;p&#62;&#60;strong&#62;Paul Weller&#60;/strong&#62;'s 11th solo album is appropriately tiled. &#60;em&#62;&#60;strong&#62;Sonik Kicks&#60;/strong&#62;&#60;/em&#62; is just that, a spirited collection of sprawling tracks featuring Weller's trademark vocals and song-writing knack, but infused with a...]]></description>
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			<title>Mick Flannery - Red To Blue</title>
			<description><![CDATA[&#60;p&#62;Sometimes it's difficult to comprehend just why &#60;strong&#62;Mick Flannery&#60;/strong&#62; is as popular as he is in an era when a musician's persona can do as much for their career as their product can. The cantankerously quiet man from Blarney isn't widely...]]></description>
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			<title>Madonna - MDNA</title>
			<description><![CDATA[&#60;p&#62;For someone who hasn't released a truly great album in upwards of twenty years, &#60;strong&#62;Madonna&#60;/strong&#62; is clearly fighting tooth and nail to retain her throne as the incumbent Queen of Pop. Having seen off challenges from Britney and Christina...]]></description>
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			<title>Michael Kiwanuka - Home Again</title>
			<description><![CDATA[&#60;p&#62;Everything about &#60;em&#62;&#60;strong&#62;Home Again&#60;/strong&#62;&#60;/em&#62; suggests that it's about forty years too late to the party. The gorgeous sepia-toned album artwork looks like something that you might have found when raiding your parents' vinyl collection...]]></description>
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			<title>Swords - Black Balloon EP</title>
			<description><![CDATA[&#60;p&#62;When you listen to as many new singles and EP's as this writer does, your ears become accustomed to listening for something, anything, which is a departure from the norm - and this if this doesn't come within the first 30 seconds of a track, well...]]></description>
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			<title>Grimes - Visions</title>
			<description><![CDATA[&#60;p&#62;&#60;strong&#62;Claire Boucher&#60;/strong&#62; is an incredibly intriguing character. The 23 year old Canadian, who performs under the name &#60;strong&#62;Grimes&#60;/strong&#62;, once constructed a houseboat which she dubbed &#34;Velvet Glove Cast in Iron&#34;, armed...]]></description>
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