Also out this week: 

Amyl and the Sniffers' third album possesses all the hyperactive, riff-fuelled punk that we love but there's also a reflective smattering of songs that showcase Amy Taylor’s commanding talents as a singer. We’re infatuated with Tess Parks' gauzy, smouldering vocals, enticing us into her blissfully acid-addled paisley world and she's going to be showcasing it in the shop on Sunday night! ‘Patterns’ is an unguarded, honest, and stark response to Laura Marling becoming a mother and the expectations of motherhood - her poetry has never felt so rooted in the now... plus there are signed copies available if you're nippy! And 'Synthesizer', from A Place To Bury Strangers, is a noisy assault that shoves you face first into an angular, rampaging machine and doesn't let up until the very last... And we haven't even mentioned the album packaging - a DIY synthesizer!

How about some more? Slint have got their 'Tweez'ers out, AK/DK are stuck in 'Strange Loops' while Muna's Katie Gavin is feeling relieved (signed copies of both of those are available!), the Pixies are zombie hunting, it's back to the summer of '69 with Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young, Cranes are controlling the population, the planet's feeling a little jumpy with Tears for Fears, Fugazi's 'Instrument' has returned on burgundy wax, The Pogues are at their best, Craven Faults knows all 'Bounds', and Green Day are being American Idiots all over again.