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The emperor's new space helmets - pretty and shiny but not much else

Daft Punk - Random Access Memories

Will Daft Punk be playing at your house, your house this summer? After hearing their fourth studio album, RTÉ Ten's Alan Corr finally falls out of love with the French duo

  • The years ahead will be the better because of it

    John Murry - The Graceless Age

    The needle and the damage done.

  • Great tunes worth cherishing

    Little Green Cars - Absolute Zero

    The Dublin quintet have produced a knockout debut album full of killer songs and at least one killer voice

  • Demi Lovato - Demi

    It's a case of churning out the same stuff for Demi Lovato, when everyone is waiting for her to surprise us from left of field with a comeback at the top of her game.

  • Mostly on target

    Iggy and The Stooges - Ready to Die

    Guns, money, the return of James Williamson, and even a bit of wisdom, Iggy and The Stooges come blasting back on a funny and insightful outing

  • The ambition, interplay and atmospherics have been turned right up

    Enemies - Embark, Embrace

    The Louth band turn up the ambition and the energy on their great second album

  • Vinicius' sophisticated brand of chill leaves a lasting impression and the man should come to Vicar Street on one of his European tours.

    Vinicius Cantuaria Indio de Apartamento

    Brazilian singer-songwriter Vinicius Cantuaria's latest album, Indio de Apartamento features guest appearances from Norah Jones and Jesse Owens, but the real essence of this genius musician has little to do with these artistes.

  • Cat Dowling: Full of twists, swerves and quirks

    Cat Dowling - The Believer

    The debut album from former Alphastates front woman is beguiling and haunting

  • . .the greatest solo album from Sonny Condell in a very long career . .

    Sonny Condell - Swallows and Farms

    Swallows and Farms is perhaps the greatest solo album by Sonny Condell, a magisterial record that celebrates and self-berates, that soars and climbs by a majestic stairway.

  • Two seasoned veterans finally make album shocker

    Louis Stewart and Jim Doherty - Tunes

    Louis Stewart and Jim Doherty finally got around to making an eleven-track album of standards. No guru, no method, no teacher, just guitar and piano at sprightly interplay.

  • Hugh and his baby, baby grand

    Hugh Laurie - Didn't it Rain

    Paging Dr House for another tasteful collection of dinner party blues . . .

  • A spellbinding debut

    Laura Mvula - Sing to The Moon

    She appears on Other Voices' London special tonight (May 1) and with Emeli Sandé fatigue possibly setting in, Mvula deserves her own place in the moonlight

  • Hearst and Trent married, first legally, then musically.

    Shovels & Rope - O' Be Joyful

    Michael Trent and Cary Ann Hearst, whose paths have intertwined as contemporaries, friends, collaborators, lovers, and possibly even rivals, have become two halves of the same sound, and it couldn't be sweeter.

  • Unfulfilling a large appetitie for greatness

    Imagine Dragons - Night Visions

    Two great slices of bread holding together a sandwich with a pretty so-so filling, Patrick Hanlon is left hungry by Imagine Dragons' debut.

  • The lead single is without question the key track on Blake's second album

    James Blake - Overgrown

    James Blake's second album bursts with alluring vulnerability, range-defying riffs and tracks as enchanting as they are chilling