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What's hot and what's not in this week's new releases.

By Polly Weeks.

Jon Fratelli - Psycho Jukebox.

Jon Fratelli has been busy since his band decided to take an indefinite break in the summer of 2009. Having released an album as one half of Codeine Velvet Club in December of that year, the Glaswegian is now going it alone. The result, Psycho Jukebox, is a new Fratellis album in everything but name. From the bolshy rock sound, to the infectious riffs and sing-along choruses, it's all there. There's more than a hint of Elvis Costello in tracks such as Magic & Mayhem and Oh Shangri La, with the latter sounding like Oliver's Army. The Band Played Just For Me and 1960s-sounding closer Give Me My Heart Back McGuire are other highlights on a strong debut.

Rating: 7/10 (Review by Andrew Carless) Suzanne Vega - Close-Up Vol 3, States Of Being If the songs on this album sound wonderfully familiar, yet eerily different, that's because they are. Featuring re-workings of her well-loved tunes, the 10th studio album from the American, singer-songwriter includes tracks Cracking and Penitent. Offering an immediately recognisable and immaculate feel, the overall tone of the album is cool and reserved - due in most part to the stripped-back folk style. When Heroes Go Down, originally on her 1992 album, 99.9F°, highlights this - the tinny drums, heavy guitar bass and electronic piano have been replaced by a lone guitar and softer-sounding vocals. The album also features new track Instant Of The Hour After, which sits perfectly with the rest of the material. A great release if you're looking to rediscover Suzanne Vega.

Rating: 8/10 (Review by Sarah O'Meara) Amy LaVere - Stranger Me The third album by American artist Amy LaVere is delightfully diverse. Damn Love Song is a feisty, grungy opener with a jangly 1960s guitar sound and slow, bold bass drum, while A Great Divide features a jazz funk groove. Red Banks has a country feel which appears to borrow more than a little from Fleetwood Mac's The Chain and almost directly from the surf-style guitar sounds of Chris Isaak on upbeat Stranger Me. Though celebrated as an upright bass player, her instrument is barely audible on the album apart from on Candle Mambo.LaVere melodies bring to mind a young group Belly and Veruca Salt in the early 1990s, showed perfectly the closing track, Let Yourself Go (Come On) - a blues song sensual love.

Rating: 6 / 10 (review by Tori Mayo) Awolnation - Megalithic Symphony's first album Awolnation has a mishmash of styles, making the U.S. group difficult to classify. They may be featured on the same bill as MGMT and Weezer, but titles like People and Kill Your Heroes scissor sisters are more than indie rock. Lead singer Aaron Bruno has a tendency to shout the lyrics unnecessarily - possibly in a bid to give his side a bit of an edge - but unfortunately this results in the vocals grating after a while. Singles Burn It Down and Sail are two of the stronger tracks and Jump On My Shoulders is catchy, but at 12 minutes long, Knights Of Shame is one to avoid.

Robots In Disguise – July 21st

Robots In Disguise are fronted by Dee Plume (guitar and vocals) and Sue Denim (bass and vocals). Part riot grrl princesses, part monsters of DIY musical mayhem, this maverick electro-indie-rock-dance duo has a reputation for fashion-forward style and energetic shows where Dee’s guitar and Sue’s grooving bass lines dance over chunky electronic beats and tell-it-like-it-is lyrics. Robots In Disguise have graced the pages of numerous fashion magazines donning their discopunk mod look and have also acted in BBC2′s The Mighty Boosh as evil alter egos, The Electro Girls and The Goth Girls. July 17, 2011 1pm – 5pm / Free Entry Why buy new when you can recycle old fashion? Feel free to come down and pitch a stall with whatever you deem worthy trading for beer money- we suggest retro clothes, plants, classic vinyl and all that good stuff! Expect DJ`s playing hung over music and trying to keep it together.... read more » July 18, 2011 8.30pm – 11pm / Free Entry A jam packed evening of the weird and wonderful!Expect to be greeted by Barry Armitage and, with tricks such as Fag Break the Cycle of Practice, the New Round Round, round A Synopsis writing the film, the Challenge Round physical (a race to Tesco for a product based pork) and .. .

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