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           <title>Daft Punk, Random Access Memories &#40;Columbia) ****</title>
           
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  AN act can believe it has truly made it when Coca-Cola makes collectable bottles in their image. Perhaps more surprising, for a dance act, is being featured in an episode of The Simpsons, entitled The Day The Earth Stood Cool.
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           <title>The Pastels, Slow Summits &#40;Domino) ****</title>
           
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  IN the opening track The Pastels ask: “Can you sing a song quietly”? They sure can. This is no decibel-raiser, but a delicate sojourn across nine tracks whose palette is sinuous, reflective, luminous and evocative.
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           <title>Deerhunter, Monomania &#40;4AD) ***</title>
           
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  IT is always frustrating when an artist or band manage to make a decent album that could be much better, showing signs of greatness, which are then lost under the weight of their own importance.
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           <title>Queens Of The Stone Age, Like Clockwork &#40;Matador) ****</title>
           
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  SOME things always feel familiar, no matter how long they are away, and a Queen Of The Stone Age record is one.
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           <title>R.E.M., Green, 25th Anniversary Edition &#40;Rhino) ****</title>
           
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  R.E.M. have made better records than Green, the major label debut which sparked sell-out claims, but they haven’t made a more important one.
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           <title>Noah And The Whale, Heart Of Nowhere &#40;Young And Lost Club/Mercury) ***</title>
           
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  WHAT is left in the Fink tank after his Last Night On Earth in 2011? You may have thought Charlie Fink had surely expounded his very last thought on love, but why should he suddenly forego matters of the heart that so vexed him after luminous Laura Marling decided Charlie was no longer her darling?
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           <title>Alison Moyet, The Minutes &#40;Modest) ***; Texas, The Conversation &#40;Pias) ***</title>
           
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  &nbsp;FROM the very first time we heard Yazoo’s Situation and I Don’t Need A Lover by Texas, it was obvious the two lead singers would be around for a long time. The better part of thirty years on, this has proved to be so for Alison Moyet and Sharleen Spiteri.
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           <title>Hugh Laurie, Didn’t It Rain &#40;Warner) *</title>
           
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  IT’S all on here for any self-respecting blues album – heartache, whisky, loss, gin, betrayal, cocaine, even the ’lectric chair. But for all those essential ingredients and despite the brilliance of the musicians, imaginative arrangements and left-field embellishments, blues it ain’t.
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           <title>Little Boots, Nocturnes &#40;On Repeat) ***</title>
           
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  THE long-awaited second album from singer songwriter Little Boots, aka Victoria Hesketh, will be a pleasure for many, but harmless background for some.
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           <title>Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Mosquito &#40;Polydor) ****</title>
           
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  NEW album and a new haircut, riveting front-woman Karen O has gone peroxide and she’s more sensual than ever.
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           <title>Sandie Shaw, Long Live Love, The Very Best Of &#40;Salvo/Union Square Music) ****</title>
           
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  SANDIE Shaw has told the Daily Telegraph she is “finished with singing, finished with performing”. This makes her latest release even more poignant: a compilation that precedes the re-releases of her original studio albums, marking her retirement.
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           <title>She &amp; Him, Volume 3 &#40;Double Six Records) **</title>
           
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  SHE is doe-eyed American actress Zooey Deschanel, Him is American retro musician M Ward, and Volume 3 is their fourth album – if you include their lush set of Christmas covers – but their third collection of original material.
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           <title>Laura Marling, Once I Was An Eagle &#40;EMI) *****</title>
           
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  FOUR albums in and the youngest daughter of the fifth baronet Marling is brimming with confidence, remarkably so for a self-confessed former misanthrope.
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           <title>Valerie June, Pushin’ Against A Stone &#40;Sunday Best) *****</title>
           
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  LIKE Matthew E White’s Big Inner, Pushin’ Against A Stone seems to have come out of nowhere. Valerie June has recorded before, on three self-published efforts, but her proper debut is a thing of wonder.
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           <title>Baz Luhrmann &amp; Various Artists, The Great Gatsby Soundtrack &#40;Interscope) ****</title>
           
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  F SCOTT FITZGERALD’S The Great Gatsby is considered as perhaps the greatest American novel. Baz Luhrmann’s is the fifth legitimate movie version, plus the hip-hop movie G from 2000.
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           <title>The National, Trouble Will Find Me &#40;4AD) ****</title>
           
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  ONE of the most unobtrusively attention-gathering bands around, The National have a knack for making progression a habit. Each of their albums has been a genuine pace forward and Trouble Will Find Me uncompromisingly builds on 2010’s High Violet, which raised their profile to a level even they probably never expected.
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           <title>Sam Amidon, Bright Sunny South &#40;Nonesuch) ****</title>
           
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  LOVINGLY underplayed, folk artist Sam Amidon is devilishly difficult to pin down. The Vermont-raised singer is now married to one Beth Orton and relocated to London.
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           <title>The Handsome Family, Wilderness &#40;Loose Music) ****</title>
           
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  STUDIO album number nine from New Mexico desert dwellers Brett and Rennie Sparks is alive with creepy-crawly tales that take a walk on the wilder, weirder side of life.
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           <title>Vampire Weekend, Modern Vampires Of The City &#40;XL) ****</title>
           
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  DON’T you just love it when bands emerge fully formed from nowhere? Alt-J, The XX, and before them New York’s Ivy League smart boys Vampire Weekend with their preppy pop and African guitars on 2010’s Contra.
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           <title>Union Jill, Respectable Rebellion &#40;Union Jill Music) ****</title>
           
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  THIS first great Yorkshire folk album of 2013 deserves a wider audience.
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           <title>Frank Turner, Tape Deck Heart &#40;Xtra Mile) First half **; second half ****</title>
           
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  RATHER alarmingly, this album kicks off with a pure Scouting For Girls lift.
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           <title>Primal Scream, More Light &#40;Ignition) ***</title>
           
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  THE Primals’ output in the 13 years since XTRMNTR – their best album; Screamadelica was their best social statement – has been patchy if we’re going to be kind, which makes it unsurprising that More Light can be more than a bit messy.
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           <title>Seasick Steve, Hubcap Music &#40;Fiction) ****</title>
           
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  GOOD OLD Seasick may look the same, from his tuft-tangled face to his checked shirt (the one he never seems to change), but there is a new man in evidence on this album – easily his best yet.
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           <title>Caro Emerald, The Shocking Miss Emerald &#40;Dramatico/Grandmono) *****; Laura Mvula, Sing To The Moon &#40;Sony) *****</title>
           
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  CAROLINE Esmeralda van der Leeuw, but more commonly known as Caro Emerald, has not only become the biggest-selling artist in her home country, but an international star with a UK number one album to her name.
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           <title>Ian Chalk &amp; Dan Clarkson, The Nearness of Two &#40;Home Record) *****</title>
           
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  Ian Chalk is one of York`s highest-profile musicians, playing trumpet and flugelhorn with his own bands, with Huge party band, Kate Peters Septet and Scarborough-based General Cluster.
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  PRODUCERS on the Michael Parkinson television show were understandably incandescent on hearing that after months of negotiation, the one and only interview to promote Agnetha Falstkogs’s last album was cancelled at the eleventh hour.
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           <title>Rod Stewart, Time &#40;Capitol) ****</title>
           
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  ROD STEWART’S autobiography is an engaging read, full of anecdotes and amusing tales. T
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           <title>Lord Huron, Lonesome Dreams &#40;Play It Again Sam/I Am Sound) ****</title>
           
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  LORD Huron is not an English noble but Michigan songwriting prodigy Ben Schneider, whose initial solo endeavour in 2010 has since enlisted the aid of his “best amigos” for this debut album of wides-creen Americana.
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           <title>Gabrielle Aplin, English Rain &#40;Parlophone Records) **</title>
           
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  OH DEAR, this feels unkind. A 20-year-old brings out her debut album on which she has written or co-written nearly all the songs. She plays most of the instruments, too. And along the way she scores a number one hit with her cover of Frankie Goes To Hollywood’s The Power Of Love (courtesy of a cutesy TV advert for John Lewis).
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           <title>Treetop Flyers, The Mountain Moves &#40;Loose) ****</title>
           
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  HAILED as a new band of heartfelt harmonies, Treetop Flyers are much, much more than just choice voices.
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