This Week's Releases

Tim Rogers & The Bamboos — The Rules Of Attraction (Warner)

Scoring a cool four stars and The Music's Album Of The Week, Tim Rogers' collaboration with The Bamboos proved to have "brought out the best in both Tim Rogers and The Bamboos, proving the old adage that opposites attract". Songs like Did I Wake You? was a highlight, in which "Rogers delivers his most swooning vocal ever, placing a bittersweet kiss to the forehead of his backstabbing lover on the deck of a ‘70s cruise liner heading into the sunset".

Unknown Mortal Orchestra — Multi-Love (Jagjaguwar/Inertia)

After splashing out on a "hi-tech arsenal" of new studio equipment, our reviewer thought "Multi-Love is like switching to a new operating system. Sure, the technology’s superior, but it’s missing those quirks we’d become accustomed to". The album also "ponders a newfound interest in biocentric astrophysics". All in all, we gave the album three stars. 

Daniel Johns — Talk (EMI)

With Johns' debut solo album Talk out, and the Silverchair singer taking an electronic pop angle, our reviewer was sure there would be many who would turn their noses up from it. However, "if the doubters choose to close themselves off, the assured hands at the helm of this stylish production have made almost certain that there’ll be plenty who remain that’ll love and laud it". We gave it four stars for Johns' "chameleon tendencies". 

The Vaccines — English Graffiti (Sony)

The indie rockers have come out with their second album, which takes "a giant step forward to embrace a big, brash and bright sound that maintains a little of that guitar roughness around the edges but comes off sounding decidedly more polished and pop". Our reviewer noted 20/20 would be an "instantly anthemic classics that has fans bouncing at gigs" while (All Afternoon) In Love "slips into love song reverie". We gave it a solid four stars.