This Week's Releases
The Bohicas — The Making Of (EMI)
Picking up our Album Of The Week with four stars, rock'n'rollers The Bohicas "get loud, real soon" on The Making Of. With songs like To Die For and Only You bringing "more instruments, more production, more harmonies, more sonic ambition" but doing nothing to "dampen the rock'n'roll attitude", the album is a debut that "doesn't just show promise or potential. It's proof of a band already comfortable in its skin and ready to rock their way."
Ghost — Meliora (Spinefarm/Caroline)
Though you may be over Ghost's "shtick" and "the various incarnations of Papa Emeretius", Ghost have "songwriting chops most bands would kill for". Cirice and He Is are highlights, the latter with "acoustic guitar and vocals that evoke Simon & Garfunkel" with a "completely creepy vibe". Our reviewer reckons this is "another strong effort from the mysterious Swedes", and gave them three-and-a-half stars.
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Disturbed — Immortalized (Reprise/Warner)
This one's a killer. Immortalized has "followed the band's defined style so intently it's borderline insulting". Its lyrics are typical in its "apocalyptic battlefield" themes and "stadium-aimed fist-pump choruses", with the album "as close to a reach-for-listeners'-wallets as you're likely to see". Scoring one-and-a-half stars, our reviewer concludes, "Let's all just move on and pretend this never happened."
and the rest of the releases…
Act Of Defiance — Birth And The Burial (Metal Blade Records/Rocket)
AFX — Orphaned Deejay Selek 2006-2008 (Warp/Inertia)
Bad//Dreems — Dogs At Bay (Ivy League/Liberation)
Basecamp — Greater Than (Liberator)
Battlecross — Rise To Power (Metal Blade Records/Rocket)
Bon Jovi — Burning Bridges (Mercury/Universal)
Buckcherry — Rock'n'Roll (F-Bomb Records/Caroline)
Butcher Babies — Take It Like A Man (Century Media)
Caitlyn Shadbolt — Caitlyn Shadbolt (ABC/Universal)
Carly Rae Jepsen — E.MO.TION (Schoolboy Records/Universal)
Christian Rich — FW14 (Lucky Number/[PIAS] Australia)
DJ Drama — Quality Street Music 2 (eOne Music/Shock)
Drinks — Hermits On Holiday (Heavenly Recordings/[PIAS] Australia)
Failure — The Heart Is A Monster (Kartel/Shock)
Family Fold — Lustre Glo (Independent)
Flyying Colours — ROYGBIV (Island/Universal)
Gardens & Villas — Music For Dogs (Secretly Canadian/Inertia)
Hate Eternal — Infernus (Season Of Mist/Rocket)
James Blundell — Come On In (Red Rebel Music/Revenge Records)
Jordin Sparks — Right Here Right Now (Sony)
Kadavar — Berlin (Nuclear Blast/Caroline)
Linda Ronstadt — Just One Look: The Very Best Of Linda Ronstadt (Rhino/Warner)
Mark Lanegan — Houston (Ipecac/[PIAS] Australia)
Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats — Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats (Stax/Caroline)
Oberhofer — Chronovision (Glassnote/Liberator)
Oceans Of Slumber — Blue (Century Media)
P.O.D. — The Awakening (T-Boy Records/Universal)
Paul Smith & The Imitations — Contradictions (Billingham Records/[PIAS] Australia)
Pop Evil — Up (eOne Music)
Rivers Of Nihil — Monarchy (Metal Blade Records/Rocket)
Rob Thomas — The Great Unknown (Warner)
Royal Headache — High (Distant And Vague Recordings)
SG Lewis — Shivers (PMR/Caroline)
Short Stack — Homecoming (Universal)
Sidewalk Diamonds — The Postcard Collection EP (Blue Grey Pink)
Spector — Moth Boys (Fiction/Caroline)
Spock's Beard — The Oblivion Particle (Inside Out/Century Media)
Szymon — Tigersapp (Eloper Music/EMI)
The Devil Wears Prada — Space (Rise Records/ADA)
The Fratellis — Eyes Wide, Tongue Tired (Cooking Vinyl)
The Strypes — Little Victories (EMI)
The Sword — High Country (Razor & Tie/Cooking Vinyl)
Various Artists — Holding The Man Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Sony)
Various Artists — Countdown 10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1...Rock! (ABC/Universal)
Various Artists — 20 Years Of Being Skint (Skint/Shock)
Various Artists — Men Of Country (Sony)
Wilding — Molecules To Moons (Half A Cow/MGM)
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