If you like good quality chart music that isn’t reared from a reality show, this release has the makings to establish Lady Gaga as one of the future heroines of pop.

For the distracted listener the tracks in Situation Normal Then will all sound the same, but if you pay a little attention you’ll find endearing beauty and musicianship.

You can’t really dance to it, and you can’t sing along to it, but Verbs is a magical album, capable of exciting and soothing the listener in equal measure. TMM Recommends

It looks as if the band have finally found their feet, discovering their place in an already saturated American alternative scene and how best to channel Cox’s obsession with the Velvet Underground, Brian Eno and Echo And The Bunnymen. TMM Recommends

Day And Age may not be a classic, but it’s another step in the right direction on their path to U2-style hugeness.

It comes across as a solid effort in an already established genre, but you’d be hard pressed to find many other bands playing this kind of music.

It’s a curious mish-mash of an album, but both the live and studio aspects of the album work together on a really odd level.

National Service sees the Tivoli set down foundations for their future work as many aspects of the genre have been dabbled with, though none of which expanded on, leaving the album out in the musical wilderness somewhat.

Royals does not pull you in as much as it wants to, mainly due to the improvised feel and the vocals delivering incomprehensible lyrics. What should be free-flowing and natural is more like trying to swim in Marmite.

Another sterling effort from one of the only bands to actually make a decent fist of this whole reunion thing.

Haunts’ potential for something special is only squandered by a confusion in direction. The pieces are there for something magical, but the picture of which they are reassembling for recreation is somewhere else.

With this album, the Bronx have dared to do something different, lashing out with real energy and rancour, and in doing so, amidst the chaos, have created a punk rock gem. TMM Recommends

I’ve listened to Electric Arguments through several times over now, and my fondness for the album hasn’t decreased one iota, not only that but I continue to find new elements to the record that went previously unheard.

This is an album that, whenever you think you’ve got it figured out, will throw in a musical style or a vocal shift just to make you realise just how complex it really is. TMM Recommends

The New Kid Revival is a significant work, retaining an earthy core of experimentalism, but pandering to a less vernacular audience. TMM Recommends