This Week's Releases

HAIM - Something To Tell You (Polydor/Universal)

The HAIM sisters - Este, Danielle and Alana - are back with Something To Tell You, their second album that's every bit worth the four year wait. The Los Angeles trio have enhanced their driving, percussive, rhythmic music with a maturity and confidence whilst retaining all that made their debut Days Are Gone so successful - the brilliant melodies, production (they've stuck with producer Ariel Rechtshaid) and songwriting - not to mention the insane talent of all three multi-instrumentalists. We gave it four stars and named it our Album Of The Week.

Broken Social Scene - Hug Of Thunder (Spunk)

How do you grapple with the logistical difficulties of rebooting a band that used to have 17 members? By their own admission, Hug Of Thunder wouldn't have sounded bona fide unless everyone had been involved as it had been seven years since Forgiveness Rock Record, a bombastic hodgepodge of grand themes and experiments that didn't always hit the mark. We gave it three and a half stars.

The Jungle Giants - Quiet Ferocity (Amplifire Music)

The Jungle Giants are back for their third album, Quiet Ferocity, and let's just say, it's anything but quiet. Sam Hales and co have created a fun, jangly release that surely holds hits that will see you through to the warm summer months. Opener On Your Way Down is solid, with its catchy beats and riffs, and a chorus you just won't be able to get out of your head. Feel The Way I Do finds some of that ferocity mentioned in the title, a tight number that you can already picture crowds bopping their head to. We gave it four stars.